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Minutes from Aug. 20 Budget meeting.
August 26th, 2008
Budget Committee Meeting
Aug. 20, 2008
Members present: Mike Shea, Tom Gately, Carmine Fabrizio, Lori Hogan, and Bonnie Moroney
Excused: Ken Mills
Meeting brought to order 7:42PM
Tom motioned to accept minutes of the July 16th meeting, Carmine, second, it was passed.
We went over the answers to the questions from the last meeting that Bonnie had asked
Maryclare about.
1. On page 3 under General Government Buildings
The GB Town Building Labor, and the Recreation Area Labor----are both of those the Highway dept charging its time?
Yes. Any work the Highway Dept. does at the Rec Area, including bathrooms, parking area, etc. is charged to that line. Likewise, any work done in the Town Hall or other buildings is charged to GB Town Building Labor (lots of work done on the downstairs boys' bathroom and furnace room)
2. Under General Government Buildings 01-4194.10-900 Misc.------we are WAY over Budgeted for $600.00 and ended up spending
$2324.59. What if all this for and what did we buy????
This is still over, but in researching, I discovered some things charged to this line should not have been --(re-keying of the Town Hall, fire extinguisher inspections, Kipp Alarm year contract for the Police Dept.) but what is there would be the water cooler and bottles, Kipp Alarm year contract for the Town Hall, changes in codes, etc. for Kipp, bathroom and kitchen paper products, small safe for Treasurer's Office, etc.
3. Under the fire dept Misc was budgeted for $600.00 and they have spent $1014.19. Please tell us what was posted under that that they bought.
This line is reduced by $256.50, the ad for the firefighter position -- Jeff caught this and asked that it be changed to the FA Ad line (which is where it should have been). Also, there has been a monthly chg. to Meadow Leasing of $100, for storage at the Fire Dept. while the work was going on. Last year, this was charged to GB Repairs & Maint. line, but Jeff has been charging it to FD Misc. in '08.
4. One last question, under Warrant Articles 01-4920.00-055 Recreation Ctr. Spec Revenue, this was written up so that the Rec could use the money that come in from campers. This was not suppose to be any impact to the tax payers, so I am surprised to see it on here. Could you please ask why its on this, was it the way the warrant was written?
According to statute, money has to be appropriated in order to be able to spend it. There is an MS Form for estimate of revenues that the amount gets put on -- in this case, $20,000. So this offsets the money that needs to be raised by taxes, and therefore, has no impact on the taxpayers.
Tom, suggested to Bonnie that the Select Board should encourage the departments and committees to stay by a certain % increase to keep the budget down. Bonnie said that she felt the people knew this, but that she would pass this on.
Mike asked why they have a Recycle Attendant Salary under 03-4324.10-101 with $0. We explained that Bill was looking into the future or Bretton Woods doing more recycling and that person would be
Needed, but it had not started yet. There is also another Recycling Attendant’s salary under 01-4324.10-101.
Lori, mentioned that in the corporate this year they are looking at 1 to 3 ½ % pay increases for the
Employees. Also that the select board compare the salaries to other towns and the cost of living.
Went over the currant budget to see if anything didn’t seem right.
1) Under Town Office Expense 01-4150.10-800 there was only $1.00 and now there is ($471.29).
2)Town Insurance seems to be paid for the year 01-4196.10-520
3) Worker’s Comp. 01-4196.10-521 seems to be mostly paid, Bonnie will ask Maryclare about these.
Lori, said that we need to be more prepared for the deliberative session about the benefit package compared to the % of the general salaries.
Using last years calendar, we went over the dates for the budget interviews with departments and committees, and also the SB2 Towns & School Timelines. Bonnie will make an updated lists and get them to the committee members. She will also prepare the letters for each department and committee, on what day the are requested to present their budgets to the Budget Committee.
Tom motioned to accept the date changes and Carmine second, it was passed.
Tom made motion to adjourn the meeting, Carmine second, and it was passed, meeting adjourned
9:03PM
Next meeting is Sept. 17th at 7 PM