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TOWN OF NORTH ANDOVER
FINANCE COMMITTEE
Meeting Minutes
Meeting Date:
April 3, 2012
Meeting Location: Town Hall, First Floor Meeting called to order: 6:55PM
Conference Room
Alan LeBovidge AL, Chairman Ramsey Bahrawy- RB
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Tom Dugan TD, Vice Chairman Robert Norbedo-RN
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Ben Osgood-BO Matthew Remis-MRem
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Dan Leary -DL
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Peter Besen-PB Pat Sifferlen, PS, Admin
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Donald Elliot DE
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Non FinCom Members in Attendance
OTHERS: - Sandy Gleed SG, Paul Gallagher (PG), Richard Boettcher (RB), Andrew Melnikas
(AMEL), Jeff Coco (JC)
Andrew Maylor (AM)
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Note: All FINCOM votes are subject to change upon receipt of new information.
Note: Documents used in this meeting are listed in Document Table, herein.
II. Previous Minutes Approved
March 13,2012 Minutes Approved
March 20,2012 Minutes Approved
March 27, 2012 Minutes Approved
III. New Business
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AGENDA ITEM: A. Budget Discussion Police Department
Discussion: Town manager gave an overview of Police and Fire Budget. Budget is geared around
staff and overtime. Contracts police and fire contracts expire in June money has been
set aside in salary reserve for contractual agreements
DE Line item of injury pay overtime up this year?
PG Officers hurt in line of duty reserves have been used.
We use reserve officers more now we are down 3 officers in the department. Reserves
have been filling in.
BO What about vehicle fuel?
PG Cruisers are economical. Made assumptions for price increase in budget.
RN there is a line item for Vehicle requested 146K.
PG that was a request for 6 vehicles.
AM recommended 2 vehicles.
DE What is the other charges and expenses?
RB that is a combination of multiple items for example breathalyzer supplies, crossing
guard supplies micro-film storage off site, national night out.
TD What is your treatment of the Quinn Bill?
AM Quinn Bill is an education incentive State made a commitment to fund. Since state
stopped funding Town has continued to fund Quinn bill at 100% as of 2009 new
negotiations with new officers a new formant will be implemented with a set pay scale
3K for associates and 6K for Bachelors. Over the years the old format will be
replaced. The supreme court decision does not affect us it did not affect every
community in the language it was written
TD With the new station are there any additional things that are going to be done or
can we assume station is complete
PG Building itself is good. Do need new doors but that is within the operating budget.
BO in the special Revenue the outside details are in negative?
AM We are required to pay outside details within 2 wks not when we receive cash for
them in the long run it will be a wash.
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Budget Discussion Fire Department
AGENDA ITEM: B.
Discussion:
been working with
Town Manager to live under contractual agreements. This budget starts to bring me
back to staffing at a safe level. No shortcomings I am pleased with allot of the line
items I received. I need to live within the fiscal budget.
TD Why do we charge depts. for water in their budgets
AM: in many other places they no longer charge departments we have continued the
practice and given the short time for the budget it was left in there.
BO Vehicle maintenance line item I thought would go down?
AMel older vehicles with need for repairs o8 ambulance out of service
TD Is some maintenance still done in house:
Amel We have an individual who gets a stipend for maintenance but for basic jobs.
Not certified so major jobs get anything of significance gets sent out. He is my liaison
and tells me what needs to be done.
DL Line Item for training looks like it is roughly $200 P/P for training is that enough?
Amel: this line item is for classes to maintain skills there is also in service training
TD Can we talk about Facilities?
AM: two new locations have been discussed one at High School location the other at
alternative site. Alternative site would have more size and be able to put a drive thru
station we have outgrown old building, need to have separate male and female rooms.
BO my concern is 2 fire stations within 2 miles of each other I would think you would
go more out country.
AM we are not going to have 3 stations.
BO what is the furniture line item
Amel: this for new mattresses
BO Fire alarm boxes on pg 93 what portion is from the old system?
Amel All from old system, right now we are contemplating that once we complete
changeover we are looking to still charge because we will still have maintenance issues.
25% have switched still have over 2 years to complete.
BO when this was voted for at Town Meeting the fees were going to be eliminated.
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AGENDA ITEM: D. New Business Budget Discussion Emergency Management
Discussion: JC presented Emergency Management budget pg 99. My budget is very small so I
allow myself a lot of flexibility. We received an 18K grant for radios (same as police
and fire). But we need to provide programming and licensing which cost a couple
thousand dollars so this touches our budget I will take out of uniforms to cover cost.
10 people we try to outfit at $1500.00 p/p(operations)(jacket, boots, helmet, pants)
Communication division is made up of HAM Radio operators we are one of the only
communities with the auto patch capability to harness a phone line to a HAM radio in
emergencies. We have no operation center. Trying to build out our ham radio
operations a 36K package slowly building over last 4-5 yrs.
Federally mandated agencies that has to be in existence from an act of 1950.
TYPE FROM TO SUBJECT COMMENTS
ITEM #
1 Budget Book Town Manager Mincom FY13 Budget
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ITEM # ACTION ITEM INDIVID. COMPL. STATUS
DATE
1Stevens Estate Budget from lyne Savage Pat
IV. Next Meetings
April 10, 2012 Public Works, Enterprise Fund, Schools. Budget Discussion
V. Adjournment-
Motion: BO Unanimous
Seconded: DE Time: 9:00
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