Finance Committee, June 6, 2017

Meeting date: 
Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Minutes Holden Finance Committee, June 6, 2017 HMLD

Members Present: Dave White, Paul Challenge, Al Berg, Joe Dolak, Karl Makela, John Lambett, Chris Lucchesi, Marilynn Foley

 

The meeting was called to order at 7:05.

 

A motion by Al 2nd by Paul to censure member Bill Randell for actions detrimental to the Finance Committee was voted 4 for, 3 against, 1 abstained.

 

The Committee discussed ideas to combine certain department budgets for example Fire/EMS. The Committee would like to see stronger narratives by dept. heads on budget items.

 

The Committee would like to have quarterly expense reports and half fiscal year actual updates.

 

The Committee should meet Wednesdays and Thursdays if necessary to wrap up budget deliberations earlier in the year.

 

The Committee discussed Depreciation, Capital and Stabilization accounts and combining smaller budget accounts.

 

The Committee discussed doing a Growth and Population Study to help with future planning, The Committee hoped for a reasonable budget from the WRSD for F/Y19.

 

The Committee would like to plan for fall meetings to set goals for budgets. Should the Committee use more social media to inform voters? Should the Committee do write ups for the Landmark after budget discussions and do interviews at the cable studio?

The I1F should plan a meeting regardless of the study asked to be done.

 

A motion by Paul 2nd by Chris to approve the minutes of April 27, 2017 was voted unanimously. A motion by Joe 2nd by John to approve the minutes of May 15, 2017 was voted unanimously.

 

A motion by Joe 2nd by John to approve the minutes of May16, 2016 was voted unanimously (abstained Chris).

 

The meeting adjourned at 9:00.