BOARD OF FINANCE
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
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APPROVED
Attendance: Chairman
John Grabowski, Sharon Huxley, John Ford IV, Robert Brinton Jr., Melissa Spear
joined the meeting at 7:20 p.m., Sally Huyser joined the meeting at 7:55 p.m.
Visitors: Charles
Dumais, Amity Superintendent, Terry Loomis, Scott Cleary, Jamie Stirling, Fran
Doba, Thomas Broesler
Chairman Grabowski called the meeting of the Board of
Finance to order at 7:10 p.m. The
meeting was held in the Selectmen’s Conference Room of the Bethany Town Hall.
APPROVAL OF
MINUTES
Chairman Grabowski call for a motion of approval for the
minutes of the meeting of February 7, 2017.
The motion of approval was moved by Sharon Huxley and seconded by Robert
Brinton Jr. There were no changes to the
minutes. The minutes were accepted on a
vote of four yes votes. Melissa and
Sally were not present for approval of minutes.
CHANGE IN ORDER ON
AGENDA
Chairman Grabowski asked the Board of Finance if they minded
moving the Amity Regional School budget presentation up on the agenda. There were no objections.
AMITY REGIONAL
SCHOOL BUDGET PRESENTATION
Charles Dumais, Superintendent of the Amity School District
#5, gave a budget presentation. Charles
reported that Amity is one of the top ten schools in the nation. He explained all the honors and
accreditations the system has received in the fields of sports, theater as well
as academics. This budget presentation
has an increase of 1.95% overall from last year. Due to decreasing enrollment in Bethany the
difference to Bethany over last year will be a decrease of .86% in Bethany’s
allocation.
When the presentation was complete, Board of Finance members
asked questions. Robert Brinton Jr. commented
that the budget seemed hostile about returning a surplus to the towns, since it
listed planned uses of any surplus, including capital reserve fund, OPEB fund,
and health insurance reserve fund, but not returning surplus money to the
towns. Sharon Huxley commented we would
like the money back rather than Amity spending it on projects. The Towns always have projects that would be
nice to do also.
The Board of Finance discussed briefly reducing Amity budget
in proportion to where all would share the burden of the State reduction.
WOODBRIDGE YOUTH
BUDGET ALLOCATION FISCAL YEAR 2016-17
There was an error in the appropriation for Woodbridge Youth
in the budget of 2016-17 of $489.
Woodbridge Youth is requesting that this amount be corrected as they
will be short for some of the programs they are planning. No action was requested at this time.
DR. PLUMMER FUND
Discussion about the Dr. Plummer Fund was tabled as a
resolution is needed to complete the transaction of withdrawal to reimburse the
General Fund.
ADJOURNMENT
Adjournment was called at 9:20 p.m. after a motion was moved
by Sharon Huxley and seconded by John Ford IV.
The vote taken was unanimous.
Respectfully
submitted,
June
G. Riley
Clerk,
Board of Finance
