The FC met on Wed Oct 18 @ 4;30 pm to discuss these areas:
Budget meetings- The Select Board has generated a schedule for getting to our annual mtg. They will provide the FC a proposed budget for the FC to consider. FC plans are to do a review of the top 4 spending organizations- fire dept, roads, police and assessors-. the remaining budgets will be reviewed by one of our members and reported to the other members.- BJ to generate those assignments.
These meeting will have this agenda:
Explain your budget over the last 4 years; how did you budget this year?: Explain your request for this budget cycle;Explain what you can undertake to be effective and efficient in your efforts AND reduce spending and thus our tax rate.
The FC wants the Select Board to under take a compare/ contrast analysis of the 4 large spending groups vs Otis, New Marlborough,Egermont and Stockbridge.
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