PARIS — With little discussion, town Budget Committee members Wednesday unanimously approved recommendations on 16 money articles in the annual town meeting warrant.

None of the six-member committee’s funding recommendations wavered from the amounts listed in a draft warrant approved by selectmen earlier this week.

Wednesday’s meeting at the Town Office lasted less than an hour. Selectmen and representatives from town departments also attended.

The $7.1 million budget for 2014-15 includes a reduction of almost $33,500 in municipal spending, but is still larger than the budget passed by voters last year due to increases in the Oxford Hills School District budget. Town spending accounts for $4.13 million of the total expenditures.

Only two articles provoked discussion from committee members.

The first, a proposal to use $1,800 set aside for a survey of the Cornwall Preserve to buy new signs for the public park, prompted committee Chairman Vic Hodgkins to question if the money would otherwise lapse into the town’s cash reserves.

The money was what remained of several thousand dollars allocated for the survey by voters last year, Town Manager Amy Bernard said. The town completed the survey of the park earlier this year, but because the funds are dedicated to the survey, voters need to decide whether to allocate them for another purpose.

Both the entrance sign and directional guides within Cornwall Preserve, a network of wooded trails at the base of Paris Hill, badly need replacement.

Committee members voted to recommend allocating the funding following Bernard’s explanation.

A warrant article regarding using revenue generated by the town also stimulated discussion by members of the committee.

The town is projecting to receive about $1.14 million in revenue from various sources such as excise tax, state revenue sharing, state road assistance and tree growth reimbursement.

The revenue figure included on the draft town warrant, however, was $1.12 million, an earlier estimate generated by the town office.

Hodgkins questioned the wisdom of offering a recommendation on a warrant item that could be inaccurate.

“It seems to me that really what we’re voting on, either here or at town meeting, is to appropriate a certain dollar figure that basically is a guess,” Hodgkins said. Revenue streams could change during the year and affect the amount of money projected to come in, he said.

Bernard said the warrant article was legally required in order for the town to use its revenue to offset taxes. If the article wasn’t included, she said, the town would need to raise the difference from property taxes.

The town office had projected its revenues conservatively and Paris could expect to receive more than reported, Bernard said.

“I think it would be foolhardy to ask the taxpayers in town to raise an additional $1 million that they don’t have to because there will be other revenues coming in to offset those expenditures,” she told the committee.

Committee members eventually approved a recommendation to selectmen to change the language of the warrant article to “anticipated revenues” to reflect the uncertainly of the revenue figures, but did not offer a recommendation on the revenue.

Residents will be given a chance to offer opinions on the budget at a public hearing held by the Budget Committee and selectmen at 7 p.m. May 14 at the Town Office.