1968/02/13 BERLIN BOARD OF FINANCE
HINUTES
FEBRUARY 13, 1968
ME~BEP, S PRESENT: Chrm. Doran, W. Brown, T. Ward, B. Delaney, R. iprague, D. Scerra
OTHERS PRESENT: Eugene L. Gorlewski (New Britain Herald), David Gulvin, Ted Benson,
J. P. Mclntosh, Warren Kingsbury, Harold Bombs, Arthur B. Powers,
Blanche Mahan (Press), Doctor Chotkowski, Hrs. Chiodo, }irs. Fosgrau,
Ed Penfield, Miss Sarah Johnson
The meetin~ was called to order by Chairman Doran at 7:45 P.H. Business was transacted
and/or recorded in the follo~ing order:
1. Letter Reb. 13 from A. Powers on plans for Northeast section of town with reallocations
of expenditurds to be approved by Board of Finance.
2. Civil Defense budget for 68-69 received.
3. Letter Feb. 13 from A. Powers increasins Snyder retirement from $600 to $720 for 68-69.
Letter Feb. 13 from 14. Sylvia requesti~ $6~ to pay Health Inspector
TRANSFER: It was voted to transfer $64 from #127 to #51.
5. Berlin Library budget for 68-69 received.
6. JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL -
a. Chairman Doran asked that the proposed Junior High School be the next order of
business on the premise that vital time was slipping by if this project was to be
seziously considered by the Town.
b. Mr. Scerra made a motion, seconded by Hr. Brown, to ae~horize the Board of Selectmen
to call a town meetin~ to (a) act upon an appropriation of $3,4?0,000 for the con-
stvuction, furnishing and equipping of a iunior High School on the town-owned Norton
Road site including landscaping and site development as requested by the Public
Buildin§ Coa~nission and described by said Con~ission to this Board on Feb. 8, 1968
and (b) subject to the approval of Itea (a) to authorize the Board of Selectman to
issue bonds in an amount not exceeding $3,4?0,000 to defray the appropriation in
Item (a) which includes an appropriation for $105,000 made at a town meetin~ held
Sept. 25, 1967 for plans and specifications for said school.
c. Mr. Sprague made a motion seconded by Mrs. Delaney to amend motion 6b. to change
$3,470,000 to $3~435~000.
Vottg~ for the amendment were: Hesars. iprague and Ward and Mrs. Delaney.
Voting againstthe amendment were: ltesars. $cerra, Brown and Doran.
Chairman Doran declared the vote to be a tie and the amendment lost.
d. Mr. Brown made a motion seconded by Hr. Scerra calling for the previous question.
The motion was passed on a voice vote. Chairman Doran called for the vote on and
motion 6b. Voting in favor were M~ssrs. Scerra, Brown and Doran; votinE against were
Messrs. Sprague, Ward and Mrs. Delaney. Chairumn Doran declared the vote a tie
the motion lost.
e. Mr. KinBsbury$ Chais~nan of the Board of Education, with the pez~is$ion of Chaiz~an
Doran interjected at this point that he had understood from Mr. McQueeney, Chairman
of the Public Buildin~ Commission, that the timing of action on the school is not
yet critical, that is, it was not necessary to act now.
Chairman Doran remarked that Mr. Kingsbury's statement conflicted with all previous
understandings of this Bo~d. Chairman Doran read Hr. McQueeney's letter to this
Board dated Jan. 30, 1968 in %;hich the timin~ of action desired by the Public Build-.
in~ Co~$nission called for the town meeting on the school to be held Feb. 12, 1968
with the referendum followin~ on Feb. 13. Chairman Doran pointed out that it was
apparent that we were now already well behind on this timetable since it would be a
minimum of about a week befoee a to~n meetinE could be called if favorable action
was taken by this Board now.
Expressing concern that this Board as yell as many others have been unnecessarily
wasting their time if Mr. Kingsbnry's impressions were correct, Chairman Doran
proceeded to try to telephone Hr. McQueeney in order to clarify the matter. At this
point Mr. Sprague announced that he would like to reconsider motion 6b now because
h~ would be out of town the following week.
BERLIN BOARD OF FINANCE
MII~OT~S
FEBRUARY 13, 1968
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£. Mr. Ward .made~ a ~otion, seconded by Mr. Sprague to reconsider Motion 6B.
All were in mayor and the .Chairman declared the motion passed.
g. Mr. Scerra (?) repeated Motion 6b seconded by Hr. Brown(?). Voting in favor
were: Messrs. Sprague, Ward, Scerra, Brow~ and Doran. Voting against was
Hrs. Delaney, stating that she was definitely in favor of the school but felt
that this Board should have more time to study the proposal with a view towards
possibly reducing the cost.
7. The following town officials appeared at the invitation of this Board to discuss
their proposed budgets for 1968-69:
a. #51 Health Director- Dr. L. Chotkowski
b. ~$2 Nurses - Dr. Chotkowski, Mrs. Chiodo, Mrs. Fo~grau, Miss S. Delaney,
Mr. Ed Penfield
8. Chairman Doran declared the meeting adjourned at 10:35
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Entered in the public record
May 8, 1968 at the request of
Chairman Philip D. Doran
Joanne G. Ward
BERLIN BOARD OF FINANCE
MINUTES
FEBRUARy 15, 1968
MEMBERS PREBB~T: Chrm. Doran, Members: Brown, Delaney, Scerra
OT}~RS PRESENT: Robert Probst, Don Austin, Ed Haber~ Julius Naldi, R. Simons, B. Romigialli,
D. Wearne
The meeting was called to order by Chairman Doran at 7:45 P.M. Business was transacted
and/or recorded in the following order:
1. Letter Feb. 13, 1968 from A. Powers was discussed. It was agreed that Mr. Powers
should b~;aSkedtomeet with the Board in order to explain the changes in appropriations
needed for the Emhart project.
2. The four volunteer fire departments, represented by their self-constituted fire board,
discussed their 1968-69 budget requests.
3. TRANSFER - at the request of Kensington Fire Department the following interaccoumt
transfer was voted:
$100 fr~mLibrary
180 from oxygen
Total $280 to C6a for ten (10) helmets and badges
4. Ohairman Doran declared the meeting adjourned at 10:00 P.M.
Philip -~. D61~an
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Entered in the public record
Hay 8, 1968 at the request of
Chairman Philip D. Doran
Joanna G. Ward