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51 Meeting of the Appropriation Committee, April 25, 1966 Meeting called to order at 8:00 p.m. by Chairman, Frank Parrish. Present: John Blaidell, Robert Gary, Allan Kenney, Donald Noyes, Louis Zehner, Ruth Souza. 12pointments to Committee: Frank Parrish announced that the three members whose terms were expiring in 1966 had been reappointed for 3—year terms. These are Donald Noyes, Louis Zehner, and Ruth Souza. The appointing Committee is to meet later tonight to appoint one new member to replace Oscar Carlson who has resigned. Reserve Fund — No requests have been received. r-4 June Town• Meeting Articles will include: r-I Town Barn — Construction appropriation to be requested. Bids will have been opened before the Town Meeting. LJ Conservation Articles, one or two are anticipated; money to be requested is not yet known. Boston Globe has recently reported that no State money is available for any conservation land, including land for which towns appropriated money in March. Public Works Dept. Article for supplementary funds for construction of Town utilities under Route 2 and its service roads. Letter from John Carroll to Selectmen, April 6, 1966, stated that as much as $22,300 might be required; of this, $6300 is needed for items left out of the contract by the State, and $16,000 is needed because the bid prices were higher than estimated by the State. No school will be requested in June. Appropriation Committee Article — The Committee discussed the By—Law and decided to request the Selectmen to insert an Article changing the words Town Accountant to Comptroller and specifying that he shall be a non—voting member. Comptroller. Lincoln Cole entered the meeting to say that Richard Perry had just been appointed Comptroller hi the Board ofSelectmen. He will start work May 16. The position of Town Accountant is abolished as soon as a Comptroller is appointed; Mr. Cole will notify Ray White as soon as possible. Secretartal Services. General discussion of the services required by the Committee and of the memo of April 25, 1966. It was decided that Ruth Souza would ttstempt to see that the services outlined in the memo were performed, using volunteer of paid assistants as available, and using the balance of the $480 appropriated for this purpose as needed. Direction of the Committee. A short discussion on what the Committee is required to do, allowed to do, and would like to do. Mr. Zehner submitted some written suggestions which will be discussed after all the Committee has read them. Suggested actions include: Backing up Capital Expenditures Committee schedules Open meeting with Town Committees on their Articles Urge Selectmen to review DPW budgets in Oct. or Nov. Writing appropriate departments or committees as soon as warrant is closed to ask what is in their Articles.