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VOLUME 47, NO. 35
South Burlington sees $2 million in budget surplus
Sign of the times
COREY MCDONALD STAFF WRITER
The South Burlington City Council last week was presented with a pretty good problem: how to spend all its extra money? Following two years of conservative revenue projections made back in Dec. 2021 during the Covid-19 pandemic, the city now has well over $2 million in surplus funds that it is allocating towards 11 different departments and projects, as well as to its fund balance — money kept in reserve to keep
up on operation costs in the event of emergency. “We are in a really privileged position with this conversation tonight. We have a significant surplus being driven by revenues,” city manager Jessie Baker said. Expenses came in roughly $100,000 over budget on the city’s $28 million budget, she said, “which is very tight, so this privilege is really driven by revenues.” The main drivers of the reveSee BUDGET SURPLUS on page 13
David Cross on Hollywood and joys of being a dad COREY MCDONALD STAFF WRITER
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South Burlington Department of Public Works crew members Pat Adams and Tony Spillane set up new four-way stop near Rick Marcotte Central School. See story on page 3.
Davis Cross has won numerous awards, but this one might be his most prolific of all: Worst Daddy in the World. His full biography is too long to list. An Emmy Award winner and two-time Grammy Award nominee, Cross has had a prolific, decades-long career as an actor and writer. He’s appeared in dozens of TV and movie productions — the sketch comedy “Mr. Show” with Bob Odenkirk, and “The Ben Stiller Show;” he voiced roles in Boots Riley’s film, “Sorry
To Bother You,” and was in Steven Spielberg’s “The Post;” and, of course, he starred as Dr. Tobias Fünke in Netflix’s “Arrested Development,” for which he was twice-nominated as part of the ensemble cast for a Screen Actors Guild Award and won. He’s currently starring in the Julia Louis-Dreyfus film “You Hurt My Feelings,” the FX series “Justified: City Primeval,” and he will join the cast of the Netflix series “The Umbrella Academy” for its fourth and final season. See CROSS on page 12