ADAMS, Mass. — Town meeting members will vote on $19,530,254 spending plan for fiscal 2026, plus capital purchases, grant authorizations, and a new compensation plan. 

 

The annual town meeting is Tuesday, June 17, at 6 p.m. at the Memorial Building. A workshop will be held for the public and town meeting members on Thursday, June 12, at Town Hall.

 

The largest factors of the budget are personal services — employee wages, benefits, insurance and unemployment — at $8.1 million and school assessments at nearly $7 million, up about 3 percent. Article 11 requests utilization of $250,000 in free cash to keep total expenditures just under $5.1 million. 

 

The final budget total is a 4.36 percent increase over this year, and passage of all articles will leave the town with an excess levy capacity of $106,879.

 

The average single-family home tax bill is expected to be $4,264.

 

The town's budget is $10,206,896, of which $7,592,159 is personnel costs; the assessment to the Hoosac Valley Regional School District is $6,620,400 and to the Northern Berkshire Vocational School District (McCann) $1,069,566.

 

Town meeting will decide a number of capital purchases for $248,000 to be taken from available funds or free cash. These include $51,000 for desktop computers and a phone system upgrade at $48,500, which will also make the phones E911 compliant.