Old Lyme — The Board of Selectmen voted unanimously Tuesday to send an $8,474,833 general government budget proposal to the Board of Finance.

The proposal, a 1.21 percent increase over the current spending plan, does not include the school budget, which is handled separately by the Lyme-Old Lyme Board of Education.

Salaries comprise the bulk of the budget proposal for the 2012-13 fiscal year — $2,452,520 including an estimated 2 percent wage increases for employees — while capital projects are expected to cost $663,909, a $42,484 decrease.

The town has not yet determined what the wage increases for town employees will be next year, First Selectwoman Bonnie Reemsnyder said.

Selectwoman Mary Jo Nosal said she was pleased with the “thorough” budget but said she hoped the Board of Finance would consider continuing to fund nonprofits in town. The proposal sent to them shows no increase in funding next year for the Florence Griswold Museum, Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme Affordable Housing or Old Lyme Historical Society.

“I feel that we should really support our nonprofit organizations,” Nosal said. “I think that the zeroing out of their budgets in an economic downturn … doesn’t allow them to support the increased need. … So I would want to support looking at that particular budget very carefully.”