Coordinator report August 10, 2017

Town clerk has supplied a slate of Election Workers for appointment. 
The Veterans District request we appoint our representative to its
Advisory Board which meets quarterly. Finally the board needs to make a
Selectboard appointment to FC Planning Board. (Each town gets two and
Ted is our Planning Board Representative)

There is an agenda item to do some brainstorming regarding our planned
Fall Special Town Meeting Articles. The need for a meeting is to vote a
reduction to the Town Meeting Fire Department apparatus appropriation to
align it with our actual needs, reducing amount to $40k, saving us from
$35k hitting the tax rate. I recommend the board consider an article to
begin to fund McKnight property clean-up so when we get site control we
can secure an begin address the low hanging fruit of tires and white
goods. Finally, we may want to pursue a remedy for the geese problem on
Moores Pond with a local ordinance against feeding.

Finance Committee member Steve Ruggiero has suggested we investigate
outsourcing highway operations to contractors. The idea has merit as
there is a lot of capacity in both manpower and rolling stock available
in the winter. Others are thinking about the concept of outsourcing our
accounting services. However, on our broadband side we succeed with
lower costs using the alterative of "force accounting" which is using
own workforce at their pay rate rather than the prevailing / union wage
rate.

Warwick Treasurer reports she needs the Selectboard to authorize and
execute a note for needed borrowing to cover upcoming cash flow needs.

The board will convene midweek for the Community Compact Signing on
Wednesday Aug 16 at 12:30 p.m. with Lt. Governor Polito at Town Hall;
The next regular meeting is Monday August 28.
	
I will be on light duty the week of August 21 recovering from a planned
medical / surgical procedure. Count me out that Monday and the following
day at a minimum.