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Town of Lunenburg
Finance Committee:
Terri Burchfield, Chairman
Mark Erickson, Vice-Chairman
Jay Simeone, Secretary
John Henshaw
Hannah Anderson
George Martin
Cindy Testa
Location:
Present:
Absent:
Guest:
17 Main Street, P.O. Box 135
Lunenburg, MA 01462-0135
978.582.4139
FAX 978.582.4148
Lunenburg Finance Committee
Minutes 03-16-17
Town Hall
Terri Burchfield, Mark Erickson, Jay Simeone, John Henshaw, Hannah Anderson, George Martin,
Cindy Testa
Steve Walker - Public Access Committee (PAC), Joe Mcglaughlin - PAC, members of the public,
Karen Brochu - Town Accountant, Heather Lemeaux - Town Manager
1. Chairman called the meeting to order at 7:00 pm. Televised meeting available on Lunenburg Public Access
channel. Recorder A05/05
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9YeimEp0a4
2. Comments:
a. Public: None
b. New Communications: The Chairman reminded Board members to check their inbox for the "Conflict of
Interest document from the Town Clerks office for review and reply.
Received the Monty Tech assessment, which was already discussed.
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Steve Walker for Public Access Committee. Presented a budget handout. Steve commented that the
Al tunds come from comcast thru a revenue fund. Funds are appropriated from the revenue fund t
ne operating budget. PAC's budget does not affect the Town budget. Steve gave an over view of th
budget. PAC has one full time employee who's position is under assessment. They are budgeting for
a part time technical position that will be consider after the new franchise agreement with Comcast is
finalized in September. PAC is seeking more revenues sources. The budget includes health insurance
for the full time position.
FY18 Operations budget: $102,800
Capital budget: $60K
Total: $162,800
Income: $104K
Additional income: $75K
Total: $179K
Town Manager budget report:
The TM presented the Administration dept. budgets: Land use and Unclassified budgets.
The budget includes all contractual obligations. A $9500 decrease in the Audit line. $15K for the Assessor to
contract with a Personnel Property Appraisal firm to look for new revenues. $3700 to the Collectors office to fund
taking delinquent properties owner to court to recover money. 15K to Technology to fund hardware updates and
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more band width for proper backups. A decrease of $9400 in the Town clerks budget as a result of fewer
elections. 5.6% increase in Health Ins. Snow and Ice deficit is at $150k.
4. Budget Goals and Opportunities:
Financial Policy for managing debt service:
Anticipation of large capital purchases
5. Review of minutes: None
6. Town Financial Officers reports: None
7. Committee and Department Updates:
Committee/Department
Dept. of Public Works-John H.
COA - Cindy
Update
Met with Sue. Reviewed items in need of repair. Water leak in roof that
needs repair.
8. Ongoing business:
Pavement management plan
Contract Commitments
Sale of surplus properties
9. Next meeting: March 23, 2017
10. Adjournment: John made a motion to adjourn. Cindy seconded the motion. The committee approved the
motion 7-0 at 8:03 pm.
Submitted by Jay Simeone
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