MEXICO — The Board of Selectmen will meet with the Budget Committee on April 8 to discuss whether to approve the proposed economic development budget for 2014-15.

The meeting will be held before the regularly scheduled selectmen meeting at 6:30 p.m.

The proposed economic development budget is $8,000, $2,000 less than this fiscal year.

Among the items that were added were $2,000 to the River Valley Chamber of Commerce and $4,000 to the River Valley Growth Council, which Town Manager John Madigan said in February would be a way to fund organizations that have helped “bring jobs and opportunities to the region.”

Madigan said then that the $4,000 allotted to the River Valley Growth Council would be one-third of the cost of Growth Council developer Jim Rinaldo’s yearly stipend.

Madigan suggested Rumford fund the remaining two-thirds of Rinaldo’s stipend, or $8,000.

“Everything (Rinaldo) has done has been a benefit to us,” Madigan said. “I think that number is the minimum that it would take to keep these efforts going. You guys, as selectmen, have to decide whether to pursue this. I think it will benefit us all.”

mdaigle@sunjournal.com