minute you watch the watch the You got to do it you got to So we are we good all right we are good so I am going to call the uh board of selectman meeting for Monday April 14th
to order and it's now 6:00 p.m um we have a quorum but but um at least one member is remote and I can't read there is Kim on or is it just Don okay so um we're going to do a roll call uh here so
Eric's here missy here don here there you go all right and um now I'm going to let the finance committee open their meeting kyle Pike here opening the finance committee meeting for tonight uh looks like we have two members present and
three members online uh so I'll do a roll call kyle Pike here marshia Meakans here tipper Moran here michael Cowat here derek Bnitzer here thank you
all right um I'll I'll go through the announcements uh quickly uh one this meeting is being recorded by the local scene anyone intending to make an audio or video recording of this meeting should notify the chair at this time there's nobody here financial assistance applications
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events or notices um at this point we'll open forum there's no one here um in the building uh is there anybody online who wanted to speak at open forum i don't see anybody raising their hand okay then we'll move on to our appointment so right now we need to to
um open our annual town meeting warrant do you want to make a motion sure i move the board of selectment open the 2025 annual town meeting warrant hey can you guys hear me yes yes can you hear us all right cuz we can't I can't hear you
i don't know if others can but uh Oh okay stand by hold on one second definitely talking to those microphones we can hear you is it me i can hear you
is that better Don no Don can't hear us c um can anybody else hear us uh somebody put a Michael Cow said we can hear you rejoin you can okay so Don's going to rejoin um but I
kind of need him for the vote kim are you are you here well sorry folks we're just going to wait for Don to rejoin he's our quorum probably just take him a minute to fully connect sorry I can hear you now sorry about
that okay good so I had a um Missy made a motion to uh open the town meeting warrant um Don do you want to second it second all right all those in favor eric I missy I don I okay so now we need to
consider amending article 3 fire department supplemental FY25 budget request i move the board of selectment before we do that do discussion so yeah we need to we need to talk about it um
so we have two existing leases that did not have Di all right so now Fincom do you guys need to vote on this as well john I All right so now Fincom do you guys need to vote on this as well yes yeah okay uh finance committee members I
think you've all had a chance to read the email from Keith and the consideration that's being done here i think Eric just explained exactly what's happening uh the only thing I'll add is that the funding will be coming from the
capital stabilization reserve so that it's not coming out of free cash and it's not impacting the excess levy capacity of which we don't have any to begin with so does anybody have any questions before we take a vote on it
seeing none I'll make the motion that the finance committee recommend approval of article three the supplemental FY25 budget request as presented in the
modified warrant article here i second all in favor k I marsha I michael I derek I debbie finance committee recommends approval of
the revised article 350 5 0 with that I will make a motion for the finance committee meeting to be adjourned i second all in favor k i
marcia I michael I derek I oops derek I finance Committee meeting is adjourned at 606 record oh no all right i move the board of selectman to close the 2025 annual town meeting warrant
second all right all those in favor eric I missy I don I all right kim I i was trying to vote earlier i apologize i couldn't unmute myself here all right thank you Kim
[Music] probably not yeah we're fine um all right do we have any We don't have any meeting minutes do you have a report nothing um next regular meeting is uh next
next Tuesday the 22nd at 6 and for a reminder town meeting on the 26th what time is that does that starting at 9 9 9:00 a.m at the U intermediate school all right with that would someone like to make a motion to adjurnn i make a
motion to adjurnn thank you second all right all those in favor Eric i Missy I [Applause] am I all right thanks we are adjourned at 6:08 6:07 p.m