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<br /> October 7, 2004 <br /> <br /> <br />To: Appropriation Committee (AC) <br />From: Paul Hamburger, Acting Secretary <br />Subject: Minutes of AC meeting on Thursday, October 7, 2004 <br /> <br />Attendees: A. Levine (Chair), P. Hamburger, R. Pawliczek, D. Brown (Vice Chair), <br />R. Eurich, J. Bartenstein, D. Kanter, W. Kennedy (Board of Selectmen [BoS] liaison) <br /> <br />Material Distributed: <br />#1. Agenda <br />#2. Town of Lexington, Massachusetts Management Report for the Year Ended June <br />30, 2003 from Melanson Heath & Co. (auditors) <br />#3. Selectmen’s Committee to Investigate the Town’s Health Care Insurance and its <br />Costs (proposed charge and committee makeup) <br /> <br />The meeting was called to order at 7:40 by Al Levine in Town Office Building Room <br />PM <br />105. <br /> <br />1. Meeting Conduct: Al announced that he has established a goal of adjourning by 10 <br />PM <br />for all meetings, at least until “High business time”. See other notes in agenda. <br /> <br />2. Minutes: David Kanter will distribute the Capital Expenditures Committee (CEC) <br />minutes of October 6, 2004. Paul Hamburger agreed to take the minutes of this meeting. <br />It was agreed that committee members would volunteer to take meeting minutes of future <br />meetings. The committee agreed that we wanted more detailed minutes and that it was <br />not reasonable to ask Sheila English (Lexington Finance Director/Comptroller) to <br />produce them. It was agreed that minutes should be published within a week of the <br />meetings. It was agreed that we would distribute drafts of our minutes to the CEC. <br /> <br />3. Status of current fiscal year: Discussion postponed till next meeting. <br /> <br />4. Tasks/Assignments <br />a. Ron will be looking at the auditors report. Item #2 above was distributed. This item <br />should be on a future agenda. <br />th <br />b. Sheila is presenting the financial info at October 18 Selectmen’s meeting (what <br />she can do at the time). <br />c. ATFC reports. No one brought in disks. Everyone at meeting seemed to find a way <br />to get this info from someone outside the meeting. <br />d. June Budget Book: Agreed that there should be one for 2004. Bill and Al to ask <br />about getting it done. Someone thought Michael Young was working on it. <br />e. Al asked that everyone send an email to him listing the tasks they had signed up <br />for. <br />f. A question was asked about detailed bonding information. Page V-4 is a good place <br />to start in the Budget Book. <br /> <br />Page 1 of 3 <br /> <br />