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Finance Committee Minutes February 3 , 1987 Page 2 . Building Inspector Clerical $16 , 300 FY88 The Finance Committee members reviewed and ,discussed some of the other Department Budgets . As these budgets are still considered preliminary , the Committee must wait till all revisions are in prior to calling in Department representatives to discuss their budgets . The Finance Committee discussed whether the Assistant Town Planner , a position established by town meeting with a two-year contract , should be a line item in the budget or if it should- be a separate Article . Vern feels it should be a special article because it' s acontractual position only for 2 years and we ' re in the second year of it . Line items are usually on-going and on a yearly basis . Joseph Murphy , Executive Secretary , would like to see it as a line item. Fred noted that if the Finance Committee goes for a special article it has to be outside Proposition 22 . This position is subject to appropriation . Finance Committee members agreed that this should be a special article . The next item discussed was the policy " of'overnight stays for town employees . Last November the Superintendent of Schools gave permission for an employee (a Falmouth resident ) to attend a two-day seminar and stay in Hyannis for two nights resulting in a bill of $310 . The Superintendent stated that there are no guidelines , thus he felt he had to let her do it . The Finance Committee members agreed that there is a need to establish a policy in this regard to prevent further abuse . The policy agreed upon was thus : It is the policy of the Finance Committee that there be no''over- night stays less than 100 miles from the town , trips .,less than - 100 miles would require permission prior to the trip from the Chief Finan.cial,,,Plan.neF ;r : This request would come from the Department Head . The final issue discussed was the town taking over private roads . Fred stated his belief that this is going to be a real problem in the future , especially in view of the problem with 22 and not being able to increase the budget . He noted that this may not be a problem now, but 5 to 10 .years from now these roads will require maintenance . At present , there are 360 miles of road in the town , only 161 miles are town roads . This year it is the take -over of Deerfield and Bowdoin , they pay the initial cost of bringing it up to spec by a betterment and from that point on the maintenance is the responsibility of the town . Plowing is really not the problem, it ' s the maintenance . The Finance Committee discussed the possibility of creating a Road District . The cost of maintaining a road , per foot or yard etc . would have to be established and the people an town-owned roads taxed . Fred stated his feeling that it would be beneficial to come up with a plan prior to town meeting , which would include Deerfield and Bowdoin Road . The Chairman stated his fear that if Deerfield and Bowdoin are accepted by the town , then next year there will be more .c',.-