 The first order of business is the minutes Okay That's article 27, okay Okay Okay, are there any other corrections on the minutes? He on other matters I Guess the first one. I'm not sure but it's an argument to make it 7 or 18,000 from state to fix potholes I don't remember the number being that high that does seem very high to me go south And then you got would like to build a large 40 B housing development not 20 B 40 B And why don't you just say Arlington may get some funds from the state to fix potholes I Can't remember the number was but I agree that's that's a lot of money Sorry Okay, so put in 118 Okay, there are any other corrections on On the top the rescind voting I'm just wondering if it would be better to say Resin borrowing the Thompson accounts are not yet closed And I would just add the words and us should not be rescinded yet and Then delete the next line About the treasure. I don't think it really adds anything and then under minute man article 28 Voted to reconsider the vote. Oh of March 2nd. That's Sorry misunderstood Okay, is there any other corrections on the minutes drive a motion? So Okay, moved and seconded to accept the minutes as corrected any further discussion Followers in favor, please say aye closed Okay okay, Gloria could This is the budget for the arts and Cultural Center It was added to the warrant article, but you know, everybody looked at the warrant article and said it's the same warrant article We always had and we missed it. So They are now before us I can see right here, okay By the way, it's on the back of one of the handouts I tried to save paper so it's on the back of the Human rights Commission Why we did what we did? Okay, why don't you give a brief description? Okay? This is our first budget We've been in existence with the meeting since 2013 And we've kind of gone along with zero budget and a couple people You know, we've obviously paid out of pocket for things like getting a website going we got a volunteer Does a fabulous calendar? It's going to get better with time, but it's and she Does her time is totally free. We still have her luckily But there are costs that we anticipate And for example We did try to go to the end and cultural council which gets money from the state the state cultural council And they we we gave them a request for ways to cut our What we've given you now as a budget request when they said no, we won't do that You're the town should be they said the town should be covering those costs. So We're Basically charged among other things with coming up with a cultural plan for the town you're aware of the master plan Well cultural plan will be falling on its heels at some point and and that's where we have I think the biggest item a consultant we feel Just having spoken to a similarly sized town not that similar but made it they used a consultant That was forty five hundred dollars took a couple of years. So we were thinking that would be The order what we would do. We're already starting right now to work without any consultants on a process of We're having a discussion this Thursday with various arts and cultural organizations in town and businesses To consider having a applying to the mass cultural council for a cultural district designation Which I could describe at the point being that it's a start to get the various organizations in town to Talk about similar purposes and to create to sort of bring every awareness of all the groups up by creating a more a little bit more structure to so that we can Interact better and people know about what's going on in town There are all these wonderful organizations and part of our part of the commission's job is to let everyone know Already and to help it all along because we believe arts and culture enriches everyone so and then there were some very other There's very spelled out items that we thought would be helpful to have to have a tent at Town Day and take care of little Administrative costs as they come up. I just wanted to add that that part of it you know going through cultural district status and then having a cultural plan and and someone who can Really, you know help interview the all the organizations in town assess their needs and and figure out You know how best we can work together and create partnerships Those are the kinds of partnerships that position us better for grants in the future from organizations like NIFA and from the MCC New England, you know, New England Foundation for the arts, sorry So for larger amounts of money Adams grants as well and our town grants. Yeah So this is I guess is that everything we were gonna. Yeah I just say, you know, that's that really is our our position in town It's really what we've been charged to do But we really do need some support to to do these big long-range projects for the town So any questions? Okay, there are any questions from the committee? We're just spreading it over two years So we're doing 50% this fiscal year Are you have you contacted or are working with the Tourism Committee? We are Working with them. They're co-sponsoring this meeting that we're putting together this Thursday and so we are Kevin what other organizations in town do you plan to collaborate with? Oh, there are many but the Arlington Center for the arts the Arlington historic Society history works aside Old Schwann mill some businesses in all all around the town There's the library The Arlington friends of the drama, what did you say? Yeah, I mean we have yeah, there's a very long list But that gives you a sense of it where we would you know, but we're trying to be totally inclusive ultimately Would you do would you do things like trying to coordinate with? The region theater or the Arlington or the What's the thing on Academy Street? Oh Drama yeah with local restaurants and get discounts and try to work with them together Everything is possible. It's really just finding thematic reasons to connect different organizations and businesses and Which is obviously a Ted's mission the tourism and economic development group as well You know, we're charged to particularly to To advise the board of selectmen. That's how we're different from a Ted and we have but we have a big overlap and yes, we would cultural district would be a big way to involve business and and Arts and culture together and I mean discounts who knows I'm sure people come up with many ways to Lengthen because there is supposed to be a marketing plan in connection with the cultural district And so that is that would probably fall under that marketing plan So you definitely get a miscellaneous item. I don't know that you get to use it to buy refreshments We don't even get our party, but do other do other groups get to Yeah, I assume so as long as it's not alcohol Okay, is there any other questions Tom? I mean, I know this is Kind of crazy, but I thought of it too. We don't even get like refreshments That bothers me the hundred dollars Well, I think you get a miscellaneous item, but like refreshments up. We don't even get it I agree what you're trying to do But the like refreshments Well, it's not for us. I mean it's for the public meetings that we're holding. Oh, yeah This this process of the cultural district process and the cultural plan process will involve several public meetings for the public much The way the Arlington Public Art Committee started doing that when they were publicizing and you know doing some education around public art in town So that's what that's what that would be for but you can call it miscellaneous or we can get donations I have a problem paying for any kind of water For a committee There's several committees in town that Cokes and stuff like that. I put away and refrigerators behind the scenes That's so I I think it does happen We won't take it to our own pockets largely anyway, just nice to know that there, you know, there are some expenses Are there any other questions? Our first budget we hadn't had one before Arlington Public Art and the Chamber of Commerce other big organizations will be working Okay, any other questions? Okay. Well, thank you very much for coming Okay, what's the will of the committee? I Okay, all moved and seconded 431 60 any further discussion Dean the only thing I'll point out is They can't submit their first two line items for reimbursement because they're prior year expenditures So we should probably mention that to them just so they don't Run into the pothole when they go talk to Ruth and feel silly over So just take so I mean keep it in there I just don't want them to you know, they like they're starting up this committee. They're new there Yeah, I don't want them to submit them to the Comptroller and then feel like they got beat up. Yeah Gloria could you give them a call afterwards? With our vote and mention the fact that they might have trouble getting reimbursed for prior year expenditures By the way, I suppose people have heard that Ruth Lewis is retiring Yeah, they're gonna cost us so It's we're losing a valuable town employee who's been here for many years and That'll be that'll be too bad, but I'm sorry I'm sure we'll find out Okay, any further discussion all those in favor of the 3160 for the arts mission on our art and culture we say aye posed Okay, unanimous Okay, next is collective bargaining Mr. Andrew Who paid for that water I Thank you, Mr. Chairman What I'd like to do quickly is just let you know what I've provided the committee with information tonight, and then I'll walk through it And go through some of the details. So you should have a memo from me which basically all begins by outlining what our strategy has been in terms of Conducting collective bargaining negotiations since we began them back in September of 2014 We've currently reached agreement with two of the unions There are Robbins librarians professional association and local 1297 Which is the fire union? I'll go through this in more detail Then I have a draft article 20 which does a couple of things one it proposes funding The agreement with the librarians association funding the agreement with the firefighters Funding cost of living increases with the end schedule employees and non-union employees Funding full-time elected officials cost of living increases and then lastly Basically setting aside the balance of the seven hundred thousand dollars that was included in the manager's budget For future collective bargaining. We're actively engaged with all the unions right now We hope to reach agreement In the coming months Whether or not we've got agreement with all the unions before Tom meeting. I would go ahead and say it's probably unlikely at this point But we're meeting on a weekly basis across the board and hopes to making some progress So with that, let me just walk through the memo That I've provided to the committee basically our our strategy and our approach Has been based on two principles one Providing cost of living increases that are consistent with historic CPI, which is about two percent We've applied that across the board and then we have Adhere to a commitment we made with all the unions Back in 2000 we began in 2012 actually meeting with the unions and it continued many many months until we actually performed an actual Compensation study for all town in school positions and one of the things we said they were very actively involved in deciding who our Comfortable communities would be We took in a bunch of factors some demographic information. That's particular to each union and then our community ability to pay And we came up with our combo. We've referred to as our comparable communities And what we've done is we've looked at where we stand against those and where we are able to and where it's necessary One of our goals has been to try to make We've been calling parity adjustments To bring people to what we we have defined as parity, which has been the average the average rate of pay for those communities So what I'll do is I'll walk through Some of The particulars of the agreement we've reached and then I'll show you a document that's a laughing included Which basically compares the fire agreement adjusted for FY 2016 basically if the agreement is ratified this week by the union and then funded by town meeting Where they'll be compared to the comparable communities So I'll begin with the Rob Robin's Library of Professional Association. There's really Two funding components to that a 2% cost of living increase in each year of the agreement FY 16 FY 17 and FY 18 And then they have a fixed rate for longevity A lot of the other unions it's based on a percentage. So what we've done is we've increased it at each increment So for 600 it's 800 800 a thousand and so forth. There's currently five union union librarians who are receiving Longevity so the impact of that that component of the agreement if you just about a thousand dollars the cost of living Increase comes in just about a dollar below 12,000. So I rounded up. So you'll see the cash outlay for FY 16 is $13,000 and what I've done as we've done the last time we went through a Complete round of collective bargaining negotiations. I've basically tried to show the compounding impact over time of the collective bargaining agreement So that's I don't know if we want to answer any questions fix the librarians or if you prefer if I move on to The fire agreement which has a little bit more Okay, there are any questions on the library contract, okay the What's the impact in the first year of the $200 Three percent it's about 2.2 a little less actually, but it's only a thousand dollar cash outlay beyond What we're currently paying So would it be the first year of 2.2 percent and then after that a student too? Yeah, okay Any other questions on the library? See the question members are in the the librarians Association well Okay, I'm sure we'll go on to the firefighters Okay, so the fire union is one area in which a salary study Identified a pretty significant inequity in the compensation for mainly ranking offices and ranking offices include Firefighters the low but not nearly as low as ranking offices ranking offices include Tenants captain tenants. We have 15 captains. We have seven and deputy chiefs. We have five so one of our Our goals was to get pretty creative in how we determined The financial components of our agreement in a way that they were within budget But yet Helped us not maybe achieve complete parity with the average by the communities But make a significant step forward which I think we were able to do so the Again sticking with the cost of living piece. There's a 2% increase cost of living 15 16 17 beginning of July one of each of those years 16 FY 17 by 18 respectfully the biggest piece is The implementation of a new step system. So the way The step system works currently is that there's three three steps for firefighters Minimum midpoint and max Basically a $5,000 difference. So and then basically you achieve each step Each year. So if you're a new firefighter you come in at Step one in a year you go to step two in a year's your third year You go to step three and that's max firefighter max and then all the Ranking differentials are applied to firefighter max So one thing we did is we basically threw out that step system recreated a step system as a six step system Step one is still entry level won't change from what it is this year. So the 2% won't apply to it Step two will be again second year firefighter Again won't change much from what it is right now So basically as a result of that by not increasing step one and two by two percent They will forever be anywhere between fifteen hundred two thousand dollars less value of that step moving forward Step three, which was the former max we increased that by two percent And then we came up with three new steps one beginning at ten years Which is a one point two percent increase over step three One at fifteen years is a one percent increase over step four the first new step and then lastly after twenty five years another one point two percent Increase so what that was able to do is really bring us to market with regard to firefighters And then basically based on those that new firefighter max we applied the rank differentials and they give you an idea what those are Lieutenant is sixteen percent above max firefighter Captain is fifteen percent above Lieutenant and then deputy chief is fifteen percent above captain One thing I'm working with the union. I mean we we met Hours and hours and hours and hours hundreds of hours maybe with the fire union and their priority in going into this was meet, you know slow the rate of increased firefighters potentially Increased the rate of pay for her within year one for the officers because that is what the salary study shows to be the inequities. So one thing I'd like to turn your attention to is a one-page art provided Right here that shows all of the comparable communities to Arlington What their pay would be adjusted to FY sixteen and what the actual pay would be for the highest paid Employee at each rank within the Arlington fire department. So I'll walk through those very quickly Beginning with firefighter the highest-paid firefighter based on this agreement would be paid seventy thousand five hundred fifty one dollars next year That's just under eighteen hundred dollars over the average interestingly. It's a bit of an outlier That firefighter it's a thousand dollars more than any other firefighter based on a combination of some components of pay So if you really Called him an outlier You'd be about seven hundred dollars from the average Lieutenant pay you'll see we're just at the average Captain pay we're still twenty one hundred dollars below the average While it's still below the average we made significant progress towards reaching the average And then depth deputy chief pay Is still fifty eight hundred dollars below the average again? We may put a deal of progress in getting closer to the average, but yet we're not there yet One of the ways we're able to do this was to do something that's applied similarly in other public safety unions, which is to Education stipend education stipends the way it works in the fight of primitives you can earn up to sixty Credits which is equivalent to an associates degree That's the max and the associates degree must be in fire science. So it has to be applicable What we did is we tied that rate to rank so a firefighter who may have his or her sixty credits will receive Lest essentially done a deputy chief who has The same sixty credits and one thing that was able to do is help us a little bit further close close the gap in terms of what we're a What we're trying to do in terms of a cheap parody so in year one the total increase Considering the two percent cost of living in the market correction of the parody adjustment It's three point four seven above what was been appropriate or what is going to be recommended to be appropriate in FY 16 in FY 17 and in FY 18 it's a two percent increase each year and Going back to my memo. You'll see the value actually despite salaries increase in the way it's been structured and This whole idea of newcomers coming on board in the fire department making a lesser rate of pay. You'll see that 203,201 in FY 16 that includes a hundred and sixty-four 998 for the cost of living in the new steps system plus the 38,000 for school credits Next year it's a hundred and fifty seven thousand and that encompasses all the all the impacts of this year and then a hundred and twelve thousand So those are basically the Overview of both the agreements we've reached one thing that's included in the Warren article is cost of living increase adjustments for like I said M schedule non-union and full-time elected it's two percent Over the next three fiscal years and that that lastly that leaves us 397,143 dollars that is basically set aside until we're able to reach agreement with the four remaining units bargaining units And in which people obviously had to go back to both the finance committee in the town Meeting to request that it gets moved into the departmental budget So that's the overview Okay, so this comparison is after if the agreement is made correct John A couple questions about the comparison chart Said that the Arlington is for the highest paid In the free train And for the other towns is that also the case or is that the and Do you know what the numbers are for Arlington before the adjustments in other words? How how did it look compared to the comparable average? Sure, oh you firefighters between 500 and a thousand off when the study was completed in 2014 Lieutenants were off just over 3,000 captains were off Just about 7,000 indebted chiefs were off just about 15,000 so below the the comparable average Thank you. Okay. Oh, there are people Paul Again the numbers for the comparable towns So basically what we've done we've adjusted at the study was done on that for NFI 14 We increased it at 2% each year and talking to the other towns. That seems to be the pretty much Okay, other questions Caroline. Where does this money come from? Where do we keep? Potential funds needed for collective bargaining sure so When we proposed the operating budget within that budget we set aside and the personnel line Lump sum of seven hundred thousand dollars in the case of this year That has just been set aside. It has been including any departmental budget What will happen is if everything is approved? Here and then a town meeting the controller will move the funds necessary into the departments and the balance of that It will be left in a In account that we call it'll be called collective bargaining article 20 ATM 2015 and not moved until further action by comedy Steven question on the comparison into For the deputy chief positions for those communities would know things listed Do they not have deputy chiefs and they just go right to from captain to chief or or in one case lieutenant chief So, right the position just doesn't exist. Okay. Thank you John First question is how do you get this information? Sure. So in In summer of 2012 we began meeting with all the units that unions to define what our comparable communities would be and what What data categories we use to measure up against other places and once we came to an agreement on what those would be We wanted to contract with a Massachusetts firm That concentrates just on Wage and classification systems salary studies and there's not a lot of players in this field in the state But the one we went with has a pretty vast array of experience And we contracted with that firm and then they developed Basically a survey a Saudi survey That we is the town approved the unions approved and then that was sent to all these communities And they responded and basically the the carrot there is that Providing they respond with the data in a family fashion that we can complete the study because I mean we we surveyed ourselves against a hundred positions So it's a big undertaking for whatever town to respond to the survey We shared the information with them upon its completion. So it's not only a useful tool for us But for our comparable to me was it participated As I understood what you said For example a Brookline number of for a firefighter at seventy thousand nine hundred forty three That means there is one such firefighter that makes that amount of money And that's more than any other such firefighter that Forces that right given the different the components of the air collective agreement. It could be one They could be ten in our case. There's just what I can tell you. There's just one Right So the way The consultant presented how she most accurately does these things is to basically look at what the the greatest rate of pay would be for every rank and It gets a bit complicated with the public much more so than really any other positions in town It gets complicated with police and fire because of all the particular components where you get the base pay Night differential shift differential weekend differential EMT D5 holiday pay longevity. I mean there's eight and nine categories of pay. So Basically the way we approach it was let's fully load it and see what we measure how we measure against that fully loaded Granted there's really only one person in our own to right now An individual who's done here 30 years that is fully loaded based on longevity having the full 60 credits Okay, what? Based on the pattern of the humans today. Do you think 400 is going to be enough for the other I do interestingly enough we we did a quick analysis today and basically everybody covered under article 20 comes to 43 percent of the town's workforce and We're just at about 43 percent of the 700,000. So it worked out pretty well So I think we're on target when we came up with that $700,000 number We took them a bunch of things into consideration So I think we'll get it done with everybody else Okay, is there any other questions? Okay, and I suppose is there any other questions on the end schedule non-unions and full-time elected They seem pretty Straightforward at 2% Just to refresh my memory. Was it two years the town employees took zeros? Yes Okay, so we have been brought to bargaining is this article that you'll be voting on That'll be in the finance committee recommendation Is there a motion from the committee? Seconded, okay moved and seconded for the collective bargaining for Roberts library Firefighters and schedule a non-union and full-time with the numbers as opposed here. Is there any discussion? Okay, all those in favor of that. We say aye opposed Okay, so favorable action unanimous Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay Okay, the next issue is the finance committee budget Alan and I have been going and John have been going through all the budgets and all the finance committee reports I've sent everything out to the you know to the Western world for comments I got comments back from several of you. So thank you very much And all of a sudden you know I was looking You know trying to compare make sure everything fits and In discussions with Peter, I realized That our budget was not going up three point two five percent. It was going up four four and a half percent and Here we were you know making sure that everybody else is doing three and a quarter and You know, we weren't even close Now so what Peter and I would like to recommend to you is That we cut a hundred and fifty five dollars from Expenses, so in 20 instead of twenty five hundred is twenty three forty five And the total budget would be 12,000 two zero six, which would be a three point two three percent increase I Think that'll still provide plenty of money to do our job And keep us right in line with with the three and a quarter, so Peter and I would like to recommend that to you Any questions? Motion Okay, any further discussion Okay favorable action all those in favor, please say aye opposed Okay, unanimous Okay, two three Four human rights executive director article 33 I sent this to you about a week ago by a few days ago actually and I handed this out It's on the back of the arts culture budget So Remember we were talking about this We looked at the number of five, you know actions that the human rights has to take which is not a huge amount We pose we already passed a budget for them I think of forty five hundred dollars that handles all the you know sort of basic administrative work for the for the committee And the director of human services basically acts as the executive director And we thought it would be good if just the board of select one could approve the Approve the manager's recommendation to appoint her as the executive director as the by-law state and The issue would be soft for reasons That are a little bit of a mystery to me and The board of select one decided not to do that So I put together a vote you got to take a vote as you know appropriation on it That's before you now Voter that the board of select one investigate the position of executive director you and rights commission report its findings The next annual town meeting the board should determine the need for the position Whether it's position or duties to be handled by the existing member of the human services staff if the board determines the position Is not needed for the commission to fulfill its responsibilities. They're requested to submit necessary amendments to the why was it eliminated in the requirement and then I give a little comment there and So, you know, they're they're sort of the head of this we put it back to them. They either Come back with a new solution next year But it seems to me to be a reasonable solution to the issue On that so with that I recommend This vote under 33 with this comment Okay, is there a second second, okay here In the past I've run into a problem with the Directing other parts of the town The town meeting apparently has some limitations You could get around I don't know what that applies to You get around it by saying by softening that requested The board of select one is requested Well, yeah, it's not meeting asking them not us Okay, so the board of select one is requested to investigate the position of the executive director of a law requested to submit Okay, any other discussion John It doesn't sound as though it's complete in other words says the board should determine the need for such a position and Whether this position and its duties going to be handled by an existing member of the human service And the board determines this position is not needed Followed by It could they could determine that it is needed, right? Put in appropriation So we just we'll worry about that look that You're not going to say it If they decide that it after researching that it can be appointed that it can be done by a human services staff member Then they could go ahead and appoint that person to serve in this position I mean they have that authority now. I see what you say. Okay. Yeah, all right Okay, any other questions Okay, well Do we know what position the select would have taken on article 33? I don't think they have It's an appropriation article, so I don't think you know they haven't they haven't taken any position Yeah, there's another article back in their side that deals with the town, but it's not an appropriation article. It's a Selectment policy issue Okay, motion's been Made and seconded for to article 33 motion as presented All those actually in favor. I'm sure I think you want to start again can be amended it Thought as presented it does we just did it to the orange is oh adopted as amended Okay, I'll accept that as a friendly amendment Okay, so the board of selectman is requested to Okay, all those in favor of adopting the vote as amended please say aye opposed Okay Anonymous okay, that's four five a special education You remember when the school committee was here they had the superintendent mentioned that's their intention to take any surplus monies they have and Put that into the special education stabilization fund At which point I started grab my warrant and went through it quickly because I couldn't remember such an article well after Getting home and researching it a little bit more thoroughly. No, there was no article so I talked with the controller and I talked with the town council and The controller really didn't think we could use the budgets to do it and Both of the other stabilization fund articles that are in there Really very specific in the warrant, you know one is specifically the long-range Stabilization fund and the other is specifically the override stabilization fund So I was talking with the superintendent And I made the suggestion that why don't you We could increase the reserve fund by two hundred thousand dollars which actually if they wanted your suggestions John and That the board and of course what that would do is draw down the fiscal You know money going into the fiscal stability fund and then the school department promises to turn back at least $200,000 to free cash So, you know we lose a little money on the fiscal stability fund But we increase the free cash So it's it's a wash and then next year at their request we could transfer the money to them They could either you have to use it for special education or they can Next year make sure they put the warrant article in and transfer it into that And since I think most people are in favor of the school having reserves for special ed since it's such a volatile issue I Make this recommendation that we increase the reserve fund We should add a lot of comment on that that you know It's been increased as a reserve for special education in the schools And then the school department promises to get back, you know at least 200,000 back into the Into that they were hoping to do more. Unfortunately. I guess may is a very April and May is very busy on the special education front so they was not sure exactly how much Um Theoretically it's possible for them to come back and you like the first week in May and said we've got 300,000 We can do and we could amend the motion first here and of course and then in town meeting so I'd like to recommend that we increase the reserve fund by 200,000 to be set aside for special education Based on the so on the school department's promise on the free cash So most second, okay, so moved in second. Is there any questions? Well Email was to reduce the Contribution to the override stabilization fund by that 200,000 that's right. Why don't we just well, we're going to get to the override stabilization funded a minute and In the I sort of it's already in here. So we have that Tying in so we'll vote on the override stabilization fund in a minute Why don't you just $200,000 more out of free cash Because that 200,000 is going to come back on July 1st anyway So we'll be exactly with free free cash exactly where we plan to be And then we can keep the same Contribution to override stabilization as we had planned Well, we got to we got to do another vote anyway because you'd have to vote to redo free cash Or you vote to do the override stabilization Which we have to do anyway, so I guess that's the way I've told everybody I thought that we could do it it's No, no, it's what is the $200,000 they are not spending this year We'll just flow into free cash on June 30th As well No, you have to certify free cash after the fiscal year closes By November 15 for years beginning July 1st Take a year. Yeah, it does. Yes So so the money that the departments that any department Does not spend in 2015 Does not get counted as free cash. It does not it doesn't get certified until November right out The free catcher is certified, you know some place in the fall and then gets used in the next year in fist in physicals Skip see there's a lot of keeping goes on so so so what I'm saying is Kind of accomplishes essentially the same thing that it means that as of November when they certify we will have exactly the same amount of free cash as we plan to if they weren't doing this 200,000 other thing at all It sort of goes away from you know using half our free cash every year, which I yeah, I mean yeah Sort of policy that we've had I mean, I guess if we if we're earning the same amount of Interest on our money in free cash that we're earning on override Stabilization is the same difference Yes The amount of money that you're earning is fairly trivial anyway, so I don't think it makes that much difference You're right it does the same thing oh Then the only thing is I think the school department and The chairman of the school right now would be happy it if we had the money and we could transfer it It's guaranteed they got to get it Oh, no, it's no question that we put the 200,000 into the reserve fund Yeah, it's a question of what other part of the budget do we take it out of to put it in the reserve fund for next year? Take it out of free cash, or do we take it out of the override? So yeah, it's not the boat on the reserve. He's just you know wonder where it comes from Kevin how often do we end up dipping into free cash as opposed to the stabilization fund in an emergency? uh Once more, please. How often do we dip into free cash if something happens like say the microburst or some other? Unforeseen Well free cash we basically we basically have over the years just used half of it and you know to be used against the budgets The in the physical stability fund basically has the same Performs the same function when you can't dip into either without a vote at the time You can't just dip into it. Yeah Anybody else I Guess the motion now is to well motion We're looking at now is to increase the reserve for a third fund to a million children. Is there any discussion on that? Okay, I think this motion been made Okay, the motion has been made to decrease the reserve fund by a million two All those in favor, please say aye. I posed Okay, so that's Favorable action unanimous Okay, and That takes care of item five item six Okay, so go to your summary page Which has these votes all fake Okay, so you can see Basically, if you look in the bottom right-hand corner Alan zeroed out override stabilization fund and Therefore what's remaining is two million seven eighty two seven sixty three So in other words, that's the money remaining over That's the money that would go into the overrides table that we vote to go into the overrides stabilization fund and that already takes into account the The million two for the reserve fund the 3,000 160 for their fun for the cultural fund all the budgets are done You modify the Fincom right the Fincom cut So everything is done what we have to do is appropriate two million seven eighty two seven sixty three into the Overrider fiscal stability stabilization fund now, you know, I know less You'd like to do with the free cash in which case then we take up the the free cash vote Reconsider it and put it there and adjust but this by 200,000 This would be just one vote, you know, we got plenty of time, so Okay, so does anybody have any questions on the on this Then was there any plan on this no deficit? We got reimbursed in the feds, sir Right now, okay. That was a good question I had planned in the reserve fund I had set aside we had 80,000 set aside for the fire department retiree buybacks Do you Paul do you have any more feedback on that actually it's gotten a little worse Well, an additional firefighter Okay So what kind of money is that we talking about I think another $20,000, okay, so let's say a hundred so Okay, so we got a hundred thousand this hasn't been voted this I just sort of set it aside and then I got 500,000 for snow and ice and I think that means the the manager You know still has to come up with some additional funds and we've got about a hundred and fifteen thousand left So I think between the five hundred thousand and the additional money that the Manager is going to have to transfer from other budgets And then we still have a hundred and fifteen thousand in reserve I think we're in good shape there But just mention that whatever we vote might have to be tweaked when the house budget comes out. Oh, right say morning. Yeah Comes out Wednesday morning And we're going to tweak that So we'll we'll be tweaking this fiscal stability fund either up or down depending on how the house-based and means committee Comes out I'm hope we're all hoping that they basically go with the governor's numbers And we'll see how the closer well Do we want to Come up with a number for a roof Lewis buyout that we might have to do for It will roll into next year You know, I think I'm trying to remember now. We had set aside funds in a fund because of the Five and two percent Pay raises, you know, they accumulate to a 21 and I think Ruth has been here long enough that she'd probably qualify. So we have that fund of Why don't I ask Carolyn? I'll go to Marma boy Tomorrow about a buyback buyout Of Ruth Lewis and if Funds left in that account Okay, Carolyn, you want to do that? Yeah. Oh, yeah, I thought you were asking me to okay guys Okay. Yeah, so if you could call Carolyn's toy Ask her about the buyout for the Ruth Lewis Buyout and find out what that that's going to cost us and then I'll check with accounting I'll check with accounting on that account It was back in 85. There was a 5% because there was a zero raise, you know, and in 91 or 92 there was a 2% and So 95 05 30 years. Yeah, she probably qualifies for the for the 21 1% Okay, so if you could if you could check that out and email it To me I'd appreciate that Yes Well, the question came up about the She's retiring Well, she's retiring in May Okay, so the question came up on the whole reserve fund So after the fire department, do you have a sense of when they'll know Haven't a more exact figure That they can't cover He's looking at it every month depending upon overtime So he's optimistic because he has five new firefighters So he's believes he will have less overtime than they initially thought but he's monitoring it month by month and send sent an email every month That can mean Okay, so Anyway, after the 500 we vote we vote that we have a hundred and fifteen left in the reserve fund And then Sometimes we just take it out of next year's money. I you know, we fit the situation before Then eventually it's the manager's problem with the money Oh Okay, any other questions on the fiscal stability fund Do I have a motion? I'm sorry the overwrite fiscal stability fund 2,000,782,763 to be modified by now and I based upon the House Ways and Means Committee numbers on Wednesday Okay, moved and second any discussion Okay, all those in favor of 2,000,782,763 into the fiscal stability fund We say aye opposed action unanimous and just want to note I Long-range projection that the manager gave us on February 4th and it was at that time a little less than this We're doing okay, and I think big reason for that is the governor You know recommendation so hopefully The house will support that and I think if the house does I think the Senate will But that's I've been mildly wrong in my political forecast of the past Okay, that is The end of my agenda is there any other business before the committee? I think The goal is that we're going to go to print on Wednesday Either Allen or I will pick them up at the printer on Thursday morning if they could do it We're going to walk out We're going to get them down to while the selectments office on early Thursday morning as we can and they're going to stuff it together With the board of selection report or the redevelopment report that are all going out together for the first time in life forever If anything goes wrong with that they'll be out in the seats of the town meeting when they first come in But it's a combination of a smaller warrant and the timing of everything so I think that would be great The first meeting of the finance the next meeting the finance committee will be 730 in the Lions hearing room Before town meeting we will meet a half hour at 7 7 30 every night of town meeting which hopefully will be I'll get predictions now of five nights. We'll see how that goes. Gloria. Are we are we posted for all that? Okay, and I Can't hopefully I haven't missed anything, but I think I've got we've gotten it all Any other questions?