Nottingham Budget Committee
Thursday, January 06, 2011 - 7:00 PM
Conference Room #1 Public Meeting
Not Approved
Attendance(X = present, E = excused, A = appointed during meeting) |
Members at Large |
Additional Role |
Term Ends |
X |
Chet Batchelder |
Vice Chair |
2012 |
E |
Donna Danis |
Impact Fee Committee |
2012 |
E |
John Decker |
School Building Advisory Committee |
2011 |
X |
Michael Koester |
Chair |
2011 |
E |
Susan Levenson |
Appointed Member at Large CIP Alternate |
2011 * |
X |
Gail Mills |
Appointed Member at Large |
2011 * |
|
Gene Reed |
Appointed Member at Large |
2011 * |
X |
Barbara Scannell |
Appointed Member at Large School Building Advisory Committee Alternate
|
2011 * |
X |
Doug Simmons |
Member at Large |
2011 |
* Member appointed by committee to fill vacancy, term will be up at next election. |
Other Board Membership |
Board Representing |
Term Ends |
X |
Mary Bonser |
Selectmen Representative |
2012 |
X |
Phil English |
School Board Representative |
2011 |
Guests: Amy Plante, Ms Carvalho, Mr. Markiewicz
7:00 Call to order and introductions
7:05 School Budget – preparation for next week’s Public Hearing
8:30 Committee Reports – CIP School Building
8:45 Other Business
Status of Outstanding info requests
Soliciting community input / communicating with voters
9:00 Round table & Adjourn
Discussion of school budget and default budget. Public hearing 1/13 to discuss same.
Paraprofessional contract approved 1/6.
Teacher union contracts ongoing. If contracts are not in to BC before the 1/13, BC will not recommend approving warrant article.
SAU is trying to project tax impact from school budget. State funding is in flux at this time. It is tricky to know what money is coming to town from state.
Projected Health insurance costs are up, in part, due to the open enrollment period, which is 1 month before the fiscal year begins. It is hard to predict which employees will partake in which health plans.
Management letter from auditing company notes deficiencies in SAU accounting in 2008(latest) report. Mr. Markiewicz is aware and working to establish policies to fix this.
Question as to whether or not BC is required to give yea/nay regarding citizens petition warrant articles. DRA will be contacted to get this answer.
Warrant Article discussion
- Lockers for the school,
- Engineering and Architectural $,
- 2 paraprofessional positions
Warrant Article # 8 means: if #7 fails then #8 authorizes sch dist to reconsider later in the year. Renegotiate.
8:40pm Walk thru scheduled for Jan 14, 9-12am
8:50 Committee reports
CIP committee-- no requests in a warrant article this year. Report from committee shows how revenues vs. spending cost of school rises and revenues drop. A study of demographic interesting. Mary will bring it to 1/13 meeting.
Sch Bldg – 12/14 last meeting. Barb: no news of more meetings.
Other business
At next week’s meeting BC adopts the school budget and will present it to the public. Public gives feedback, we close public meeting and convene as BC, go thru and adjust as necessary. Those amended numbers go to deliberative session (Deliberate session is sch board’s presentation.)The sch board stays within constraints. This meeting typically goes late.
BC positions open on March ballot, sign up Jan 19th-28th to get your name on ballot, 7 seats are available.
8:57pm
12/16 Minutes reviewed, corrected :1 abstain, 6 favor
Phil will be absent 1/13
9:09pm
Mary/motion to adjourn.
Barb/2nd. All agree
Noteworthy
Petition warrant articles due in to town 1/11/11
BC public hearing 1/13, snow date 1/14, 7pm
School walk through for BC members 1/14, 9-12am
School deliberative session 2/11/11
Respectfully submitted
Sarah Evans
1/8/2011 3:28:46 PM
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