Video index

1. Call Meeting to Order

705

2. Roll Call

Roll call (10 Present, 0 Absent, 0 Excused)

3. Public Participation [Per Town Council Rules, this segment of the meeting shall not exceed thirty (30) minutes unless extended by the Mayor, with the consent of the majority of the Town Council.]

Julie, Lapp, President of South WIndsor Chamber of Commerce. Chamber is imperative that successful chamber work to advocate for busiensses. job creation and investment. Businesses have the option to do business in other communities (taxes). Town government must recognize that tax increases could eliminate businesses from this community. minimize tax increase and if increase is set forth then phase in the taxes.

4. Communications

Yagaloff - question for Julie - Chamber issued a statement regarding capital projects. What is the Chambers position. there was a mass email that went out does the Chamber have position on capital projects. Julie - no Yagaloff - the basic position is that substantial increases in taxes will have negative impact on businesses.

Delnicki - April 9 at 7:30 p.m. TEM in Alt. 6 will be public hearing for BOE budget. This year had 60 questions - encourage anyone who has position on the budget to come forward and have a say. Eugene Policelli Awards, May 7, 2013 will be held. previous winners Snyder, Prague, This year Maureen Bourn - Historical Society Howard Fitts, Public Buiding Edward Havens - Town Counicl memmber Emma Richard - High School student.

5. Town Manager's Report [Per Town Council Rules, this segment of the meeting shall not exceed ten (10) minutes unless extended by the Mayor, with the consent of the majority of the Council.]

none

6. Items for Discussion

A. Capital Projects Budget Presentation

Snyder - tonight we will bring forth the capital project budget. process has changed. One year ago May 15, 2012 we brought forth 3 prong approach. 1) identify capital projects that needed to be done (budget); 2) referendum to the community (2 passed, 3 did not) - 3) put process together to save money to do projects in the future. Capital projects met to decides which projects that did not pass should get done. Plan was established and listed in order of priorities (8 items). original cost for first year 1.4M, second year 1.7M, thrid year 1.7 M. We looked at way to finance these projects. 2 phase plan, finance what we can and (get what we need now to keep things going and 2) to save money to get what we need in the future. Galligan - concerned about the sewer debt, tried to look at how we coudl get most of our dollars by not adding taxes to the community. I had discussion with TIF Capital and this is a straight leasing deal. We have done leases before. concern for this is the generators. this summer the fuel cell s will be taken off of the High School. Generator is a 20 year lease, Fire Station Generator did for 10 years. the capital budget is 287,000 and we really need the projects to come back. IT equipment include the new Microsoft Office. Generator at the high school is very key - need to get that and would do the entire hgh school. GIS program has been successful and is key to the town. Really need to keep program going and expand on it. Fire Station generator, Generator at PD is key -EOC out there. Fiber Optic Network - connect all of the key buildings. we have bill before state which we hope the governor will pass. can connect fire department, police and school systems together. Community Center generator is small and only does a portion because right now there is a portion done and we really need to have that be a full generation system. 2.2M projects. We could do better on the rate but calculated it out at 3%. Trying to come up with second phase of the scheudle. start airmarking new taxes for capital projects for the future. Hotel will be build, residential build, home center will be built. there are a lot of new taxes that should be coming to the town. after 10 years should be built up with more than 3M. trying to be realistic, capital projects worked very hard. trying to come up with policy/plan that will work so taxes would not have to be used. rating agencies will like this. Good way to get projects done without hurting the taxpayer. should be considered. new policy can be established. Snyder - school security report is still being worked on and will bring that back to the Council at a later date. Delnicki - that is a number one item. Snyder - there is a place holder. Prague - disappointed that some of the referendums did not pass. we did not market enough. your financing - do not like ot assume that something comes off because something else comes on. Your plan is good and we really need these items. these are necessary items. 2015/2016 the 715,726 new taxes from tax abatements - Galligan - only going to be able to add for one year. you are not getting that every year. Prague - yes we will if you look - there forever Galligan - only add the incremental revenue with the expenditure. Prague - we are not going to spend 715,000 more - Galligan - 10 years will build up - can't do 715,000 every year. have expenses against that. Prague - 6.2M capital projects by year end. the debt service reduction if only one year - tax abatement reductions every year. Galligan - only one revenue per year. Prague - 7.5M is that year expenditure Galligna - we are going to spend those projects every year. Prague - where is the money for public works trucks? Galligan - not in here right now. that is something you could do if you want to put in. Prague - paved firehouse. Galligan - can't get lease for the shack, boilers are questionable also. Prague - Scott -the reason you want to upgrade everyone is because Scott - we are getting tot he point where we can not take advantage of things because we have 2003. November 2003 original assessment done. Prague - what is the 565,00 Scott we are following the original 10 year plan - there is a lot of layers and data that we are trying to take from paper form, etc. Dawn does not take large maps and convert to GIS, Town has outside vendor. Prague - no new additions? Scott right we have a three year plan. Prague - taxpayers will see benefit Scott - a lot of committees request data and get it (sidewalks, etc). building information management we would like to do in the future. Anwar - the projects that we are looking at should have been done in the past. in order to stabilze budget these items have been taken out of the budget. Many of these things are life savings and we need as a town. in situation of emergency we need these items. what is being proposed will not have significant impact on the taxpayers. Galligna - will not increase the budget but will give purchase power. Anwar - this is part of life saving equipment and will not have if we do't plan for it. some of the things that I would not classify under life savings is fiber ptic network. Need to hear more about this and the GIS program and IT equipment. need more explanation that this willb e worthwhile to move from othe rpriorities. Galligan - one concern is in a category 3 or 2 we put all our forces out throughout town - the fiber optics will allow the town to sta y in communication. GIS - we have gas lines, water lines, etc. - when you have a call before you dig that could tell you where everything is and could be life savings. some items go back 40-50 years and instead of having map taken out then could know where everything is. Anwar - also part of the life saving is---------------------- Scott - the idea of computers - at a major crime scene technology is used. fiber optics - large data that is being generated - during the storm staff was emailing pictures to let others know what is happening so thr right equipment could be used. technology helps to get things back to normal. Gantick - we have been approached by other communities with vision of partnering with DASHBOARD. most critical dashboard would be police. this technology could be used to be sent anywhere. the STate is interested. OPM is interested. Bridgeport. This is life saving technology - GIS helped police department in situations. McCann - need to figure out which projects are real capital projects. we should pay for non capital items and should be in the budget- for the true capial projects financing makes sense. generators and gis all are true capital projects. IT and fiber optic have questions. IT will we get itemized list? Galligan - yes McCann - fiber optic - if the fiber optics are on the pole and the pole goes down the fiber optics are gone. Scott - Storm Alfred - talked to state and even will all of the devastation only had one break. the experience so far is no, can't say it would not happen. McCann - the driveway for the firestation needs to be done and should be done immediately. think should be someone in the budgt Galligan - that is not a leasable item McCann - want to make sure we do not forget about that. for years we had included paving in the capital projects, how are we going to take care of the maintenance of roads? Galligan - right now you have a bond issuance 1.8M. we used to have 800,000 every year. McCann - think it should be in operating but do not want to over look. Delnicki - we had successful referendum for ---- - call attorney and ask if we can use for firehouse, if not should use funds out of contingency. Yagaloff - in a strong economy this discussion is easy but in weak economy the process becomes difficult. if we look at the projects there are 4 generators $550,000 and that is 25% of the list. if we put GIS we are about 1M which is about 50% of cost. GIS has benefitted busineses in town but then we get to fiber optic network and IT equipment - that is more than 50% of estimated capital projects budget. when chamber cam in with a posiiton. why is it complicated - I think the issue is do we want to accrue more debt service or try to let the debt service come off. Timing - we have to look at th eopportunity to building safer schools. this is the time to think about safer schools. if there was a referendum within the next eyar and then takes another year to do design and plans, something may be done in 3-4 years. we need to avoid accruing debt services. need to put in elementary debt service - all these items add up and the public thinks we are adding projects. my request is that the Council consider stripping the capital projects down to the emergency items. go back on the GIS plan to stretch out longer. would like detailed IT plan to do oly what is essential. Council shoudl avoid using debt service. only do the absolute necessities that need to get done in order to free up money for school safety. doing capital projects is not our number one priority. Gallign - this is recommendation from Capital projects. I woudl say to you that I agree with you about the schools, but by the time it is all planned it will be 5-15 years. I would hate to see our capital plan just goes away. we should set priorities but there is nothing here most things are done in 10 years. these are items that the public will see and the residents will not like it if projects do not happen. the reason capital projects was put to 0. everyone wanted the projects but needed to save residents taxes. Yagaloff - fiber optic network may not be a high priority for this list. would like to see elementary schoosl upgraded ajnd made safe. I would hope that we do something and hope that people don't do things for the costs. Galligan - if you look at debt service - 2018-1019 will have large debt coming off debt. Yaaloff - senior center expanison, hockey rink, recreation center. Bazzano - he is right, it is about priorities. if this is the list that Capital projects feels the needs are for the taxpayers then I am ok with it. I would like to know other priorities. Galligan - 3 boilers, firehosue parking lot, VMP, new projects - no able to finance. we have talked about a lot of projects. lot of things that are nice to have but need to prioritize. Bazzano - looking at spread sheets - least impact to the taxpayers. Glaligan - trying to do plan to get things that are critical done but will not hurt the taxpayers. Capital projects is the first thing tht gets hit. Bazzano - over 10 years what will cost Galligan - not hurt because not in the budget. we do need priorities and hoping that the TC will work with capital projects. Bazzano - 2.2M will not be seen in taxes? no Bazzano - if some of these items were built into the budget it could cost the taxpayers. Galligan - this is trying to get critical needs done and save funds for the future for projects. in the future need to sit down and figure out what projects should be done. Havens - adding new debt in these times I think very seriously about giivng it a lot of thought about putting out new debt. That is the only thing that kills me - we have other important issues - we do it wrong. why we can't do this in the middle of the year when we are not discussing budget. Borrowing more money is against what I feel should be done. there are items that need to be done but why do they come up at the last minutes. Why do we wait until budget time to put the important things on the table. is this politics to keep the taxes down. with all of the imporatnat items we have on the budtet, we don't need new debt. because of the importants of some of these items I would support. just because we are paying down debt we do not need to spend the same amount that is comin goff. we have to change the way we do business. will support some of these items even though against adding items. Snyder - the capital projects budget has 287,000 in it right now. we are not looking at any impact at this time. our citizens want their buildings to be taken care of, they want safe clean environment. last few storms our citizens have had a place to go and a place to bring their pets. I think this community understand the need to makntain infrastructure. as we move forward they are critical to life safety and emergency response. the capital projects committee met every month for the past year and everything has been fully vetted. Big concern is something called horse trianing. we could spend 100 of hours saying we don't want this or that - the caprital projects believes as a whole are items that are thought to positively impact our community. There is no tax impact - we are where we are now because we have not done everything that we should have. Requesting the Council to have faith that the Capital projects have done their due diligence. Beaulieu - thanked Jan and Capital Projects. based on what you said Matt that there were 60M to begin on this list. there was a lot of work done on this. we have to get projects done and will not cost the taxpayer. I do want to see our schools done. if we wait this list will be longer and more expensive. do see a lot of thngs that our community will appreciate if we are an emergency situation. if we wait for things to get better the interest rate will also be higher. Yagaloff - was hoping we could narrow the list donw. IT not highest priority nor the fiber optics. the financial model only work son a small scale. our budget is 100M, why don't you go out and borrow 2 billion and we will go out and spend that and simply pay back over 20 years. it is not a survivable financial model. when you spend your operatio and mainteannce money - the finanical model coudl fail. if you want to keep your financial circumstances healthy you reduce your purchasing. Galligan - i fyou look at chart - BOE got 5.8M in the last 5 years. Town went down. you have to get things done. we need to get some things done and don't want the Town to be a second class citizen. Town needs to take care of our needs. if you wait on project you are going to spend more money. Yagaloff - I am saying we have to set our priorities. the goal seems to be to lump projects here, borrow - this council needs to narrow expenditures down and only have high priority items. Tonw Council needs to decide on the priorities. we have to keep debt service as low as possible. if our grand list was growing we maybe able to do this. if grand list was groiwng we would be looking at projects that would last. Galligan - the IT equipment was approved, why can't the town get ours. Yagaloff - the Council approved, but the voters denied - we have to set priorities. have to cut back. Galligan - you want me to manage the town and have a beautiful budget, you have to allow me to manage. you have cut the town back tremendously. I will not be happy with any nmore cuts of this budget. BOE has increase of 5.8M. Hope the town side of the budget will be left alone this year. there has to be a balance. Delnicki - Trust but verify. would like to sit down with Scott Roberts.

7. Executive Session

A. To discuss a personnel issue (Union Negotiations)

B. To discuss a personnel issue

Bazzano 8:37 - Snyder, unanimous

8. Adjournment

Apr 08, 2013 Town Council Special Budget Work Session

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1. Call Meeting to Order

705

2. Roll Call

Roll call (10 Present, 0 Absent, 0 Excused)

3. Public Participation [Per Town Council Rules, this segment of the meeting shall not exceed thirty (30) minutes unless extended by the Mayor, with the consent of the majority of the Town Council.]

Julie, Lapp, President of South WIndsor Chamber of Commerce. Chamber is imperative that successful chamber work to advocate for busiensses. job creation and investment. Businesses have the option to do business in other communities (taxes). Town government must recognize that tax increases could eliminate businesses from this community. minimize tax increase and if increase is set forth then phase in the taxes.

4. Communications

Yagaloff - question for Julie - Chamber issued a statement regarding capital projects. What is the Chambers position. there was a mass email that went out does the Chamber have position on capital projects. Julie - no Yagaloff - the basic position is that substantial increases in taxes will have negative impact on businesses.

Delnicki - April 9 at 7:30 p.m. TEM in Alt. 6 will be public hearing for BOE budget. This year had 60 questions - encourage anyone who has position on the budget to come forward and have a say. Eugene Policelli Awards, May 7, 2013 will be held. previous winners Snyder, Prague, This year Maureen Bourn - Historical Society Howard Fitts, Public Buiding Edward Havens - Town Counicl memmber Emma Richard - High School student.

5. Town Manager's Report [Per Town Council Rules, this segment of the meeting shall not exceed ten (10) minutes unless extended by the Mayor, with the consent of the majority of the Council.]

none

6. Items for Discussion

A. Capital Projects Budget Presentation

Snyder - tonight we will bring forth the capital project budget. process has changed. One year ago May 15, 2012 we brought forth 3 prong approach. 1) identify capital projects that needed to be done (budget); 2) referendum to the community (2 passed, 3 did not) - 3) put process together to save money to do projects in the future. Capital projects met to decides which projects that did not pass should get done. Plan was established and listed in order of priorities (8 items). original cost for first year 1.4M, second year 1.7M, thrid year 1.7 M. We looked at way to finance these projects. 2 phase plan, finance what we can and (get what we need now to keep things going and 2) to save money to get what we need in the future. Galligan - concerned about the sewer debt, tried to look at how we coudl get most of our dollars by not adding taxes to the community. I had discussion with TIF Capital and this is a straight leasing deal. We have done leases before. concern for this is the generators. this summer the fuel cell s will be taken off of the High School. Generator is a 20 year lease, Fire Station Generator did for 10 years. the capital budget is 287,000 and we really need the projects to come back. IT equipment include the new Microsoft Office. Generator at the high school is very key - need to get that and would do the entire hgh school. GIS program has been successful and is key to the town. Really need to keep program going and expand on it. Fire Station generator, Generator at PD is key -EOC out there. Fiber Optic Network - connect all of the key buildings. we have bill before state which we hope the governor will pass. can connect fire department, police and school systems together. Community Center generator is small and only does a portion because right now there is a portion done and we really need to have that be a full generation system. 2.2M projects. We could do better on the rate but calculated it out at 3%. Trying to come up with second phase of the scheudle. start airmarking new taxes for capital projects for the future. Hotel will be build, residential build, home center will be built. there are a lot of new taxes that should be coming to the town. after 10 years should be built up with more than 3M. trying to be realistic, capital projects worked very hard. trying to come up with policy/plan that will work so taxes would not have to be used. rating agencies will like this. Good way to get projects done without hurting the taxpayer. should be considered. new policy can be established. Snyder - school security report is still being worked on and will bring that back to the Council at a later date. Delnicki - that is a number one item. Snyder - there is a place holder. Prague - disappointed that some of the referendums did not pass. we did not market enough. your financing - do not like ot assume that something comes off because something else comes on. Your plan is good and we really need these items. these are necessary items. 2015/2016 the 715,726 new taxes from tax abatements - Galligan - only going to be able to add for one year. you are not getting that every year. Prague - yes we will if you look - there forever Galligan - only add the incremental revenue with the expenditure. Prague - we are not going to spend 715,000 more - Galligan - 10 years will build up - can't do 715,000 every year. have expenses against that. Prague - 6.2M capital projects by year end. the debt service reduction if only one year - tax abatement reductions every year. Galligan - only one revenue per year. Prague - 7.5M is that year expenditure Galligna - we are going to spend those projects every year. Prague - where is the money for public works trucks? Galligan - not in here right now. that is something you could do if you want to put in. Prague - paved firehouse. Galligan - can't get lease for the shack, boilers are questionable also. Prague - Scott -the reason you want to upgrade everyone is because Scott - we are getting tot he point where we can not take advantage of things because we have 2003. November 2003 original assessment done. Prague - what is the 565,00 Scott we are following the original 10 year plan - there is a lot of layers and data that we are trying to take from paper form, etc. Dawn does not take large maps and convert to GIS, Town has outside vendor. Prague - no new additions? Scott right we have a three year plan. Prague - taxpayers will see benefit Scott - a lot of committees request data and get it (sidewalks, etc). building information management we would like to do in the future. Anwar - the projects that we are looking at should have been done in the past. in order to stabilze budget these items have been taken out of the budget. Many of these things are life savings and we need as a town. in situation of emergency we need these items. what is being proposed will not have significant impact on the taxpayers. Galligna - will not increase the budget but will give purchase power. Anwar - this is part of life saving equipment and will not have if we do't plan for it. some of the things that I would not classify under life savings is fiber ptic network. Need to hear more about this and the GIS program and IT equipment. need more explanation that this willb e worthwhile to move from othe rpriorities. Galligan - one concern is in a category 3 or 2 we put all our forces out throughout town - the fiber optics will allow the town to sta y in communication. GIS - we have gas lines, water lines, etc. - when you have a call before you dig that could tell you where everything is and could be life savings. some items go back 40-50 years and instead of having map taken out then could know where everything is. Anwar - also part of the life saving is---------------------- Scott - the idea of computers - at a major crime scene technology is used. fiber optics - large data that is being generated - during the storm staff was emailing pictures to let others know what is happening so thr right equipment could be used. technology helps to get things back to normal. Gantick - we have been approached by other communities with vision of partnering with DASHBOARD. most critical dashboard would be police. this technology could be used to be sent anywhere. the STate is interested. OPM is interested. Bridgeport. This is life saving technology - GIS helped police department in situations. McCann - need to figure out which projects are real capital projects. we should pay for non capital items and should be in the budget- for the true capial projects financing makes sense. generators and gis all are true capital projects. IT and fiber optic have questions. IT will we get itemized list? Galligan - yes McCann - fiber optic - if the fiber optics are on the pole and the pole goes down the fiber optics are gone. Scott - Storm Alfred - talked to state and even will all of the devastation only had one break. the experience so far is no, can't say it would not happen. McCann - the driveway for the firestation needs to be done and should be done immediately. think should be someone in the budgt Galligan - that is not a leasable item McCann - want to make sure we do not forget about that. for years we had included paving in the capital projects, how are we going to take care of the maintenance of roads? Galligan - right now you have a bond issuance 1.8M. we used to have 800,000 every year. McCann - think it should be in operating but do not want to over look. Delnicki - we had successful referendum for ---- - call attorney and ask if we can use for firehouse, if not should use funds out of contingency. Yagaloff - in a strong economy this discussion is easy but in weak economy the process becomes difficult. if we look at the projects there are 4 generators $550,000 and that is 25% of the list. if we put GIS we are about 1M which is about 50% of cost. GIS has benefitted busineses in town but then we get to fiber optic network and IT equipment - that is more than 50% of estimated capital projects budget. when chamber cam in with a posiiton. why is it complicated - I think the issue is do we want to accrue more debt service or try to let the debt service come off. Timing - we have to look at th eopportunity to building safer schools. this is the time to think about safer schools. if there was a referendum within the next eyar and then takes another year to do design and plans, something may be done in 3-4 years. we need to avoid accruing debt services. need to put in elementary debt service - all these items add up and the public thinks we are adding projects. my request is that the Council consider stripping the capital projects down to the emergency items. go back on the GIS plan to stretch out longer. would like detailed IT plan to do oly what is essential. Council shoudl avoid using debt service. only do the absolute necessities that need to get done in order to free up money for school safety. doing capital projects is not our number one priority. Gallign - this is recommendation from Capital projects. I woudl say to you that I agree with you about the schools, but by the time it is all planned it will be 5-15 years. I would hate to see our capital plan just goes away. we should set priorities but there is nothing here most things are done in 10 years. these are items that the public will see and the residents will not like it if projects do not happen. the reason capital projects was put to 0. everyone wanted the projects but needed to save residents taxes. Yagaloff - fiber optic network may not be a high priority for this list. would like to see elementary schoosl upgraded ajnd made safe. I would hope that we do something and hope that people don't do things for the costs. Galligan - if you look at debt service - 2018-1019 will have large debt coming off debt. Yaaloff - senior center expanison, hockey rink, recreation center. Bazzano - he is right, it is about priorities. if this is the list that Capital projects feels the needs are for the taxpayers then I am ok with it. I would like to know other priorities. Galligan - 3 boilers, firehosue parking lot, VMP, new projects - no able to finance. we have talked about a lot of projects. lot of things that are nice to have but need to prioritize. Bazzano - looking at spread sheets - least impact to the taxpayers. Glaligan - trying to do plan to get things that are critical done but will not hurt the taxpayers. Capital projects is the first thing tht gets hit. Bazzano - over 10 years what will cost Galligan - not hurt because not in the budget. we do need priorities and hoping that the TC will work with capital projects. Bazzano - 2.2M will not be seen in taxes? no Bazzano - if some of these items were built into the budget it could cost the taxpayers. Galligan - this is trying to get critical needs done and save funds for the future for projects. in the future need to sit down and figure out what projects should be done. Havens - adding new debt in these times I think very seriously about giivng it a lot of thought about putting out new debt. That is the only thing that kills me - we have other important issues - we do it wrong. why we can't do this in the middle of the year when we are not discussing budget. Borrowing more money is against what I feel should be done. there are items that need to be done but why do they come up at the last minutes. Why do we wait until budget time to put the important things on the table. is this politics to keep the taxes down. with all of the imporatnat items we have on the budtet, we don't need new debt. because of the importants of some of these items I would support. just because we are paying down debt we do not need to spend the same amount that is comin goff. we have to change the way we do business. will support some of these items even though against adding items. Snyder - the capital projects budget has 287,000 in it right now. we are not looking at any impact at this time. our citizens want their buildings to be taken care of, they want safe clean environment. last few storms our citizens have had a place to go and a place to bring their pets. I think this community understand the need to makntain infrastructure. as we move forward they are critical to life safety and emergency response. the capital projects committee met every month for the past year and everything has been fully vetted. Big concern is something called horse trianing. we could spend 100 of hours saying we don't want this or that - the caprital projects believes as a whole are items that are thought to positively impact our community. There is no tax impact - we are where we are now because we have not done everything that we should have. Requesting the Council to have faith that the Capital projects have done their due diligence. Beaulieu - thanked Jan and Capital Projects. based on what you said Matt that there were 60M to begin on this list. there was a lot of work done on this. we have to get projects done and will not cost the taxpayer. I do want to see our schools done. if we wait this list will be longer and more expensive. do see a lot of thngs that our community will appreciate if we are an emergency situation. if we wait for things to get better the interest rate will also be higher. Yagaloff - was hoping we could narrow the list donw. IT not highest priority nor the fiber optics. the financial model only work son a small scale. our budget is 100M, why don't you go out and borrow 2 billion and we will go out and spend that and simply pay back over 20 years. it is not a survivable financial model. when you spend your operatio and mainteannce money - the finanical model coudl fail. if you want to keep your financial circumstances healthy you reduce your purchasing. Galligan - i fyou look at chart - BOE got 5.8M in the last 5 years. Town went down. you have to get things done. we need to get some things done and don't want the Town to be a second class citizen. Town needs to take care of our needs. if you wait on project you are going to spend more money. Yagaloff - I am saying we have to set our priorities. the goal seems to be to lump projects here, borrow - this council needs to narrow expenditures down and only have high priority items. Tonw Council needs to decide on the priorities. we have to keep debt service as low as possible. if our grand list was growing we maybe able to do this. if grand list was groiwng we would be looking at projects that would last. Galligan - the IT equipment was approved, why can't the town get ours. Yagaloff - the Council approved, but the voters denied - we have to set priorities. have to cut back. Galligan - you want me to manage the town and have a beautiful budget, you have to allow me to manage. you have cut the town back tremendously. I will not be happy with any nmore cuts of this budget. BOE has increase of 5.8M. Hope the town side of the budget will be left alone this year. there has to be a balance. Delnicki - Trust but verify. would like to sit down with Scott Roberts.

7. Executive Session

A. To discuss a personnel issue (Union Negotiations)

B. To discuss a personnel issue

Bazzano 8:37 - Snyder, unanimous

8. Adjournment

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