The Financial Plan Working Group is a group of Town financial officials, department heads, and members of the Chamber of Commerce who worked from June through October of 2007 to do the following:
- Expand upon the work of the Three-Year Financial Planning Group
- Establish a Ten-Year Baseline of Revenues and Expenses
- Identify Ideas for Closing the Gap between Revenues and Expenses
- Develop a Budget Model to Evaluate the Impacts of the Ideas
- Present a Set of Recommendations to Town Leaders to Address the Structural Deficit
The group issued its report on October 10, 2007 and presented an executive summary of findings and recommendations to the Board of Selectmen on October 16, 2007 .
The members of the group are:- Stuart Cowart (Co-Chair) Appropriation Cmte.
- Phil Totino (Co-Chair) School Committee
- Brian Herr Board of Selectmen
- Tony Troiano Town Manager
- Gary Daugherty Fire Chief
- Maureen Dwinnell Town Treasurer
- Mike Duffy Capital Improvements Committee
- Bob Bushway Principal Assessor
- John Duffy Board of Assessors
- Tom Irvin Chief of Police
- JT Gaucher DPW Director
- Jack Phelan Superintendent of Schools
- Elaine Lazarus Town Planner
- Scott Richardson Chamber of Commerce