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Finance Committee Before Meeting #8

We met at 7:30 before Town Meeting, as usual.  We had business tonight.  We discussed Article 44.  The article itself is OK, but there is a modification to the insurance budget.  The change causes money for health expenses for retirees to be first appropriated into the OPEB trust fund, and then spent from OPEB to […]

Finance Committee: Just Before Town Meeting #5

Finance Committee meets at 7:30 before every Town Meeting in case there is any last minute business to be done. I didn’t do notes for our meeting before TM #3 because we didn’t have any business – just chatter. The meeting #4 was canceled because there was no business. Today we had business. Treasurer Stephen […]

Finance Committee: Just Before Town Meeting #2

Finance Committee meets at 7:30 before every Town Meeting in case there is any last minute business to be done. Today we first approved the minutes of the previous meeting. We then revised our vote on Article 75.  The original vote was no longer needed given the Contributory Retirement Board’s surprise announcement that they would […]

Finance Committee – Warrant, Housing Trust, and Minuteman

Black text is mostly objective, red text is mostly subjective in nature. These are notes from 3/5. The minutes from the last meeting were approved. First up was the Capital Budget, discussed on Monday. The budget was recommended at $8,538,000. There was almost no discussion; we’d talked for an hour and a half earlier in […]

Finance Committee – Capital and Budgets

Black text is mostly objective, red text is mostly subjective in nature. These are notes from 3/3. The minutes for the previous meeting were approved. We started right in on budgets. Town Manager – There was some discussion of the 1/4 position and how that should be classified. Much of the budget increase is in […]

Finance Committee – Town Manager and Budgets

Black text is mostly objective, red text is mostly subjective in nature. These are notes from 2/27. The minutes were approved. Town Manager Sullivan, Deputy Manager Galkowski, and DPW Director Bean were there. The first item was discussion of plowing the sidewalks. The Manager said that it would cost much more than estimated by Stephen […]

Finance Committee – Sidewalk and Schools

Black text is mostly objective, red text is mostly subjective in nature. These are notes from 2/25. The minutes were approved. Article 26: Stephen Harrington was there to make the case for plowing some sidewalks in town. He gave a presentation showing pictures of various curbcuts and unshoveled sidewalks. He showed a map of several […]

Finance Committee – TAC, Extending Pensions II, and Budgets

Black text is mostly objective, red text is mostly subjective in nature. These are notes from 2/20. The minutes were approved. Article 62 – Ed Starr asked that the previously appropriated money for the Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC) be “rolled over” into future years, not to exceed $15,000. He described some of the ways the […]

Finance Committee – POBs and more

Black text is mostly objective, red text is mostly subjective in nature. These are notes from 2/11.  I missed 2/6 meeting because of a work dinner. Charlie Foskett chaired in Al Tosti’s absence. The hearing for the assessor’s article is canceled – he won’t need the article.  Minutes were approved. Article 74 – The committee […]

Finance Committee – Retirement Board and more

Black text is mostly objective, red text is mostly subjective in nature. These are notes from 2/4. The minutes were approved. It was noted that we’re approximately $125,000 over budget for snow and ice removal. John Bilafer, Joe Roselli, and Larry Greco came to discuss a series of articles related to retirement. Article 39 – […]