Coordinator report
March 26, 2015

Our first order of business is the ceremonial presentation to Mr.
Ralph Hills of Warwick's Boston Post cane, an artifact that is passed
down to the town's eldest resident.

I have several exemptions. One is for a builder who is a fire officer;
the others are for residents who work for the town part-time in several
capacities.

I contacted Mr. Ruggiero regarding possible agenda items. He asked for
nine specific police logs which the chief is developing and which will
be published on the town website.  He also asked whether we have records
of out-of-town detail and mutual aid. I answered that we do have records
as this is hourly work. As a matter of courtesy and established policy,
these questions should go to the department head, Chief Shoemaker.
Payroll records are kept by the Treasurer.

We got a Pothole grant award in the amount of $34,147. This award was
made using the Chapter 90 allocation framework. All work must be
completed within this fiscal year.

Tom will have some more to report on the FTTH. New models show the fees
covering borrowing costs. Our counsel says it would be lawful for town
meeting to appropriate broadband surplus to pay interest and amortize
the debt since the intent of both projects is the same. Currently
broadband net income is certified at $36,518 through FY14.
Solid waste / transfer station enterprise fund budget draft attached. We
have a fund surplus in the amount of$5,768 which can be appropriated to
FY16 operating revenue. I am proposing a $32,000 in balance budget. The
commissioners will meet Monday night prior to the Selectboard meeting
and I expect they may make some adjustments upward. Like the broadband
budget, the Selectboard needs to act on the budget before putting in on
the ATM warrant.

Please click here to answer the Lt. Governor's survey on unfunded
mandates, regulatory relief, etc. Here is what I answered. We need
increased unrestricted local aid funding. "We need Chapter 70 funding to
grow. It has gotten to the point that a 1% school budget increase
becomes a 2% assessment increase to the town because the portion of
school funding that comes from state aid isn't growing. We need
transportation funding restored to the levels called for in law. We need
continued Chapter 90 funding at $300M statewide is needed so we can
address our highway needs. We need payment in lieu of taxes to grow
since we host so much state land.

Ted C has a pipeline meeting out of town Monday. He has asked that we
consider increasing either the reserve fund or the legal line item to
provide legal capacity for the town on the pipeline. Our legal retainer
is increasing to $4,000 annually per agreement with our new counsel.
Court work falls outside the retainer and is billed at $160 / hour. Note
that we had the option of paying a much higher retainer and getting a
lower hourly. We in addition to pipeline potential have an active zoning
case which we are defending. That case has cost about $1,700 to date and
we are working on the discovery phase.

We got our annual report from HRA on our housing rehab activity
including a program income report.  There is no mention of PI
unrestricted coming back to town but there wasn't any repayment activity
in the past year. Our outstanding loan portfolio totals $746k. The
agency has a wait list of three projects. The 2016 application has been
submitted.

Recall that Warwick is the net meter host for Seaboard Solar project.
This project has been hanging fire for months. The developer reports
that they are set to begin construction on Gilbertville Rd in W.
Brookfield in May. This won't be all of our allocation
Warwick has Capital Stabilization Funds in the amount of $78,172. The
state recommendation is at least 5% of budget. Our budget is about $2M
so we are $12k short of that mark.