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Minutes of 10/1/2014

October 20th, 2014

BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING
October 1, 2014
Members present: Mike Hogan, Joan Karpf, Rena Vechhio, Rob Gauthier, and Bonnie Moroney
Guest: Clair Gritzer, Ann Fabrizio and John Gardiner
Meeting opened by Chairman Mike Hogan and the Pledge of Allegiance was said.
Clair Gritzer, presented the proposed budget for the Trustees of the Trust Funds. She said that they worked over 210 hours of devoted time between the 3 members, and because of this they have put themselves in for a small increase.
The Treasure/Chair should increase to $375.00 as they work at least 5 hours more.
Secretary should increase to $315.00
and the Bookkeeper should go to $315.00 for a total of $1005.00 from the $840.00
Supplies to stay the same at $75.00
Education/Seminars was asked to go from $500.00 to $625.00
That would make a $290.00 increase for the Trustees budget.

01-4130.10-138 Trustees of Trust Funds $ 840.00 $ 840.00 $ 1005.00

01-4130.10-140 Trustees Education/Seminars $ 500.00 $ 625.00 $ 625.00
01-4130.10-141 Trustees Supplies $ 75.00 $75.00 $ 75.00
Joan asked about the assorted trust funds and the documents on who had the right to spend them. Clair said that they were different and that the trustees went by how it had been voted on for who had the right to use and how.

Andy Martel had called Maryclare and said he would not be able to attend the meeting but he would like to keep the Patriotic line the same of $1,000.00
01-4583.10-200 Memorial Day-Patriotic Purposes- Expense only $ 1,000.00 $ 1,000.00 $ 1,000.00

Stan also was not able to attend so had sent an e-mail about keeping the lines all the same as for 2014
01-4240.10-200 Property Inspections $ 500.00 $ 500.00 $ 500.00
01-4240.10-201 Timber Inspections $ 500.00 $ 500.00 $ 500.00
01-4240.10-204 PI Training $ 450.00 $ 450.00 $ 450.00

Bonnie said that the Chamber had gotten confused about the date changes and had come in the week before when the building Committee Meeting was going on. She had offered to take the information that they had and if they could make the meeting good, but if not she would hand them out and present it. They were not there so Bonnie handed out the requested budget for 2015.
01-4589.10-301 Chamber of Commerce-Beautification $ 1,000.00 $ 1,000.00 $ 1,000.00
01-4589.10-303 Chamber of Commerce-Information Booth $ 10,400.00 $ 10,400.00 $ 10,400.00
There were no changes in the amount requested from 2014. Joan asked about the wages and taxes line and Bonnie explained that that was for the two people that worked part time for the information booth, the first amount was for Memorial Day weekend until Labor Day and that the estimate amount would be mostly weekends until Columbus Day weekend.

John Gardiner as the new Emergency Manager came to present his 2015 proposed budget for Emergency Management.

01-4290.10-100 Director Salary $ 1.00 $ 1000.00 $ 1000.00
01-4290.10-200 EM Training $ 1.00 $ 500.00 $ 500.00
01-4290.10-201 EM Radio $ 100.00 $ 1.00 $ 1.00
01-4290.10-202 EM Emergency Center $ 1.00 $ 500.00 $ 500.00
John gave a brief history of the Emergency Management in Carroll and how much work John Goodney had done and it was adopted in May 2008. He said since then several selectman, fire chief, ambulance director, and highway department have changed plus some of the town personnel as well. These people are all important parts in the plan and therefor it needs to be updated and changed to meet todays and future needs.
He said he will be meeting with all the department heads to determine the level of expertise and training the employees have, in order to determine strengths and weaknesses in our level of preparedness. With that information we can begin a training program that will meet our needs.
John said he had met with the fire chief but he had gotten called away on an emergency, so he needs to go back and visit with him some more. He has also met with the police chief and John Trammell has become the Assistant Emergency manager. John Gardiner said he had a questionnaire he left for Jeremy to go over and he had gone over it with John Trammell.
It was asked if we could use the Police Dept. for an emergency shelter, and he said no as there are no emergency provisions. John said he has already spent over 10 hours working on this plan.
He said that he would be looking into a generator for the town hall, and John Trammell is looking to see what he might be able to get as well.
John said that he wants to meet with Greg next and working on desk and file cabinet for an office at the fire station.
Rob asked if he saw himself helping the other department looking for grants, and he said he saw himself looking for grants for the items that were needed for emergency.
He said we need to know how many people are trained and how many volunteers will be available to help.

Joan asked about the Municipal Bonds, Claire said that they are fine to use but we would need to run a warrant and get the people to vote for it.

Joan motioned to adjourn and Rob second, at 8:25 PM