2/9/2012 FINANCE COMMITTEE Minutes

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ti Town of Mas e 16 Great Neck Road North LE Mashpee, Massachusetts 02649 FINANCE COMMITTEE PUBLIC SESSION Town Hall — Conference Room I Minutes from theLMeeting of Thursday, February 9,. 2012 Committee. Members Present: Member r Absent: Also Present: Christopher Avis, Chairman James Condon Joyce Mason, Town Manager Charles Ga i rt Vice Chairman Torn Mayo, Asst. Town Manager Mark Davini, Clerk Ann Bradshaw, School Supt. Oskar Kl nert Kathy r Stanley, School Comm. Chairman Robert Chalker Scott McKay, School Committee mitte George Schmidt Mike Richardson, B S Liaison CALL TO ORDER Chairman Christopher Avis called the meeting to order at 6:35 PM. REVIEW IE1 F MINUTES Mark Davini trade a motion that the Minutes from the Finance Committee meeting of January 26, 2012 be approved as presented. Charles Ga for seconded the motion. The motion was unanimously approved. NEW BUSINESS Transfers- None • Appropriations Report- None • Town Manager's FY 2013 Budget Report rt- continued to next FinCorn meeting on Feb. 23: 2010. * School Superintendent Aran Brdhr Presentation r -Ch a it .a. Ghri topr_A-vis we1 orn.ed Ann-Bradshaw_-to the--me tEng.-r--.---.---_-T-------.-----.--- - - ---- Preliminary remarks by FIs. Bradshaw included information on improved Mashpee graduating student SAT scares; increases in AP classes; ll ashpee was named to the AP Achievement H. nor Roll at the College Board, and to the'High School Challenge Dist for the Washington Post. Ills. Brad haw stated that the percentage of the Town's total budget going to the-schools is in line with those across the State, and in her opinion, the Mashpee taxpayers are getting a good return on their money. Mr. Schmidt and Mr. Davini did not concur and raised several issues in here than felt the taxpayers.of the town were not receiving value. Ann Bradshaw stated that her preliminary budget proposal is a "Maintenance Budget" of $19,944,259.00 which represents a $1.38MM increase from the 2012 budget, and that her proposed budget is needed to maintain last years budget. Increases include: $870,473 in salary increases $234,557 for transportation $278,805 for out of district tuition Joyce•Mason stated that the problem with the school committee's practice of pre-payment of budget iterns from one year to the next is that instead of starting with the budget from zero and building it back up, the actual increase for transportation is only $34,999. The school has been prepaying for