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APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE MEETING TUESDAY,SEPTEMBER 26, 1995 COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, 7:30 PM Present: P Lapointe, M Miley, M Mairson, J Pagett, L Peck, R Leone, R Borghesani, M Hastings, R Colwell, J Ryan MOTION: Approve minutes of September 11, 1995 as amended. VOTE:UNANIMOUS * P Lapointe will attend the BOS breakfast meeting to be held on Friday, September 29th * P Lapointe discussed the budget schedules of the Town Manager and Superintendent of Schools. P Lapointe will attempt to talk to both parties prior to the meeting on Friday in order to suggest that they have schedules which coincide. General discussion followed as to whether the different schedule will have any effect on the final outcome of the process. Does the AC wish to have "agreement" earlier or later? * P Lapointe will suggest that all parties work within a common set of budgetary guidelines. * ATFC Annual Meeting will be held on October 28th. Those wishing to attend must confirm with J Ryan no later than October 10th. * P Lapointe has been solicited by M O'Sullivan to serve on the ATFC Executive Board and will attend a meeting on October 4th in an effort to determine if he is willing to commit to the ATFC. * P Lapointe discussed minutes of a recent Long Range Planning Committee. * P Lapointe and R Leone started a discussion of the Long Term Financial Planning Scenarios as well as the Suggested Criteria for Testing the Scenarios. A lengthily discussion amongst all the members of the AC followed. * P Lapointe would like the AC members to their five to ten year projections for all six scenarios to the next meeting. This is quite a different tact than has been taken in the past and will require the AC to look at budget requests from an entirely different perspective. Smaller study groups might put together a broad level of what may happen in five to ten years if we were to play the scenarios out. There will be a need to add specific data in order to help with the understanding of the issue. * P Lapointe will talk to R White and J Young re budget calendar coordination, establishing of guidelines for all parties and encourage early disclosure. * R Leone would like to gather information as to school enrollment, number of teachers, number of special education students and teachers, staffing levels for all departments for the past five to ten years in an attempt to compare staffing levels with work load and productivity. * Next meeting scheduled for Tuesday, October 3, 1995 @ 7:30 pm in the Comptroller's Office. * MOTION TO ADJOURN ac9.26