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HomeMy WebLinkAboutFCMeetingMinutes_09.14.11 1 TOWN OF NORTH ANDOVER FINANCE COMMITTEE Meeting Minutes Meeting Date 14 September 2011 Minutes Prepared by Patti Sifferlen Meeting Location: Town Hall, 1st Floor Meeting called to order: 6:30 PM Conference Room Alan LeBovidge-AL Chairman Thom Dugan-TD X X Ramsey Bahrawy -RB, Robert Norbedo-RN X Ben Osgood-BO Matthew Remis-MRem X Dan Leary DL X Peter Besen-PB Pat Sifferlen, PS, Admin X Non FinCom Members in Attendance OTHERS: -Chris Allen (CA) Stan Limpert (ST) Charlie Salisbury CS 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 DATE: III. New Business AGENDA ITEM A: Reorganize Committee elect Chairman & Vice Chairman Discussion: -Motion made by BO to elect Alan LeBovidge as chairman and Thom Dugan for Vice Chairman seconded by MRem. Vote 4 yes 0 no Approved New chair AL discussed his plans to make meetings less frequent and stick to agendas. Need to get timeline of dates for upcoming budgets and make depts. Aware of these dates Need to check when budgets get submitted to Town Manager, Fincom would also like to receive them at same time. Biggest concern right now is no Town Manager. 2 AGENDA ITEM: B. Procedures Regarding BCG Discussion: -BO talked about the BCG and how other members cannot participate in meeting there are 9 members on our board to make decisions. Thinks is would be more productive if BOS and SC met with Fincom. RB: BCG is a discussion group no decisions were being made. Discussions were made to get perspectives of other committees. MRem Would like BCG to post for anyone on committees to attend. Would need to ask Joyce about the open meeting laws. C. Review of prior CIP Items AGENDA ITEM: Discussion: -BO suggest that we review CIP items and have follow ups. What is going on results would like to see dept heads come in and follow up on projects. RB Previous years Fincom members were assigned a dept and you would talk to them about projects and budgets. AGENDA ITEM: D New Business Discussion: No new business . AGENDA ITEM: E Discussion: IV. Next Meetings September 27, 2011 6:45 3 V. Adjournment- Motion: RB Yes Unanimous Seconded: MREM Time: 8:10pm DOCUMENTS PROVIDED AT MEETING TYPE FROM TO SUBJECT COMMENTS ITEM # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ACTION ITEMSC=Complete ITEM # ACTION ITEM INDIVID. COMPL. STATUS DATE 1-28 Completed items are shown in FINCOM Mtg C Minutes of 4 Mar 2010 thru 28 Oct 2010 and 27 Jan 2011 for review. 30 Obtain copy of Osgood Landing sewer Budget from RB 17 Mar c Lenny Degman, Asst to Mayor of Lawrence. 32 Provide CD for New FINCOM member handbook. MR 16 Nov 33 Put on the Agenda, Minority Report and the MR 16 Nov formation of a FINCOM Article Sub-Committee. 34 Input to Mark Rees 2 scenarios, First- 5% in 2013 and MR/PB 3 Feb c Second-Otherwise scenario in 3 years. 35 Address pay cuts for BOS and Sch. Dept MR 14 Apr 36 Find out about deadlines on filing for meal tax TD 4 5