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TOWN OF NORTH ANDOVER
FINANCE COMMITTEE
Meeting Minutes
Meeting Date:
March 12, 2013
Meeting Location: Town Hall 1st FL Meeting Room Meeting called to order: 6:50
Alan LeBovidge AL, Chairman Michelle Nadeau- MN
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Tom Dugan TD, Vice Chairman Robert Norbedo-RN
Karin Blake KB Matthew Remis-MRem
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Dan Leary -DL
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Bill Callahan BC Pat Sifferlen, PS, Admin
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Donald Elliot DE
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Non FinCom Members in Attendance
OTHERS: Lyne Savage (LS) Paul Gallagher (PG), Andrew Melnikas (AM) Bill Gordon (BG)
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 March 5, 2013
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AGENDA ITEM A: Budget Discussion Police
PG: Parking lot has been paved. New lights will be installed within the next few weeks.
Requested budget is 4.9million town manager is at 4.5 million
AL: Announcement of Retirement for 181K?
PG: a lot of older officers. This is set up for the buybacks of sick time and vacation time of multiple
police officers who have put in for their retirement.
This has actually been taken of Announcement of Retirement and put into public safety salary it distorts
the budget and it is a onetime entry.
Where did the 33K for cruiser change over go?
PG: It appears under vehicles.
Dispatcher overtime is for just that and all other overtime is for officers.
KB: do not like all the different line items we should lump as all overtime.
LS for my own purpose we like to differentiate
MN overtime is 17% of the budget.
vacancies normally we fill 33%
Holiday pay is contractual they either take holiday pay or an in lieu day off
DE Training and education is up what is that?
PG required shooting sessions 40hrs for each officer of in service training not funded by the state
anymore.
MN What is your most expensive service?
PG our officers they are out there preventing crime they stop a lot of cars so our salaries are our most
expensive service.
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Crime statistics are down. We are the 66 safest community in the US
AL: Are you happy with budget?
PG This is our budget.
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AGENDA ITEM B: Budget Discussion Fire
Discussion:
Discussion on the site of the new Fire Station. 3 possible locations
1)Prescott Street and 125
2)Land town owns near Osgood and 125
3)Airport location
BG: By town meeting we will have a site picked.
MN 25 % of budget is overtime
AM this is driven contractually. We staff 13 individuals around the clock we require a
12 man minimum. If there is a fire in another community and 3 firefighters go we
need to call in 3 to cover our town this is written into the contracts.
Other overtime is family and medical leave.
MN Holiday pay and vacation leave overtime significantly high
AM: holiday pay is contractual. These are from actual numbers, vacation leave
overtime we can have 6 firefighters out on vacation at one time and we replace with 5
at overtime pay 24 hr shifts.
MN have we considered regionalizing for the night shift?
AM regionalization is way down the road. What contracts would we use?. Chiefs
would have to agree to give up being chief. Cannot see regionalization at this point.
Telephone costs, I have been working with Matt Killen and Lyne to add 2 lines of
fiber optics between headquarters and police and the 2 fire stations. This would allow
us to eliminate 2 lines with Verizon and we will have back up.
KB What is the contract service for 90K?
AM this is for the ALS (advanced life support) to come to calls in town. We get billed
for their service. s which is basic life support, ALS is
advanced life support depending on the nature of the call is when ALS gets called.
Also in contract services is to buy 9 sets of protective equipment. (Jacket, coat)
Also in Capital overlay is 10K for air bottles.
MN Fire Alarm for 17K
AM this is for the process of changing from master box to radio box. New systems
will tell you exactly where fire is. And old master boxes still need repairs.
MN Ambulance training/Education 14K
AM: stipend position they get 2K a year upfront if they get called in they get extra
pay. This person is an EMS educator he will be able to teach in-house.
AM: Furniture 2k is for a new kitchen table for the uptown fire station.
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AGENDA ITEM C Budget Discussion Emergency Management
No discussion will reschedule for April 2nd
III. New Business
Motion made by DL seconded by KB to approve $202,263.66 for Lyne Savage to
make payment on invoices pertaining to Snow & Ice removal which will bring the
account to a deficit.
Yes 6
No 0
IV. Next Meetings
April 2, 2013
V. Adjournment-
Motion: DL Unanimous
Seconded: MR Time: 8:15
TYPE FROM TO SUBJECT COMMENTS
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1 Budget Book Andrew Maylor Fincom
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