HomeMy WebLinkAbout1933-04-17 Finance Committee Minutes Finance Committee Meeting April 17, 1933.
This meeting was called as provided by Section 2, Article 6 of the
Town By-Laws, for the election of a Chairman.
Mr.Robert B. Mount was nominated by Mr. Knox, and the nomination
seconded by Mr. Haley. No further nominations being made, Mr. Mount
was declared elected, by acclamation. After taking the Chair, Mr. Mount
referred to the vote taken at the annual Town Meeting relative to the
investigation of the so-called store of the Municipal Light Department
by the Finance Committee. Suggestions were called for as to when and
how the investigation should be made.
The following appointments to sub-committees were announced by the
Chairman:
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS: Mr. Connelly, Chairman, Mr. Haley and new members
Mr. Merrill, Mr. Currell and Mr. Crocker.
Selectmen's Committee: Mr. Briggs, Chairman, new members Mr. Roberts
and Mr. Crocker.
Meeting adjourned at 8.50 o'clock.
Members present: Robert B. Mount, Chm., Haley, Roberts, Knox, Ellison,
Crocker, Currell, Merrill, Connelly.
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Finance Uommittee Meeting June 6, 1933.
The meetingwas called to order at 7.50 o'clock by Chairman Mount,
who stated that the meeting was called primarily to ascertain if the
40 investigation of the Light Department store should be conducted by the
Committee with the help of an outside audit. A letter was read
frdm, the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen in response to a request
that the Selectmen give an opinion as to entailing expense for the
investigation.
Ice Chairman called for a discussion of the matter. Mr. Devaney
60 stated that in his opinion the audit should not be conducted by the
same firm who makes a yearly audit of the Light Department. accounts.
The opinion was expressed that the Light Department should furnish
figures pertaining to the store expenses for the past four or five years
and it was the sense of the meeting that such figures by obtained and
sent to the members of the Committee for study, and that a meeting be
called later.
The following transfers were voted from the Reserve Fundt
Election & Registration Expense $330.00
Insurance Account 174.07