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 .

• Strategic Initiative Tracking List
• Report (PDF)
• Budget Model
• Executive Summary Presentation

• 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