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APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE MEETING <br /> THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1996 <br /> COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, 7:30 PM <br /> Present: P Lapointe, M Miley, R Borghesani, R Colwell, S Coit, R Leone, I Mroczkowski, <br /> R Pawliczek, J Ryan <br /> Absent: L Peck <br /> * Suggested agenda distributed by P Lapointe <br /> * Motion: To accept minutes of August 13, 1996 meeting. Unanimous <br /> * Bulletin board of upcoming meetings: <br /> Monday, September 30th, 8:00 am: Preparation for October 19th"budget kickoff' meeting <br /> Tuesday, October 15th, 7:30 pm: MMRVHS pre budget division reports <br /> Saturday, October 19th, TBA: "budget kickoff' meeting <br /> Tuesday, October 22nd, 7:30 pm: SC @ Estabrook School, "policy discussion on class size' <br /> Wednesday, October 23rd, 7:30 pm: AC meeting <br /> Saturday, November 16th, 8:15 am: ATFC annual meeting, Boxborough Holiday Inn <br /> * Reports: Preparation for October 19th. Nothing definitive planned at this point. Discussions <br /> taking place as to the format and content of the meeting <br /> * Municipal team: Need to concentrate on (1) items such as the Quinn Bill, (2) study long term <br /> impact items such as privatization, regionalization, deregulation of electric utilities, (3) need to <br /> look at overall picture not just either the municipal or the school side. <br /> I Mroczkowski discussed her meeting with G Woodbury and his vision for the DPW in future <br /> years. Topics included utilities, NESWC, regionalization, providing services for other towns. <br /> * School team: (1) need to establish a base line year budget, (2)better understanding of the <br /> educational goals, (3) items such as technology, special education and MMRVHS. <br /> The SC will be discussing the space needs assessment currently being conducted in an attempt <br /> to provide long range planning as to capital needs of the school system <br /> * Lengthy discussion as to what should be the content and direction of the October 19th meeting. <br /> Need to have leadership in long range planning. <br /> AC may bring back the seven(7) criteria as they appear in the 1995 AC Report to Town Mtg. <br /> Both the BOS and SC should be able to discuss where they think the Town will be in 2001. <br /> Budget process currently generates a"program" dollar requirement as well as a" cap" dollar <br /> requirement, neither of which are real. We ultimately arrive between the extremes. <br /> Policy decisions must be made by both the BOS and SC. <br /> Need to sharpen skills in making trade-offs. <br /> Budget should be more policy and less numbers, identifying areas in which we have been <br /> successful as well as those in which we have been less successful. <br /> * P Lapointe, R Borghesani and R Leone will attempt to put together a presentation to be made <br /> at the October 19th meeting. <br /> ac9.26 <br />