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FINANCE COMMITTEE EXPLANATIONS FOR "NOT RECOMMENDED111 The Town Meeting Warrant is a piece of legislation submitted to you, Mashpee''s Legislature. There are "spending bills" contained within it which we do not believe are appropriate at this time. Here are our positions on those articles for your consideration: Article 10 authorizes funding munity policing then, but no hire temporary help to assist him for a regional septage treatment staffing changes were requested. with completion of the Local Com- plant and calls for a Prop 2'J2 debt prehensive plan, as required by the Exclusion to pay for it. The Fin- This is not a "'no-cast article. A Cape Cod Commission. (The ante Committee commends the Sergeant's pay begins at $31,385, Selectmen hired temporary con- Board of Health for its leadership Last year, our three 'Sergeants sultants to assist with a State Grant in facilitating a regional septage earned an additional $37,000 in application, and it worked out very plant at the Mass. Military Overtime. if a Patrol Officer is well.) The Planning Dept. funds Reservation, and we support the promoted, a Patrol Officer will be available for temporary help have project wholeheartedly. However, hired to tape his place. A Patrol- not been depleted. we do not believe that the voters manes salary begins at $ 3, 47. In should approve funding before an the past, we have created more The Finance Committee rec- Intermunicipal Agreement is Jobs than we could afford, and we ommends that the Town Planner signed. At this time, we do not are still not at full staffing. We follow the vote at May town believe the project requires a debt should learn from this and stop the meeting and spend his existing exclusion for funding. puce now. fiends to hire temporary help to prepare the L.C.P. In May of 1987, Mashpee This article should appear on voted for an intermunicipal agree- the warrant next May--along with Article 37 creates a new job in anent between Sandwich and Fal- all the {other requests for additional the government, �ition. This mouth to construct the Regional personnel. The Selectmen, Finance is a totally inappropriate mecha- Transfer Station at Otis, and voted Committee and Personnel Board nism and should be voted down on for funds to design the building. A should burin immediately toprinciple. The explanation reads year later, Mashpee voted to con- evaluate all personnel requests in "as prepared by the petitioner" j struct the Transfer Station at Otis an obtective manner. How will the because it cannot be supported by in accordance with that intermu- additional personnel improve serv- fact as the other articles" expla.na- nicipal Agreement, lass Article q, ices? How will they reduce over- tions can. create the Inter-municipal Agree- tine? Do we have the resources to ment, design the Septage Treat- keep the positions funded in future The position is Administrative ment Plant, then determine the years? Secretary in the Town Clerk's method of Rending. office. There is a 2 -hour clerk Article 19 requests fiends for position in that department now, Article 17 creates a Police Ser- the existing position of Assistant qualified for gull benefits, is there a geant position. This budget was Planner. Last May, the Finance need to increase the hours for that thoroughly discussed by the Committee recommended, and existing clerk? The Personnel Selectmen and Finance Committee town meeting approved, $13,000 Board is the proper place to last winter. We knew about coma- so that the Town Planner could ' address this(and all) staffing needs.