9/1/1998 FINANCE COMMITTEE Minutes

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4 3 October Town Meeting,Article 25—Automatic FireSprinklers: Chief Baker stated that he is asking that the Town accept legislation that new multi-family condominium buildings be required to have sprinklers in them. "QUEST FOR TRANSFER FOR TOWN CLERKS OFFICE: Deborah rami,Town Clerk,was present to discuss the Request for Transfer which she submitted. The amount requested is$2,500.00,to be transferred to Town Clerk Expense. The present balance in said appropriation is$5,337.39. Ms.Dami stated that part of the request is for$1,318 for two new file cabinets which would douse voter registration cards, removed voters,and anything else needed. At the present time,they have 2 file cabinets—one cabinet Bolds strictly voter registrations and one cabinet holds dump stickers,beach stickers,zoning boobs. She said there is absolutely no File cabinet space left.. Ms.Damm stated that she has received a price from W.B.Mason in the amount of $659 for each file cabinet. I .Tani distributed a report which lists the amount of registered voters. She noted that, since January,they have increased their voters by 455 peplc and that is not including the numbers of voters they have removed. She added that census has increased by 465 since January. Ms.Darni noted that they are currently at 12,301 residents. Ms. Dai stated that the other part of the request is for$1,400 for binding books. This would include binding of birth certificates, marriage certificates,mutes etc. She stated that she had the man review what needed to be bound and he submitted an estimate of$1,400. She � noted that when the budget was done,.lane had only requested$400 for binding. Ms. Dann stated that her request is for the$400 in the expense account plus the deference of$1,000 to bind everything that she has. She noted that next year,the budget would have to be increased to$600 or$700 to bind everything. Ms.Darni noted that with this binding,they would have all 1996 and 1997 finished and bound. There are some birth certificates from 1995 also that need to be bound. She noted that books are bound by type of document. Chairwoman Goulart noted that there is a present balance of$5,337.39 in their account. She noted that usually it is recommended that they use the money in their budget and then cone back to the finance Committee when they run out of money. Ms. Dani noted that she believes the rest of their budget is based on outdated estimates and she doesn't know what else she wih be looking at as far as inadequate budgeting. She noted that she stiff has 3 elections to go through. lis. Rami added that with zoning updates,they are running out of zoning books and they now need to print. There i $2,000 set aside for buying new books and printing all the updates and she doesn't know if that will be enough because there are quite a few updates and the cost has gone up. There was discussion among the Finance Committee members to approve one file cabinet and then approve the other cabinet when all the money is used in their budget. After discussion among the Finance Committee members,Mr. Watt recommended that they pay one-haff of the cost of the bin l.hig this year and one-Half next year.