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Finance Committee Minutes February 25, 1988 Page 3. Article #74 has been submitted by the Harbor Management Committee and the Town Planner and seeks $5,412 to hire a consulting environmental specialist, on a temporary basis to assist in completing a Harbor Management Plan. Chairman Heller informed Chet that the Finance Committee would be in touch with him regarding their position on the Harbormaster' s budget. Dave Ryan joined the meeting to discuss the Shellfish budget. Dave presented his budget as follows: Salary $25, 148 Wages 7,860 (see explanation below) Expense 5,294 Propagation 5,000 (self-funded from License Account) Vehicle Lease 2,921 Dave noted that he thought the License Sales request part of the Wage Account could be cut in half to $1,050. This would be for a person to sell licenses and help also with sale of beach stickers. The shellfish licenses however are required earlier than beach stickers usually in April and May. This would bring the total of the Wages to $6,810. Carl inquired as to whether it would be possible to re-instate the full price on licenses granted to senior citizens . Joenotedthat the Finance Committee could make this recommendation to the Selectmen. Articles 459 and #74 have been previously discussed, however, Dave noted there is one other Article, which does not appear in this draft Warrant. The Article seeks Town approval to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds the sume of $5 ,000 to purchase equipment, upgrade existing equipment and provide training to handle hazardous material containment and cleanup. Dave noted that this equipment is necessary to prevent contamination or contain it until the DEQE steps in. Carl told Dave the Finance Committee would inform them of their position regarding the Shellfish budget and Articles. George Costa of the Board of Health joined the meeting to discuss the Board of Health FY89 budget. This budget, with corrections made to correct errors in computing salaries was submitted as follows for consideration: Board Salary 7,200 Agent & Asst. Agent Salary 46,338 Clerk Salary 17,976.21 Wages 9, 760 Expenses 7,200 Health Svs. 23,500 Sanitation 20,000 George discussed the $20,000 figure in Sanitation and Environment. He noted that the town lagoons were in dire need of cleaning and that each cleaning cost the town approximately $2,000. He noted that the emptying of the grease traps from local restaurants was a real threat and problem to the lagoons.