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Goal Setting Minutes -4- July 2, 1986 housing as legitimate goals for the revenue. He pointed out that he felt that housing and general purposes as well as land acquisition should be considered because this gives the Selectmen and Town Meeting the widest amount of discretion for decision making. C. Golf Course Acquisition - The Board stated that it would review options with Counsel so that we can expedite where the Town is going on this matter. D. School Committee 1.) Collective bargaining strategy - The Manager reiterated that the School system has almost $500,000 liability for a sick -leave buyback program and that this benefit should be deleted or curtailed as it does not reduce sick leave, is costly to the Town and now has all other employees, union and non - union, asking why they don't receive a similar benefit particularly when they work a longer year then teachers. It was agreed that the Chairman of the Board, Paul Marshall, Town Manager, Geoff Pierson and Tony .Clough should meet to review mutual collective bargaining concerns as contract negotiations will be coming up for the school and the Town. It was suggested that the Personnel Advisory Board be used as a resource in the discussion of policy options. =E d 2J School Renovation program - Board members unanimously felt that with a $12 million renovation program underway that the maintenance structure of the Town should be consolidated to protect the assets that we have that is the value of our buildings. Particular concern was raised about the condition of the high school based upon the tour of that facility. It was agreed that this would be discussed at an appropriate meeting with School Committee representatives and that an appropriate report on this issue should be brought back to the 1987 Town Meeting. E, Reevaluation - The Manager pointed out that we had a considerable. work load in the Assessor office as we are completing the evaluation of residential property and looking at approaches for updating values for commercial in order that full valuation be completed this year. Board members stressed that the Town should push ahead providing additional resources if necessary so that tax bills and classification decisions could be completed in order to avoid an estimated tax bill if at all possible. Paul Marshall volunteered to review the Town's methodology to see if he and /or one of his associates could give us some direction on expediting this process. The Manager stated he just wanted them to be aware of their options and agreed that we should try to get the bills out this year with the new tax rate as people were ready to receive their bills and the rate would drop substantially. '~"'�