Plymouth Town Meeting Passes $308 Million Budget, Adopts Immigration Bylaw

PLYMOUTH — April 11, 2026 — Plymouth Town Meeting approves $308 million operating budget and adopts immigration enforcement bylaw in nine-hour session. The Annual and Special Town Meetings, held April 11 at Plymouth North High School, saw 152 of 162 elected members participate at peak in the hybrid in-person and remote session. Advisory and Finance Committee Chair Joseph Lally presented total recommended expenditures of roughly $367.4 million across both warrants. Select Board Chair David Golden framed every major vote around an approaching fiscal cliff: Pine Hills and Redbrook, which together supply about half of Plymouth's new growth revenue, both reach build-out within three to five years. A citizen's petition by Precinct 2 member Richard Serkey to freeze retirement-era health premium rates for future hires was defeated 34 to 112 after the finance committee unanimously opposed it, calling it an attack on town employees that would yield "not one penny of savings" for a generation. Town meeting also voted 117 to 37 to move the Annual Town Meeting to the third Saturday in May and the local election to the second Saturday in June, allowing access to more accurate state aid figures during budget deliberations. On the final article of the day, members voted 78 to 60 to adopt a bylaw codifying Plymouth's existing policy against using local resources for civil immigration enforcement, over the objection of Police Chief Dana Flynn, who warned that parallel policy documents create legal ambiguity for officers.