The Wiscasset Select Board got its first look at a list of budget cuts as a starting point for the 2018-19 municipal budget Nov. 21.

In September, selectmen directed Town Manager Marian Anderson to trim $500,000 from the budget. The list she shared with the board Tuesday night totaled $431,107.

Referring to it as a “working document,” Anderson stressed these were not her recommendations. After meeting with department heads for their input, these were the least painful cuts, she said.

“If you really want to come up with a half million dollars in budget cuts then you’ll have to consider eliminating departments,” she said.

The list included eliminating $67,800 in town contributions to nonprofits and community organizations including $62,500 for the Wiscasset Public Library.

Parks and recreation would lose $93,529, 11.9 percent; while the $57,764 planning budget would be eliminated almost entirely – reduced from $66,764 to $9,000. EMS would lose 12.1 percent, or $66,000, and the police budget would shrink by $40,954 by the eliminating the School Resource Officer. The airport’s budget would lose $20,000 or 7.9 percent.

The proposal eliminates the $8,605 shellfish budget altogether from next year’s budget.

Anderson noted the proposed reductions don’t take into account the increase in water rates and contracted pay raises to town employees previously agreed to through collective bargaining.

The Budget Committee will review the list at 6 p.m., Monday in the hearing room. A joint meeting between the select board and the committee was tentatively set for 6 p.m., Nov. 30.