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23 5 APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE DATE: August 16, 1976 TIME: 7:30 P.M. PLACE: Town Office Building-Room G-15 PRESENT: Edward E. Furash, Chairman, Donald B. White, Vice Chairman-Schools, J. H. Blaisdell, Secretary, Peter Hall, Vice Chairman-Gen. Gov't. , Martin Gilman, Howard Levingston, Mitzi Kutchin, Richard M. Perry, '-° Ex-officio. rr; I . The meeting came to order at 7:40 P.M. II . MYSTIC VALLEY Correspondence was placed on file by Mr. Levingston concern- ing a new group - "Metropolitan Organization for a Regional Effort in Mental Health" - M.O.R.E. III . COLLECTIVE BARGAINING Chairman Furash made the following points resulting from a meeting with Messrs. Kassler, Butler, Craine and Cooke : 1. Police Have not as yet settled 2 year contract. The only thing open is money. The Union has rejected settlements twice -- it is a very difficult situation. The next step is to bring in the local arbitrator ,to see if he can tip it over. It is the feeling on the part of the labor counsel that if Dave Brosky could be brought in it would be very beneficial. 2. Fire Situation is at a total impass with a fairly difficult labor counsel. There is a total unwillingness to settle. The next step is "fact finding% This will go to "last best offer" arbitration. We have to put as much effort and energy into the "fact finding" as we did into our triple AAA rating the Chairman said. IV. FINANCIAL STATUS Mr. Perry placed a letter on file from Gordon A. McGill, Director of Accounts for the Commonwealth stating that the amount of available funds as of July 1, 1976 for the Town of Lexington is $141,923.29 (Deficit) . Chairman Furash stated that this is a most unbelievable situation for the Town to be in and if we had any knowledge of this we would have taken different steps at Town Meeting. We expected $4.5 million on Cherry Sheet and only received $3.4 million. Present tax rate is estimated at $80.20 by information from Assessors.