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Finance Agendas 2014-03-13
AGENDA – Thursday, 13 March, 2014; 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
  • Guests:  
  • Mary Lyttle, chair, Human Services Advisory Committee  
  • Judie Wilson, director, Orleans Council on Aging
  • Tavi Prugno, Librarian, Snow Library
  • Meeting with Ms. Lyttle regarding HSAC FY 2014 funding recommendations  [Peter O'Meara]
  • FY 2015 budget:  
  • New reviews:
  • Meeting with Ms. Wilson on the Council on Aging FY 2015 budget (#541) [Peter O'Meara]
  • Meeting with Mr. Prugno on the Snow Library FY 2015 budget  (#610) [Peter O'Meara]
  • Discussion:  Planning for the use of information technology to support Town operations [the Committee]
  • observations on the current status of Town technology-related spending and programming
  • conceptualizing a Town technology plan
  • the scope and focus
goals and objectives
  • tasks
  • considering the advisability of recommending to the Board of Selectmen that the development of a Town technology plan be undertaken
  • Approval of Minutes:  Feb. 26, 2014; March 4, 2014 [Peter O'Meara]
  • FY 2015 budget (cont'd):
  • Follow up on outstanding items on budgets reviewed previously [the Committee]
  • Additional items
  • Continued discussion of topics to be addressed in FinCom "annual report" for Annual Town Meeting Warrant [the Committee]
  • Preliminary review of Article submissions for May 12, 2014, Annual and Special Town Meeting Warrants [the Committee]  [votes may be taken]
  • Status updates/follow up: [the Committee]
  • Items on Finance Committee FY 2014 "issues list"
  • Wastewater management
  • Tri-Town
  • Rock Harbor dredging
  • Rock Harbor re-designation
  • Town solar projects
  • Other
  • Additional items
  • Aspinet agreement/road layout
  • Piping plovers beach management plan
  • Other
  • Board, Committee, and Department Reports:
  • Liaison reports:
  • Renewable Energy Committee [Paul Rooker]
  • Affordable Housing Committee [John Laurino; Mark Carron]
  • Board of Selectmen Report[s]  
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]
  • Other:
  • Suggested topics for future meetings:
Any topics introduced by Committee members under this agenda item will be scheduled for discussion at a future meeting.
  • Weighing the merits of capital equipment leasing versus purchasing
  • Future meetings:
  • Thursday, March 20, 2014:
  • Follow up on outstanding items on budgets reviewed previously [the Committee]
  • Continue review of Article submissions for May 12, 2014, Annual and Special Town Meeting Warrants [the Committee]  [votes may be taken]

  • Thursday, March 27, 2014:
  • Meeting with Selectman John Hodgson for briefing on piping plover beach management plan
  • Follow up on outstanding items on budgets reviewed previously [the Committee]
  • Continue review of, and action on, Article submissions for May 12, 2014, Annual and Special Town Meeting Warrants [the Committee]  [votes may be taken]
  • Adjourn