All right, we will get started. Thanks, Jane. All right, what do we have? Um, we just have some transfers, right? Um, Clark, did you want to go over those? Sure. I'll try to share my screen here. Um,
everybody see this? All right, it's starting. There you go. All right. So, um, so basically there's two transfers. There's a reserve fund transfer and then a departmental transfer. Um, I apologize for the lack of clarity. Um, I assume that everybody
would know that it was a year end did not uh the new year where we were already asking for $100,000. Um, so basically what uh what we're looking for is $30,610 for legal. um legal has been over spent
u you know probably for a couple reasons. One is there's a lot going on at the planning um with developments and such that has required some legal opinions as well as the town manager search committee um created some overages there and the the search for
the new town manager and um things like that. So um that's the first one. The municipal building is overspent by $14,65. Highway Jared's on um looking for $18,000. I believe um the couple reasons
is some contractual items that uh happened over the course of the year regarding licensing that weren't previously um budgeted for as well as a a um quite a bit of wind storms that created overtime. Um I don't know if Jared has anything
else to add. Yeah. Um, it's pretty much the basics of it. Um, about 5,000 of it was from unforeseen all the time. There was about 16,000 from contractual um increases. There was about three
three people that got uh licenses. Um, they had something in the contract. We each license was about a 2% bump in pay. We estimated for some of that. um didn't anticipate as many um licenses obtained as ended up happening over the course of
the year. So with that in the uh the next one is sanitary landfill which is just an extra test that was required of the uh the Hill Street landfill. Um so what I want to do is kind of go down and I'll give you an overview of uh
how we kind of react reach this. So back last Last spring in 24, there was $100,000 that were allocated. At the uh the annual town meeting in the fall, there was an additional $50,000 allocated to the reserve fund. Um and then back in
the spring, there was there was $70,000. So for a total of $220,000 that was allocated to the uh to the reserve fund. Um some items that came out of it was the town manager screening committee. Uh legal was over spent, required an
additional $55,000 because it was uh budgeted at a low amount. Uh data processing expense for computers and things like that. Town clerk expense was due to um some election stuff along with the postage expense of $10,000 and then
the uh a board of health expense which was again I believe the uh testing of the landfill. So those equal $115,770 which leaves a balance of 104230.
Um so after these transfers um there will be a a small balance of 40,000 some odd dollars I believe but it's not enough that won't be enough to uh to deal with the health insurance. So that's kind of the first first round of
issues that we have. Um uh so the reserve fund balance will be 38815 and that will be closed out to free cash at the end of today.
Is there any specific questions? I just have a question about the health insurance. Um and probably more a question for James. Um I know you had said in the email that he he just realized it was over. what was the major driver for the um health insurance being
over and wondering why it was, you know, this late that it was kind of changing and or or just noticed, right? Uh so last year, if you remember, uh we had the 1% budget and there were many cuts made across the board. Uh the health
insurance uh was expected to be lower because there were going to be layoffs. So, the unemployment account was increased and the health insurance account was decreased. Um, the unemployment, as you saw, has had a lot of money. So, we ended up transferring
70,000 from the unemployment into the reserve account. Um, but the health insurance, it it looked like it was going to make it. Um, when I uh looked at it halfway through the year, it was down the middle. It was 50% uh spent. It was going to be closed. I did mention uh
to the town manager that maybe we should pat it in the uh town meeting in the spring, but uh we we asked the treasur's office and they felt confident that it was going to be okay. Um and uh then uh last week we found that there was a
mistake made on the posting of of an expense relating to health insurance. It had been posted to the wrong account and uh unfortunately we cut it a little late and that made a swing. So that um it's overspent by about 51,000.
Now 51,000 on an 8.6 million budget is less than like not even 1% of the budget. Thanks, James. I mean, I hope that we could go back and funding it the way we
used to where we would always have extra uh money in there that would close to free cash if it's not used because there are a lot of variables that happen throughout the year. People go from a single plan to a family plan mid year. Sometimes uh new employees
uh their spouse may lose health insurance and they end up jumping on the town health insurance. So it's it's like a fluid um environment where it's impossible to predict what the cost is going to be to the penny. So in the past
we used to pad it with an extra 200,000. Uh unfortunately that wasn't possible this year due to the to the 1% budget and the uh expected cuts that um on staff because we were hoping not hoping we were expecting that once uh people
got laid off they would obviously eventually come off the health insurance but it did not happen the way we expected it. Do you know if that um padding happened in the FY26 budget? So are we going to have the same issue again next year? uh we may have the same issue again this
year but but I do know uh you know the health insurance expense went up significantly uh the cost itself uh it was like an 8% um increase um we have over um $9 million now in that line um and we we'll
take a look at it hopefully in September once the teachers come back um we'll see what the bill looks like for the month of September and hopefully we can uh either pi it in October or we may have to add some money in um at the special
town meeting in May. So we have to leave some free cash set aside for that. Thanks James. Anyone else have questions? Madam chair. Yes sir. So where's the 50,000 going to come from for the uh health insurance?
It's coming from the unemployment line which was uh there's a surplus in because we didn't use it. Okay. And then my other question, Madam Chair, is uh the search committee uh requested 20,000. Last uh last accounting I saw, we spent about $1,200
of it and the rest was closing out to free cash. Um so the legal I know legal expense, we just had the attorney come in one time and give us the ground rules at the beginning of the search process. Um so why would that uh well, it can't
be 30,000. it was only a few hours, couple of hours. Um, so why wouldn't that legal expense come out of the search committee uh funds at least a portion of it that uh that the chief alluded to? That's just not the way it happens.
Legal comes out of legal. It uh it wouldn't come out of the the town search fund. Okay. But yeah, but the but you know I have about you know 18,000 in going back from
the surge into free cash. Anyone else have questions? So if there's no other questions I I think what you probably should do is do a motion on each uh each transfer request. Want an individual chief? I think that would be best. Yes. So, can I just jump in? Um, did select
board approve all of this the the um transfer? I know that not the reserve. Did they approve the other transfer? Yes, they they met at 6:00 and and approved the uh the budget department transfer. Okay. Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, Paul.
Make a motion. We approve the transfer of $30,610 to account number 00115157053000. Um, and where was that one from? My little screen. From reserve. From reserve. Okay. All right. I have a motion. Do I have a second?
Second. All right. Um, Bonnie, yes. Paula, yes. Brandon, yes. Bill, yes. Tracy, yes. Paul, yes.
Zack, yes. and I to yes. All right. Did I miss anybody? Okay, I think you got everybody. Great. Uh, the next one is municipal building. Madam Chair. Yes, sir.
Make a motion we transfer from the reserve $14,65 to account number 001192570 municipal building. Second. I have a motion to second. Bonnie,
yes. Paula, yes. Brandon, yes. Bill, yes. Tracy, yes. Paul, yes. Zack, yes. And Tommy, yes.
Okay, next one is the Highway Cemetery for $18,000. Madam Chair, yes. Make a motion we transfer from the reserve fund $18,000 to the accounts 001420510 [Music]
510 5117 and 5131 highway second motion a second. Bonnie, yes. Paula, yes. Brandon,
yes. Bill, yes. Tracy, yes. Paul, yes. Zach, yes. And I Yes. Okay. And this is the board of health testing for this the sanitary landfill.
Madam chair. Yes, sir. Madam chair. Yes, sir. Steve Evans just texted me. He's trying to get on this. He's muted. I think I I don't know. He says he can't mute himself. I don't know if he's locked out. Chief,
is he not part of the panel? Oh, I see it. Can you guys hear me? Yeah, we hear you, Steve. All right. Thank you. Welcome. Did you have any questions on anything? No, no, I was good on everything. Okay.
Excellent. All right, Paul. What a Yes. So, Madam Chair, I make a motion we approve the transfer of $2,200 from the reserve fund to account number 001438-57052000, the sanitary landfill.
Second. I have a motion, a second. Bonnie, yes. Paula, yes. Brandon, yes. Bill, yes. Tracy, yes. Paul, yes. Zack, yes. and Steve.
Yes. Tell me. Yes. Okay. And this last one is the uh the employee benefits transfer um from unemployment to employee benefits for the health insurance. Madam Chair,
yes. Make a motion we transfer from unemployment account 911-5705172 to account number 910511 employee benefits the amount of $51,525. Motion to have a second. Second.
Did you have a question? Bill, you sounded I I was trying to figure out I think it's presented backwards like we're transferring. It's showing where it's going to first and then where it's coming from.
Right. Right. Sorry. And I think Paul read it though. I read it right there called I read first answer. Yeah, that that that was my hesitation. I'm like, wait a second. That was for left-handed people, Bill.
All right, I have a motion and a second. Um, Bonnie, yes. Paula, yes. Brandon, yes. Bill, yes. Tracy, yes. Paul, yes. Zack, yes. And Steve,
yes. And then a yes. Excellent. Okay. So, um, Madam Chair, you'll just have to come by tomorrow to sign this if you don't mind. Perfect. And I don't have any other business for
you. Excellent. Anybody else have any business for the committee? Just done, Madam Chair. Any any uh idea of what schedule looks like for the fall? I do not um I don't know. Do we have a
start date, Chief Clark, for a transition for our new town manager? I believe it'll be in the next 30 to 45 days. Um, so I think he'll be in place before September 1st. Okay. Um, and uh the warrant articles are due
by the end of August. I forget the date off the top of my head. So um I'm sure it'll be the beginning of September to start. Okay. Will you be will um you be setting up the first meeting or should I wait for are we going to wait for the new town manager to start up?
Yeah, if it's before if it's before September um I'll certainly do it. If it's after September, he'll be the one to do it. Okay. Does that make sense? Change. Okay. Yeah. I just know exactly. I'm trying to try I have to labor. Okay.
Yeah. All right. Anybody else have questions? Madam chair. Yes. Motion to adjourn. All right. I have a motion to adjurnn. Do I have a second? All right. Bonnie, yes.
Paula, yes. Brandon, yes. Bill, yes. Tracy, yes. Paul, yes. Zack, yes. Steve, yes. And I to yes. All right. Have a great
summer, everyone. You too. Take care. Be well.