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MASHPEE FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES • JANUARY 12, 1994 MEETING COMMENCED AT 7:OOPM Members Present: Dan Goggin, Chairman; Deirdre Greelish; Denise Sullivan; John Ferriday and Marcia King. Tony Gallo and Roger Dunivan were unable to attend. Robert Whritenour, Executive Secretary, was also present for this discussion. Please note for the record that the taping of this meeting was for the transcription of the Minutes only, and will be reused once the Minutes are approved. The Minutes of January 5, 1994 have not yet been voted upon or approved. According to the Executive Secretary, the Board of Selectmen did receive the memo inviting them to this meeting, but still are not ready to discuss their 16 goals. Mr. Whritenour indicated that the Board of Selectmen wanted to give him the chance to try to get the goals into the budget. Mr. Ferriday argued that the initiatives of the Selectmen should run the budget not that the budget should run the initiatives. He stated that the budget should reflect their initiatives. Mr. Ferriday felt that the Selectmen should have these initiatives prioritized. Mr. Goggin asked if the budget • requests for FY95 are for example $20 ,000 and revenues received are $20,000 then none of the initiatives will be acceptable? The Executive Secretary again stated that it was his thought that the Selectmen wanted him to recommend the budget for them to review prior to their discussing or prioritizing their initiatives. Speaking of budget requests, Mr. Whritenour explained that as of present, the budget requests for FY95 are a little over a million from FY94 and Revenues are a little over $500,000 from FY94. Mr. Goggin indicated that the Finance Committee would like to meet with Mr. Whritenour and the Departments as much as possible this year during the budgeting process. Mr. Whritenour stated that he would like to have the budget requests in the hands of the Finance Committee as soon as possible. The Finance Committee then discussed why they feel the budget process is flawed. They do not agree that three recommendations should be given at Town Meeting. It is their feeling that this confuses the taxpayers and that there should be one figure indicating the budget requests from the Departments and one figure indicating the recommendation of the Finance Committee. Ms. Greelish stated that last year was the first time that the Board of Selectmen had a separate column with their recommendation. Mr. Whritenour was unaware of this and would look into this and discuss with the Selectmen. • Certain things that were the Finance Committee's initiatives were