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FINCOM 03-11-2008
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�'�� 6- C)--Z Town of Canton Finance Committee Meeting Minutes Tuesday, March 11, 2008 Opening: The regular meeting of the Canton FINCOM was called to order at 7:01 p.m. on 3, at the Pequitside Tavern by Ted Powell, Finance Committee Chairman. Members Present: Sepp Bergschneider, John Demoy, Dave Emhardt, John Friel, Alan Hines, Pat Johnson, Ted Powell, Alan Reese, Jim Sims and Diane Wolff. Guests Present: Joseph Ciccolo, Supt.- Director, Blue Hills Regional Technical School (BHRTS) Joe Croce, Capital Planning Committee (CPC) Jim Magee, CPC Aidan Maguire, Canton representative to the Blue Hills Regional Technical School Committee Gene Manning, Chairman, Capital Planning Committee Michael Markett, Resident (potential CPC member) John McFadden, Business Manager (BHRTS) Michelle Roche, Director of Vocational Programs (BHRTS) Herb Silverman, CPC James Murgia, Finance Director Ellen Arsenault — Secretary, FINCOM A. Approval of Agenda The agenda was approved as presented. Announcements There were no new announcements. B. Approval of Minutes There were no minutes submitted for approval. C. Old Business /Open Issues None. D. New Business Members from the Blue Hills Regional Technical School presented their FY09 Operational Budget to the FINCOM. The following items were discussed: • An FY09 Operational Budget handout was made available to all members of the FINCOM. • Areas of responsibility similar to those of a municipality were discussed such as retirement, Medicare, health insurance premiums, workers comp, utilities and others. Maintain a central office within the high school — Superintendent, Directors of Curriculum, Business and Finance Offices etc. Mandated to fund district treasurer and an admissions office. • There are 160 employees within the district. • Employees are offered one Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO plan. Because BHRTS is obligated to offer a BCBS product, they were unable to offer the State's GIC plan, which did not include a BCBS product. Non- teaching retirees continue with the BCBS product while the teaching retirees go into the GIC plan (of which an indemnity plan is available to them). • The school is in year three of a five -year capital plan. Years one and two were for the roof project. The school has met with MSBA and are on a short list for reimbursement. MSBA has not yet asked them for any documentation and may be voting on the reimbursement in a month. Canton FINCOM Minutes 03/11/08 Page 1 of 5 11/5/2010
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• Oil was purchased in September at a good price. • The Superintendent reviewed the approximately $40,000 decrease to the Town's assessment from FY08 to FY09. There was also an approximately $30,000 decrease to the FY08 assessment due to two students that moved out of the district. • Per pupil cost is between $12,000 and $13,000. The FINCOM voted the following articles while waiting for the Capital Planning Committee's arrival to the meeting: Article 27 — Accept 2008 General or Session Laws Enacted Consent AV_enda Ted Powell read information about the article from a 3/7/08 memorandum received from Bill Friel. A motion that the subject matter of this article be postponed indefinitely was made by Sepp Bergschneider and seconded by Pat Johnson. Vote: 9 -0 -0. Article 29 — Composition of Permit Advisory Committee A motion to accept the amendment to change the composition of the Permit Advisory Committee of the General By -laws by adding the new subsections xi, xii and xii was made by Sepp Bergschneider and seconded by John Friel. Vote: 8 -0 -1. The Capital Planning Committee (CPC) presented their votes on FY09 municipal, school and enterprise capital requests as follows: • CPC supported $349,000 of municipal cash capital requests. Line items were slightly reallocated to reflect a last - minute request of $12,000 by the Buildings & Property Maintenance Dept. for the lease /purchase of a dump truck. There was a $10,000 decrease to the Ponkapoag roof repair item. • CPC supported $672,000 of municipal debt capital requests. Three requests by the DPW for the 5 -year roadway maintenance program, sidewalk program and Rte. 138 corridor project were supported by the BOS. These items were kept on the capital request list as a reminder for outlying years. • While requests exceeded capacity, the five -year plan has been rebalanced. • CPC looks at back -up by departments, safety issues in determining which vehicles are in need of replacement. • The Finance Director believes the Town Clerk's FY08 budget has enough funds to accommodate an override election in May and the purchase of election software. • The CPC by -law allows the CPC to consider requests $5,000 or more such as the $13,000 request by the Library for Collection Development. • Lease /purchase of vehicles will be figured into the five -year capital plan for four years. • CPC supported $185,000 of water and sewer enterprise cash capital requests. • CPC supported $2,145,000 of water and sewer enterprise debt capital requests. • CPC supported $57,000 lease /purchase of an ambulance for the Fire Department. • The $75,000 digital phone system will be funded through a transfer from a $450,000 prior appropriation at the ATM 2007. • CPC unanimously voted to support $320,000 of school cash capital requests. The asbestos removal was increased to $100,000 to fully remote the asbestos from the third floor of the Rodman Building. • CPC unanimously voted to support $421,000 of school debt capital requests. Let the minutes reflect that one FINCOM member left the meeting leaving nine (9) members for voting. The Finance Committee discussed and voted the following FY09 cash and debit capital requests: A motion was made by Sepp Bergschneider to support $209,000 of cash capital requests made by municipal departments as follows: $5,000 Replace Bullet Resistant Vests (Police) $12,000 Replace 1994 Ford F350 Pickup truck through lease /purchase (Fire) Canton FINCOM Minutes 03/11/08 Paee 2 of 5 11/5/2010