03/12/1991 FINANCE COMMITTEE Minutes

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£s°wnra� of Cfngbpe :4 P. O. BOX 1108 �ABLE MASHPEE. MA 02649 I FINANCE COMI E MINUTES March 12, 1991 Mashpee Town Hall Present: Carole Dunivan, John Ferriday, Tony Gallo, Deirdre Greelish, Carl Heller, and Jim Vaccaro The Finance Committee meeting was called to order at -6:30 p.m. Minutes of the March 5th meeting will be considered at the next meeting to allow members time to review. The Chairman distributed a memorandum from Joseph Reardon, Town Counsel regarding member Gallo's possible conflict of interest status. The memorandum states that if Tony were to participate in any way in a line item discussion of the school budget, regardless of whether or not the particular line item involves wages or fringe benefits for his school teacher wife, he will be in violation of c. 268A sec. 19. The State Ethics Commission and the Town Counsel both concur. It was Town Counsel's recommendation that Tony remove himself from the room when the school budget was addressed. Jim stressed that the Finance Committee did not have the authority to tell him .to leave the room. Tony agreed to leave the room for the discussion of the school budget, however he stated that he planned to ask for a hearing with the State Ethics Commission. Dr. DeMoura and the School Committee joined the meeting to discuss the school budget. The Chairman stressed that no decisions would be made tonight, and that this was an informational meeting. He complemented the Superintendent and the School Committee for moving forward towards making an agreement with Falmouth and secondly for their work done on the needs assessment planning and feasibility studies for a Junior-Senior High School. Dr. DeMoura addressed the school budget and asked the Committee to consider increasing their recommendation $100,000 to make the school budget $5,150,000. He stressed that there will have to be reductions totaling $436,000.;: He cited the $300,000 recommend d reduc zy�n. to his budget, the. $86,000 in unforseen Special Education costs an& 9 I 00 discrepency on "the level-funded budget. There will be programs cut as a result of the reduction in the budget. • Elimination of the pre-first program r Elimination of home economics and industrial arts • Reduction in health education program • Reduction in music program • Elimination of all interscholastic athletics • Elimination of all intramural and extra-curricular programs . • Elimination of 5 p.m. bus at Falmouth High School