This from the Superintendent –
Tonight’s School Committee meeting scheduled for 7:30 has been cancelled. The meeting is rescheduled for Tuesday, February 3rd at 7:30 in the Lowell Mason Auditorium located at MHS. The 2015-2016 Budget Hearing will take place during this meeting.
Sincerely,
Jeff Marsden
Mike Sullivan just called and got my vote to declare an emergency, which allows departments to spend in excess of their budgets he tells me.
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Mike Sullivan just called to update me on town plans in light of the storm and their conference call this morning with MEMA, and reports the following:
Please hunker down for the storm and keep safe.
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The State House News Service got the quote from Governor Baker more accurately than I did on Friday. It is encouraging that the Gov seems so focused on making the state-town relationship work better. I am looking forward to learning more about the “community compacts.” –
BAKER PLEDGES STRONG TIES TO MUNI LEADERS
[Story Developing] After pledging on the campaign trail to boost local aid in lockstep with growing state revenues, Gov. Charlie Baker told local officials Friday in a major address that he’s creating a community compact cabinet.
The cabinet and the new position, located within the Department of Revenue, was created through the first executive order of Baker’s new administration.
The cabinet, headed by Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, will “reduce red tape” and lead to “community compacts,” Baker said in a speech to 900 members of the Massachusetts Municipal Association. “These compacts will create clear mutual standards, expectations and accountability,” he said.
On the campaign trail, Baker pledged to boost local aid in lockstep with growing state revenues. He is due to file his first budget for fiscal year 2016 by early March.
Baker on Friday noted the deficit in the fiscal 2015 budget, which he has estimated at $765 million.
“I would call it challenging, I don’t think it’s any more than that,” Baker said, adding that in 1991 while coming into government as a part of Gov. William Weld’s administration, “We faced a similar budget deficit on a more smaller budget overall and worked our way through that.” – Gintautas Dumcius/SHNS
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This is what the selectmen meeting would have been if it were to happen, which seems unlikely (but it has not yet been called off) –
Tuesday January 27, 2015 @ 7:00 PM
AGENDA (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)
7:00 PM Gus Murby, Medfield’s Representative to the Town Sharing Committee Update on Committee’s
proposal
7:10 PM Senator Timilty, Representative Garlick, Representative Dooley Discuss state budget and
other matters
8:00 PM Jean Mineo, Cultural Council
Discuss warrant article for pocket park
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Took a turn with this Model T at MMA meeting. The owner offered to find one for me. Apparently so many were made that there are many around. First time I have been in one. It dropped down a lot when I stepped onto the running board, much to my surprise, as my Altima does not do that. Lots of changes for the better in 100 years.
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Just learned that the MMA annual meeting is scheduled around the NFL playoff schedule. Thank you MMA.
The MMA business meeting just passed three resolutions:
First to ask state to properly fund cites and towns.
Second to have the state and federal governments fund capital projects. The list includes roads, clean water, unfunded mandates, and others items.
Third to deal with OPEB and other personnel issues.
Full details are available at MMA website.
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Just learned it is Senator Spilka, not Spilki. My bad.
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Sen. Warren to us at MMA: we in the cities and towns have the hardest job, while she has the most aggravating job.
She notes that US spends way less on infrastructure than China, and that is not good long term. She suggests we need to spend on our infrastructure and NIH for medical research.
Major Walsh just said that he hopes to have more time in future to do MMA work., but shared that his first year was like trying “to drink water from two firehouse at once. ”
Spoke to our DEP rep this morning and picked up their application that will provide Medfield several thousand dollars, and talked about getting technical assistance from them to help us to recycle more and save money on trash. I will pass both along to the Solid Waste Committee.
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New State Senate Ways and Means Committee chair, Senator Spilki, presenting. Too early for her to share state budget figures. She has a background on her town school committee, which is helpful for the towns.
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The Massachusetts Municipal Association annual meeting this morning is starting with the Massachusetts Association annual meeting at which we learned about how Arlington uses a visual online budget to make their town finances come to life and hope the Wellesley Police Department is using social media to communicate town information to the residents.
Both are really exciting opportunities and tons that I hope to implement in Medfield.
Need to check out further using GovDelivery.com as a vehicle for us to use.
Driving was poor due to the snow on the way in until I got to Route 9.
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