Finance Committee Minutes
Wellfleet Finance Committee
Minutes of Meeting of March 9, 2016
Council on Aging, 7:00 PM
Members Present: Sam Bradford, Kathy Granlund, Arlene Kirsch, Janet Loewenstein, Fred Magee, Linda Pellegrino, Stephen Polowczyk, Chair, Liz Sorrell, Robert Wallace, Ira Wood
Members Absent:
Also Attending: Assistant Town Administrator Brian Carlson, Town Accountant Marilyn Crary, Don Palladino of the Herring River Restoration Project, Town Administrator Harry Terkanian, Selectwoman Helen Miranda Wilson
Chair Polowczyk called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM.
Correspondence
Invitations from Wellfleet Elementary School for Community Friends Week
Minutes
Loewenstein moved to approve the Finance Committee Minutes of 11/18/15 as amended; Bradford seconded; the motion passed 8-0-2.
Wood moved to approve the Finance Committee Minutes of 2/24/16 as amended; Loewenstein seconded; the motion passed 8-0-2.
FY17 Budget Recommendations
Don Palladino answered questions regarding 2016 Warrant Article VI-4. Wood made the motion to move on Article VI-4; Loewenstein seconded; the motion passed 7-2-1.
Section I: Budget Articles
ARTICLE I-4: FY 2017 Marina Enterprise Budget.
Wood made the motion to recommend; Sorrell seconded; the motion passed 9-0
ARTICLE I-5: FY 2017 Water Enterprise Budget.
Sorrell made the motion to recommend; Kirsch seconded; the motion passed 8-1
Section II: Financial Articles
ARTICLE II-1-7 recommendation reserved to Town Meeting
ARTICLE II-8: Additional Police Officer
Loewenstein made the motion to recommend; Bradford seconded; the motion passed 9-0
ARTICLE II-9: Chapter 90 Road Repairs.
Wood made the motion to recommend; Loewenstein seconded; the motion passed 9-0
ARTICLE II-10: Other Post-Employment Benefits (“OPEB”) Appropriation.
Sorrell made the motion to recommend; Wallace seconded; the motion passed 6-3
ARTICLE II-11: Marina Stabilization Fund.
Bradford made the motion to recommend; Pellegrino seconded; the motion passed 9-0
ARTICLE II-12: Stabilization Fund.
Wood made the motion to recommend; Granlund seconded; the motion passed 9-0
ARTICLE II-13: Additional support for the Water Enterprise Fund.
Loewenstein made the motion to recommend; Sorrell seconded; the motion passed 8-1
ARTICLE II-15: Community Preservation Committee Housekeeping.
Wood made the motion to recommend; Loewenstein seconded; the motion passed 9-0
ARTICLE II-16: Community Preservation Project Fund: Housing Authority Consultant
Loewenstein made the motion to recommend; Pellegrino seconded; the motion passed 9-0
ARTICLE II-17: Community Preservation Project Fund: Cape Cod Village
recommendation reserved to Town Meeting
ARTICLE II-18: Community Preservation Project Fund: Adams Masonic Lodge
Loewenstein made the motion to recommend; Wood seconded; the motion passed 9-0
ARTICLE II-19: Community Preservation Project Fund: Pond Hill School
Kirsch made the motion to recommend; Loewenstein seconded; the motion passed 9-0
ARTICLE II-20: Community Preservation Project Fund: Wellfleet Historical Society
Wood made the motion to recommend; Sorrell seconded; the motion passed 9-0
ARTICLE II-21 – No Article 21
ARTICLE II-22: Route 6 and Main Street intersection improvements.
Wood made the motion to recommend; Pellegrino seconded; the motion passed 9-0
ARTICLE II-23: Revoke the following borrowing authorizations: 2011 Annual Town Meeting Article 26: $150,000 for street repair.
Loewenstein made the motion to recommend; Wallace seconded; the motion passed 9-0
ARTICLE II-25: $25,000 for investigating and recommending practical methods to reduce the need for future full harbor dredging
recommendation reserved to Town Meeting
ARTICLE II-26: Plan for Briar Lane Expansion of WMWS to OCHS.
Wood made the motion to recommend; Loewenstein seconded; the motion passed 8-0-1
ARTICLE II-27: $150,000 to fund snow and ice removal from private ways.
Wallace made the motion to not recommend; Loewenstein seconded; the motion passed 8-1
ARTICLE II-27A: $235,000 street sweeper for the Department of Public Works
Wood made the motion to recommend; Sorrell seconded; the motion passed 9-0
ARTICLE II-24: Combined recreation building and public restrooms at Baker Field
recommendation reserved to Town Meeting
ARTICLE II-28: Money to pay unpaid bills from a prior fiscal year, or do or act anything thereon.
Loewenstein made the motion to recommend; Sorrell seconded; the motion passed 9-0
ARTICLE VII-1: $15,000 for fireworks for the Fourth of July holiday (will be moved to Section II)
Kirsch made the motion to not recommend; Wood seconded; the motion passed 8-1
Section III: Charter and General Bylaw Changes
ARTICLE III-9: Wellfleet Home Rule Town Charter: Fin Com on other committees
Wood made the motion to recommend; Kirsch seconded; the motion passed 9-0
ARTICLE III-3: Accept the provisions of General Laws chapter 40, Sections 42G through I for the levy of special assessments: to assess betterments against properties to recover all or a portion of the cost of introducing water on adjacent streets
Wood made the motion to recommend; Sorrell seconded; the motion passed 7-2
ARTICLE III-4: Accept the provisions of General Laws chapter 40, Section 42J for the levy of special assessments: allowing betterments to be repaid over a period of years (currently up to 20 years.)
Wood made the motion to recommend; Sorrell seconded; the motion passed 7-2
ARTICLE III-5: Accept the provisions of General Law chapter 40, Section 42K for the levy of special assessments: authorizes the assessment of betterments based on single family equivalent usage.
Wood made the motion to recommend; Sorrell seconded; the motion passed 7-2
Section VI: Disposition of Town Property
ARTICLE VI-1: Transfer of Map 29: Parcels 489 and 493 to the Conservation Commission
Loewenstein made the motion to recommend; Pellegrino seconded; the motion passed 9-0
ARTICLE VI-2: Transfer of Map 15 Parcel to the Wellfleet Conservation Commission
Loewenstein made the motion to recommend; Kirsch seconded; the motion passed 9-0
ARTICLE VI-4: Ensure continued access to Griffin Island over the Town road known as High Toss Bridge Rd.
Wood made the motion to not recommend; Loewenstein seconded; the motion passed 8-0-1
Section VIII: Other Articles
ARTICLE VIII-2: To see if the Town will vote to raise the fee for inn-holders and common victualers licenses from $25.00 to $100.00, or do or act anything thereon.
Loewenstein made the motion to recommend; Pellegrino seconded; the motion passed 7-2
Section IV: Standard Annual Articles
ARTICLE IV-1: To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Administrator or his designee to dispose of the following articles of personal property by trade in or sale, or do or act anything thereon
Loewenstein made the motion to recommend; Wood seconded; the motion passed 9-0
ARTICLE IV-2: To see if the Town will vote in accordance with G. L. c. 41, §38 to authorize the Town Collector to use all means for collecting taxes, which the Treasurer may use when appointed Collector, or do or act anything thereon.
Loewenstein made the motion to recommend; Wood seconded; the motion passed 9-0
ARTICLE IV-3: To see if the Town will vote to assume liability in the manner provided by G. L. c. 91, §29 and 29A, as most recently amended, for damage that may be incurred for work to be performed by the Department of Environmental Protection of Massachusetts for improvement, development, maintenance and protection of tidal and non-tidal rivers and streams, great ponds, harbors, tidewaters, foreshores and shores along a public beach, excluding the Herring River and Herring River Dike, in accordance with G. L. c. 91, §11, and to authorize the Selectmen to execute and deliver a bond of indemnity therefore to the Commonwealth, or do or act anything thereon.
Loewenstein made the motion to recommend; Wood seconded; the motion passed 9-0
ARTICLE IV-4: To see if the Town will vote pursuant to the provisions of G. L. c. 71, §16B, to reallocate the sum of the Town’s required local contributions to the Nauset Regional School District in accordance with the Nauset Regional School District Agreement, rather than according to the formula of the Education Reform Act, so-called, for fiscal year 2017, or do or act anything thereon.
Loewenstein made the motion to recommend; Wood seconded; the motion passed 9-0.
Next Meeting: March 23, 2016
CPC Funding Applicant Presentation: Cape Cod Village
Study on Harbor: Measures that may reduce dredging needs in the future
Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 8:55 PM.
Public Records of 3/9/16
2016 Wellfleet Town Warrant