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Minutes from the Nov. 4, Meeting.
November 6th, 2009
BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING
November 4, 2009
Members present: Carmine Fabrizio, Mike Shea, Lori Hogan, Becki Pike, Jim Covey and Bonnie Moroney.
Members excused: Tom Gately
Guests: Ed Martin, Ben Jellison, and Al Strasser
7:03PM meeting brought to order by Mike Shea, sitting as Chairman in Tom’s absence.
Carmine motioned to accept the minutes from the Oct. 28th. meeting, Jim second and it was passed.
Ed Martin, open the meeting by presenting the proposed Cemetery Budget. He said that last year they were looking at buying a special computer program for setting up all the lots at the Straw Cemetery, but after checking into it more they decided that it was quite costly and designed for a much bigger Grave Yard then what the town has. So they instead designed a blue print with all the new lots marked out and numbered.
Ed said the Mike Gooden is working on the lots on the older parts of the cemetery and mark those all out for the future blue print. Bonnie said that it looked this the blueprint could be transferred to a Excel spread sheet to be able to work in a computer. Ed said yes but that would be in future, when they found somebody to do it.
Ed said they have the available land marked out in 4 by 10 foot lots and that would be for one vault, and one vault and one cremation. The price for one is $250.00 and they are also requiring four corner stones with the family initials on it for $195.00. If you bought more the one lot, you would only need four corner stones to mark out all your lots location as being together.
Ed said that McCormick was he company that they are working with to repair all the broken older stones. He said the reason no money was spent this year is because McCormick had done some repairs the year before, and the trustees were not happy with it, so the company is redoing all of them free of charge. But next year they would be continuing on more stones that need repair.
He stated that they were planning on separating out a lot of the perennials that are planted by graves, and use some of the to go along the fencing. By doing this he said that each year the Cemetery Improvements line should keep going down, as they are completing the improvements that they feel need to happen.
Jim asked it the town had a pet cemetery, as that is a big money maker in other area. Ed said they had all they could handle with this.
Ed’s proposed budget was:
4195.10-100 Cemetery Salary $1.00
4195.10-101 Cemetery Trustee Chair Salary $$300.00
4195.10-102 Cemetery Trustees Salaries $400.00
4195.10-200 Cemetery Maintenance $2300.00
4195.10-201 Cemetery Improvements $2750.00
For a total of $5751.00, $450.00 lower then last years.
Ben Jellison came to present the proposed 2010 budget for the Election and Registrations.
Ben said it would be up in 2010 as there are 3 elections and also the deliberation. He presented his list:
4140.10-130 Supervisors Sittings $250.00
4140.10-135 Town Meeting Supervisors $1.00
4140.10-136 Supervisors Elections $300.00
4140.10-150 Moderator $300.00
4140.10-160 Selectman Salary $.00
4140.10-200 Supervisors Expenses $150.00
4140.10-201 Advertisements $300.00
4140.10-202 Moderator Expenses $500.00
4140.10-203 Moderator Travel/Training $250.00
4140.10-204 Elections Training $250.00
4140.10-300 Ballot Clerks $1500.00
The total came to $3801.00
Becki, asked what we advertised and Ben said it was when the Supervisors of the Check List, sat so people could come in and register to vote. She asked how many time they did that, and Ed Martin, said that a packet comes from the state and they tell them how many times and when they need to sit.
It was also asked what the Moderator Expenses were for. It was explained that the Moderator was the one responsible for feeding the Ballot Clerks and those who worked during the elections, and that money was used for that.
Mike presented the Budget Committee’s budget that Tom had left for him to do.
4150.10-113 Budget Committee Clerk Salary $1.00
4150.10-806 Budget Committee Expenses $50.00
4150.10-807 Budget Committee Training and Mileage $200.00
No changes from last year.
It was noted that the Trustees of the Trust Fund and the Library Trustees were not there. They had not contacted the Budget Committee to let them know that this was a bad time, so it was decided by the committee to go ahead and go over their budgets and what they had presented to the Select Board.
First the Trustee of the Trust Funds.
4130.10-138 Trustees of the Trust Funds $840.00 Lori motioned to leave at the $840, Jim second and it passed.
4130.10-140 Trustees Education/Seminars on the Select Boards meeting they had asked for an increase from $500.00 to $661.70 Bonnie said she did not have a copy of the 2010 proposed but had the one from 2009 so the new members could see how they came to those figures. Lori motioned to leave the amount at the $500.00 same at 2009, Bonnie second and it passed.
4130.10-141 Trustees Miscellaneous the 2009 was for $50.00 and at the select boards meeting they had asked to increase it to $130.00. Bonnie motioned to give them $75.00, Carmine second and it passed. The total came to $576.00.
The Committee moved to the Library Trustees:
4130.10-139 Library Trustees $1.00 left it the same.
4550.10-100 Librarian Salary at the select board they had asked for $8774.00, it was agreed to put that amount in.
4550.10-220 Telephone, it was put in for $750.00 but Becki said that they had only used $312.35 so far this year, so she felt we she put it in for $500.00.
The rest was put in the same at the selectman’s budget meeting:
4550.10-201 Books and materials $1800.00
4550.10-202 Subscriptions $150.00
4550.10-205 Miscellaneous $100.00
4550.10-208 Capital Items $500.00
4550.10-210 Software Support $500.00
4550.10-215 Audio and Video $350.00
4550.10-218 Training $100.00
4550.10-220 Office Supplies $300.00
4550.10-222 Mileage $250.00
Including the salary as is, the total came to $13174.00
Lori presented the budget for the Recreation Committee. She said that Cindy was the treasurer, but she agreed to present it.
4520.10-100 Rec Area Counselors she said they are leaving it at $19615.00. She said that it is under this year, as they had a walk off so not all days were worked.
4520.10-200 Rec Area Telephone, Lori said they pay $75.00 per month when the Rec is up there, and then a winter fee for the off season. Jim asked why they don’t just cell phones and Lori explained that the reception up there is not the best, and that it is also there for other people that are enjoying the rec area. They said that it was only at $234.86 so didn’t feel that they would need $600.00 so the motioned to take it down to $400.00 and Lori agreed that would be fine.
4520.10-201 Equipment and Supplies $1.00
4520.10-300 Parties $1.00
4520.10-310 Ski Program $1,000.00. She said that this amount is down due to a couple of snow storms that they had to cancel the trip. She said that this is only half the amount because Whitefield picks up the other half.
4520.10-320 Rec Field/Court Repair $1000.00 Lori said that they wanted to fence in the basket ball court. She said that she knows that will not be enough money but Billy said he has some other pieces of fencing as well.
4520.10-321 Building Repair $200.00
4520.10-501 Transportation $2,000.00
4520.10-806 Staff Training. $2,000.00 Lori said that they need to have at least one counselor that is trained in lifesaving and last year they got lucky and one of the ones they hired was already certified, but she will not be returning, so they will more then likely need to send one to training.
The total for Rec. was $26,217.00, $200.00 less then last year.
Jim asked Lori why the Rec is only focusing on kids and not seniors. She explained the amount of volunteer hours it takes to keep the Rec moving for the kids, and there just are not the bodies to do much more. Bonnie explained that most seniors are a lot more active now into later years, and if you want them to do something you have to get penciled into their calendar. She said there just would not be the interest, nor the volunteers.
The committee started to put the vote what had been presented to them. 4130.10-138 thru 4130.10-141 Carmine motioned to accept, Jim second and it passed.
4140.10-130 thru 4140.10-150 Lori motioned to accept, Carmine second and it passed.
4140.10-200 thru 4140.10-300 Carmine motioned to accept, Jim second and it passed.
4150.10-113, 4150.10-806 and 4150.10-807 Lori motioned to accept, Carmine second and it passed.
4195.10-100 thru 4195.10-201 Bonnie motioned to accept, Jim second and it passed.
Lori abstained from voting on the Recreation Dept. budget.
4520.10-100 thru 4520.10-300 Carmine motioned to accept, Becki second and it passed.
4520.10-310 thru 4520.10-321 Bonnie motioned to accept, Becki second and it passed.
4520.10-501 thru 4520.10-806 Carmine motioned to accept, Jim second and it passed.
4550.10-100 Librarian Salary was not voted on until the research is completed to decide about increased.
4550.10-200 thru 4550.10-205 Carmine motioned to accept, Lori second and it passed.
4550.10-208 thru 4550.10-222 Lori motioned to accept, Becki second and it passed.
Jim reminded us that he would not be any of the meetings until Dec 9, as he will be traveling.
Next meeting is Nov. 11, 7PM
Bonnie motioned to adjourn at 8:17PM, and Carmine second, it was passed.
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Bonnie motioned to adjourn meeting at 8:17PM and Carmine second and it passed. Next meeting will be Nov. 11, 2009 7 PM
Jim will not be back till Dec. 9, 2009