Present: First Selectman Woody Bliss; Selectwoman Gayle Weinstein; Town Administrator Tom Landry; Finance Director and Assistant Town Administrator Rick Darling; Administrative Assistant Judy DeVito.

Selectman W. Glenn Major joined the meeting by phone

Mr. Bliss called the meeting to order at 2:04pm

Mr. Bliss said Police Services has been adjusted and instead of showing a 6.3% increase it shows a 5.1% increase. Mr. Major asked about the heart and hypertension. Mr. Darling said it was moved to an insurance line in another budget. Mr. Landry said he was asking the Board of Finance for a supplemental appropriation. Mr. Bliss asked that another line be created in the General Administration Budget for this item. Mr. Major wanted an explanation of 101a on the bottom of the page and also that the balance of 101a would come back to the general fund. The changes were $19,000 decrease in the police budget, Kids in Crisis was taken out and $1,700 was put into the Veteran’s Budget.

Mr. Landry said that he is asking the board to put $4,100 back into the operating budget and that would go into paving. To stay within the guideline that he was given he could not give the Highway Department all of the paving increase that they had asked for. With the revisions made in the budget he can now fully fund that request. The selectmen agreed that that was a good idea.

Mr. Landry said the amount he put in the Capital Budget for Kastle Boos was a leftover amount. He took the guideline of one million thirty five thousand and after funding all the capital request was left with $223,000 for Kastle Boos identified building repairs. Two items, the IT Backup which is $10,700 and testing of Morehouse wells which are $30,000, could be moved to the operating budget and still be at the 3% cap and we would have $40,700 to add to building repairs.

Mr. Major suggested that they move the paving, IT Backup and Morehouse well testing into the Selectman’s budget so it allows us to decide what amount of funding we want to do in relation to the Kastle Boos report.

Mr. Major said that he was concerned about the timing of the Capital Budget. The Charter does not distinguish a date for when the Capital budget goes to the Board of Finance only the Selectman’s Budget.

Mr. Major made a motion to send a proposed Selectman’s Budget to the Board of Finance for a total sum of $10,626, 270, as proposed in the Selectman’s Budget with the

modifications as proposed in the memo from Tom Landry to the Board of Selectmen dated February 14, 2008. Ms. Weinstein seconded and the motion passed unanimously.

Mr. Major asked that we have a discussion at our next meeting about the heart and hypertension case. He did not understand why the request for a supplemental appropriation had not come before the Selectmen before going to the Board of Finance.

Respectfully submitted

Judy M. DeVito

Administrative Assistant

Approved 02/28/08