05/02/2024 CHARTER REVIEW COMMITTEE Minutes

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3 CHARTER REVIEW COMMITTEE MINUTES Thursday, May 2, 2024 Carol Sherman said people don't know where the money is being appropriated from. Rodney Collins said in fairness, I'm not sitting there at my desk and calculating all of that. The finance team is telling me this is where this is coming from. Don Myers said he is just asking to take what's in motion and put it in the budget narrative. The committee continued with discussion of the budget timeline. Don Myers said all I can say in regard to the timeline, from my perspective, you know we're starting in October. We're doing our initial submissions in October. How do we streamline some of that process after that, given that we've got a whole bunch of fingers in the pot that need to look at the process. And this is not a full time job, particularly for the Finance Committee. John Miller suggested getting the key people together on their own that have inputs to the budget,finance Team,Town Manager, and Finance Committee representative. Not everyone but just representatives and start to draw it out. The Committee also discussed the cost of publishing the budget in the paper. The total cost of publication was $7,444.00. Both printing and postage for the Finance Committee Report is $22,000. New Business Survey: Preliminary Results Tabulation Copies of the survey results tabulated on an excel spread sheet were distributed to the Committee. Rodney Collins said he thinks the data is helpful for the purposes of discussion, but there is no scientific data assembled and I know one person that said they voted 10 times. The Committee continued discussion of the survey results and the ability of participants to take the survey more than one time. The question regarding a tribal member being on all boards and committees was also brought up as well as the question regarding the town manager being a resident of the town. Although there may have been multiple surveys submitted by the same people the survey still leaves room for discussion. Mary Waygan commented on the position of the town clerk being elected or appointed. She said that the people who took the survey aren't stupid, they know what's going on and I'm going to tell you, that if the town wants an elected clerk I'm leaving it alone, because if we put it to town meeting, it's going to go down in flames. Rodney Collins added he isn't one to test the will of the people or go against the will of the people. But in this particular case, based on what he's heard, I think there is room for further consideration. And in my in my world, if a person is not doing their job competently, if they're not. You have no recourse except in recall that causes a state of dysfunction for a department.