BOARD OF FINANCE
SPECIAL MEETING
MAY 9, 2019
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DRAFT
Attendance: John Ford IV, Sharon Huxley, Katie Erickson,
Sally Huyser
Visitors: First Selectwoman Gorski, Sheila Lane, Betsy
Thornquist
John Ford, Temporary Chairman
called the meeting to order at 7:12 p.m.
The meeting was held in the Selectmen’s Conference Room of the Bethany
Town Hall.
EMERGENCY ROAD REPAIR
Alan Green has requested
additional funding to do emergency road work before the end of the fiscal year,
since there is not enough money left in the Major Road account to do this
work. Discussion followed. It was determined that the request for $81,000
to do this work could be taken from the General Fund balance and approved at
the upcoming Annual Town Meeting. Sharon
Huxley moved to take $81,000 from the General Fund to do emergency road, with
final approval made at the Annual Town Meeting.
Sally Huyser seconded the motion.
The vote taken was unanimous.
PAVING OF WHEEL CHAIR RAMP
At a previous meeting of the
Board of Finance it had been determined that the $50,000 to repave the wheel
chair ramp at the Town Hall would be a Capital Expenditure. Since the parking lot paving for the Town
Hall and Community School are to be taken from the General Fund, then the wheel
chair ramp since it is all part of the same location should be taken from the
General Fund also. All Board members
agreed with this concept, so the Capitol Reserve Fund requests were lowered by
$50,000.
ACT
ON A RESOLUTION RECOMMENDING AN APPROPRIATION FOR COSTS RELATED TO IMPROVEMENTS
TO VARIOUS TOWN ROADS, AND RELATED WORK AND IMPROVEMENTS, AND FOR COSTS RELATED
TO THE FINANCING OF THE PROJECT, AND RECOMMENDING THE AUTORIZATION OF
BORROWINGS TO FINANCE THE APPROPRIATION.
First Selectwoman Gorski opened
discussion regarding bond and appropriation costs related to improvement of
roads. Since First Selectwoman Gorski had
run for election on this platform she felt that the incoming administration
should handle it, so for that reason she was not going to support bonding. Sally Huyser felt the same way as First
Selectwoman Gorski did. Temporary Chairman John Ford IV called the motion. The motion was moved by Sharon Huxley and
seconded by John Ford IV. The vote was
called. There were (2) votes no that of
Sally Huyser and Katie Erickson and two votes yes that of John Ford IV and
Sharon Huxley.
ADJOURNMENT
Adjournment was called at 7:25
p.m, after a motion was moved by Sharon Huxley and seconded by Sally
Huyser. The vote taken was unanimous.
Respectfully
submitted,
June
G. Riley
Clerk,
Board of Finance
