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McLaughlin at one has closed that time it made it appropriate for the next meeting when the report is presented so and there is a school meeting actually on Tuesday the first May 1st what time it is that to a board meeting board meeting is 6:00 to 6:30 on Tuesday at City Hall correct I do have a copy prior rap record I tried to change it based on the prior useless that we have we can review it right now try to get through it we don't have to we can start that process with you [Music] okay so we need to have a go to the side level and close public comment during this meeting [Music] this is no motion to close the public is there a second mr.
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Donaldson's like that is there any discussion question all those in favor of a motive all those in favor of closing motion carries so do we want to baby s report and do it now and your recommendations for changes or or not waned and do it another meeting a lot so we can do when we did last level two and can we start it now can everyone stay down so anyone that I was probably staying now I changed priorities list the match what was voted on but the original comments which you can change adjusts this will be the final reports if you notice any typos or anything that's not clear [Music] on page 3 it says one of the reductions identified was too close to I think we talked about this last time that I don't remember specifically that we were told to consider two schools so is anyone opposed to changing that sentence I'm at the top of page three where it says due to concerns about declining enrollment at limited state funding the Board of Education requested a budget of a review that fiscal solvency of the district and identify possible reductions one of the productions identified was too close to schools will be given the specific charge to choose two right you're talking about a pack class okay so no I don't remember so I will I want to test that because I was there an idol and my age suffer we did not necessarily recommend to schools but the other two subgroups did so yes parents it was made clear to me that because this work will probably not be ready up there by May first that will probably go to the school board meeting on May 8th which is going to be at district offices school board room do not May first problem we may need I'm sorry I was wrong it's at Gladstone Street Elementary School on May and what time does the board meeting start 7 7 o'clock 7 o'clock at night [Music] [Applause] [Music] question on page five it says committee members had different opinions about whether it's Paris should be relocated to an elementary schools by our middle school site we had the last plane that that was not art our job and that that was not our decision - we should food that in there it's not required to be in there but well I could well but this is really shines as part of the consideration as though my asked me because so this is just the memory of our [Music] on page 7 the way under the way peroxide mentioned Alzheimer's yes and that's something we need to discuss so for the waiver option for each sites I think we've talked about this a little bit but in general what happens is once the district board declares a site surplus decides to sell they go through a process the traditional bid procedure means that they make offers to serve public agencies public option meaning that they take bids from the public and their law requires or to award to the highest bidder so ever offers and most money you can also go to the stain ask to waive that process which means that it's that you send out an rfp you which basically says we're looking to sell this property give us your best offer in that case the board can consider other things beyond price and consider what kind of use of property it's going to be done they can consider the escrow period in the due diligence and so that's an option and we can recommend that the board assume that waiver process for any of the properties all of them we can recommend that they don't and they just stick to the tradition or recommend we don't forget to say reduce if I remember correctly didn't we useless to us before and we had the discussion that it was advisable to seek the waiver that that was the best option correct yes that's do we remember having that conversation higher I remember having that conversation so so can we just go ahead and my weekly reports okay so you yes does anybody have any sites recommending requests for all that does is no like that option to the board yeah for any of the identified properties right yes and that doesn't guarantee that the board will get the waiver from the state but it gives me options it'll be part of reports oh yeah so if anyone has any questions basically it gives a district more flexibility in centering tied to select that whoever makes the most money offers the most money they can say well we might not get a little little less money from these people but they're going to do so I have a question on page eight I personally no longer comfortable with the considerations that are expressed here middle school so I think that the board needs to decide that and we all discussed as a group that it was going to be the board that made the decision of where they went not us and so this part that's a nice iteration is it now no longer we can just can we just take that out because of the fact that unless others we want to keep it in their box there anyone who absolutely wants to keep it in there I you know after the discussion of the fact that it was our charge to identify them but I feel like that's not okay so I'm going to ask that we take out that paragraph that says committee members expressed different unions does anyone have a pump with that okay [Music] and then where it says the committee member also discussed the option of expanding elementary sites to include sixth-grade ice I still learn more parents want that than not and so I would like to still center keeping that there as an option a consideration for the board especially because if that and I know that there are it's a mixed bag you know from teachers and for parents but I heard or say that they would like to keep and I mean parents and so I'm gonna look at the people who reflect the parent group mrs. fields I can ask you about sixth grade stay at the elementary to make a comment about that because I heard very 50/50 from teachers that I talked to but I heard from parents overwhelmingly that they that idea now there is the credentialing issue a dis fast I'm sorry what okay so so can we right instead of discussed you know asks the board to consider investigating an option I think if we just look at that sentence some committee members suggest the board investigate this possibility though we didn't totally did it you know the spangles yep so I think that is a good suggestion for the board to investigate some too many members suggest the board consider I mean investigate the option of expanding it says and then just the rest of the sentence expanding the elementary school sites to which may affect the moment reductions of the elementary sites I think the rest of that sounds exciting [Music] so can you read that mr.
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McLaughlin so an odd person I was the second paragraph we're taking out the second sense I mean a second yes okay second second paragraph is smelling completely the next one now paragraphs you were saying the committee also discussed the option of investigating expanding now an interesting site sixth grade just changing the option of expanding or investigating to excrete cheeky not expanding to investigating no that could also discuss the option investigate the expansion is that what you say okay can everybody and I and then in in light of the fact that we're not looking at middle school sites anymore and asking the board to be responsible for that decision can we take out that third paragraph that begins with finally [Music] is everybody okay with that mr. donalsen as McNary [Music] the comments under Section two are all before this was prepared mr. McLaughlin said the way had opportunity to provide comments so these are all specific to a relocation for Sierra high school and the adult education center are you looking at page 9 number 2 I'm noting that page 2 starting on page 2 and on to page 9 yeah oh yes so I was really just looking at this is an opportunity to share with the board some of the special needs of those sites as they consider a relocation site if they choose to move forward with some movement on that piece of property [Music] are there any other changes that you can see that need to be made does anybody need more time to read the report so in summary hasn't now changes that I have looks like the first all the pages to page seven remain the same page seven under waiver options will revise that and indicate that the committee's gonna write district pursue a waiver as to each site [Music] then on page eight for the considerations subsection one other district property in the second paragraph and removing in its entirety the third paragraph we are changing to stay the committee also discussed the option of investigating the expansion the elementary school sites through sixth grade which may affect enrollment projections of the elementary school [Music] all the changes I'm sorry can't hear you the rest of the board has so we can talk about it now if anyone was sad or we did decide do you have any moments about the basic question the vote counts that we've had some of which website that those are all public on like public document that are found website practically no boots that were done today including mr.
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Delatour emotions if you want to have bad anybody we can have that the report is submitted hey well I think that it needs to be included that it was to fight you to vote for the final report so I'll recommend suggest picking out that at the very end say the final committee voted 5-2 to through this final report surplus we didn't report I'm talking about surplus burning this technique to the things that about like the suggestions that you made that they need to understand it's not an animus the surplus so we can add that dimension determination or recommendation section there are general comments many discussion sections starting on the courage before get out of that at the end so we can stand and so that would be on page five and right before the discussion determining determination and recommendation we had the committee voted five to two following Jesus can you even have done does anybody have a problem with us including Matt we're gonna put it yeah so right before after and before we start with after a careful consideration and deliberation right before that yeah so the prior section the end of the prior section [Applause] [Music] I know changing incentives operation the gracious device you do not see okay so we'll stay after careful consideration and deliberation the Advisory Committee recommends what that 5 to 2 in favor favor after careful consideration and deliberation the advisory committee recommends both the flag to two in favor to the governing board the following business or his property so we'll remove that prior sentence do we have to know more so we just well what we recommend is we now we can discuss because again otherwise we just have to have meetings at nauseam so we'll say that will approve this report subject of the changes and then we'll delegate authority to one two three people to receive this via email so we'll make these changes assigned to those three people those who will make sure that they see the changes that we discussed I'll give their final no further changes it changes to be made that we have to we meet again to discuss that yes so if three people that we assigned for whatever reason can agree that this is the final award that will schedule another meeting to hash that out so that's what we usually do we can also just have another meeting where does anyone know the subcommittee had like mr.
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Thomson so I'll make these changes and red line and final and I'll send them to you and then each one individually needs to say there's questions then we can have a discussion but subject to these changes we're going to vote now to approve this final report what the changes were just discussed does it have to be unanimous doesn't I do want to say it's not about the report that's written I think that this very effectively communicates what we had discussed and I - okay so is there mr.
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Lowe is there a second this is second in Corrections come on questions okay all those in favor say aye one abstention cuz he wasn't here okay okay the motion carries it's narrow motion to adjourn so let me just I'm sorry let me just state that this committee will still be active once that happened we'll notify you all that happens and then we'll let you know when this is going to be presented to the board not obligated to compare before if there's any questions or issues with approving or that we're going to let you know the most schedule another meeting but officially now we're still an active committee and in contact so we don't need to schedule it's possible okay is there a motion to adjourn act five Dream Eater I make a motion to adjourn this meeting at 5:22 second second by mr. Donaldson almost a favor say aye supposed carries thank you you
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[Music] Venera there we go oh wow when everybody join me in the Pledge of Allegiance please I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all as you all know we're here to have a town meeting about our budget for the 1819 fiscal year our first order of business is to elect a moderator do I have any nominations from the floor from moderator yes mr.
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Dorset's I have a nomination for Bob Beldon do I have a second Eileen cook seconds do we have any other nominations I'm sorry ma'am did you want to nominate somebody else okay do I have any other nominations for moderator okay all those in favor of having Bob Beldon act as our moderator please say aye aye I think that carries Bob please do the honors thank you very much all right so we don't have a huge crowd here tonight so my goal will be to move the administrative part of our meeting along reasonably quickly and if you'll bear with me we have to go through some of that before we start so that we can get to the presentation and get to the questions and/or commentary from from all of you so the the first thing we have to do is read the call of the meeting we do have the ability to waive that if someone would like to make a motion to waive the call of the the call of the meeting does anybody like to make that motion rich so luga made the motion second rate is Stephanie okay so we have a motion on the floor to waive the call of the meeting by the way which was published in the press many of you have seen it are there are there any questions or discussion all in favor please say aye any opposed it passes unanimously the second item that we have to do is read the actual resolution and so the call of the meeting actually is that document that gets us here the resolution is what we're actually going to vote on at the at the referendum it's usually long and voluminous and we could read it but that we can also waive that is there anyone who would like to make a motion to waive the resolution mr.
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su lugar has made that motion at any second I'm sorry ma'am your name your name is ma'am su Bala Thank You su sorry okay so we have a motion on the floor to waive the reading of the resolution any discussion all in favor please say aye any opposed all right so we got through the administrative part in like record time so thank you all so the next thing on our agenda is the presentation and it will be a presentation with mr. Dunn we'll do a presentation and I think the mrs. storm is going to present on behalf of the schools and I'm going to turn it over to mr.
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Dunn to do the presentation and I'll let you kind of orchestrate this portion of the agenda that's okay first we'd like to thank everybody for coming out we appreciate it some years we get a lot of people some people years we don't this is a little bit of a lighter year the way we're going to start is discuss this year's current year view review you know we've had some budget cuts from the state and other changes in our budget and we've been able to manage against that we initially started with a hiring freeze and a budget freeze on all items that we could freeze back in the October time frame we are on time and under budget right now and we look to finalize our budget below the amount of spending will be below the actual budget for the 1718 year we've been going through the process for the last couple years of refining our finance practices and moving over to the u KOA which is a uniform chart of accounts so now as of July 1st both the town and the schools are both on the same chart of accounts as required by the state this will allow for more equalized reporting and analysis on a town by town basis of spending it doesn't really change what we do it just changes how we report it and how we track it through our system units in that effort we have also made some changes we've bought the capital assets module of munis we bought the well fixed assets is what they call it we've also bought a system called CIP that allows us to track our capital projects in our latest Cafer our auditors did look at us and said you know for the last two years you've been doing a really good job as a town tracking your capital expenditures against the budgets but prior to that it wasn't as good as it should be and we want to continue to do that so we get every single project on time and under budget the second thing third things sorry is everybody's probably seeing this if you go into our downtown phase one of our streetscape has been completed it was completed on time and under budget we're under budget by about a hundred thousand dollars which is a good thing we like to see that phase two is moving forward very very rapidly we have just today gotten to the point because we have federal funding for this we have to hold a special public hearing we're planning on holding that June 4th you can't hold that hearing until your design is complete and you're ready to go out to bid so that's good so we encourage everyone to come out June 4th come to that hearing and this second phase will go from discount tire the corner of discount tire and the for home all the way down almost to the hearth on both sides of the road this is a major milestone in completing the major portion of our downtown we're also looking we're already working on it phase 3 and phase 4 phase 3 will run up to new very village phase four will run up Laurel Hill Road and hopefully back down Station Road so we're building a real downtown Center we're already looking for grants to pay for that and I think we'll have some good success the phase two of the streetscape the good news is because we got this federal grant of eight hundred and seventy five thousand dollars it's gonna pay for two-thirds of the project which we're very pleased with because that's the way you do it and that's gonna start next spring and it won't start late phase one started later than we would have liked and finished up in November we believe that we will be able to start this project we'll go out to bid this fall we'll have all the bids back by December January award the phase two and then start as soon as the weather is nice that probably means in the April May time frame phase two is not as complex as phase one we don't have all the for actual intersection to do and all the lights and things like that so we anticipate it should probably take three months or so to do it so it should be finished in the June time frame which is nice that'd be great for us when we look at our summary of expenditures and I'm sorry I'm going to have to look back we were gonna put this up here but we look at this year versus last year the town operations are going up 4.2 percent our contingency is going down by a significant amount 331 thousand dollars and our overall growth in town spending is two point three five percent given the changes we've had in grants and our desire to grow our general fund I think that's a reasonable increase for the town side the school operations which Colette's norm will be talking about is a four point nine two percent increase in she's going to explain exactly why we got there and how we got there and why it's important to support this budget in our opinion our capital project financing is similar to last year we're going up a little bit but we need to reinvest in our town we need to do these projects we need to make sure I met with a major developer today that anticipating bringing a huge development and and obviously they're looking for a tax incentive but one of the things they were most impressed with is the fact that our roads are in such good shape they said you guys town is just really good shape compared to surrounding towns and that says a lot about your entire town how you do things how you care for things and how you want to maintain your town and that was a big plus for him our debt service is not changing very much by ninety two thousand six hundred and sixty five dollars we don't have a lot of control over this except when we decide to do borrowing this is for our existing debt and Shawn and John will be talking a little bit more about that it should be noted if you see the bottom Astrea sytem last august we did a per agreement with the Board of Ed and the Board of Finance the Board of Selectmen we agreed that the year before if the Board of Ed changed their budget and needed to go over that we would fund them that hundred and that amount that was over and it was over by a hundred and twenty thousand dollars we knew it a year ahead of time that it could happen so we fulfilled our commitment and working together as three boards it unified in bringing Brookfield the best budget we possibly can and we also this year appropriated because of special that expense is four hundred and seventy thousand five hundred dollars to cover special ed expenses that just were not there when we did the budget last year and Colette Wilson talked more about exactly how we got to that point I won't belabor it on our revenues again our biggest I won't go through this whole page because it's boring for people some people but our revenue is the big thing to note here is the good thing is one our grand list went up it didn't go up much but it went up point three seven percent last year it went down one point five seven percent grandmas growing means that you're bringing new properties into town that are paying taxes so it cuts the taxes for everyone else it spreads them much more evenly we typically have had over the past 20 years or so growth in our Grand list though between one and three percent the last five six seven years it's been very difficult to grow your grand lists because there just hasn't been that much development but when we see things like Brookfield Village coming in and other developments like the enclave the supermarket and some other projects were working on we anticipate pretty robust growth in our Grand lists over the next four to five years in fact much higher than we would normally expect the only other thing I wanted to talk about is everybody's knows this is that the state has had problems with their budget they've been cutting their grants to the town they keep on changing their grants to the town which makes it a very difficult environment under which we have to manage our budgets I don't anticipate that changing significantly over the next few years this year the change in grants from the state is down four hundred and ninety four thousand from last year that's what we budgeted for one hundred and ninety four thousand less that is almost one percent of our budget so it does make a big difference when the state does not fully fund you with what they said they would fund you my personal preference would be hey guys tell us what the number is that you're going to give us in grants and we'll work with it we'll make it work but when we have proposals going from one point four million dollars for ACS the next proposal is zero dollars for ECS makes it incredibly difficult for both the town and the schools to manage this to stay under their budget so we hope that that will get a little better over time which I think it will all the only other big change here is the revenue from our investments we are getting a higher return on our income from investments both from our general fund and from some small other funds so we're recognizing that in this year and we anticipate that will grow with the general growth in the economy going forward this is a summary of our mill rate and I'm gonna let Shawn Hathorne talk about this if you would like to oh you okay okay okay okay this is just a recap of the spending and the income that we're bringing into the town the revenues were bringing in third at them if you look at this you'll see the overall value of the middle east mill rate has gone up point three seven percent our estimated tax receipts we're looking at five point two two percent we are adding in an expense of four hundred and eighty five thousand for elderly tax relief that's where our veterans and our elderly who qualify who are have income levels below a certain level where they can get a cut on their taxes a break on their taxes I think that's a good thing we want to keep elderly people in our town they're great citizens or great residents they usually don't have any kids it makes it a little easier for us so the overall growth in our mill rate will be five point six four percent that is not what the increase in your taxes is going to be are you increasing your taxes is lower and the capital projects are we ready for Sean yet I think we are you want do capital projects which are you good at this right before I do that I do want to say a few words on this budget I had actually planned on walking everyone through the mill rate stuff in in great detail but that didn't happen so I'll backtrack a little bit Brookfield is a good deal I think regardless of who you are you can appreciate the services that are provided and in some way I think agree with the fact that living in this town you do get a good deal we've had positive growth and people do want to live here stores want to open their doors here you can see this in the occupancy not only at Laurel Hill but also the folks that are already moved in in Brookfield Village and the store fronts that have already gone up subway looks great I can't wait for rich farm it's probably be a madhouse it's gonna be great madhouse and it's gonna be in the heat of summer so that's great this budget provides for necessary services government is in the business of providing services to all residents this budget provides our town departments and schools with the tools needed for success it carries us forward and doesn't set us back and hold us they're waiting to recover yes it includes paved roads which I'll get into contractual obligations etc but it also promotes a better looking feeling town and school system that we can all be proud of and that's a good thing the boards of Selectmen Education and Finance put a lot of time and effort into making sure that this budget is efficient accurate and as lean as possible the Board of Finance had significant deliberation and went through line by line of both the town and the schools budgets with the First Selectman and the chair of the Board of Ed present when it was necessary and relevant to them for the discussion decisions were not made at all in a vacuum there are no areas to take from without damaging progress to the town and the educational services provided to our schools voting know will surely impact these services we need this budget so to go back and touch on capital what we have as Steve mentioned we do have a request of the town of 1.35 1 million in capital funded from the general fund and we also have we also have several requests from our departments the requests from the departments are really the result of things being cut things being postponed until next year next year next year next year next year Parks and Rec this year in their number I was looking for a vehicle some natural turf equipment a building here at the high school to house equipment and other things and tennis court repairs public works the road paving that I mentioned ok that's one of the biggest capital expenditures that we see year after year but as Steve mentioned we have very high quality roads and I think we should be very proud of them and support them public works in their request is also looking for two vehicles a street sweeper that actually makes sense to purchase instead of rent maintenance on various town buildings and a library window replacement plan the library the project didn't move forward but the current building does need to be supported the windows are sinking that's an issue the police the police departments looking for patrol vehicles and some computer software the fire companies have needs for us to fund as a town their apparatus so their trucks perhaps even a both in the future and to command vehicles and also a generator the the primary fire company does serve I believe as an emergency shelter just like this school does the library we're putting or the request is for an ad a compliant restroom on the lower level and replacement computers the schools in there in there ask an emergency generator I don't know how many folks went through the side parking lot in front of the main or the main entrance parking lot and saw that nice big rusty diesel filled generator that we have that has issues starting up that's not the kind of thing that you want to have on the fritz when something goes wrong you want it to be dependable and start up the school is also looking for Tecton tech tongs architects any any things that they deemed to be dire need for the schools that's in there in a time system as far as technology goes some computers printers and some software licensing we hope to save some money there by using these new licenses land use is looking for two vehicles and the Assessor we're planning for the next revaluation year so we have a reserve there these requests are slightly over what they were for last year but again these are capital investments so these aren't just things that are nice to have these are necessities after pushing things off for so long you can't drive a vehicle that's unsafe and we do cycle through our vehicles we give them about three or four lives apiece that's huge but now is the time to replace sever of those vehicles I don't have anything else on Capitol Thank You Sean Sean touched on a lot of these but these are our primary goals are our budget one of them and the first one that we faced when we took office is building up our general fund the general fund honest on general fund balance is the primary determinant of what one of the primary determinants of what your ratings will be from the rating agencies and as we look in this towards the end of this year as the schools go through the review with tacked-on of all our buildings our 60 year old buildings as to what needs to be done we're probably gonna have to borrow some money and we're probably gonna have to fix our schools and I think that's a very good thing but if we have the highest possible rating from the rating agencies we're gonna pay a lot less in the long run for that money to borrow it so it's important that we get our general fund up we've been able to increase set up the in our last capper 8.1% I would like to see that grow over the next two three years to ten percent or higher that gives you a cushion so if you do have a capital expense or a bill that you just absolutely couldn't anticipate you have the funds to pay that bill yet still retain your rating it's critical to the town when we've implemented our 10 year capital plan last year we're updating it each year this year we're going to update it again this summer and add another year look at all the projects we're doing right now have each department reprioritize those projects that they need those equipment they need whatever they need and it does provide a good working plan for which the Board of Selectmen and Board of Finance can use the plan going out too many times we're playing put out the fire Shawn said we have some old vehicles and our land use department we have a 19 year old truck who the frame is literally rotting out the ABS no longer works and it's in really poor condition to the point it's unsafe and it can't be fixed for less than five or six thousand dollars but it would still have a rotted frame so we need to invest in those kinds of things when we need to we are very often this year we're going to replace three police vehicles those three vehicles will move into the police force and they will turn over to the town three vehicles that we will use in land use in health and tax assessor's and as pool vehicles so that we have vehicles that they can use so they get two three four lives sometimes in various departments depending on what they need but we need our people to be driving in safe vehicles and also when you get to a truck that's for example a truck that's nineteen years old the maintenance on that becomes almost prohibitive so it's less expensive in the long run to replace that vehicle and that's what we're asking the town to support us in doing we're now in the midst of negotiating with one of our unions we think we're going to achieve a pretty good result in those union negotiations we're looking for a four year contract with them the primary I can't talk about all the details of it but one of the things that we are absolutely going for is a new pension plan our back committee chaired by Mike Matson has been working for years on this and we now have what we call a hybrid pension plan initially it will not cost the town any less for this hybrid plan so nobody count on a big savings but what it will do is it's going to give all of our employees all new employees after July 1st of last year 20 years of defined benefit that they get right now 2% per year and after that the town will make a substantial contribution into a direct contribution plan what that will do will help the town in future years 10 15 20 years from now avoid any larger swings and we need to if the markets go against us if you have a hundred million dollar pension plan and it goes down 10% you've got to make up 10 million dollars if you have a 50 million dollar plan that's only 5 million dollars the defined contribution plan will help us do that we'll even out the spending that we do for the town and avoid risk for the town and I think you're going to see we're the first answer proposed this Inn in Connecticut except for somebody like Waterbury who is forced to go to a full defined-contribution because they went bankrupt I think this is going to be the wave of the future where we have these combined clans in the private sector I know there's virtually no defined benefit plans left so this is a nice compromise and I think he's going to help both sides that's this guy that and then as Sean said we're going to continue to invest in our infrastructure and our roads Sean had mentioned the building on the side of the school here at the high school that is the building where we keep all our public I'm sorry parks and recs equipment it's leaking it's had no work done in over 30 years if you go in it it actually looks dangerous they've asked us to redo the roof redo some of the trusses so we can get another 8 10 years out of that building that's the sort of thing we're putting in our capital plan there's no frills in here so thank you very much and here's our debt payments which John Lucas our treasurer is going to discuss over for the long term thank you John get out there for seven apologize for showing up late I was trying to see if I can arrange a zip line from the back of it of the stage but the superintendent said no so apologies though thank you all for coming first I'll if I get into the back there's two things I'd like to mention my job is really revealing the bank activity and being very very intimate with the balances at Union Savings Bank which is where all of the town's money is located so I decided to look as of last March that at first which was you know month end that I trust the balances at union's bank a Taylor had approximately twenty-eight million dollars held across all of our accounts and we actually earned about 91 thousand dollars in interest income since the beginning of this fiscal year which was last July so from last July till March 31st we've earned about ninety one thousand so actually growing money by just having it set at Union Savings Bank so I'm very excited about that because we don't want the money to set an idle you want to grow your money separate our stand actually touched upon this metric the oil sign front down so when we talk about the gyre I find there's two things the general fellas word the day to day a bank account that you know Savings Bank and it was also something in accounting speak called your final balance your full balance exists they are agile and that's a more granular than that goes down to something called your unassigned fund down so if you ever heard anybody talk about the fund balance and how important it is in really talking about your unassigned fund balance and as Steve said native jail of 2017 which was the last fiscal year closed our focus on fire balance was roughly five point five million dollars which is a little over eight percent of our budget as stamps are I agree that never shall go up a little bit higher than the tenth maybe even twelve percent range we'll get there we're working you know together trying to find efficiencies and savings and making sure that we can increase that unassigned fund outs you just want to make sure all aware of that so it's affecting you said right here we go so talk about that a little bit allow each other is really are are out selling bonds and they're gonna be talking about our debt that's classified as talking about it's called obligations which is the beginning of interest [Music] for whatever capital project that we all decide to vote on that's appropriate so this is our outstanding support a principal much defensible that 26 of your members about 22 million I'll talk about that I think that bands belong she also have something called short-term debt so those are some on its what felt are violent patience a koala for to is balance in just the town oats as opposed to bonds implies short-term so I want a bow anticipation is it's a war I'm borrowing that can be reissued each hand for up to three hours after the initial approval of the project so the shuttle and after both are approved certain projects from town tomorrow and once that project is complete the final costs have been applied towards this about [Music] toward that possible the bulb to just about 40 million dollars in a not again we'll see you know if setting reduction our plan anticipation notes and this heart is just a graph showing outstanding principal like I said right 2009 it's gonna actually increase up to about a little under 40 million such as something to be aware of if the town decides to issue debt this November and that's really all I have I think I'll turn it over to Collette thanks I'd like to take a moment to touch on the 2017-18 key achievements of our schools the high school now has a state-of-the-art world language lab which is not only used to enhance instruction for our world language classes but also our English language learners we've additionally reconfigured the schedule at whisk in your middle school so this better eases the transition of our fifth grade students they now see three core teachers instead of five core teachers like the rest of our middle schoolers do in addition to that we've increased social studies instructional time and unified arts and this is with the addition of one teacher there with the addition of two teachers we were able to improve and increase reading instruction and support at both whisk in the ER and Brookfield high school we've increased the instructional time for a kid in the Gardiners 66 hours so they're now on the same schedule as our first graders we've initiated the Yale ruler social-emotional program at Wisc inner Middle School and are rolling it out at center school and huckleberry as well this is a great program that improves the climate in our schools to better support encourage and empower our students we have converted to the munis accounting and operational systems so we are now on the same financial platform as the town we're essentially speaking the same financial language this will be improving both the efficiency and the accountability of our entire district and we are continuing the master planning of all of our schools via the strategic facilities committee and the Tecton consulting we encourage the entire community to attend our next public forum on June 7th which we will be presenting several options for reconfiguration renovation and/or rebuild of our facilities so we did have several budget drivers and concerns pushing our 2018-19 budget forward first and foremost were the increased demands and instructional needs we did have significant inflationary increases this came in the form of contractual collective bargaining increases health insurance costs transportation fuel and electricity vogue tuition increases all of these provided together for a three point two percent increase in our status quo we did additionally see significant an increase in our special education costs and I'm going to go into greater detail in that in a moment we do have an increase in our English language learners and these are students for whom their primary language is something other than English and there is an increase in our unfunded mandates and the associated costs these are mandates by the state which we must comply with which we either do not get funding for or had previous funding and no longer get it and we now must shoulder that cost so as I had mentioned we did see a significant and unanticipated increase in our special education costs this year this was driven primarily throughout an increase in or out play students some of these were students that came or new to the district and came with an IEP with a designated outplacement federal law demands that we do honor the IEP s of all students new to the district these costs in out place tuition transportation and in district services amounted to 1 million sixty-five thousand dollars now we were able to meet those costs this year significantly through a special appropriation with the town of 470 thousand five hundred in addition we had a hard spending freeze with the district of a hundred and sixty thousand dollar savings we were able to realize savings through staffing primarily through teacher and staff retirements in addition we had a hundred thousand dollars in savings of health insurance management this is through Medicaid reclamation and savings with our health plan and we did have some vacancies that we temporarily left unfilled so we were able to meet this increased cost this year but this does have a significant impact on our budget going forward we will see approximately $100,000 increase to this because the $1,000,000 accrued throughout the year whereas through the 2018-19 budget we will see it from the onset the town funding of four hundred and seventy-five thousand does not reoccur we need to return our spending freezes to normal budgeting we must fill the vacancies that we left temporarily unfilled and this gives us a net special-education increase next year of eight hundred and two thousand four hundred and eighty nine dollars this does amount to a two percent increase to next year's budget so if we take that 2% increase add it to our status quo of 3.2 percent and add to that our two-tenths of one percent net investment we have our proposed budget this did have a five point three six percent increase and it was reduced by a hundred and eighty thousand by the Board of Selectmen and Board of Finance this gives us our 2018-19 proposed budget of forty three million twenty three thousand one hundred and fifty one thousand this does represent a four point nine two percent increase I'd like to take that increase though and give it a little bit more perspective a perspective sight now yeah there we go we're very grateful for the town funding of four hundred and seventy thousand this is considered an unbudgeted revenue source for a two thousand seventeen eighteen year so if we take that cost and add to it all solutions that impacted our students education this year we arrive at the cost of what it actually took to educate our students this year that was forty-one million seven hundred and seventeen thousand one hundred and seventeen dollars so if we compare this to our proposed budget we actually get a three point one percent increase and that is below the status quo of three point two so in formulating the budget for 2018-19 we had several goals that drove our investments the first was to provide the necessary resources to meet the needs of all students and maintain class sizes within guidelines to that we are putting forth a consultant for school-wide enrichment we must address the strengths and talents of all of the students in our district and we believe that a school right enrichment program is the most efficient way to do that in addition we have one extra science teacher at the high school and there's actually a two-fold reason for this we do have a bubble class in eighth grade going to the high school next year bye bubble class I mean a class that is quite larger than normal the one area where we must maintain small class sizes are our science labs and this is via regulation and for safety's sake in addition while we're fairly rich in our biological and life sciences at the high school we don't have quite that depth in our physical sciences so the addition of the science teacher would address both of those issues in addition to that we have a part-time certified occupational therapy assistant this is to address the very large caseloads of our current occupational therapists we also have included in there an English language learner instructor we currently have 97 ALL students whose needs are being met with one yellow instructor in addition to our elo world language departments chair so we must add another instructor to that believe that by doing so we will more effectively and expediently integrate these students into our district towards the goal of providing for a rigorous relevant curriculum we've set aside funds to continue the vital work of curricular development quality learning is driven by quality instruction which is driven by quality curriculum it's imperative that we have an aligned relevant curriculum we have started rewriting our curriculum district-wide and these funds will help continue that effort in addition to that we have funds set aside for our K through eight science program in support of the next generation science standards we're piloting a program right now that we think will work very well for our districts so these funds will help with the materials and curricular tools to roll out the science program K through eight and to address the goal to empower our students to achieve in a digital age we have included technology upgrades and improved infrastructure now we do have a lease on the copier that is is set to expire and so we will be able to reallocate all of our copiers and Printers district-wide so we will offset this cost through that lease ending now we're very mindful of the impact that this budget will have so to that extent the Board of Ed did make several reductions to the original superintendents proposal we reduced three part-time clerk positions a high school monitor greeter an administrator position at the high school in addition to that we deferred a school start time consultant our high school actually has the earliest start time not only in every one and all of our district reference group but also in the surrounding area so we want to address that but feel that we do need to defer this to a better budget year in addition to that we have deferred a whisker near a mobile world language lab all of these adjustments accounted for approximately $300 arms are $300,000 reduction to the superintendent's proposal in addition to that as I had mentioned we had a hundred and eighty thousand dollar reduction by the Board of Selectmen a Board of Finance we're going to address that in part through a collaborative effort with the Board of Finance and the Board of Selectmen a Board of Education we finished our 2016-17 fiscal year with a 79 thousand dollar under run with the Board of Education per state statutes we can take that money into a non lapsing fund and use it to apply to the 2018-19 budget year in tradition to that we're going to take sixteen thousand which is in a miscellaneous district fund in a student activity fund and through Council have found that we can take this and apply it to classroom libraries district-wide we can then reduce that 2018-19 line item in our budget there is with this though 84,000 that of reductions that has yet to be determined by the Board of Education so when we're formulating our budget we pay very careful attention to our current enrollment and are enrolling projections we just today reviewed all of our enrollment projections using the most recent enrollments we have right now as you can see we have a fairly level projection of enrollment for both center school and huckleberry we're losing a few students and whiskey near this is as that bubble class moves on to the high school and you see the corresponding increase in the high school enrollment we anticipate our outplays students enrollment to remain the same so with this we're looking at a projected enrollment next year of 2653 students which is ten students more than we have this year so I know we have for the past few years seen seen a decline in our enrollment and we're seeing that trend perhaps reversing and it definitely will next year interestingly enough this is 100 students more than was anticipated by the Moloney mcbroom demographic study update so we do need to continue to pay very careful attention to these enrollment projections and the current trends going on in our town this year's students with special needs roommate ed was at 356 students this is a 14 percent identification rate which is exactly even with that of the state average as I had mentioned we have 97 ALL students this year interestingly with those 97 students there are 23 separate languages spoken as a first language so with these enrollment projections we do take a look at class size as you can see with this chart all of the red squares denote the average class size for that grade that is above Board of Ed suggested guidelines the board's very aware that smaller class sizes has a direct correlation to student achievement so we try very hard to keep these classes as low as possible next year with our new enrollment projections that we are just looking at we anticipate two classes above our Board of Ed guidelines that is seventh grade which is another bubble class that we have and fifth grade which will be just slightly over range all of the rest are either under at or just above the Board of Ed target number so I'd like to take a moment at the end for a little bit of perspective in our 2018-19 budget and the corresponding spending per pupil every district in Connecticut is divided up into district reference groups horderves as we call them and perhaps you've heard that as well these are based on a variety of factors everything from demographics to socio economics to enrollment these digs go from a down to I Brookfield is in Durge B in January the Connecticut State Department of Education released the normalized data for 2016-17 spending per pupil and as you can see at fourteen thousand five hundred and twenty four dollars brookfield is last endured be spending $1,000 less than the second-to-the-last district and two thousand dollars less than the state average as a matter of fact if you took Brookfield and compared it to all of Dirk C schools we would still be near the bottom twenty ninth out of 31 and if you brought it even down to Dirk B we would still be close to the bottom ranked 21st out of twenty fifth so that is in my opinion a trend that we definitely have to reverse so thank you for your attention and I will turn it now back over to our moderator okay so the next item on our agenda is discussion questions and comments so before I start can I just get a general raise of hands and how many people are came wanting to make a comment a question or a discussion just so I can get a general gauge of how many speakers we're gonna have so there's not very many and so what I'll do is ask you all who would like to speak to go over to the far side over there and I'll just call up speakers and if anybody hears something and they want to add it just go on over there and I'll just know I'm looking over there for those who speak so I don't have to take the time for people to walk up and down so you can start doing that if you'd like I have a couple of ground rules and for those of you who've seen me run one of these meetings I try to give us sufficient time to have the discussions that we have and I always gauge that based on how many people we have speaking but I need to keep it disciplined and orderly so I have a couple of simple ground rules one what before you speak I need to know your name and address so that our town clerk can write it down we need it in the minutes if it's not allege if it's not we didn't hear it well we'll ask you to repeat it secondly no personal comments if you have a you know like mister dunne we're not having that discussion here today sorry Steve where we'll do that offline we're here to talk about the budget right third I'd like you to keep your comments to three minutes what I will do is I will put up three so keep your eye open for me to let you know but I'm good because there's so few speakers I'll let it go as long as five minutes but I won't put a hard stop on anyone who hits five minutes and please forgive me it's the thing I hate to do as a moderator but when I say hard stop it's a hard stop and we will we'll move on for anybody I do need to stop they're welcome to come back and speak again after everybody else has had a chance on the goals not to cut anybody out but to keep the meeting moving along so those are my ground rules as the moderator they seem to work and we can keep things moving and those of you who do want to speak if you kind of stage yourself over there I we can we don't have long waits between speakers so with that I will open the microphone over here for a public comment if you do have a question direct it to me and I will then you know bounce that to the right person here from the gathered representatives that allows me to keep some order sir why don't you come come on up and name and address to start with okay my name won't that I flew Stillwater circle and I first want to start by thanking you for the information presented tonight it's been helpful to me and I guess the biggest question I have is I don't know I don't understand the math I you have a four point one percent spending increase you've got a five point six percent adjustment to the to the rate okay to the mill rate and you've had an increase in the Grand list so normally I think when if you had a four point one spending program and an increase to the Grand list the adjustment to the mill rate would normally be something less than four point one and but it's we're proposing it at five point six and mr. Don didn't mention earlier that even though the mill rate is going up five point six that taxes maybe maybe I didn't understand this right taxes would not would not go up that the attacks of the tax increase would not go up that I so those are the two issues was the math work and then how does that affect the actual tax tax increase that's going to be granted and and anybody can answer whoever thank you mr.
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Hathorne or mr. Dunne would you like to address the math question hi I don't have a calculator a computer right in front of me I do but not that you know what I mean I'm not right here I'm just I'm just trying to ballpark it I'm not you know I'm not looking to get it down to 26 cents the biggest the biggest issue that we have with this current budget is the cut in state revenue and also the further reduction that the Board of Finance took to the governor's numbers okay so let me go back here real quick [Music] so within the within the Intergovernmental line you see a decrease of 21 point 84 percent right now we had two hundred ninety five thousand of cuts from the state net okay cuz some things went up some things went down mostly went down and then the Board of Finance through our deliberations and we tried to put notes on everything that we did when we publish the file but you have the governor said that we were going to get or I'm sorry the legislature said we're going to get one point one four million to be conservative we took that number down to a million so that's a hundred forty-four thousand that we wouldn't have that we'd have to make up for elsewhere okay in addition municipal stabilization grant the legislature said that we were listed for 270 mm we brought that down to 150 so there's another missing hundred twenty-two thousand and then we did we did offset sixty-eight thousand for the low sip grant which there was new guidance that came out from the state so we brought the number up but the net changed from the Board of Finance is about two hundred thousand so that 21 point 84% percent or about five hundred thousand that is a big reason why you have the disparity and the optics of your four point one percent increase in total expenditures and the revenues however the increase in the mill rate is a little bit more because we have to fund through taxes then the if we don't cut services right you have to fund through taxes the shortfalls in revenue that you get okay so the short shortfall in revenue is an actual add-on to the spending plan is that what we're saying in effect yes because when you when you look at that general property taxes current line okay we start with a baseline of what our tax collector or Assessor says that we're gonna get but then as we go through and we change lines in there you know to the revenue right we use that line as our as our mechanism to balance the budget so yes what you just said is accurate okay I have to balance through that general property taxes that flows through to that required levy so your estimated tax receipts add the elderly tax relief which as Steve mentioned it's a good thing and that gets us to our required levy which is driving that mill rate and the increase 5.64 in the mill rate okay so does the tax relief for the elderly and veterans it was that an add-on also or was that part of the original spending proposal this was this was part of the 2018-19 budget full disclosure when we looked at 1617 we had that number there the 480 call up 484 that you see then when we took and we looked maybe to microscopically we saw a number for 1718 that was strikingly similar to a sales tax relief and an error we assumed that they were the same thing but presented twice within the budget turns out though that there are actually two different things and we've gotten guidance from the state on the sales tax and then we have this 485 there which is very similar to what it was two years ago and pretty similar to what it is when the folks that are eligible for it do apply and they do take advantage of it okay I mean just nagura I'm not opposed to that I just trying to clarify it do you have questions that I'm trying to answer no judge okay final question was there I did I understand right that the actual tax increase is not going to be 5.6 percent or or was that an incorrect or did I did I misunderstand I don't want to speak for mr.
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Dunn okay so if he can address that know the actual tax increase is not going to be 5.6 percent it's not what do you have a ballpark for what it might be if we take 5.2 percent if you look at the estimated actual tax receipts we're looking for it will be 5.2 percent okay although town and school spending is not going up that high we have the cuts in the state funding and we also have the other issues now the grand list growth offset that a little bit only 0.37% four tenths of one percent okay does that answer your question yeah yes it does just just a final comment I think in in light of the anticipated increases that people are going to face with you know get gasoline going up and put in interest rates going up for borrowing money and so on it with the current inflation rate of about two percent I just think five percent say it's gonna be I think it's gonna be a tough sell but I do appreciate the information you've presented tonight thank you very much thank you just so people remember the actual increase if you take away Colette was talking about special ed grant cuts we're looking for an increase of 3.1 percent so that's a much more reasonable number thank you thank you name and address before you start placing Laura were benign t5 Stony Hill Road so thank you to everyone who worked on the budget I know it's a lot of work to get to this point so I know thank you for many long hours and all the time that I've heard different budget presentations and talk about the budget I've never heard anyone say anything besides you know they want honest and transparent budgets and if somebody does want something other than that I would I would like to understand why but so you know in terms of transparency it seems like this budget meets that requirement you know you explained the issues with special ed increases all of the capital improvements that you need I think I think you've explained what's driving the numbers here pretty clearly and certainly made yourselves available to answer questions so I don't I don't see where that requirement is not being met and you know in terms of honesty whether or not we like the number that is the number so if you want two percent or zero percent you know someone can hand you that number but that doesn't mean that it's the truth about what the town needs and I appreciate actually being given the number that represents what our needs are and what's going to keep the town moving forward with the things that we need so that we're not looking at a number that seems nice this year and then a huge mess you know in two years or five years so I just wanted to say that you know for those two things that it seems like everyone is always looking for I appreciate the opportunity to have a budget that we can vote on that that meets both of those requirements so thank you thank you very much mr.
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de Stefano hi hmm mrs. Parker are you gonna want to say something okay I'll get you next thank you ready seven eleven old Woods Road I apologize for my attire but after running out of firewood in the middle of April I was not gonna balk at the chance to wear flip-flops and shorts so I just wanted to say thank you for all the work that you've done on this and for working collaboratively and along the lines of what was just said keep this very very simple I want to thank you for finally given the community an opportunity to vote on the budget that the Board of Ed specifically has asked for I think we are way overdue to get the opportunity for the community to have their say on that and I'm thrilled that we're gonna have that opportunity probably two weeks from today when we figure that part out that's it thank you thank you okay this is Park I could use your lecture in them I'm Joanie Park I live at 71 Indian Trail I've lived in Brookfield for forty years two of my four children graduated from Brookfield High School my first grandchild graduated as well I have a another grandchild the youngest one who is going to be a senior next year so I'm very proud and very interested in the book Brookfield school system I'm also proud to have served for two terms as a selectman in town and in that capacity I was part of the process that goes into making up our annual budgets and it's a listening process to each department as they present their plans as they set their priorities for the year and as they manage to do it as conservatively as possible while moving our town forward I'm well aware of all the job that you've done and how hard it's been and I want to say along with either sue versed thank you for the job that all three boards have done over this past year our individual taxes pay for our roads our schools our public buildings our library our recreation fields our Senior Center our Lake Management our police and fire departments the Greenway open spaces our management teams and effect in effect they pay for our lifestyle the life that we've chosen as citizens of this community it costs money to maintain all the items I've mentioned and the end result affects us all the value of our homes is reliant on a good school system walking trails good maintenance of our roads and facilities one without the other diminishes the whole town I'd urge us all to look at this without special interest whether you're a parent or not a senior citizen or not our user of any of our wonderful tax paid for free facilities or not they all make the community that you've chosen as your home I urge you and anybody else who sees this after this meeting to support it with your positive vote on the referendum we need the town of Brookfield to be together we're a community thank you thank you okay next up your good anybody else like to make a discussion that's just a lugar richest Eluga 32 great Herren Lane I guess initially I would just say I'm disappointed that nobody on the three boards accepted my challenge from the public hearing of sitting down and going through the budget and showing you where you could have saved or could have reduced a budget by at least a half million to a million dollars I've done that each of the last two years unfortunately to deaf ears and sadly seemed like it fell on deaf ears again this year another aspect of the public hearing that I raised and wasn't really answered it's nice to see the debt service and the total debt look like it's going down but what it doesn't seem to include is two proposed projects that have been talked about over the last six months to a year the improved library improved police station and schools particularly so I think it's a little disingenuous to point out slides that show the town over the next 10 years 10 to 12 years going down without kind of a slide that shows hey if you support these projects this is what the debt service and the debt is going to look like so I think that's an important piece I wish that was part of the budget presentation the last thing I just wanted to mention irrespective of how people felt about the library project I'm a big supporter of the library and I wanted to see it improved I just thought this project was too big too costly and in the wrong location what I am disappointed in is the library wasn't really fully transparent we had a earlier speaker talk about transparency and I'll give you a couple examples i sat at meetings in which I asked is any library money's being used to support this project in terms of ads etc I was told nope the library money is being used and last week I find out sixty-five thousand dollars of operating account library account operating and count monies were used in addition to that I was told we couldn't expand the library we couldn't extend the library the current building because that's against the historic Commission and yet last week I sat at a meeting of the new library committee in which they had an engineer who lives here in Brookfield make a presentation to do just that expand library in the current location and he actually is also on the historic Commission and when somebody said well I thought the historic Commission had ruled against it he said no nobody ain't even approached the historic Commission nobody even asked us about it so that leads me to question you know what's going on here I understand that people worked hard and they had a project and they were pushing that project but and that's the concern I have about this budget I think it's way too high it has a severe impact on seniors particularly who are on fixed incomes and you're looking at a five to six percent increase in taxes that's going to hurt us so it's nice to to say you want seniors to stay in town but you got to show it with your action and so therefore I would urge the residents to reject this budget Thanks thank you by the way thank you all for staging over there it does think move things along pretty quickly name an address please okay Mary kept yellow 135 Candlewood Lake Road hi it's nice to see everybody tonight I also want to thank everyone who's worked so diligently over the last several months to bring forward this budget we elect and hire these good people they become experts in their departments they put forth their best efforts to keep Brookfield in good working order and to provide services for us all while being as fiscally responsible as they possibly can they've worked together collaboratively more collaboratively than many past years and compromised to bring us this budget it is now time for us to do our part to support our schools in our town by voting YES for both our Board of Ed portion and our government portion town government portion of the budget please vote YES and YES on this budget thank you thank you so anybody else over there I sense you're not in the front row I can't tell if you're staged or not but go ahead up Tony can't be yellow 135 Candlewood Lake Road I told my wife I wasn't going to speak and then she got up and I decided I had to say something anyhow as we've heard tonight our town faces a number of challenges this year in addressing its needs and I would like to thank members of the boards of Selectmen education and finance and others who work very hard to make some difficult decisions exercising their due diligence and for our benefit I've lived in town almost thirty years now and in my opinion Brookfield has a very strong track record of being fiscally responsible and one way that you can see this is to look at our per capita student spending which is at the bottom of the list in our peer group nonetheless every year I am impressed by how we continue to be able to do more with less and that's I think a reflection of the great people we have in this town now it's our turn to support these people who did this work for us I followed very carefully as they went through this process and there's no easy answers here but I trust that they have done the best they could to meet our needs at this town and I encourage my fellow residents to vote yes in support of this budget thank you thank you very much is there anybody else would like to make a comment ask a question or lead a discussion okay hearing none the this section of our agenda is closed and there will be no further discussion items we do have a couple of orders of business that we do need I'm stopping the stop lunch first order of business somebody left some eyeglasses out at the front desk so if you're missing a set of eyeglasses in a case it's up here please come get it afterwards second order of business is we didn't read the resolution but the resolution actually lays out the language that will be on the referendum ballot it splits this budget the voting between the town side and the school side and has two advisory questions too low about right and too high and what we need to vote on tonight is actually setting the date that's the power reserved to this to this meeting so the proposed date that was in the resolution is May 15th 2018 between the hours of 6:00 a.m.
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and 8:00 p.m. at the normal voting locations can I have a motion to set the referendum date some of your name sir Jeffrey Kass okay I have a second mrs.
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parkus second okay so we we've moved to set the date of the referendum to to May 15th are there any discussions on that motion okay hearing none all in favor any opposed okay it passes unanimously the on the agenda we also have a report of the town treasurer let me just ask mr. Lucas you you gave an extensive report as part of the budget presentation do you have anything else you would like to say it's part of the town treasurer report okay this is by the way this is something we do every year at the town yes thank you Bob actually I'll just mr. slogan your question when I came up with the idea to put up a charm for the best service I saw was not trying to be misleading by any regard but my intention must miss I'd like to say what debt do we currently have on paper outstanding and going to speculate about future projects that may get voted down I wouldn't even begin to know you know speculation about increased debt sonocent interest rates that's not my desculpe of my presentation mr.
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Heflin it's actually that a projection of best service impact any of these future projects or financial advisor did provide us with a very full report that is on the town's Board of Finance website well I wasn't trying to be resonating at all that's it [Music] okay so we've come to the end of the agenda so I need a motion to adjourn somebody mr. de Stefano ocean to adjourn second by name [Music]
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