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Minutes of the Board of Selectmen Meeting
<br /> January 30, 1990
<br /> The meeting convened at 7 : 37 p.m. in the Selectmen's Meeting
<br /> Room, 16 Lowell Street, Reading, Massachusetts- . Present were
<br /> Chairman Russell Graham, Vice Chairman Mollie Ziegler, Secretary
<br /> Dan Ensminger, Selectmen Eugene Nigro and John Russell, Town
<br /> Manager Peter Hechenbleikner and the following list of residents:
<br /> Bill Brown, Stanley Nissen, Dr. Robert Munnelly, Bruce Morang,
<br /> Robert Ferrari, Richard Coco, Aram Boornazian, Robert Krekorian,
<br /> Bill Burditt, Tom Stohlman, Gail Wood and John Wood.
<br /> On motion by Ziegler, seconded by Nigro, the minutes of January
<br /> 16, 1990 were approved by a vote of 4-0-1, with Russell abstain-
<br /> ing.
<br /> On motion by Ziegler, seconded by Nigro, the minutes of January
<br /> 23, 1990 were approved by a vote of 5-0-0.
<br /> Under Public Comment, Bill Brown asked when the land across the
<br /> street from the High School would go on the tax rolls. It is tax
<br /> title land and the Board of Selectmen has the authority to sell
<br /> it. Dan Ensminger indicated that the average taxes from a single
<br /> family home in Reading were $2,400 per year, and the average cost
<br /> of educating a student was about $4,000. Therefore, returning
<br /> this land to single family land residential purpose would wind up
<br /> costing on an annual basis, since each household generates at
<br /> least one school child.
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<br /> The Town Manager introduced the discussion on the FY91 Budget and
<br /> ballot question. A ballot question was drafted with a blank
<br /> space for the amount of money to be filled in. Dan Ensminger in-
<br /> dicated that he had reviewed tapes of all of the Selectmen' s
<br /> meetings on the budget that he had missed last week because he
<br /> was on a business trip. He asked if the budget was in balance,
<br /> and it was indicated that it was $7 , 000 to $14 , 000 out of
<br /> balance, but that it would be balanced through the FinCom
<br /> process. Mr. Ensminger expressed concerns about the Department
<br /> of Community Development. He feels that a putback of an addi-
<br /> tional $80,000 would be needed in order to keep the department as
<br /> a separate department, and keep full community development serv-
<br /> ices available to the residents. He did not disagree with the
<br /> deep cut budget needed to make the changes as proposed, but asked
<br /> that consideration be given to putting an additional $80, 000 back
<br /> into this budget as part of an override consideration. The
<br /> $80, 000 consisted of restoring another half-time department head,
<br /> another half-time conservation administrator, the full ad-
<br /> ministrative assistant, the reduced hours for the Building In-
<br /> spector, Electrical Inspector and Plumbing Inspector, and a half-
<br /> time clerk.
<br /> The School Committee reviewed their "putbacks. " Because of late
<br /> revisions to the revenue structure, the School Deep Cut Budget is
<br /> $274, 000 more than is available. Putback One is $450, 000 in ad-
<br /> dition to that, and Putback Two is an additional $429, 000. Put-
<br /> back Three is $600,000. Therefore, the cumulative totals for the
<br /> School are $274, 000 to "stay even" with the deep cut budget as
<br /> approved by the School Committee. Putbacks One and Two would .
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