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Two thirds of the free cash identified in July 2025, $2,457,761, was money appropriated and not spent.
1 · The facts
$2,457,761
appropriated and not spent, 2025
66.1%
of identified free cash, 2025
$1,225,720
local receipts above the estimate, 2025
30.6%
unspent share in 2023
47.4%
unspent share across all five years
2.49 times
2025’s unspent against the 2021-2024 average
11.7%
Uxbridge’s unspent share, 2025, the lowest
—
which departments left the money unspent
not published
—
how much of it was the schools’
not published
2 · What it shows
1
Unspent appropriations rose from 30.6% of free cash in 2023 to 66.1% in 2025.
2
The 2025 unspent figure was 2.49 times its 2021-2024 average, the highest multiple of nine towns.
3
It is one town-wide figure; nothing published says which departments, or how much was the schools’.
What Lunenburg’s free cash was made of
Year
Not spent
Receipts above estimate
State aid against estimate
Everything else
Identified
2025
$2,457,761
$1,225,720
$149,455
-$116,654
$3,716,282
2024
$1,224,836
$1,363,025
-$390,814
-$164,468
$2,032,579
2023
$588,680
$1,006,025
$327,281
$1,798
$1,923,784
2022
$754,201
$1,049,137
$120,947
$1,231,634
$3,155,919
2021
$1,377,642
$590,516
$240,260
$478,716
$2,687,134
Division of Local Services free cash proof, components grouped. Everything else is prior free cash not appropriated and the smaller adjustments, net.
What was said
“Ana Lockwood states for the last 10 years the town has not collected less than 4 million dollars in local receipts. This year’s estimate is 3.535 million. Ana Lockwood suggests not being so conservative based on the data.”