North Stonington Board of Finance
Draft Meeting Minutes
of
Wednesday August 8, 2012
New Town Hall
North Stonington, CT
- Call to Order: Chairman Dan Spring called the meeting to order at 7:35 P.M.~
Brent Woodward, Emile Pavolvics and Mustapha Ratib were present. Peter Nimirowski was absent.
2. Public Comments and Questions: Public comments are as follows:
- Mike Urgo thanked the Board for following up on his previous recommendation for conducting a SurveyMonkey and stressed his desire to have no additional cuts in sports.
- Nita Kincaid asked if a schedule of events leading up to the fourth referendum had been developed. At this time input was being received to create the schedule. She also cautioned the Board about the SurveyMonkey protocol that needed to be understood to avoid getting results you didn’t want or need. Nita recommended putting the Town mill rate history on the website.
- First Selectmen Nick Mullane, acting on behalf of Joe Gross, provided the Board with a copy of Second 7-344 (Appropriations. Laying of Taxes) with emphasis on the part that noted if the municipality population was over 5,000 the budget needed to be published in a local newspaper.
3. Budget 2012-2013 Referendum #3; Review: Two sets of candidate questions for the SurveyMonkey were reviewed by the Board. It was agreed that parts and pieces of both sets of questions should be used and that the number of questions should be keep low in the range of seven to ten. To give the public adequate time to respond to the survey, which in Selectmen Mark Donahue’s opinion was two weeks, survey questions needed to be available both electronically and in paper form in quick fashion. Recommendations were made to put the paper copies in the Town Hall, library, transfer station, convenience stores and senior center.
4. BOS: Budget Input: Nick Mullane wanted to see the results of the survey before making further changes in the budget.
- BOE: Budget Input; Discovery Audit: Negotiations are ongoing.
6. Strategies: Emile Pavolvics made a motion to authorize Dan Spring to sign a request from O’Connor Davies, previous audit company, allowing an exchange of information to our successor Town auditor, Meyers and Company. A second was made by Mustapha Ratib and the motion passed 4-0-0.
7. Previous Minutes:
Dan Spring moved to approve the minutes of August 8, 2012 as amended. The motion was seconded by Mustapha Ratib and passed 4-0-0.
8. Adjournment:
A motion was made by Dan Spring to adjourn. The motion was seconded by Mustapha Ratib and passed 4-0-0. The meeting was adjourned at 10:38 PM.
Respectfully Submitted
Brent Woodward
Secretary, Board of Finance
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