The Town of Arlington, Massachusetts
Finance Committee


Home
Background information
Data Bank
Budgets
Planning & Forecasting
Reports to Town Meeting
Links
Minutes
Calendar
Members
Fincom Wiki

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Glossary of Fincom terminology

How to read the budget

Budget process flow-chart

The O'Neill Formula

Other background information - under construction

  • Prop 2 1/2, assessments and the property tax rate
  • Fincom statutory authority
  • Sources & uses of funds, statistics, trends
  • Forecasting and long-term planning
  • The O'Neil Formula
  • Use of free cash, reserves, stabilization funds, etc.
  • the other stuff from Town Day and new stuff

To read files in Portable Document Format (PDF), you need to use the Adobe® Reader®,
which you can download for free from Adobe.

Site maintained by Carr-Jones, Inc. Email the webmaster here.