08/23/1993 FINANCE COMMITTEE Minutes

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ernment should appear in the May Warrant only, and that the October Town Meeting should not be used as a supplemental budget process." Joint Meeting with the Board of Selectmen The joint convention of the Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee was called to or- der at approximately 7:30 (Deirdre did not write down the time). Dan Goggin nominated Marcia King to fill the unexpired term on the Finance Committee, said term to expire in May, 1994 at which time the term will appear on the Election Ballot to fill an unexpired term until May 1996. Deirdre Greelish seconded the nomination. Roll call vote: In favor: Board of Selectmen - Jim Vaccaro, Nancy Caflyn and Judy Mills. Finance Committee - Dan Goggin, Deirdre Greelish, Denise Sullivan, John Ferri- day. Abstained: Board of Selectmen - George Costa and Carol Jacobson. Finance Committee - Roger Dunivan. The joint convention of the Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee adjourned at approximately 7:40 (Deirdre did not write down the time). Board of Selectmen reviews Draft 2 of the Warrant Draft 2 was the first draft of the warrant reviewed by the Board of Selectmen. Roger Dunivan gave each of the Selectmen and the Executive Secretary a copy of his memo, signed by members of the Finance Committee. He censured the Board of Selectmen ver- bally as well. The major difference was that the Finance Committee felt the Board of Selectmen should have given Bob Whritenour a directive that no supplemental-budget ar- ticles were to be placed on the October Warrant, and he should have passed that directive on to Department Heads before they prepared warrant articles. This they did not do. Jim Vaccaro kept saying that Bob did what the he was told, which was to bring all warrant articles to the full Board, not to do-any "weeding." Dan Goggin said the Finance Committee was surprised by the length of the warrant, con- sidering we just went through the annual budget preparations less than six months ago. He then read the Finance Committee Policy statement. Nancy Caffyn asked if the Board of Selectmen was going to accept the Finance Committee's philosophy or not. Jim Vaccaro said he could not adopt an inflexible policy without reviewing the articles. Hence, review of the articles began. The Finance Committee said it would accept articles to fund contract negotiations, al- though they would prefer to see contracts funded only at May town meetings in the fu- ture. The funding in October implies that free cash is an important part of the decision, and it should not be. It would also accept unpaid bills, transfers between accounts, and free cash to Stabilization as acceptable articles in the October Warrant.