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APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE MEETING MONDAY,APRIL 7, 2003, NATIONAL HERITAGE MUSEUM, 7:00 P.M. Present: D Brown, R Pawliczek, K Dooks, E Michelson, S Spector, R Eurich, A Levine, P Hamburger, J Ryan • Discussion of the amendment to be offered by D McKenna and P Kelley (04/07/03) that would eliminate the Solid Waste/Recycling Coordinator position in order to fund the two additions to the operating budget, weekly recycling ($36,760) and website support ($13,700) • The SWRC position is fully funded from a state grant • In order to retain the grant certain reporting requirements must be fulfilled. Concern over who would in fact be available to do said reporting. • AC would like to have made available a job description and information that would assist in understanding what the daily duties of the position require. • SWRC is responsible for brokering tonnage. With a successful recycling program there is a concern that the Town will not meet it's GAT commitment. If that were to happen the SWRC is responsible for brokering tonnage in order to minimize the financial exposure of the Town. Could the Town assign the duties to someone else within the DPW? Other duties include regional hazardous waste site oversight, CRT collection etc. • Discussed concern that these additions were done outside the agreed to process. • Discussed concern that if additions were to remain intact there could be some possible erosion of support of the major boards and committees for the operating override. • Discussion that this appears to be micro managing the DPW. Perhaps a cut should be recommended of$58,600 and leave it up to the DPW Director to determine what will be cut. • Discussion of the L Wood proposal. D Brown will attempt to put together the reasoning for not supporting the proposal, such as, late in the process, violates the intent of the process, don't necessarily agree with the solution, destroys the concept of a bottoms up budget creation an does not identify what services might be lost. • P Hamburger distributed and discussed potential results of a zero %increase in wages for Fiscal 2005 with an optimistic, neutral and pessimistic scenario. • Discussion on possible results of the amount of the override increasing to something greater than $4.957 million. All boards and committees had agreed on the process. If the amendment were to pass would support for the override erode? Would an increase put the override question in jeopardy? • C Hornig(CEC) stated that the CEC is opposed to Article 16, Skate Board Park. A minority on the committee supports an appropriation of$25,000 from"free cash" • AC "straw vote"to support putting the additions (weekly recycle and web support) on the override. 2 Yes 6 No 1 Absent