1991-01-31 Board of Selectmen Minutes

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Minutes of the Board of Selectmens Meeting January 31, 1991 The meeting was called to order at 7 : 06 p.m. Present were Chairman Russ Graham, Vice Chairman Dan Ensminger, Secretary George Hines , Selectmen Sally Hoyt, Town Manager Peter Hechenbleikner and the following list of interested parties: Gary Demopoulos, Tim Twomey, Tom Stohlman, Jonathan Edwards, Joan Y. Nickerson, Camille D. Anthony, Stuart S. LeClaire, Irving E . Dickey, Tony Fletcher, Bili Robertson, Ted McIntire, Bob Keating, Joyce Miller. The Town Manager presented the Board of Selectmen with a copy of the Real Estate Valuation List, and a yellow ribbon with an American flag donated by Arnold Berger to the employees at Town Hall. The Town Manager presented the Community Development budget. It included a reduction of the Building Inspector's time to 8/10 time, and other staffing levels left as they currently are. The Town Manager talked about the concept of sharing services with other communities, and taking advantages of economies of scale by doing this. With the building inspection reduced to 8/10 time, there would be a reduction in services to the Town, but the Town Manager pointed out that there was reduced building activity. The Building Inspector presented to the Board of Selectmen a chart showing current building activity. 1989 reflected 10% less permits then 1988. The Board talked about a fee base system for plumbing and wiring which would be "off budget. " The Town Manager pointed out that the revenues would also have tobe "off buffet" and therefore there would be no savings. The Director of Community Development indicated that his recommendation was to keep the Building In- spector full time and reduce clerical staff to 8/10 time. The Town Manager felt that this was unworkable, and the Community Development Director felt that this was not desirable but the preferable of the options in order to bring the budget in under guidelines. The Board indicated that they preferred to keep the full-time Building Inspector. The Cemetery Director and Chairman of the Cemetery Board dis- cussed the Cemetery budget with the Board of Selectmen. There was discussion that we need to make a decision on the fourth cemetery site in the Town this spring. The Public Works budget was discussed. In the Engineering Divi- sion, Bill Robertson indicated that 27% of the time of the two and one half people in the office was spent on general office duties, 14% for work for other departments, 11 and 1/2% for bond requirements, plan review etc. , 4 and 1/4% for small drainage projects, 3 to 4% for bids and contracts, 3 to 4% for street ac- ceptances, and 4 to 5% for road reconstruction. The other staff members in the Engineering Division are doing outside work in- cluding inspections. In addition, CDM is doing a contract for the Town to put the entire sewer system on the CAD system. This is taking two weeks. The survey crew is spending time relative