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r <br /> To : Finance Committee \ <br /> From: Executive Secretary <br /> Re : FY90 budget recommend i s <br /> Date : March 9, 1989 <br /> The Finance Committee has asked that I meet with it to review <br /> the FY90 operating budgets and discuss articles for the 1989 <br /> annual town meeting warrant . Joint meetings with the Board of <br /> Selectmen are scheduled for Monday, March 13 and Thursday, <br /> March 16, each night at 7 at which' time these matters will <br /> be discussed . I would suggest that it is incumbent upon the <br /> two Boards to make decisions on these matters no later than <br /> the 16th . <br /> It is appropriate at this point to review the status of <br /> recommendations I previously made to the Finance Committee <br /> and Selectmen on the FY90 budget . The earlier recommendations <br /> along with the status are as follows : <br /> 1 . A moratorium on the creation of all new positions in <br /> general government and the upgrading of positions pending <br /> review of the organization of each department by Selectmen <br /> with a specific view toward consolitation of administrative <br /> functions . SELECTMEN UNANIMOUSLY REJECTED THIS <br /> RECOMMENDATION . <br /> 2 . Modification of the Town by- law that limits the <br /> d,n <br /> creation of " ositions and upgrading of salary levels of <br /> existing positions to annual town meeting . SELECTMEN HAVE <br /> APPROVED THE CONCEPT-SPECIFICS TO BE DISCUSSED BY SELECTMEN <br /> ON MARCH 13 . <br /> 3 . An override of Proposition 2 1/2 on the annual <br /> election ballot for all costs associated with the opening of <br /> the new elementary School . Close scrutiny of the School <br /> Committee ' s budget by the Finance Committee working with the <br /> Superintendent of Schools will permit these costs to be <br /> identified so that the public can be confident that needs not <br /> directly associated with the school opening are excluded in <br /> this referendum . SELECTMEN HAVE APPROVED THIS . I AM LED TO <br /> BELIEVE THAT FINANCE COMMITTEE HAS APPROVED, BUT I AM NOT <br /> SURE. <br /> 4 . An override of Proposition 2 1/2 on the annual <br /> election ballot for the costs of disposing trash at the <br /> SEMASS plant in Rochester . Included in this would be the <br /> so-called "tipping fee" at SEMASS, the railroad <br /> transportation costs, and the Town ' s share of operating the <br /> regional transfer station at the Mass . Military Reservation . <br /> Specfically excluded from this question, though, would be the <br /> costs of operating our Town landfill/transfer station since <br /> these costs really are not new, but a reconfiguration of past <br />