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Dec. 14th minutes
December 20th, 2010
BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING
December 14, 2010
Members present: Lori Hogan, Mike Shea, Jim Covey, Tom Gately, Becki Pike and Bonnie Moroney
Excused: Carmine Fabrizo
Guests: John Trammell, Nancy Mitagay, Joan Karpf, and Linda Dowling
Meeting called to order at 7:07 by Lori
Roll call taken, all resent accept Carmine Fabrizio
It was stated that the meeting had been changed from Dec. 15th to the 14th due to scheduling conflicts.
Lori announced that we would be voting on three budgets this evening. The Transfer station, Police Dept and the Fire/Emergency Dept.
It was discussed what the schedule for the public meetings would be and it was decided that Tuesday Jan. 11th would be the operating budget meeting starting at 7pm and Wednesday Jan 12th would be the revenue, money warrants and anything else.
Bonnie will let Maryclare know the dates so that they will be put in the proper newspapers.
Lori said that she was looking for a motion to approve the Nov. 17th minutes. Tom motioned to accept, Becki second and it was passed. Jim abstained.
It was stated that the minutes from the Dec 1st meeting was for information only as there was not a quorum that evening. Bonnie said that she had not had time to get the minutes from Dec. 8th done yet.
Chief John Trammell said that he had a meeting with all of his officers to go over the budget and what they should do and he wanted to make cuts from last weeks meeting. He said the cuts they made were very specific.
He took the overtime from $20,000.00 down to $7,500.00
He stated that years ago when Al was in office that he had gone to the board about adding another officer and Al had told him that it’s cheaper to do over time then add a new body, between training, insurance, etc. So that is when they started to use more overtime.
Training down $500.00 making the new amount $1,500.00
Computer Support down $500.00 making it $2,000.00
Clothing down $500.00 making it $3,500.00
Uniform cleaning cutting down to $750.00
There was discussion about scheduling and questions about the part timers. Chief said that the part timers all had other jobs and the time they could work was limited. He said the goal this year is to scale back the coverage and the overtime cost.
Jim Covey said he wanted to present an updated budget from the Chamber. He said when they presented the first time they were unaware that they were meant to cut their budget. So they brought the budget from $13,000.00 down to $11,700.00
Beautification from $1,000.00 down to $400.00
Information Booth from $10,000.00 down to $9,800.00
and town entertainment from $2,000.00 down to $1,500.00
Lori said that Jeff was unable to attend the meeting but said that he was happy with what he had presented the week before.
It was decided to vote on the newly proposed Chamber budget. Tom motioned to accept, and Mike second and it was passed.
On the PD budget Lori asked the Chief what they used $913.25 under the Misc. for this year. He said that the printer died and they needed a new one, so they had to put it there. He stated that he added a new computer line for 2011. He said that most of the time the line is used for UPS shipping but this year the printer had been additional.
Lori motioned to take the 2011 misc. line down to $800.00 Becki second but no other votes so it was defeated.
Under Police dept, lines 01-4210.10-100 thru 01-43210.10-106 were tabled.
01-4210.10-200 thru 330 to be accepted as proposed Jim motioned to accept, Mike second and it passed.
01-4210.10-900 Tom motioned to accept with $1,000.00, Mike second and it passed.
Fire /Emergency Dept.
Tabled 01-4220.10-100 thru 01-4220-10-201
01-4220.10-202 thru 01-4220-10-900 Jim motioned to accept as submitted, Tom second and it was passed.
There was discussion about the Transfer Station Budget. There were assorted feelings about the money that was moved to a warrant article vs. being cut the 10% requested like the other dept.
Lori asked if the committee wanted to table this and ask Bill to come back to the next meeting to go over his changes. It was decided to ask Bill to come to the Dec. 20th meeting.
Bonnie mentioned that the Emergency Management had not been voted on either.
01-4290.10-100 thru 01-4290.10-203 for a total budget of $103.00. Tom motioned to accept, and Jim second and it was passed.
Tom motioned to increase the town employee salaries by 3%, with the select board to set the rates of each employee increase upon approval. Becki second and it passed, Loir apposed.
Bonnie brought up the fact that the select board and other board member would not be included in the increases jut the regular employees, something that would need to be cleared up more at the next meeting.
It was asked if the amounts in the Selectman’s budget for the insurance etc were correct. Bonnie said that they had just signed the agreements last night, so she would check with Maryclare for any changes.
The next meeting will be Dec. 20 to go over the:
Missed line items.
Check the allocation of Salaries
Revenues
Any Money warrants
Tom motioned to adjourn the meeting at 9:32PM, Mike second and it was passed.