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Minutes from Nov. 19,2008 meeting
November 25th, 2008
Budget Committee Meeting
November 19, 2008
Member present: Mike Shea, Tom Gately, Carmine Fabrizio, Lori Hogan, and Bonnie Moroney
Members excused: Ken Mills
Guest: Joan Karpf, Cindy Smith, Bill Dowling, and Sean Doll
Meeting brought to order 7:02PM
Carmine motioned to accept minutes of the Nov. 12, meeting, Mike second, it was passed.
Lori opened the meeting with Joan Karpf for the ZBA. Lori, said that the Secretary was already set at $2,500.00 so Joan could start at Salaries.
01-4191.10-101 Board Member Salaries $600.00, Joan explained that this was set up to pay each member $10.00 per meeting for a five member board, and a possible 12 meetings per year.
01-4192.10-625 Postage $700.00
01-4192.10-626 Office Supplies $50.00
01-4192.10-627 Advertisements $225.00
01-4192.10-700 Legal $1250.00
01-4192.10-900 Misc. $1.00
01-4192.10-901 Training and Travel $300.00
Joan then presented the proposed budget for Conservation Comm.
Joan, said that they would be running a warrant article again this year that the balance of the unused 2009 Conservation Budget rolls into a account.
01-4611.10-300 Membership NHACC $150.00
01-4611.10-301 Workshops $200.00
01-4611.10-302 Operating Expense $140.00
01-4611.10-303 Annual LCIP Monitoring $10.00
Joan, said the Monitoring line was new this year, as there is conservation land that needs to be monitored each year, over on the Flats.
Bill Dowling was called to give the proposed budget for the Solid Waste Disposal.
01-4324.10-100 $31408.00 Lori said that the select board had put $31200.00, and that included his proposed increase. Bonnie said she would check and make sure the amount was correct.
01-4324.10-101 recycle Attendant Salary $12,341.00
01-4324.10-102 Recycle Salaries, $4,792.32 Bill explained that this was to cover the cost of a person to work on the recycle from Bretton Woods and that is had started. The amount came from 8 hours a week X $11.52 per hour X 52.
01-4324.10-200 Licenses $150.00
01-4324.10-202 Training/Mileage $1800.00 Bill said that most of the training was free, but it was held in Concord, and he want to whatever classes that are offered that will help him and he encourages his assistant to go as well. At times he will also pick up needed Bobcat parts when he is in Concord to save a trip.
01-4324.10-230 Telephone $1200.00
01-4324.10-300 MSW Haul $5200.00 that is figured by $200 per trip times 26 trips.
01-4324.10-301 Bulky Waste $0.00 Bill is going to run a warrant article to cover the cost of this out of the Recycling Special Revenue Fund.
01-4324.10-302 Tires $700.00 this is the rent of the container.
01-4324.10-303 C&D Trucking $0.00 Bill is gong to run a warrant article
01-4324.10-304 Tipping Fees $18375.00
01-4324.10-305 Property Tax Surcharge $0.00 this was for five years and is all done.
01-4324.10-400 Site Work and Grading $1000.00
01-4324.10-401 Equipment Purchase 3167.50 this is for trucking for bailing wire, plus rubber gloves, paper hand wipes, gripple(fasteners)
01-4324.10-402 Equipment Repairs and Maintenance $0.00
01-4324.10-403 LP Gas $200.00. Bill says he hasn’t used any, but has used some for the gas for the lawn mower.
01-4324.10-404 Electricity $5700.00
01-4324.10-500 Association Dues $50.00 belongs to NRRA
01-4324.10-505 Container Lease $1815.84
01-4324.10-515 Supplies $475.00
01-4324.30-100 Miscellaneous $800.00
Bill handed the committee six different warrant articles that he will be presenting to the select board and then the budget committee. Two of them are reflected in his proposed 2009 budget request.
1) $7110.00 fir ground water monitoring for old land fill.
2) $21,000.00 for surveying, engineering and design of future trash recap. removable by tractor.
3) $14,000.00 for 2009 tipping and trucking of bulky waste, construction debris, Freon, propane tanks, electronics, florescent light bulbs, antifreeze and fibers (cardboard and paper).
4) $906.00 for regional Household Hazardous Waste Collection Program.
5) $4,000.00 for maintenance of the old landfill.
6) To see if the town would establish and implement a Pay-Per-Bag system.
Sean Doll was asked to present the proposed 2009 budget for the Twin Mt.-Bretton Woods Chamber of Commerce.
01-4589.10-301 Chamber of Comm. Beautification $2,000.00 He said that the money this year was used for the paining of the information booth, the “open” sign, and “?” sign,
plus the port potty rental, repair of the flower boxes in the center of the intersection. In 2009 they are planning on using the money for the addition of the Cog Train, being put by the information booth.
01-4589.10-302 Chamber of Comm. Advertising $3,000.00 Sean, said that they used a lot of the money this past year for advertising in Canada and they had seen a big increase and felt that is helped a lot. They are hoping to do more advertising in Canada as well as expand out to more areas.
01-4589.10-303 Chamber of Comm. Information Booth $10,000.00
01-4589.10-304 Chamber of Comm. Summer Music Series $3,000.00 They said they were able to get more entertainment and they are hoping to do something this winter as well, but not sure what right now.
Old Business – Bonnie said that Becki had answered her back about the Water Meter Software 04-4332.10-403 and the Computer Software Support 01-4150.10-621. She said they are separate programs and therefore separate amounts and line items.
Bonnie also went over the wages for the highway dept. She said that she had divided the amounts for the Water, Town buildings and Recreation Labor between the three of them, and corrected the amounts:
Billy Greg Scott
Highway $40770.00 $30680.00 $32240.00
Water 7500.00 3750.00 3750.00
Town Bldg. 2000.00 2000.00 2000.00
Recre. Lab. 1000.00 500.00 500.00
Balance to
Leave in Highway
$30270.00 $24430.00 $25990.00
We voted on the new highway salary amounts, first for:
01-4312.10-100 Road Agent Salary $30270.00, voted and passed
01-4312.10-103 Highway Helper $25990.00, voted and passed
01-4312.10-104 Highway Helper II $24430.00 voted and passed, Lori abstained
Voted on Water Meter Software 04-4332.10-403 voted and passes.
Lori said we will vote for the ZBA budget first:
01-4192.10-100 thru 01-4192.10-901 voted and passed.
Conservation Commission:
01-4611.10-300 thru 01-4611.10-303 voted and passed.
Chamber of Commerce:
01-4589.10-301 thru 01-4589.10-304 voted and passed.
Lori then said we would vote on but Tom said he wanted to go over a couple of them, so could we spread them out.
Bonnie said she would check on the Recycling Supervisor and Recycle Attn.Salaries to make sure they are correct.
Tom motioned to round 01-4324.10-102 to $4795.00 and the motion was passed.
Then it was voted to accept that amount for 01-4324.10-102 voted and passed.
Carmine motioned to make 01-4324.10-202 Training/mileage to $2,000.00
Tom second and it passed.
01-4324.10-200 thru 01-4324.10-203 voted and passed.
Carmine motioned to make 01-4324.10-300 change to $4,000.00, as there hadn’t been to much used this year. Tom second and it passed.
01-4324.10-300 voted and passed for $4,000.00
Carmine motioned to put $1.00 on both 01-4324.10-301,303 and 402 to keep them open. Tom second and it passed.
01-4324.10-301 thru 303 voted and passed.
It was motioned and passed to change the amount on 01-4324.10-304 Tipping Fees to $17,500.00
01-4324.10-304 voted new amount and passed.
01-4324.10-305 no vote required for $0
01-4324.10-400 voted and passed
It was voted to round off 01-4324.10-401 to $3168.00 voted and passed
01-4324.10-401 voted and passed.
01-4324.10-402 voted and passed.
01-4324.10-403 Tom motioned to have the word LP taken out as Bill says he uses the money for lawn mower gas as well. Carmine second and it passed.
01-4324.10-403 voted and passed
It was motioned to round off 01-4324.10-505 to $1816.00 voted and passed.
01-4324.10-404 thru 01-4324.30.100 voted and passed.
Next meeting will be Dec. 3, 2008 and the EMT’s, Fire, and Ambulance will be here to present the 2009 budget.
Carmine motioned to adjourned and Tom second, it passed,
8:12PM