This session of the radio show shares the Finance Committee meeting held on Wednesday, January 10, 2024. 

8 Finance Committee members participated; 

• 6 in Chambers (Chair Conley, Riley, Corbosiero, Nagel, Batchelor, Grace ), 
• 2 participated remotely (Keophannga & Hamilton) 
• 1 absent (Sansoucy)

Quick recap:

• Discussion on the scope and intent of the deep dive series. Feb 7 next meeting, Mar 6 joint budget subcmte, then really into budget season for FY 2025 with hearings in May, June for Council.
• This is the first capital budget without a holding of the 'free cash' for snow and ice removal. 4.5M is total free cash.
• Consideration for a 'land acquisition fund' possibly to be established
• Technology at the high school is now 10 years old, can't replace them all at once, chipping away at it to stagger the replacements over time.
• Survey to address on quality of life issues, scientific generated survey randomly generated, whole variety of metrics. Often folks are happy but need to divide where there are some opportunities.
• Chief Lynch providing insights on the Police requests, (forgot to add battalion chiefs for Fire had previewed the requests for Fire) Did get all their requests
• DPW, Director Cantoreggi, Water/Sewer superintendent Martin Providing updates on the details of this year's request, equipment has improved over past years, folks like to use good tools, efficiency & safety
• Funds for sewer, water, etc come from the enterprise funds
• Facility did not get all asked for, the reasonable requests were met. We don't have any money for new sidewalks, maintenance yes but not new. $2M for a single mile of sidewalk.
• Motion for approval for the capital improvements plan second, passes via roll call 8-0-1 (absent)
• Motion for transfers per policy as part of the capital plan, second, via roll call 8-0-1 (absent)

The meeting recording runs about an hour & 20 minutes, so let’s listen to the Finance Committee meeting Jan 10, 20234

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Agenda ->   https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif10036/f/agendas/_2024-01-10_finance_committee_agenda_.pdf 

Watch the Franklin TV video available for replay 

https://www.youtube.com/live/dGC2rKWkWB8 

My notes captured via Twitter during the meeting and found in 1 PDF -> 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qqA7h0dGjT1Bw7f2muY7KTBc7N6OklZq/view?usp=drive_link 

Link to Finance Committee => https://www.franklinma.gov/finance-committee 

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