MONROE, Conn. — Board of Finance Chairman Michael Manjos asked participants dialed into a budget workshop to acknowledge their presence one-by-one, before the start of the town’s first remote meeting on the computer program, GoToMeeting, Thursday evening. Enough positive replies from board members made for a quorum and Steve Kirsch managed to show up on video. It was yet another example of how life has changed since Monroe residents joined the rest of the country in social distancing to slow the spread of the coronavirus. “It’s only been a week since we met, but obviously the world is changing hourly,” Manjos said. The total $91.5 million town budget proposal for fiscal year 2020-21 carries a projected 2.6 percent tax increase.
