04/12/1989 FINANCE COMMITTEE Minutes

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Finance Committee Minutes April 12 , 1989 Page 2 . be able to tic into the cable system . At present the schoo-I can not tie into the town computer . Jim stated that the real question here seemed to be if the Town Accountant and the Superintendent could j work this out . There is, concern on the part of the Accountant s office that this interface will create a legal problem as confidential information will be able to be accessed by the school . Also the Accountant may not be as up to date as the books at the school and this may create confusion . DeMoura noted that he was not aware that the Town Accountant had a problem with him tying into the computer and tie agreed to discuss this with her .. Jim asked if the printer were to have any special capabilities , as the price appeared to, be excessive . DeMoura noted that this is what has been recommended to him however he was not adverse to a different or cheaper printer as long as it did the job . Carl asked the Superintendent to check with the Accountant ' s office to make sure that he could hook into this system without problems . George Costa of the Board of Health joined the meeting to discuss the Health Department budget . George informed the Committee that the $7 , 500 in his budget for the transfer station was for a contractual agreement and he could not take that out of his budget . The Finance Committee had voted $157 , 687 for the Board of Health FY90 budget . George stated that the funds would be alloted as follows : Salaries 7 , 200 Management Salaries 59 , 017 Clerical 18 , 912 Wages 6 , 541. Expense 9 , 000 Health Services 28 , 226 Sanitation & Envir . 21 , 200 Transfer Station 7 , 500 $157 , 596 George expressed his concern about the cuts in his budget . The Chairman informed him that if there was an emergency lie could come to the Finance Committee in the fall with a Request for Transfer to be considered . The Assessors joined the meeting to discuss the Finance Committee ' s recommendation of their budget . The members expJ-aired that $50 , 000 earmarked for legal expenses has been cut .from their budget . The Executive Secretary has informed the members that Counsel Riordan would let the assessors know how much it would cost to go to court so that they would know whether going to court was cost effective . The Chairman of the Finance Committee asked the assessors to inform them in the future if they were unable to get the necessary information from town counsel . The Finance Committee has also removed $6 , 419 from the clerical salaries , as this was a new position is required an - article . A 10% cut of the total assessors budget resulted in a Finance Committee recommendation of $127 , 790 .