Members Present: Lisa Fenton, Vice-Chair; Anthony Antoniello, Tony Villani, Scott Roberts, Karen Connolly, Maura Curran, Constantine Constantinides

Also Present: Mr. Rick Agnew, Town Administrator

1. MEETING CALLED TO ORDER: Mr. Cook called the meeting to order at 7:02 p.m. at the Scituate Town Library.

2. ACCEPTANCE OF AGENDA:

On a MOTION by Ms. Curran, SECONDED by Ms. Connolly, the agenda
was approved by unanimous vote (7-0).

3. ACCEPTANCE OF MINUTES: None

4. REVIEW CAPITAL PLAN
• Ms. Curran provided the update to Advisory Committee. Eric Penholt represented Capital Planning.
• The full Capital Plan through 2014 was discussed.
• Mr. Penholt went over the summary sheet from Mr. Agnew that the Capital Planning Committee agreed to put forth.
• Last year, there were no capital expenditures besides enterprise funding.
• The summary sheet has the Library rehab, Town Hall rehab, Wampatuck rehab in as place holders and debt exclusion figures. They will not be funded this year.
• The School Department reorganized school bus runs and trimmed down their plans significantly. Only a request for one bus exists.
• DPW did a good job getting hold of all projects and reorganizing.
• Focus on vehicle replacement for School and DPW.
• $10,329,000 - a little over 9 million has to do with water and sewer department.
• Fire Department for $100,000 includes computer server replacement, fire command vehicle and EMS incident information reporting system.
• Mr. Agnew provided detail on each project.
• Big ticket items – Musquashacut Pond District 1A Sewer Extension for $6,400,000.
• When asked to prioritize projects, Mr. Penholt answered that to do so would risk a snowball effect by pushing off capital plans to future.
• Ms. Connolly stated that it would be informative to learn what departments have leftover funds from old articles
• Mr. Villani recommended adding Old Article monies on the Advisory Worksheet.

On a MOTION from Ms. Connolly, SECONDED by Mr. Constantinides Article 4/ Capital Plan for $10,329,000 was approved by unanimous vote (7-0).

5.REVIEW ARTICLES:
Mr. Agnew explained the articles to the Committee and presented them for vote.

Article1: Compensation
On a MOTION by Mr. Roberts, SECONDED by Ms. Connolly, Article 1 was approved as written by unanimous vote (7-0).

Article 2: Town Clerk
On a MOTION by Mr. Roberts, SECONDED by Ms. Connolly, Article 2 was approved as written by unanimous vote (7-0).

Article 3: Revolving Fund
On a MOTION by Mr. Roberts, SECONDED by Ms. Connolly, Article 3 –approved as amended by unanimous vote (7-0).

Article 4: Capital Plan
On a MOTION by Mr. Roberts, SECONDED by Mr. Antoniello, Article 4 was approved as written by unanimous vote (7-0).

Articles 6-10 already voted

Article 11: Stabilization Fund
On a MOTION by Mr. Roberts, SECONDED by Mr. Constantinides, Article 11 was approved as written by unanimous vote (7-0).

Article 12: MGL Chapter 91 Liability

On a MOTION by Ms. Curran, SECONDED by Mr. Constantinides, Article 12 was approved as written by unanimous vote (7-0).

Article 13: Conservation Fund
On a MOTION by Ms. Connolly, SECONDED by Mr. Roberts, Article 13 was approved as written by unanimous vote (7-0).

Article 14: Collective Bargaining
On a MOTION by Mr. Roberts, SECONDED by Ms. Connolly, Article 14 was approved as written by unanimous vote (7-0).

Article 16: Para-Transit
On a MOTION by Mr. Roberts, SECONDED by Ms. Curran, Article 16 was approved as amended by unanimous vote (7-0).

Article 17 - wait until next week.

6. Financial Forecast Update
• Mr. Roberts gave update based on conversation with Mr. Tony Vegnani.
• Ms. Fenton thanked Mr. Roberts on behalf of Committee for his efforts.

7. Old Business – none

8. New Business –

Agenda for next week discussed as follows:
-review STM articles
-vote leftover articles 15,17,18
-CPC – Mr. John Bulman will return to finish up
-Mr. Vegnani possibly to talk about forecast

9. ADJOURNMENT

On a MOTION by Mr. Roberts, SECONDED by Mr. Constantinides, the meeting was adjourned at 9:03 p.m. by unanimous vote (7-0).

Respectfully submitted by Heather Dwyer.