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TOWN OF NORTH ANDOVER
FINANCE COMMITTEE
Meeting Minutes
Meeting Date:
March 20, 2012
Meeting Location: Town Hall, First Floor Meeting called to order: 6:45PM
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), Curt Belivance (CB), Matt Killen (MK), Chris Allen (CA), Chris
Hottell (CH), Stan Limpert (SL), Corey Mason (CM), Bruce Thibedeau (BT), 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
DATE
III. New Business
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AGENDA ITEM: A. CIP Discussion General IT
Discussion: -MK: Discussed the 40K General IT CIP proposal for fy13
$22,500 to be used to implement a town wide Geographical Information System (GIS)
Balance to be used in General IT for resources to provide additional services. (Web
access to town records and student transportation systems ) Replenish supplies.
Public access will be available soon for GIS and working with vendors for a mobile
version of it. GIS will be used by all depts. (public works for sewer lines, police for
calls, tax bill payment). And the public
TD: for the GIS process have we exhausted all state grants, Gov Homeland Security
MK: We have looked into grants and continue to look into grants.
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1 year license will be CIP Cost next year will be in operating budget.
AL This is a useful tool for management but is this something the town can spend
money on?
AM this represents the focus of the community this is not replacing any other project.
RB Are we going to need more employees adding additional cost.
MK possibly need more as we go further. Nowhere near needing additional employees
right now. We have people putting in the data now.
125 Sewer Plan
AGENDA ITEM: B.
Discussion: AL: Several members had questions on the sewer development on 125
AM There is a need to put sewer on route 125.
it. Complications exist when looking at the property for development. This is a 25%
design for the prospect of putting sewer from Haverhill line down to Sutton St. We
need this data to help to understand the costs from the engineering study to help
support and to help us get grants or development dollars from the state or
government.
CB talked about differ
TD do we have people approaching town to develop? If we build the infrastructure do
we have people who are interested in it?
BT When a developer comes in we have information prepared thru this study we want
to be prepared.
AL My concern is that we will spend 300k and nobody will come
TD would initially consider the 25% (300K) if there was some kind of corridor plan
and what would the tax revenues be?
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CIP Discussion School Dept IT
AGENDA ITEM: C.
Discussion: CH discussed the High School campus wide High Density Wireless Infrastructure
project (165K for FY13). Passed out copies of Gartner report, these were asked to be
presented at previous meeting. Presented power point presentation of plan and passed
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out pamphlet. Discussed milestones, seeking 2 part of Robust high density managed
wireless infrastructure. Our goal is to have 1:1 device for every student and teacher.
Picture was shown of current wireless access point placement for the first floor,
another picture shows placement of access points to achieve high density coverage for
the first floor 109 total.
Benefits of Campus wireless network would be work, learn and study anywhere
anytime. Real time access to information anywhere
Benefits to students would be access to resources and class materials 24/7. Access to
free, shared resources such as Khan Academy and Google Docs. Teachers can see
how long students are online.
Benefits to parents is they can monitor student progress help students with homework
they can access class materials and student work online.
Cost savings benefits with e-textbooks, improved teacher productivity.
AGENDA ITEM: D. New Business
Discussion: Am: Discussed CIP plan, selectmen are meeting on the plan April 2 nd Cecil group will
anged including the
project scheduled for yr1 is coming back several thousand dollars less than original.
TD. And for the record funds have not been used for a traffic study.
AM parking has always been an issue But I have informed consultants that parking
should be part of the plan.
TD: Budget Discussion will be held on March 27th with town manager. Come
prepared with questions.
Set Schedules for Dept Head meetings we can combine dept. Also need to schedule
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public hearing meeting possible date May 1
IV. Next Meetings
March 27, 2012
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V. Adjournment-
Motion: MR Unanimous
Seconded: PB Time: 9:35
DOCUMENTS PROVIDED AT MEETING
TYPE FROM TO SUBJECT COMMENTS
ITEM #
1 Memorandum Matt Killen Fincom GIS/IT Capital Improvement
2 Pamphlet Chris Hottell Fincom NAHS Infrastructure Project
3 Gartner Report Chris Hottell Fincom
ACTION ITEM INDIVID. COMPL. STATUS
ITEM # DATE