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December 8th, 2008
Budget Committee Meeting
December 3, 2008
Member present: Mike Shea, Tom Gately, Carmine Fabrizio, Lori Hogan, Ken Mills and Bonnie Moroney
Guest: Jeff Duncan and Chris Hancock
Meeting brought to order 7:02PM
Tom motioned to accept minutes of the Nov. 19, meeting Carmine second, it was passed.
Lori said she wanted to address an administrative issue and then she was going to turn the meeting over to Tom, as she was not feeling well and wanted to go home. She wanted to go over the fact that we had originally set the date of Dec. 17th for the public budget hearing, but that after looking things over, we have decided that it would be better to have the public budget hearing on Jan. 7, 2009. This will give us more time to go over all the budget amounts and get everything ready for the power point demo.
Bonnie asked what time they felt would be a good starting time 6 or 6:30 vs. 7, as the meeting usually lasts a long time. Lori asked for 6:30 as 6 is quite hard for her to make it.
So it was agreed that it would begin at 6:30 PM on Jan. 7, 2008. and Bonnie would let Maryclare know so she could get it in the paper at the correct time.
Lori, excused herself and turned the meeting over to Tom.
Tom asked Jeff to start going over his proposed budget for 2009.
01-4220.10-100 FD Chief Salary $4,000.00
01-4220.10-101 Officers Salaries $4500.00
01-4220.10-102 Full Time Firefighter $40,000.00
01-4220.10-103 Fire Fighter’s Salaries $22,000.00
01-4221.10-104 Full Time Firefighter #2 $36,000.00
01-4220.10-200 EMT Salaries $15,000.00
01-4220.10-201 Overtime $18,000.00 Jeff said that the outage for himself averaged 6.2 hours and for Jeremy 4.2. These are times outside of their work hours. OT is the middle of the night calls, and this was a large increase because of the change by the select board that the full time fire fighters needed to work 53 hours before they got over time. Tom asked about volunteering to do this and Jeff stated that that is against the law, as they had checked with the state when Ed Daniels was the full time fire fighter, and they said that no full time employee could volunteer in their own job.
01-4220.10-202 Firefighter Insurance $550.00
01-4220.10-300 Office Supplies $1,000.00
01-4220.10-301 Telephone $2,800.00
01-4220.10-302 Medical Equipment $4,000.00
01-4220.10-304 Inoculations $1,000.00
01-4220.10-305 Office Equipment $1,000.00
01-4220.10-342 Software Support $1,875.00 Jeff said there was a 10% increase coming for the cable (internet) and there is Fir Point Software that is required by the state that has a fee of $225.00 good for three years.
01-4220.10-400 Equipment Supplies $1,500.00
01-4220.10-401 Medical Supplies $1,500.00
01-4220.10-402 Advanced Life Support Medical Supply $750.00
01-4220.10-403 Oxygen $1,200.00
01-4220.10-410 Defib Supplies and Maintenance $1,000.00
01-4220.10-500 Dispatching Twin State $4687.60 Jeff had just gotten the new price for this, but didn’t have it when he presented to the select board.
01-4220.10-501 Mutual Aid Twin State $900.00
01-4220.10-502 North Pact Mutual Aid $350.00
01-4220.10-600 Equipment Purchase $4,000.00
01-4220.10-601 Radio Repair, $2,750.00 Jeff said they had pagers and needed a few more at the cost of $425. ea. And they also will need to replace some batteries and they cost $100.00 each.
01-4220.10-602 Vehicle Repairs and Maintenance $3,500.00
01-4220.10-604 FD Maintenance $$3,500.00 part of this cost is the $650.00 per year for the maintenance of the generator, $200.00 for the exhaust system, and the alarm panel is not adequate for the building so that needs to be fixed for about $2,000.00
01-4220.10-605 Ambulance Repairs and Maintenance$3,000.00
01-4220.10-606 New Fire Truck $65,000.00
01-4220.10-660 Forestry Equipment $800.00
01-4220.10-680 Extrication Equipment Maintenance $1,000.00
01-4220.10-685 SCBA Equipment Maintenance $3.000.00 Jeff said he and Chief Trammell, had gone down to RI and had gotten 41 SCBA’s that were not new but fine. They all need to be tested and all the other ones they have had to be tested yearly too.
01-4220.10-700 Gasoline/Diesel $7,750.00
01-4220.10-701 Travel Reimbursement $1,250.00
01-4220.10-702 Clothing $2,250.00 This includes the two officers clothing allotment for the year, plus money to get standard uniforms for each member, they try to get some every year.
01-4220.10-710 Protective Clothing $5,500.00
01-4220.10-715 Ambulance Protective Clothing $1,000.00
01-4220.10-725 EMT Training
01-4220.10-800 FD Training $2,000.00
01-4220.10-801 Fire Prevention $400.00
01-4220.10-802 Inspections $750.00
01-4220.10-900 Miscellaneous $600.00
Jeff said that when he first started doing the Certificate for Occupancy that out of the $25.00 charge, $10.00 of that was to be credited to the fire dept. for his time, he doesn’t think that that is being done. Bonnie said that she would check into this,
He said he would not be asking for any money to be voted on for the Capital Reserve for the Engine or Ambulance this year.
There was discussion about the number of false alarms that the town is still having to answer and that the majority of them are at BW. It had been told to the town by the attorney that we could not charge for having to go out there no matter how many there were. Bonnie said that she would check into this some more to see if there is a way around it or another RSA that could apply. They make about 70 calls per year to BW that are false alarms, due to water pressure changes.
Tom opened the floor for the voting. He said he had to break them up as the select board amounts were different in some places. Bonnie said that it was a mistake that she made when entering the numbers and that she would correct them. Tom, said well they were on this sheet so he wanted to break them up.
01-4220.10-100 thru 305 voted and passed
01-4220.10-342 voted for $1875.00 voted and passed
01-4220.10-400 thru 403 voted and passed
01-4220.10-410 for $1,000.00 voted and passed
01-4220.10-500 for $4687.60 voted and passed
01-4220.10-501 for $900.00 voted and passed
01-4220.10-502 for $350.00 voted and passed
01-4220.10-600 for $4000.00 voted and passed
01-4220.10-601 for $2750.00 voted and passed
01-4220.10-602 for $3500.00 voted and passed
01-4220.10-604 thru 685 voted and passed
01-7220.10-700 for $7750.00 voted and passed
01-4220.10-701 thru 900 voted and passed
Bonnie motioned to adjourn at 8:55 and Ken second, and it was passed.
Next week will be the proposed budget for the Police Dept.