Wayne Norman Interviews · Wayne Norman

4/10/26: Coventry Town Manager Jim Drumm

April 10, 2026·19 min·1 clip
Coventry's dump truck floor is so rusted, workers lay old stop signs so their feet don't drag on the pavement.
Jim Drumm talks through why town council found little left to trim in the town and Board of Education budgets after last year's over $1.6 million in cuts.

As heard by us

A steady town-budget check that turns old intercoms and a street sweeper into plain civic math.

Coventry's monthly town-manager update stays locked on the budget fight. The town manager lays out why the plan comes in at 4.7 percent above last year, after years of tough cuts and resident pushback.

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You want a plain-English read on Coventry's 4.7 percent budget increase and the tradeoffs behind it.

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