Gorham officials discuss budgets in a special meeting on Tuesday, May 12. From left are Finance Director Sharon Laflamme, Town Manager Ephrem Paraschak, Town Council Chair Suzanne Phillips, Town Clerk Laurie Nordfors, and councilors David Willis and Charles Hamblen. (Robert Lowell/Staff Writer) Gorham Town Council, in a three-hour special meeting on Tuesday, May 12, approved an $88.4 million budget to support town and school spending for the fiscal year that begins July 1.