FARMINGTON — The Board of Selectmen recommended $91,000 in cuts to budget requests Tuesday night during its final review of the 2015 spending plan.

The cuts would bring the proposed budget down from $5.33 million to $5.24 million.

The Budget Committee was to make its final recommendations Wednesday, Feb. 4. Voters will decide on amounts at the annual town meeting March 23.

The board recommended shaving $83,000 from the $233,000 requested from taxes for road paving. A five-year road improvement plan included a $100,000 increase over the $133,000 appropriated last year. The board recommended $150,000.

The town expects to receive about $158,000 from the state’s Local Road Assistance Program to use with town funds for planned work on Porter Hill Road, Clay Hill, upper Bailey Hill and an overlay on Morrison Hill Road.

If voters agree with the board’s recommendation, the town will be able to do only some of the work, Town Manager Richard Davis said Wednesday.

Work was done on Morrison Hill Road last summer and Voter Hill Road the previous summer by the town crew. Work on Porter Hill Road is planned for this summer.

The board also voted to recommend $8,000 less than the Farmington Public Library’s $146,666 request.

While agreeing the library is important to the town, some selectmen questioned a 2 percent increase over last year’s appropriation.

Selectmen Michael Fogg said a $16,000 increase in payroll and a $1,700 increase for a contracted library exchange prompted him to suggest the $8,000 decrease, he said.

Selectman Joshua Bailey and Board of Selectmen Chairman Ryan Morgan agreed.

“We make our departments hold the line,” Morgan said.

The library’s request “represents both cost-of-living wage increases and more substantive pay changes; over the past year, the library hired a new library director and restructured the staff,” library treasurer Elizabeth Fuller-Wright wrote in a budget explanation.

Fogg also suggested adding $10,640 to the Fire Department’s reserve request of $25,666, without changing the department’s requested budget of $401,513.

The $10,640 could come from wages at the end of the year, fire Chief Terry Bell said.

“It might work, it might not,” Bell said.

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