Town of Atkinson
Budget Committee Meeting Minutes
October 27, 2009
Attending: Steve Giangregorio Vice Chairman (via telephone), Dave Paquette, Fred Thompson, Valerie Tobin, Harold Morse, Bill Bennett ex-oficio
Fred Called the meeting to order. The Board reviewed the minutes from the October 20, 2009 meeting/
Fred motioned to accept the minutes prepared/Seconded by Bill/Unanimous 6-0
Chief Consentino Presented the Police and Elderly budgets as follow
Notes:
The Part time officer line is increase to cover Lt. Baldwin’s deployment. The Lt.’s salary has been decreased, but may be reduced further as the Selectmen determine the Town’s portion of his supplement per Town Regulation. FICA, MEDI and Retirement number were provided by the Town’s Bookkeeper. The Board requested that the Chief provided a listing of employees, hours and responsibilities.
Reduced since an afternoon crossing guard for Kindergarten is not required.
Gas is increased base on usage. The Board will look to the Energy Committee for additional areas to save on this building.
Increase because we will have a trustee for 5 days a week. The Chief stated that the Trustee does help out around Town and is not limited to the Police Dept..
Cruiser gas is down based on usage,. However maintenance is up due to the age of the fleet. The Chief anticipates leasing a new cruiser, but the revolving fund doses not have enough money to cover the full cost at this point, so $5,000 was added as a holder. The Chief stated that he would retire the 2003 detail car when the new one comes on line. The fleet currently has 8 vehicles. The Chief also stated that the duty cruisers average 100 mile per shift, 3 shifts a day.
Elderly Affairs:
Notes:
Payroll is up due to increased demand. The Chief will prepare a comparative analysis of past years to this year on service calls and provide it to the Selectmen, Bill will forward it to the Board.
Gas is also up due to increase service. This line is already over expended for 2009 and will need to be adjusted. The maintenance is also up due to the age of some of the vehicles. The Chief pointed out that there are 3 vehicles in the elderly fleet (2005 and 2007 old cruiser as well as the van). The Chief provided the number of transports to date (1,644), but will provide an analysis as mentioned above.
Dave Williams, Station Manager presented the Cable budget as follows:
Notes:
Reduced based on an 8 year historical review. FICA and MEDI will need to be adjusted.
Based on a reduced cost for the background music played on the station.
Fred discussed the warrant article Ted Stewart had mention that Salem uses for their winter maintenance. Fred informed the Board that it isn’t a revolving account, but rather a trust fund. This was established to cover the extra costs when there is a bad winter.
Harold stated that Bob Jones would like to come next week. Steve stated that he had not heard from Cemetery yet.
The next meeting will be on November 3, 2009 at 7:00 PM.
Fred motioned to adjourn the meeting/Seconded by Bill/Unanimous 5-0. Fred adjourned the meeting at 8:35 PM.
Respectively submitted,
kjb