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Advisory Committee
February 13, 2007 Meeting Minutes

Town of Hingham
Advisory Committee
February 13, 2007 Meeting Minutes

Present:  Port, Bierwirth, Allinson, Alvarado, Burns, Ellison, Farrell, Kiernan, Lauter, Manning, O'Meara, Reardon, Seelen

Chair Linda Port called the meeting to order at 7:35PM in the Town Hall Building.

The Committee approved the minutes of the January 30,, 2007 and the February 6, 2007 meetings. 

Joe Bierwirth, Vice Chair, recused himself and left the room for the duration of the discussion and vote on the Recreation Commission budget.

Laura Burns introduced members of the Recreation Commission and Kathy Clarkeson, Director.  Kathy Clarkeson reported that she is reducing the FY2007 deficit of $70,000 through controls over cash and staff management.  She is looking to continue the progress to remove the deficit. 

The Advisory Committee voted favorably on the Recreation Commission budget.

Dick Morgan, Building Commissioner, updated the Committee on his decision to add one full-time person in place of using four part-time persons to cover his increased workload.  The staff will now consist of 2 full-time and 2 part-time persons.

The Advisory Committee voted favorably on the Building Department budget.

Jerry Seelen provided an overview of the ten potential zoning warrant articles.  Members of the Planning Board joined the meeting for a detailed discussion of each article.  A number of interested parties to the potential rezoning of the Montessori property were present and expressed their views.

No votes were taken on zoning articles.

Jerry Seelen and Irma Lauter presented the draft Capital Plan that will be circulated for comments from the various stakeholders. 

The plan presented to the Selectmen is under funded by approximately $255,000, not including funding requested for continuation of the School building project.  The Capital Outlay Committee will make a final recommendation in mid March.

Bill Reardon provided a preview of the Police Department benchmarking initiative.  Six Towns have now signed on to participate in the effort.  A comprehensive set of measures will be available in the fall based on 2006 information.

The meeting was adjourned at 11:08PM.

Respectfully submitted,

Irma Lauter
Secretary

Town of Hingham F2008 Budgets

Attachment A