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10/19/2023 AC Minutes 2 Ms. Kosnoff explained that making the final payment for the Minuteman Regional High School will be put on the Finance Department’s end-of-year checklist, so that, in future fiscal years, the final payment will be made on a timely basis. The Committee recommended approval of Article 2 by a roll-call vote of 6-0. Article 3 Establish, Amend, Dissolve and Appropriate To and From Specified Stabilization Funds Mr. Padaki stated that he had not received sufficient information to write a draft. Ms. Kosnoff stated that the only appropriation under this article would be roughly $2.8 million from the tax levy into the Capital SF, but an appropriation from the Traffic Mitigation SF will be requested under Article 7. Ms. Kosnoff will supply the exact amount of the appropriation for the Capital SF tomorrow. Article 4 Amend FY2024 Operating, Enterprise and CPA Budgets The requested supplemental appropriation for the Public Facilities Department has been reduced from $113,000 to $85,000. After some discussion, the dollar figures in the draft report to the special town meeting for changes in the water and wastewater enterprise funds were corrected. The Committee recommended approval of Article 4 by a roll-call vote of 6-0. Article 5 Appropriate for Authorized Capital Improvements Ms. Kosnoff confirmed that no action is expected under this article. The Committee recommended indefinite postponement of Article 5 by a roll-call vote of 6-0. Article 6 Appropriate Opioid Settlement Mr. Bartenstein noted that the current opioid settlement payments were determined in 2021, but that additional payments from settlements reached in 2022 will, according to his understanding, effec- tively more or less double the total payments to the Town from opioid settlement court cases. The Town has yet to receive any payments related to the 2022 cases. The Committee recommended approval of Article 6 by a roll-call vote of 6-0. Article 7 Appropriate Housing Resale and Rental Monitoring Fees Mr. Michelson reviewed his write-up for Article 7. He noted that the article, as it currently stands, would sever the connection between fee revenues and the services the fees are intended to support, i.e., developers that provide rental affordable housing pay fees to the Town and the Town pays the Regional Housing Services Office (RHSO) annually to perform the associated rental monitoring as well as other affordable-housing related tasks. He emphasized the impact this motion could have on the operating budget. Ms. Kosnoff stated that there was nothing preventing this appropriation, and that it was more of a policy issue. The Committee concurred with Mr. Michelson’s concerns and also noted that it seemed like a very small amount of revenue to be subject to this kind of appropria- tion. The Committee recommended approval of Article 7 by a vote of 0-6, i.e., the Committee recom- mended disapproval. Article 8 Appropriate for Speed Hump Pilot Program Mr. Padaki asked that the report clarify that the funds sought under this article is a capital request, which allows it to cover expenses incurred beyond the current fiscal year.