2021-11-08-STM#1-min-as Amended June 2022

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November 8,2021 Special Town Meeting#1(2021-1),cont. Jill Hai,Select Board Chair,Motioned to Adjourn the Special Town Meeting#1 to Tuesday,November 16,2021,7:30 p.m.,such meeting to be held remotely. As there were no objections,the Moderator declared the Motion adopted and the Meeting adjourned. November 16,2021 Adjourned Session of the 2021 Special Town Meeting#1 Deputy Moderator Barry Orenstein called the fourth session of 2021-1 Special Town Meeting to order at 7:30 p.m.on Tuesday,November 16,2021. The meeting was held remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 7:30 p.m. The Moderator recognized Joe Pato,Select Board Member,to offer a brief presentation to address some uncertainty about how to check if a vote was cast as a few members had reported that their votes hadn't been recorded. Mr.Pato gave a brief overview of how voting would show in the portal. Mr.Pato noted that he had set up a system that if there was a discrepancy,he would be able to look at the actions taken by Members to ensure they were correctly recorded. He further noted that the bylaw that allowed online voting and procedures that had been adopted required that the votes were scrolled onscreen for verification. Mr.Pato reminded Town Meeting Members that if they noticed an error,they should let the Moderator know promptly as once the Moderator certified a vote,it could not be changed and called on Members to watch carefully. 7:34 p.m. The Moderator called for attendance for the Members and noted that he would give some procedural information while the portal was open. He also reminded the members of the public how to register comments. 7:38 p.m. After attendance was complete,the Moderator stated that they had sufficient quorum (15 8)to move forward,and opened the meeting under Article 1,Reports. Ms.Hai moved that the Report of the Town Manager should be received and placed on file and further asked that Town meeting recognize James Malloy,Town Manager. The Moderator noted that he would first accept two other Reports before recognizing Mr.Malloy. As there were no objections,Report was received and placed on file. Mr.Peters,Planning Board,motioned to receive the written Report of the Planning Board for Article 17 and place it on file. As there were no objections,Report was received and placed on file. Mr. Charles Lamb,Capital Expense Committee,motioned to receive the written Supplemental Capital Expense Committee Report for Article 5 and place it on file. As there were no objections,Report was received and placed on file. 7:40 p.m. The Moderator then recognized James Malloy,Town Manager,for remarks. Mr.Malloy noted that during FY21 the Town built on an already strong financial condition. He offered the following other information: • General Fund revenue was projected at$244.5M and came in at$246.5—a surplus of$2M. This was driven primarily by building permits which came in$1.6M higher than projected due to strong commercial development and continued residential development. • General Fund expenses were budgeted at$225.8M and came in at$216.5—due in some part to reduced spending due to the pandemic,resulting in a turn-back of$9.3M. • Together,these provided an available resource of$11M available for future budgets,specifically as Free Cash available for FY23,which would be used for cash capital and to fund OPEB and CSF reserves.