11/27/1990 FINANCE COMMITTEE Minutes

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f zoWl..�k -4 l 'hilt Of P. O. BOX 1108 MASHPEE, MA 02649 FINANCE COMMITTEE zMINUTES Town Hall November 27, 1990 Present: Carole Dunivan, Tony Gallo, Deirdre Greelish, Carl Heller, Vern Polka and Jim Vaccaro The Finance Committee Meeting was called to order at 7 p.m. The Finance Committee reviewed the minutes of .the November 20th emergency meeting. Carl motioned that the minutes be approved as submitted, seconded by Carole and there was a unanimous vote of approval. Deirdre recommended that the minutes of the November 7th meeting be approved as submitted. This motion was _ seconded by Carl and all members were in agreement. Chairman Vaccaro reviewed committee correspondence. Kevin Harrington in a memorandum dated November 3th agreed to pay the Poland Springs' bills with existing resources, however he noted that he would return to the committee at a later date seeking replacement of these funds. On November 8th, Kevin also sent the committee a copy of the Building Committee Guidelines recently adopted by the Board of Selectmen. He noted that these guidelines were designed to assist future building committees in the process of their work (Policy #90-002) . Two pieces of correspondence were received from Dr. DeMoura, Superintendent of , Schools. The. first included a letter from the Falmouth School Committee stating that they are not interested in Regionalization and they do not wish to institute a sli_din.g scale tuition based on enrollment. The second piece of correspondence inc7_,udEtd' a copy of "the tuition calculations used by Falmouth to determine the Mashpee per pupil cost for high school students. Chairman Vaccaro questioned the system'-wide expenses and Carl agreed to check theses figures out with Dr. .. DeMoura. Jane LaBute the Town Clerk joined the meeti.iig. Jane has asked to address the CoQTMittae on two issues. The first issue i.s the so-called "no money" articles. Jane stressed that recodification of the by-laws costs the town rnonev after they pass at town meeting. The cost of recodification of by--laws from the October meeting will be approximately $2,300. She proposed several' steps to help this situation. First, a system that would limit code changes to the October tovii r;eeting. Secondly, a:l_1 articles ticles that WOLIu _ci involve recodification should be sent to her prior to the October mectint; so she could estimate the cost. Thi.rdly, an article should be placed on the October warrant that would cover Liv, cos!_-s o.f recodification at the Octoher weetitlg. J_im proposed that a joint: c- .n,;,ttrn-i_c. ti.orr fror;, the F:i.nancc Committee and I'oi,-i� Clerk be forwarded to l-.he 5c 3 ectmen stating the three proposals. ..1 i_m ;?_reed to drai:E_ a .let ter Intl retu� n LO "h'C' F i 'lance Comrnittec Ivor a vote.