09/27/1989 FINANCE COMMITTEE Minutes

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To" CZ o�un of C ttsh PE j �9'� _ •' '� P. O. BOX 1108 MASHPEE, MA 02649 FINANCE COMMITTEE MINUTES Town Hall September 27, 1989 Present: . Ed Dolan, Carole Dunivan, John Ferriday, Tony Gallo, Carl Heller, William Towner, and Jim Vaccaro The Finance Committee convened at 7 p.m. The first order of business was a review of the minutes of the August 15th, 1989 meeting. Jim motioned that a correction be made to page 5, paragraph 3 to read, "The Beach Supervisor was unable to cover the costs of swimming lessons with revolving account receipts." The Board Secretary was instructed to amend the minutes as agreed by the Finance Committee. Diane Rommelmeyer, the Town Accountant joined the meeting. Diane came to the meeting to discuss her article for a permanent part-time postion. She noted that there had been two previous overrides for this and both had failed. She is still seeking some help. She cited the fact that she has had no increase in staff in nine years and there has been a 300% increase in the budget. Diane stated that she is working 50 to 60 hours a week and. she is still only doing July's work. This part-time position will not even bring her work up to date this position will help her office survive. She expressed concern that the Town Accountant according to General Law should inform Selectmen when an account is in trouble - she is unable to do this. The huge capital projects that the town is involved with have generated enormous amounts of work and it all flows through her office. She conceded that her office does not generate revenue and that she could not fund this position, however she felt that this was not a legitimate argument for the Town Accountant's Office. She is seeking a 24-hour a week position, at $7.74 per hour. The requested amount which would include benefits is $8,030. Finance Committee expressed concern about the fact that part-time employees are working more hours than they were voted to work. Diane noted that she was aware that after 999 hours of work in one year the employee must be a benefited employee. This position failed twice on an override and the Town Accountant is now seeking the money from Free Cash. The town made it clear at the override votings that they did not want this in their taxes. Diane also cited the fact that she was never able to defend 'the artic-l-e for the part time positon at town: meting_ Finance Committee members agreed that not enough was said about the need for the five part-time positions on these overrides and that was one of the reasons for their demise. She cited that the only alternative was to have an article on the warrant. Chairman Dolan said that no decisions were to made at this meeting, due to the fact that there were no total figures on the articles, and there was to be a meeting with the Selectmen to discuss what should be on the warrant. The recommendations will be made in October.