04/13/1994 FINANCE COMMITTEE Minutes

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MASHPEE FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES APRIL 13 , 1994 MEETING COMMENCED AT 7:OOPM Members present: Deirdre Greelish, Vice Chairman; Denise Sullivan; John Ferriday and Marcia King. -Han-etgg-j-n-, Tony Gallo and Roger Dunivan were unable to attend. Please note for the record that the taping of this meeting was for the transcription of the Minutes only. Once the Minutes are approved, the tapes will be reused. RESERVE FUND TRANSFER REQUESTS There was a Reserve fund Transfer request by the Department for Council on Aging. The request was in the amount of $2,513 for a shortage in their budget for $1 ,539 energy costs and $974 communications. John Ferriday MOTIONED to approve the request and place $2, 513 into the Council on Aging Department from the Reserve Fund. Denise Sullivan seconded the Motion and members approved the request 4-0. Dick York, Shellfish Warden, was present at the meeting to discuss the Finance Committee's future expectations of Mashpee's Shellfish Department. He informed the Committee that he was present at the meeting to ask if they, the Finance Committee, were in favor of economic development? Ms. Greelish answered that yes the Committee was very much in favor of economic development in the Town. He also asked if the Committee wants the Town to be a professional department, writing grants? Mr. York believes there is much money available through grants, but the Town needs to keep applying. He felt that he needed to be full time to commit the time needed in applying for grant money. Ms. Greelish mentioned that she would like the Board of Selectmen to come to the Finance Committee with a proposal on how the Shellfish Department can be run by itself, and then she would be interested in the discussion of making the Shellfish Department a professional one, as Mr. York questioned. She was not in favor of her tax dollars paying for someone else to make money. Mr. York also explained that seed needed to be put out in order to bring the harvest up. He stated that without grants, the Town will never have a great amount of shellfish in the shellfish beds. Mr. York believed the real need for him to be full time is the patrolling involved. He stated that Mashpee has a lot of soft shell clams out there because of his patrolling all winter. Ms. Sullivan still believed that the schedule prepared by the Committee was a sufficient amount of hours to do this. The Finance Committee still believes that from December to March, the waters are frozen and Mr. York is not needed full time.