Kingston Finance Committee Elects New Chair, Approves $189,900 Year-End Transfer

Finance Committee · Meeting of July 7, 2026

Kingston Finance Committee reorganizes under new chair David Fuller and approves a $189,900 year-end line-item transfer. The committee, meeting July 7 and adjourning at 7:14 p.m., elected Fuller unanimously as chair and member Victoria Kelly as vice chair, both by 7-0 roll-call votes, following the departure of the previous chair. Four newly appointed members — retired U.S.

Ambassador Elizabeth Fitzsimmons, State Street relationship manager Sean Quigley, Plymouth District Court attorney Peter Dancero, and clean-energy policy professional Daniel Zotos — joined the body the same night. The $189,900 transfer, approved 7-0, rebalances the town's fiscal year 2026 accounts before a July 15 statutory deadline; the single largest driver was a workers' compensation overage of roughly $81,000, with actual expenditure reaching $261,000 against a $180,000 budget — the third consecutive year of increases from a $157,000 base in FY2024. The town's overall operating budget is approximately $63 million.

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Source: the Finance Committee meeting of July 7, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.