{"id":4147,"date":"2018-01-29T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T01:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/?p=4147"},"modified":"2024-06-20T05:25:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T05:25:20","slug":"rcl-notes-of-january-11-2018-town-budget-public-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/?p=4147","title":{"rendered":"RCL Notes of January 11, 2018 Town Budget Public Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<html><body><\/p>\n<p>1. &Acirc;&nbsp;The motion requesting that the SAU 50 office explain the $75,464 increase in the teacher retirement budget between 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 carried unanimously (3:05 elapsed).<br \/>\n2. &Acirc;&nbsp;Changes to the town operating budget were made to accommodate painting of the Town Hall, installation of a retaining wall and an historic review (22:40 elapsed).<br \/>\n3. &Acirc;&nbsp;The second Red Mill Ln. culvert for $250,000 was recommended by a 10-1 vote (36:13 elapsed).<br \/>\n4. &Acirc;&nbsp;No change was made to the Library budget recommendation of $655,289 notwithstanding a Board of Selectmen recommendation approximately $6000 lower. &Acirc;&nbsp;The motion to amend the recommendation to $651,047 failed 6-5 (49:34 elapsed).<br \/>\n5. &Acirc;&nbsp;The TD Bank acquisition warrant article for $624,800 was recommended 7-4 (44:02 elapsed).<br \/>\n6. &Acirc;&nbsp;The committee voted 10-1 not to recommend the article that would expand the purpose of the Fire Truck Capital Reserve Fund to encompass ambulances as well, and add $100,000 to the fund, as the article would also allow the Selectmen to expend funds from the reserve without voter approval (75:53 elapsed).<br \/>\n7. &Acirc;&nbsp;The committee voted 6-5 not to recommend the $3,048,077 petitioned bond article to tear down and rebuild Town Hall (98:42 elapsed).<br \/>\n8. &Acirc;&nbsp;The committee voted unanimously not to recommend the $60,000 petitioned warrant article that would have made Dow Ln. a dead end street (195:50 elapsed)<br \/>\n9. &Acirc;&nbsp;The committee voted 7-3 not to recommend the $6000 article to provide for a visioning session for Town Hall (208:53 elapsed)<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. &Acirc;&nbsp;The motion requesting that the SAU 50 office explain the $75,464 increase in the teacher retirement budget between 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 carried unanimously (3:05 elapsed). 2. &Acirc;&nbsp;Changes to the town operating budget were made to accommodate painting of the Town Hall, installation of a retaining wall and an historic review (22:40 elapsed). 3. &Acirc;&nbsp;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget-committee","category-town-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4148,"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions\/4148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryecivicleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}