An overview of the tentative 2016 Nelson town budget was given at the board’s Oct. 8 regular monthly meeting and a public hearing scheduled to discuss a proposed local law to override the state tax cap.

Town Supervisor Roger Bradstreet said the town’s tentative budget was submitted to the clerk on Sept. 30, as required by law, and the board is continuing its work on the document.

The board is currently looking at three different version of a potential budget, with possible tax levies of between $629,000 and $709,000 proposed, Bradstreet said. The potential budget with the highest tax levy includes items “that this town desperately needs,” including new trucks for the highway department and major town infrastructure projects, he said.

Bradstreet said they are looking at a $20,000 expenditure to complete an engineering survey for extending the Cazenovia town water line up to Trush Office Park and into the hamlet of Nelson. “Economic growth in this hamlet is not going to happen without water,” he said. “That is included in budget A, and a little bit in budgets B and C.”

Bradstreet said another item in the budget “worth mentioning” is that the supervisor and all members of the town board are not planning to take salary increases in 2016. All other town employees will receive the usual 2 percent salary increase, he said.

Bradstreet said the board is “desperately” trying to keep the budget under the state tax cap level, but “if I were a betting man I would say we are not going to make it.”

The board also proposed a new local law to allow the town to override the state tax levy cap for the 2016 budget, which is an action the board tales every year.

A public hearing for the proposed law was scheduled for 7:15 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, during the board’s next regular monthly meeting.