Coordinator Report
March 12, 2015

It is once again time to nominate our inspector of animals to the state
for appointment. Please nominate Rosa once again. 

We had an informative meeting about the proposed fiber to the home
project last week. I think it reasonable to think our broadband
enterprise fund can carry the town's cost for the first three years. Our
accountant agrees that it is an allowable expense. I'll get an opinion
from counsel. Our work on the maps and data reduced the number of
connections from an estimated 437 to 336. This will reduce the build
cost by about $120,000 and I would expect reduce our "grant" by some
amount. $1.5M town share is my expectation. Broadband committee is
meeting weekly. We are going to start assembling data on driveway length
and probably GPS pole location to further the project.

Tech school district town clerks have been asked to provide information
regarding a needed ballot question. I hope we can respond by saying that
we can go along with the date agreed upon by other towns. The district
pays for the election. The cost to Warwick, if this passes, will be
about $2,000 per year for twenty years - which is 2 1/2 cents per year
on the tax rate.

Chief Shoemaker will be in to report, answer questions that were raised
at the previous meeting, and present his proposed FY16 budget. I can
report that our vehicles are not used on out-of-town details.

I request that the board set the dates to open and close the annual town
meeting warrant. I propose that the warrant be opened as of March 16 and
close on April 15. If our needs require it the board is entirely within
its rights to extend the period or even do another open and closing on
the same day. Our practice is that this only affects articles by
petition.

We were contacted by Bob Dean at FRCOG requesting a letter of support
for grant funding being sought from HUD to assist communities who were
damaged by Irene. I have drafted a letter for the chair's signature.

The board has been invited to attend a meeting with the PVRS Budget
Committee to discuss the town's sense of how much of an assessment
increase we can support. I plan to go however as I am also a school
committee member and some folks are tired of my routine, it would be
good to have a board member attend.

Report on snow and ice deficit is that it now stands at $69,205. I have
identified about $7,000 of cost savings from the regular budget to
offset this liability. These come from allocation of wage and expense
items to the "pothole grant".  I will look for more and am working on
ways to allocate Chapter 90 funds to the summer construction season and
more pothole filling work.