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North Stonington Board of Finance
Meeting Minutes
Wednesday, April 30, 2008, 8:00 PM
NEW TOWN HALL
40 Main Street, North Stonington, CT
- Call to Order Chairman M. Donahue called the meeting to order at at 8:06 PM. Secretary T. Oswald and members E. Pavlovics, N. Gumprecht and G. Herbert were present. Vice Chair L. Southwick was not in attendance.
- Public Comments and Questions The reporter from the Westerly Sun asked some questions.
- Previous Minutes N. Gumprecht motioned to approve the minutes of the regular meeting of April 30, 2008 as amended. G. Herbert seconded the motion, which carried 5-0-0.
- BOS: Revised Budget Request/Financial Reports Among several others, the question was discussed about how the referendum items (the new fire truck, the Little League facility, the Hewitt land purchase) should be presented for citizen acceptance or rejection via polling.
- How to present the choices to the Townspeople to vote on:
- One trip to the polls voting up or down on the BOE+BOS+BOF budget and all big-ticket items, or:
- One trip to vote on the budget, plus one trip to vote on each referendum – returning to the polls several times – once for each question.
- The BOF agreed that the referenda should be put before the electorate on a 'buffet ballot' manner allowing voter acceptance/rejection of each component of the BOF budget ( the totals of the separate BOS and BOE budgets), as well as approval/rejection of each of the referenda.
- We agreed the each of the referenda items should be presented to the voter with the mil rate cost information for each proposed big ticket item.
- BOE: Revised Budget Request/Financial Reports The 4-30-08 Revised BOE Budget memo from the Office of the Superintendent of Schools was discussed.
- A citizen expressed interest in seeing documentation on how and when the BOE 'transfers funds' from one application to another.
- Hewitt Property Purchase (re: Funding from Capital Non-Recurring) Discussion, no action.
- Management Reports/Board of Finance as Audit Committee/GASB 45 OPEB. Discussion, no action.
- Surplus Discussion, no action.
- Budget/Budget Spreadsheet A motion was made by Chairman M. Donahue to forward Revision B of the Town Budget to the Town Budget Hearing next Monday to include $18,688,458.00. G. Herbert seconded the motion. The motion passed 5-0-0.
- Schedule for Town Hearing Discussion, no action.
- Budget Website/Communications/RBA Workshop Discussion, no action.
- Correspondence None
- Town Report Status 6-30-07 Omitted due to late hour in the morning.
- Future Agenda Items Identification Omitted due to late hour in the morning.
- Adjournment Monday night Next Monday, 5 May, will be the BOF Budget Hearing Special Meeting, 7 PM at the Elementary School. The next Regular BOF meeting will be held in the New Town Hall Wed. May 7 at 8 PM. G. Herbert moved for adjournment and N. Gumprecht seconded. The motion carried 5-0-0. The meeting was adjourned at 12:40 AM.
Respectfully Submitted,
Tom Oswald
Secretary, Board of Finance
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