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.