CONWAY — Business leaders told Conway Municipal Budget Committee members Wednesday that paid parking in North Conway Village would be catastrophic, but the budgeteers had mixed reactions.Â
Last week, selectmen voted 3-2 to add $242,000 to the 2023 proposed operating budget to install paid parking. Selectmen's chair David Weathers and Selectman Steve Porter voted in the minority because they felt the funding should be in a separate warrant article. Selectmen Carl Thibodeau, Mary Carey Seavey and John Colbath voted for it.
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