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APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE MEETING MONDAY,SEPTEMBER 11, 1995 COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, 8:30 PM Present: P Lapointe, R Leone, J Pagett, L Peck, R Borghesani, M Mairson, R Colwell, M Miley, J Ryan Absent: M Hastings * General discussion of the meeting of the BOS and SC held at 7:30 pm. Town Election will be held on March 18, 1996 1996 Annual Town Meeting will commence on Monday, April 8, 1996 * Annual Election of Officers: MOTION: Paul Lapointe and Mary Miley nominated as Chair and Vice Chair for the 1995-1996 year. No other nominations. VOTE:UNANIMOUS * MOTION: John Ryan nominated as Secretary for the 1995-1996 year. No other nominations. VOTE:UNANIMOUS * P Lapointe opened the meeting discussing the presentation made by the Town Manager at the meeting of the BOS and SC held at 7:30 pm. Town Manager wishes to focus on incremental increases in revenues and expenditures for Fiscal 1997. Town Manager will submit a budget (a brief version) within the prescribed time frame (January 15th). The Town Manager feels that a number of variables are finalized in January and therefore the data will be more accurate. * General discussion of some of the agenda items: Five year plan, quarterly reports to be prepared by the Comptroller, breakfast meeting on September 29th will be attended by either P Lapointe or M Miley. * R Leone stated that the "long term" spread sheets prepared by the Town Manager indicated no semblance or pretense of long term planning. The AC should view this as an opportunity to generate its own long term planning assumptions. * R Borghesani indicated that he felt we attend a significant number of meetings and come away frustrated and perhaps the AC should devote its time and energies in generating our own projections. * R Leone concerned that the assumptions prepared by the Town Manager predict an override every other year with a surplus in the off years. Assumptions should be driven by demographics. * P Lapointe indicated that we need to establish a base from which we can make assumptions. * J Pagett raised the furniture purchase issue in response to questions posed to her. An explanation was provided by J Ryan regarding the worker's compensation issue and the need to provide employees with an appropriate working environment. * J Pagett attended a technology meeting and will share the minutes of the meeting with R Borghesani. * P Lapointe will share information from J Young re: School Building Assistance for the