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December 20th, 2010
BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING
December 8, 2010
Members present: Lori Hogan, Mike Shea, Jim Covey, Tom Gately and Bonnie Moroney
Excused: Carmine Fabrizio, and Becki Pike
Guests: John Trammell, Jeff Duncan, Nancy Mitagay, Frank Matura, Joan Karpf, and Linda Dowling
Meeting called to order at 7:07 by Lori
Roll call taken, all resent accept Becki Pike and Carmine Fabrizio
It was motioned by Bonnie to accept the Nov. 17th minutes and Mike second and it passed.
It was deferred to vote on the Dec. 1st minutes as there was not a quorum. It was asked for bonnie to ask the LGC if we needed to have the meeting over. Bonnie said she felt that the members that were present could present what was given to them and the committee could vote on it, but she would check with the LGC.
No old business because Becki was not there, and it was to address the by-laws. Lori said that she is working on them.
New business:
Lori wanted to go over the presentation of the Transfer station from last week to the members of the budget committee. She had a hand out to help explain what she wanted them to understand. One of the major questions was about money being moved around from the transfer station budget to a warrant article.
Lori started with a family with two incomes with an end result of a small savings, then the same family with one income and the loss they had. Next was a business that was running with a profit and then a loss. The third page was for the transfer station, showing how the town pays that budget out of taxation, but that all the money that comes in goes into the special revenue fund vs. the general fund to offset the budget line. The fifth page shows how the certain lines are removed from the budget and added to a warrant article, leaving the town/select board/budget committee with no control over how the money is spent.
It was asked it the budget members understood what was going on, and some said they didn’t before this, but do now. There was discussion to whether the money should go to the general fund to offset the budget instead of doing this. There was also discussion that it didn’t look line there was any cuts to the budget as had been requested.
Jeff was asked to present his proposed 2011 budget. When Jeff started he presented charts and pictures showing what the fire/emergency does besides put out fires. He had pictures of several vehicle accidents. He said that they also have done rescues in Hart’s location and had pictures of one of the rescues off of the Cascades in Crawford Notch.
Calls peak on Sat. and Sundays, but certainly don’t stop after that. The problem is there are very few volunteer fireman and EMT’s and during the day many of those are working, so there is nobody to ride in the ambulance.
Many of the EMT calls are for car accidents, and they may not need to be transported, but rather just looked at.
Jeff said that they are going to try for a new transportation truck, because they need to turn the one they have now into the forestry truck and dispose of the other one that is rotting out. He said that the Planning Board has been approving homes to be built in areas where they will not be able to get the equipment and they will need something to get up there.
Jeff said that he looked at his budget after being asked by the select board to try for 10% reduction again this year. He said that $190,474.00 of his budget is a fixed cost out of the $248,596.00 he had proposed to the select board in Sept.
He said that the salaries do not reflect the raise but the 53 weeks that they will get paid in 2011.
01-4220.10-101 Officer Salaries was taken down to $1.00 from $4,500.00. This will impact coverage.
01-4220-10-103 was lowered to $13,000.00, from $15,000.00 and this is not a good thing because it means that less people are coming out for fire calls.
10-4220.10-200 EMT Salaries was taken down to $12,000.00 from $13,000.00.
01-4220.10-201 Overtime was taken down $1,000 from 2010 budget to $17,000.00. This amount equals Jeff and Jeremy with 2 calls per week each times 52 weeks. They have to cover when nobody else shows up.
NH Firefighters Insurance $450.00
Office Supplies $400.00
Telephone $1,200.00
Medical Equipment, Jeff said they will not be getting any new equipment; the $1,000.00 is there for any needed repairs.
Inoculations taken down to $200.00
Office Equipment $200.00
Software Support $2,550.00 this includes cable, software and support. They are required to send reports to the state using the state software on every call they make.
Equipment Supplies $500.00. Jeff reminded that is not enough to replace any equipment, but maybe a needed repair. He said that this can not go on this way as things only have a certain amount of years they are good and then the have to be replaced.
Medical Supplies $1,500.
ALS medical supplies $750.00
Oxygen $1200.00
Defibrillator supplies $700.00
Dispatching (Twin State) $4,300.00
Mutual Aid (Twin State) $500.00
North Pack Mutual Aid $350.00
Equipment purchase $1,000.00
Radio Repair $1,000.00
FD Vehicle repair and maint. $3,000.00
FD Maintenance $2,000.00
Ambulance repairs and maintenance $2,500.00
Engine 1 payment $65,000.00
Forestry equipment $250.00
Extrication equipment/maint. $300.00
SCBA equip. / maint. $1,200.00
Gasoline $5750.00, Jeff said that they average 6 gal. of fuel on every call.
Travel reimbursement $1.00
Clothing $600.00
FD protective clothing $1,500.00 each set of turn out gear per fire fighter costs $2,300.00.
Ambulance protective clothing $700.00
EMS training $1,750.00, there are 11 EMS people and 10 of them need to be recertified in 2011 and it costs $200.00 each.
FD training $300.00
Fire prevention $1.00
Inspections $1.00
Miscellaneous $300.00
Jeff said that the truck that they had for the forestry is falling apart and they are running a warrant for a new truck and will turn the existing truck into the forestry truck. He said that the Planning Board has been allowing more and more people to build in areas that they will be unable to get any equipment into, so this forestry truck will become more and more important.
It was asked about all the extra calls that ended up as nothing. Jeff said that the ordinance has not been put in yet and the fine is only $25.00 for false alarms after the 3rd one. Bonnie said that she would check into it.
Chief John Trammell presented the proposed 2011 budget for the Police Dept.
He began by going over some of the statistics of how busy in the past 5 years.
Special Officer $10,000.00. This is for all the part time officers that they have during the year. They all have other jobs so are not always available, so it is necessary to use the regular officers.
Overtime $20,000.00
Training $2,000.00
Office Supplies $2,500.00
Prof Assoc. $300.00
Vehicle repairs & maint. $10,000.00. Chief said that it takes $6,000.00 per year to keep two police cruisers on the roads, between repairs, tires, etc. plus with the repair issues they feel they need to increase it another $4,000.00 for a total of $10,000.00
Gasoline $12,000.00
Accurint $750.00
Fairpoint $2,000.00
US Cellular $1250.00
Grafton Dispatch $800.00
Time Warner $700.00
Verizon-Wireless $1,400.00
IMC $1,370.00
Equipment purchase $1,000.00
Radio repair $1,250.00
Computer support $2,500.00
Vests $1.00
Computer $1.00
Clothing $4,000.00
New Officer Clothing $1.00
Uniform cleaning $1,500.00
Ammunition $3,000.00
Travel $400.00
Veh. Lease $1.00
Grants $1.00
Miscellaneous $1,200.00
It was decided due to the time that the vote for these budgets would be put on hold until the Dec. 15th meeting. Chief Duncan and Chief Trammell were invited to come back for that meeting for the voting or to revisit their budgets and adjust if they could.
Bonnie motioned for the meeting adjourn at 10:40PM Mike second and it was passed