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AGENDA – Thursday, 24 October, 2013; 7:00 PM, Nauset Room, Town Hall
7:00 p.m. Call to Order. Remind all that meeting is being televised and taped, and that ceiling microphones are present in the audience area of the meeting room.
Public Comment
Guest: Deputy Chief Tony Pike, Orleans Fire Department
Meeting with Deputy Chief Pike for a debrief of the Summer 2013 Nauset Beach EMT program [Dale Fuller]
Approval of Minutes: Oct. 10, 2013 [Ralph Cuomo]
Administrative items: [Gwen Holden Kelly; Dale Fuller]
- State online ethics training
- Debriefing of Association of Town Finance Committees meeting [Ralph Cuomo]
- Update on FinCom recording secretary recruitment
- FinCom submission for calendar year 2013 Town Annual Report
- FinCom BoS/Committee meetings coverage
- Scheduling of meetings in support of work plan tasks:
- Status of follow up to schedule meetings with . . .
- . . . Town Administrator John Kelly and Town Finance Director David Withrow on the Finance Committee's proposed budget analysis template
- . . . Dr. Richard Hoffmann, NRSD superintendent, on availability of MSBA funds for Nauset Middle School roof project
- . . . members of the OESC and Orleans representatives to the NRSC
- . . . Orleans Assessor Kenneth Hull on the valuation of properties and setting of tax rates
- . . . Selectman Alan McClennen on the work of the 208 Plan update finance committee to develop a water quality improvements financing cost and revenue model
- FinCom FY 2015 budget request
- Additional items
Status updates/follow up: [the Committee]
Items on Finance Committee FY 2013 "issues list"
- Budget analysis template task [Joshua Larson; John Laurino]
- Town building and facilities maintenance projects [Gwen A. Holden Kelly; Dale Fuller]
- Wastewater management:
a) Tri-Town: Consultants report on facility decommissioning tasks, timetables, and costs [Gwen Holden Kelly];
b)Other
- Input to Planning Board from the FinCom on questions concerning Orleans' changing demographics that should be explored to gain insight into the implications of these changes and knowledge to support and inform strategic planning and spending decisions going forward [Gwen Holden Kelly]
Additional items:
- BoS creation of Town citizen insurance advisory committee [Gwen Holden Kelly]
- Board of Selectmen's meeting with the OESC concerning legal processes, zoning requirements, and other issues that would have to be addressed if the OESC were to seek to declare property under the OESC's jurisdiction as surplus and make that property available for alternative uses [Gwen Holden Kelly]
- Other
Board, Committee, and Department Reports:
Liaison reports:
- Renewable Energy Committee [Paul Rooker]
- Affordable Housing Committee [John Laurino; Mark Carron]
- Board of Selectmen Reports Oct. 16, 2013; Oct. 23, 2013
- Board of Health [Dale Fuller]
- Board of Water & Sewer Commissioners [Gwen Holden Kelly]
- Community Preservation Committee [John Laurino; Mark Carron]
- Planning Board [John Laurino; Mark Carron]
- Nauset Regional School Committee (NRSC); NRSC Budget/Transportation Subcommittees; Orleans Elementary School Committee (OES) [Joshua Larson; Ralph Cuomo]
Suggested topics for future meetings:
Any topics introduced by Committee members under this agenda item will be scheduled for discussion at a future meeting.
Future meetings:
- Thursday, Nov. 13, 2013: To be determined
- Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013: To be determined
Adjourn
- This agenda lists all matters that reasonably are anticipated by the Chair to be discussed at this meeting. Not all items listed, in fact, may be discussed; other items not listed may be brought up for discussion to the extent permitted by law.
- Depending on the lateness of the hour, Board, Committee, and Department Reports may be postponed to a subsequent Finance Committee meeting.
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