ARTICLE 4 – APPROPRIATE FY2019 OPERATING BUDGET
To see if the Town will vote to make appropriations for expenditures by departments, officers, boards and
committees of the Town for the ensuing fiscal year and determine whether the money shall be provided by
the tax levy, by transfer from available funds, by transfer from enterprise funds, or by any combination of
these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto.
(Inserted by the Board of Selectmen)
The most recent version of the FY19 Budget Proposal, and more, is HERE
MOTION, in full, HERE.
Recommendations
Board of Selectmen (BoS): Unanimous Support
School Committee (SC): Unanimous Support
Appropriation Committee (AC): Unanimous Support
Program 1000: Education
Question fromTMM/P9: Whose decision to raise School Bus fee?
A; SC decision to raise the bus fee $30
Q: Why collaborative process abandoned?
A: We felt it was in the SC authority to do so
Program 2000: Shared Expenses
Q from TMM/P2: Divestment on our retirement funds?
A: (Chair of Retirement Board) Since 2 years ago, we review holdings, have reduced to 4.5% of our total holdings, on our way to full divestment.
No final questions
Time to Vote -- 2/3 majority
Yes: 170
No:1
Abstain: 1
MOTION is APPROVED