Limerick Budget Committee Sets FY2027 Review Schedule

[1:27] Cheryl Edgerly: Hello, okay, welcome to the budget committee meeting of Thursday, September 24th, 2026, and time is seven oh three. Present at the meeting is Cheryl Edgerly, Amanda Mason, Susan Kerr, Linda Friedrich, and Janet Legere. So we're all here, all five of us. And I'm going to ask that everybody just put their phones on silent, so we don't have any interruptions. I thought I sent out the minutes to last week's meeting, reading, but apparently I did not. So here's where I say, did everybody get to review last week's minutes? But there was really nothing. So I will send them out this week. [2:44] Janet Legere: I believe that the minutes were posted online. [2:49] Cheryl Edgerly: Excuse me, Gail, did you get them? [2:56] Janet Legere: That's what I thought, but Gail, I sent them to you and you said thank you. I didn't know whether they were posted or not, no? Because I'm new, I didn't understand. Okay, that's right, yeah. So I made a mistake, I didn't send them. [3:24] Cheryl Edgerly: So the minutes from last week, once we approve them here,, then you can post them. So you're not behind. So we will get those to you all and we will approve them, I guess, the next meeting. I mean, we really didn't cover a lot last week except for appointing the board members. Yes. Okay, so we're gonna do, The agenda for tonight will be, my thought is to get the calendar as to who we need to see for their budgets, who we can just look at the budgets that they send and approve them without having the head of department present to us and then set up a schedule calendar for when we can have each department head come in. [4:48] Susan Kerr: So one of the questions that we wanted to ask when they came in was how do you think your department's wearing, and do you have any type of ideas that you would like to share as far as trying to improve your department? Is that not us? No, [5:08] Cheryl Edgerly: I think we can, I mean, in my opinion, we can ask them whatever we'd like to ask them. Ultimately, everything comes down to the board of selectmen. We are just the recommendation But, you know, if you see something, basically, if you see something, say something, you know, it's like this is... [5:30] Susan Kerr: But you were talking about just having certain people come in. Would you want to have everybody come in? [5:35] Cheryl Edgerly: Well, there's some budgets that are just kind of... Really simple? Yes. Yeah. Kind of superfluous. It's just, you know, this is what it was. This is what it is. I mean, it's increasing by this much because, you know, COLA, a COLA increase, but other than that, and so we don't have to see anyone, everyone. I would, I have a few questions, though, that actually I need Lori to come back in here and, well, I need to know with these new appointed positions, who controls their budget? Is it that under the board of selectmen? [6:24] Linda Friedrich: Okay. Well, it depends on who. Because, when you actually go online and under the budget process, you will see, because I know the budget or the board just did the zoning board of appeals. So I know we did those. Planning board I'm pretty sure we've even done them or are getting to them, so but once they're up on the budget site or Courtney emails them to you, they've been turned in by whoever's responsible [7:06] Janet Legere: to turn them in. The transfer station budget was already in, and yes, and she will present to us. [7:15] Linda Friedrich: Yep, all of these in the packet have been turned in already. [7:19] Janet Legere: GA, the GA budget was in. [7:27] Linda Friedrich: Yep, all of these. Code enforcement. Yeah. All of these budgets. [7:32] Janet Legere: Oh, this is what I was looking at online. [7:35] Susan Kerr: Okay. Oh, I like this. [7:38] Amanda Mason: Oh, you want like the code enforcement has both of them side by side. [8:15] Janet Legere: But I do have a question. [8:18] Cheryl Edgerly: So like the treasurer, the tax collector, that's all under you all? [8:24] Linda Friedrich: No, they do their own. [8:26] Cheryl Edgerly: But they're going to be appointed. But they're going to be appointed. They'll still do their own. [8:30] Linda Friedrich: They will still do their own budgets. Like Stan does his for his department. The department heads do their budgets. [8:40] Cheryl Edgerly: Okay, but they're not going to be the people. [8:44] Linda Friedrich: Right, they're their own department head. Even though they don't have people under them, they're considered their department head. [8:51] Cheryl Edgerly: Okay, but I'm saying as of March, they're not going to be the department head anymore. There's going to be completely different people in there, correct? [8:58] Linda Friedrich: Or Lisa will be in there, the deputy, who's training for that position. [9:02] Cheryl Edgerly: I thought they weren't taking the position. I thought so, ma'am. [9:11] Amanda Mason: Scott's not there, but Lisa's there. [9:16] Linda Friedrich: But they do, they do the budget for that apartment for the following March. Even though me and Judy won't be there. They're reaching Lisa and whoever they hire now to do it. [9:28] Cheryl Edgerly: Okay. And the treasurer? [9:31] Susan Kerr: Treasurer Desmond, I would imagine. [9:33] Janet Legere: Even though she won't be here. [9:36] Cheryl Edgerly: Okay. But, so this is my question, I guess. They will, they be presenting their budget to us even though they're, they will not be in the [9:49] Linda Friedrich: position because they should know what that department is going to need for the following year. It does well for software, for equipment, for supplies. What she goes through, what she pays, she knows all that information. She's got all of that. So no matter who comes in, you know, they're, they're going to ask for whatever budget for salary, but- [10:19] Cheryl Edgerly: Well, and I guess that's my concern, because all the positions are going to change and the salaries are going to change. [10:28] Linda Friedrich: But I will tell you what the tax collector's office, they are basing it on what lease there will be made. They're planning ahead for their exit. [Janet Legere: That makes sense.] New people come in. [10:39] Amanda Mason: And a drop of $10,000. Yes. [10:46] Cheryl Edgerly: Which, I mean, as it should be because it's in person. Oh, yeah, I agree. Oh, no, I'm just shocked. [10:50] Linda Friedrich: So they're accounting for the lack of experience and they're getting promoted from deputy up to, you know, tax collector or town clerk, but they're not going to make the same thing that tenure employees make. Right. [11:05] Susan Kerr: It's normal. Or the vacation time. Exactly. That's the big thing. Yeah. [11:13] Amanda Mason: Okay, question. It seems we're on that one. On one of the pages, it has the salary, but then there's two pages and the amounts are quite a bit different. Tax collector? Yeah, see, you put them side by side and you've got 37 hours a week. And then you've got your Medicare and all that stuff. You've added these in, but I was looking at the, last year it was this. They're requesting this, but what's this one deputy is it should be deputy tax collector for someone that they're gonna have for deputy next year [Janet Legere: Okay] So but it doesn't say definitely so it kind of threw me off like I was saying [12:26] Cheryl Edgerly: There was a timetable I believe last year of one when the groups were coming in transfer [12:40] Janet Legere: For the different departments were coming in. Could we have that template so that we can complete it? [12:48] Cheryl Edgerly: Yeah, that's what we want to do tonight. [12:49] Janet Legere: I know, but there was a template. But you hope that they [12:54] Linda Friedrich: Actually put term in their budgets in time. Because last year when we did that, we had a lot of people that just went, whatever. And then it didn't do any good because we didn't have the budget. [13:03] Janet Legere: I understand that, but I think it would be good to have the template and then let us put all the different departments and see when we want to see them it might let's [13:15] Cheryl Edgerly: let's do that 's what we can yeah because again so now what's going on next Thursday we can't have a meeting yeah [13:32] Amanda Mason: If we can abbreviate it, I mean, I don't know how long the, that's my bad, I thought we were going every other, I apologize. If they have theirs at 7, that's what they've advertised it as. If we can come at 6 to 7, it wouldn't be a long meeting, but at least we could condense it because you'll be gone for the next three weeks. So that's what we'll do. We'll just set up what each one of us is going to have to do. You set assignments for us before you go. Okay. Okay? [14:06] Susan Kerr: I know I'm going to need them. [14:08] Cheryl Edgerly: So then when I get back, that's kind of what I wanted to do is I'm going to be back on the 26th. So if we have a meeting on the 1st and then the 1st, I mean, if you all want to meet on the 15th. [14:35] Amanda Mason: Instead of those three weeks, there's really no sense of having every week. [14:39] Janet Legere: Is that October 26th? [14:41] Amanda Mason: You know, like you said, meet on the 15th. Not on the 8th. [14:45] Cheryl Edgerly: So if you meet on the 15th, as long as there's a quorum. [14:50] Amanda Mason: Yeah, we can check ahead. [14:51] Cheryl Edgerly: And you can do, you know. The easier. Yeah, the ones that the selectmen has already, the board of selectmen have already gone through. Okay. And then we can start when the department heads on the 29th. 9th, okay. And then we can do that, hopefully, the 29th through November. So 29th, 1, 2, 3, 4. [15:17] Amanda Mason: Thanksgiving is the 26th, so we'll do 12th, 19th. [15:21] Cheryl Edgerly: We'll have four weeks to get all the department heads scheduled. [15:25] Amanda Mason: And then December will be when we meet with the department heads? [15:29] Cheryl Edgerly: No, the department heads will present their budgets on those four weeks. [15:34] Amanda Mason: Okay. Do we meet in December? [15:35] Cheryl Edgerly: And then in December, we'll have the Board of Selectmen come in and we'll make our approvals. [15:42] Amanda Mason: Okay, so the Select Board will join us for that one. Okay. [15:47] Cheryl Edgerly: That would be ideal. [15:50] Amanda Mason: Right, we'll be meeting in January, I'm sure. [15:58] Cheryl Edgerly: So the big ones, the big ones I remember from last year. So the fire department, there's a lot of questions for him. So that's probably one whole night. And then we can usually do the treasurer, the tax collector, and the town clerk, general assistance in one night. Cindy at the library. Am I right, Cindy? Cindy's [16:43] Linda Friedrich: always good about constables. [16:47] Cheryl Edgerly: And the transfer station slash, oh, and then the road commissioner. That's right, the road commissioner. That's [17:00] Amanda Mason: a big budget. That would be one meeting? [17:04] Cheryl Edgerly: Yeah, I would say. By itself? Well, we could do, actually, we could probably do code enforcement, constable, and road commissioner together. But [17:20] Linda Friedrich: You might want to, just a suggestion, you might want to take the ones that have already turned theirs in and schedule those first. [17:28] Cheryl Edgerly: Well, that's what, I mean, I don't know if we need to see the department heads. So that's what, while I'm gone, if they look through them, if they have any questions, they can just kind of email and they don't need to. [17:46] Janet Legere: I was going to say, when you say email, should we email everyone on the [17:50] Cheryl Edgerly: the on this budget committee yeah budget committee and email and bring you guys into email to the [17:58] Linda Friedrich: department head if we have a question yes okay yep yeah absolutely feel free to reach out to the department's head everybody's all of the department heads emails are on the town website yes that's good okay which is nice and if they're not courtney she can get them all or i can or anybody on the board's board. [18:22] Cheryl Edgerly: And again, so I see, I mean, Stan has his budget in here already, but I do like, I did like to have him, because his budget is very large, so I do like to have him present, just so we have an idea of how. [18:43] Linda Friedrich: And it went up this year. Okay. [18:45] Janet Legere: He told me so. Yes, it did. [18:47] Cheryl Edgerly: but he does have a reason for it so yeah absolutely and he 's code enforcement is because he collects a lot of fees he does and he can explain that you know so they i mean he's kind of he's not like based on just coming out of the taxes it's like yeah he has all these So his budget is kind of not self-sufficient, but on that idea. Is that a good word? Okay. [19:19] Janet Legere: And then this year, if we do go to, I think they're looking at the possibility of having a fee if someone's building a new house, the impact fee. If they collect impact fees, I've been looking at other towns that have impact fees for builders and that can be a total of like $8,000 per house, maybe. Or more. Or more. Oh, wow. And given that we have 20... [19:52] Linda Friedrich: 10,000 for larger houses and 15,000 for smaller houses. [19:56] Janet Legere: And if we have like 20 houses per year being built, that's a new source of funds that should help. You know, we might have to employ somebody else to track all that information. Because there's a lot of information required, reporting required, to have an impact fee to the state. But it certainly would pay for itself and more. It would definitely bring in more fees. [20:22] Cheryl Edgerly: That would, I guess, would fall under the town treasurer, but. Or Stan. Or Stan. He does. Or Stan. Okay. Yeah. So, yeah, so maybe if we can just kind of set up some type of calendar for that. [20:50] Janet Legere: Yes. So, as secretary, I can get that together, this calendar, and reach out to those that have already provided the budget that you want to see, and see if we can schedule them for the first possible date to see department heads. If my understanding is correct, you said the 29th of October, so we'll get those ones in the 29th and then we'll schedule the [21:21] Cheryl Edgerly: And then if you want, on the 15th, you know, anything that's, like, you know, the town, the... [21:33] Susan Kerr: Any of the given ones? [21:34] Cheryl Edgerly: Yeah, the easy ones, and, you know, even... [21:44] Susan Kerr: So you'll set a calendar for November for all the people that we're going to see? [21:48] Janet Legere: For October, yeah. Yeah, on the 15th of October. I'm just checking to see which ones we're going to look at on the 15th of October. [22:04] Cheryl Edgerly: So now I don't know if you want to refer back to the warrant of last year and this is also all our recommendations, and that will be through the Board of Selectmen, because we also recommend all the donation type things. I would like to get the big stuff out of the way first. [22:36] Janet Legere: And we only make the recommendation, it's my understanding, once the warrant is written. We say yes or no after the warrant comes through. Is [22:52] Cheryl Edgerly: that correct? I think we can amend the warrant before, and that's why we want to get everything worded properly and which is what happened you know that's that's where you get in the [23:15] Susan Kerr: weeds that's with the meeting with the budget committees and in December that way there comes in yes I'll [23:27] Amanda Mason: give him but [23:30] Cheryl Edgerly: yeah this is kind of a good blueprint to [23:33] Amanda Mason: go by thank you and [23:42] Cheryl Edgerly: you know again there's a lot of capital accounts that I'm unsure of where, I know they've been voted on in the past and the money has to be appropriated every year. So those are the kind of questions that I need to ask like the fire department and I know it's there, I know it's in this, but just so that we know, okay, we have to pay this every year. and my feeling is that except for the things that we have to pay I think we really as a town we have to do some budget tightening my belt tightening I agree and we have to find ways to save money and you know we can't just be this is the way we've just always, I mean, the projects that absolutely have to be done, we should do. But tell me why, like the pet projects, we need to just at least this year. I mean, because we know heating oil is going to go up. All those things that we have no control over. Supplies. supplies i mean diesel fuels through the roof that's why we're wondering things like when [25:22] Susan Kerr: You talk about heating, there's that building that's sitting there waiting for town people to [25:29] Linda Friedrich: use. I mean, you know, there are, you know, there are, what, isn't the top floor, they have their own [25:39] Amanda Mason: heating, they have their own little thing up there, they heat and everything themselves, so it's, we did one year, no, this was, this was many years ago, they shut it down for the winter, yeah, and it was, we didn't have the flooding until the last few years. [26:10] Linda Friedrich: Yeah, the contracts are the contract [26:23] Susan Kerr: contracts. Okay. So there's somebody on the third floor all the time. That's what you're [26:28] Amanda Mason: hearing. Oh yeah, but they're self-sufficient. We don't have that. It's got nothing to do with the lower. Then we've got to have some kind of a income for, I mean, I know we, they charge them about $100 and if it's clean, you get $100 back. And I know it's a town and it's, it's nice, but we're going to have to start covering some of the expenses with some of the parties and stuff you know I mean other ones do it's not a freebie all the time so whatever how we can work that into anyway when you [27:05] Susan Kerr: talked about heat, it just, you know, it just rang a bell in my head saying, you know, if we have properties that we're not using a lot, why are we heating them? [27:14] Cheryl Edgerly: These are the questions that we have to, you know, ask, and you know, if you, if you get the answer that, you know, this is, this is why we have to do this, I mean, I know last year it was like there was some big budget item for, I don't know, it must have been tree cutting or something, and I guess it was, you know, and it was in four different budgets, and it was in four different budgets, oh, I don't remember that, but you know, it was like, these are trees that are gonna fall down and cause damage if we don't get them taken care of, and it's like, oh, okay, you know. But if this is just something like, well, we would like to have this done, it's like, well, maybe not. [27:54] Amanda Mason: Maybe not this year. [27:56] Janet Legere: Or do we still need to maintain the old fire building, fire station? [28:03] Linda Friedrich: Nope. That one, the electric is cut off. That one is not, we don't- And you're not using, there are shut off. [28:10] Amanda Mason: There's no heat and nothing in there. It's just a building to store things. Right now. Yeah. Okay. Okay, and the, what I call the Boy Scouts. Boy Scout Hall. The hall, yeah, that's used quite a bit, isn't it? Yeah. Now is that profit free? I mean, non-profit or is that? I'm not sure. Is it something that they get to contribute to at least some of the expense, utilities. You know, no rent, but just towards the utilities maybe. [28:42] Linda Friedrich: That may be one of the things that the town does for the community. Possible. And only allows the town of Limerick to use. They don't allow other towns to come in. Yeah, because I've seen paths that they're a lot. Something to find out. We have been going through policies honing it into this is for Limerick residents. If we're not charging, this is Limerick residents. In the community room downstairs, we just signed a thing for RSU 57 to use. [29:13] Amanda Mason: Yeah, but that's included in the heat anyway up here, you know, I mean, this building's going to [29:18] Linda Friedrich: be heated something every day, every, you know, and it's still community related because a lot of people from Waterborough don't want to come to Limerick or don't, people in Limerick can't get to work right at night, Limerick is a safe place for them to come do classes, it's closed, so we opened it up for them, you know, but a lot of it is for the ones that we don't charge for [29:40] Amanda Mason: Those are Limerick specific, but it might get to the point where they might be have to keep possibly a little bit of the deposit just to go towards you [29:50] Linda Friedrich: know, whatever, it's a thought. Yeah, and that was discussed in our meetings when we were working on the policies because it goes through all of that and that's one thing that has raised our flags going this is something we're going to have to look at because costs. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it just, they keep rising. [30:13] Cheryl Edgerly: So everybody's budget is going to come in with, if they have employees, is going to come in with a COLA increase. Maybe. And the [30:21] Linda Friedrich: associated. If they don't add, if they add them in. Because last year they didn't because we didn't know what the COLA was going to be. And right now it hasn't really been set either. [30:29] Amanda Mason: Is it mandatory or is it something that is negotiable? It is mandatory. The town voted to increase. So it's not state, it's town voted? [30:39] Linda Friedrich: Yes, it's an ordinance. [30:41] Janet Legere: Oh, okay. I think the budgets that came in did have a core increase. [30:46] Linda Friedrich: Some of them will do the estimated, which they've been saying 3.5 to 3.6. [30:51] Janet Legere: 3.6 is what the code enforcement used. So I think that's good. I think they know how much they've got to do. So I have a question as we try to learn how to use these expense summary reports and, you know, see how much money has been used this year out of the budgets and whether there's a surplus or whether there's a deficit. So when I started looking, there are some items that do not have a budget but then they have a year-to-date expenditure. Can I This, for example, on the administration, line 16, the expense. Which account? The expense account. [Cheryl Edgerly: O2. O2, okay.] O2, and then 16, and then 80, GA. [31:59] Linda Friedrich: Oh, yeah, that account shouldn't exist. [Janet Legere: Yeah, well, okay.] I'm just going to say that this is a brand new what the heck account because that is under 1580. [32:13] Janet Legere: Yeah, I could see that as well. But this is supposed to be the entries that we are supposed to be able to judge the budget on. Nailed it. And when there's errors like this, who do we refer those to? [32:33] Linda Friedrich: As we find those errors, the treasurer is the only one who can fix her errors, okay. [32:40] Janet Legere: So if I just email Julie to say that this item doesn't look correct and for [32:52] Linda Friedrich: example, or you could, you could 20 come up with your list of them and email them to the board and the board can address it with her, that may be an easier way. [33:02] Amanda Mason: This way it's all in one, here's the concerns. She was going to be here tonight, but there was something had come up that she had planned in coming to sit in tonight, so that's, and I think she's going to plan on, you know, trying to hit most of them if possible, if her schedule. Yeah, then she'll have the questions right there. Yeah,, I'll check with her, let's save the question. Yeah. [33:28] Susan Kerr: Make a list. -huh. I haven't even gotten into those stuff. [33:36] Janet Legere: Well, I managed to get into my computer early, so I was like looking at these issues. [33:42] Cheryl Edgerly: Yeah, so Public Works is another one that, which is, that Highway 2? [33:48] Linda Friedrich: I think that one's got the highway in there too. [33:51] Cheryl Edgerly: Paving, snow removal, that's, and again, a lot of that is precontracted. And, you know, I just would like to say, okay, is there any place you feel as a department head, is there any place that you feel that we can trim anything from this? I mean, hopefully we'll have a mild winter. [34:22] Amanda Mason: Are the bids for the snow plowing and snow removal in Public Works, or the bids are a separate deal altogether? [34:31] Linda Friedrich: They are, because there's 71 in there, 's a Public Works snow removal, and it looks like that. Yeah, because there's a couple snow removals in there. So roads are before 18. [34:51] Janet Legere: There'll be roads and then there'll be sidewalks? [34:53] Linda Friedrich: Yeah. And then sidewalk. [34:57] Amanda Mason: But that's included in the road commissioner's budget? [35:00] Cheryl Edgerly: Not a road commissioner. [35:02] Amanda Mason: Oh, just public works. Oh, okay. All right. I gotcha. Yep. [35:05] Linda Friedrich: Because you'll have different, under public works, under public safety, you'll have, that's their category for the billing, not necessarily their only department. Okay. Or just one person's department. So. [35:18] Amanda Mason: Yeah, I see the public safety now. Yeah. Okay, yeah, because you've got the paramedics, the rescue, the fire hydrant rental payroll. [35:55] Susan Kerr: You know, it's just bathing under here, and he was up there talking about different roads that weren't paved and stuff. Do we have a list of roads that are paved or are not paved? Do they know how many they have? I don't know. I don't want to ask him that question without, you know, him feeling. [36:13] Linda Friedrich: Absolutely, he will come in and he will be like, here are the roads we want to pay, here's the. [36:18] Amanda Mason: Amount repaid. Yeah, what dirt won't ones do they have left? I know they talked about doing some. [36:26] Susan Kerr: Dirt ones. Yeah, he talked about three or four different dirt roads, and I'm thinking, okay, how. [36:30] Linda Friedrich: Many do we really have? No, a few, not very many, not very many. There's only but a lot of it is repaving, it's the maintenance. Yeah, for the roads that are cracking and just falling apart. Yeah, there are more of those. Yeah, and that and this year that was the majority of their budget was Foster Johnson Road, and he will come in with the list of roads. Yeah, and say, here's what we want to do. Okay, here's why we need to do these roads. Yeah, Ricky is really good about it. He will come in, he will tell you. Exactly, this is what we want to do. Good, so. [37:14] Janet Legere: I had another question on the transfer station. We have contracted services, and it's three hundred thousand. That's Melon, that's Melon last year. This year they don't have anything, so was the three hundred thousand for three years or something. [37:38] Amanda Mason: He's got at least another year left on that. [37:41] Linda Friedrich: I want to know if there's another year left on it. [37:43] Janet Legere: So don't we pay $300,000 a year? No. [37:47] Amanda Mason: Yes, we do. A year? That was what the contract was? [37:51] Janet Legere: We didn't pay all up front, did we? [37:54] Linda Friedrich: No, it's like $50,000 a month. [37:56] Amanda Mason: $20,000, $20,000-something, I believe. [38:00] Linda Friedrich: And again, the $50,000 is up to $600,000. [38:05] Cheryl Edgerly: Julie will lay out every penny of her budget. Yes. [38:11] Janet Legere: But this is just this budget that was submitted by Joanne. I think we need to add $300,000 in the column for 2027 budget. Because it's, I know it's unchanged, but we still have need that amount. Yeah, in there. Yeah, it's on the very last page of the budgets that were submitted, and I mean, I think the transfer station and Joanna amazing, so yes, obviously that the. [38:57] Linda Friedrich: The $300,000 is gonna have to come over. [38:59] Janet Legere: It needs to come over. Yeah, and the same for tipping fees. [39:03] Linda Friedrich: She may not know quite yet, but when you invite her in, she will be able to tell you. [39:11] Janet Legere: Yeah, we definitely need that, yeah. I think it's just a small error in the Excel sheet somehow that she'll be able to fix. [39:21] Linda Friedrich: I think some of these, when she doesn't put them in there, it's because they're not changing once that she does quit they have an annual increase or there's an [39:31] Janet Legere: incremental change but you need to look at the total budget you need those in [39:36] Linda Friedrich: that call yep well she does the total wait a minute I think she's not she [39:43] Janet Legere: didn't she's got the total there's only two hundred and fifteen thousand she [39:53] Cheryl Edgerly: She didn't put the door-to-door and she didn't put the [39:55] Janet Legere: chipping fees in. Those ones haven't gone in the right column. They need to move over. [40:01] Linda Friedrich: Yeah, they do. It does. It needs to move over. [40:06] Cheryl Edgerly: Small potatoes. Well, no, that's a lot of money. [40:10] Janet Legere: It's a lot of money, but it's just so easy just to move the same amount. She has. She has trimmed her budget a little bit as well. She said that, which is really good. Yeah. [40:26] Linda Friedrich: But yeah, so those are It doesn't have to move over into that. [40:31] Janet Legere: Just a small thing, that one. [Linda Friedrich: Only $464,000.] It's just an Excel issue. [40:41] Cheryl Edgerly: Yeah, exactly. It's all I get from my tax money living in lack, so. Trash pickup with no children in the schools, and so that's all we get, right? [40:57] Janet Legere: That's true. but we do get to live in a wonderful time. Yes, we do. [41:04] Cheryl Edgerly: Okay, so are we kind of all on the same page with the scheduling? [41:09] Susan Kerr: Yeah, the only thing I, are we gonna meet on October 8th? Did I miss that? No. We're not gonna meet that week. Okay, or next week. [41:17] Cheryl Edgerly: What's next week? Well, next week we can do an early one. [41:20] Amanda Mason: Okay, that's the week. [41:21] Cheryl Edgerly: 6 p.m., that's okay. [41:24] Susan Kerr: What's the date on that? That's the first. The 1st. Okay. [41:28] Linda Friedrich: That's over 1st. Gail, are you available to do it early? Yes. [41:33] Amanda Mason: But again, the 8th and the 15th. [41:39] Cheryl Edgerly: No, the 15th, they will meet. [41:42] Linda Friedrich: Yeah. The 15th, they will meet. Yes. [41:43] Amanda Mason: She's going to be gone the 8th, 15th, and 22nd, but we will meet the 8th. The 15th. The 15th. Yes. But not the other two. No. And then. The 1st. Every Thursday. The 15th. From the 20. 9th. 6th through 9th. You're coming back the 26th. Yeah, I'm sorry the 29th. Yeah. [42:08] Cheryl Edgerly: Through November 19th and then of course obviously Thanksgiving we won't be. Okay. And we'll see where we are from there. For December. Okay. And then I don't know if we bring you all in December depending on how much. Well once you guys [42:28] Linda Friedrich: Have a set and you're ready to make your recommendations or not? We'll have to, we'll have to figure out a way to do it because Courtney will write up the proposed articles. Yes. For those budgets. Okay. And then she can just, we can do the, if we get the board and the Budget Committee together, we can do the voting on the recommendations at the same time so that if there's changes they can be made right then and there. Yeah. And we're not, you know. Not waiting until the [43:00] Cheryl Edgerly: last minute or New Year's Eve or whenever we're having, or having to keep sending it back, it would [43:06] Susan Kerr: be great to have Julie here next week so we could really make sure that all these pieces, that all [43:12] Amanda Mason: these, like that account that we don't, the 16 seconds, so I will, I will reach out to Julie [43:22] Susan Kerr: and see if she can come at six o'clock. Yeah, that'd be great, that way there we'd have a baseline to work with here. Yeah, a better one. Good. [43:33] Amanda Mason: All right, so we won't meet those two, but all right, and next week you'll give us our assignments for the week that we do to come, [43:43] Linda Friedrich: so we'll know where we're supposed to be. Can I email Courtney to let her know the exact dates and times that you guys are going to meet so she can make sure it's on the town website, advertise, publish, blah,. [43:54] Cheryl Edgerly: Yep. And then I will, if you want, we can figure out the department heads and what we want them to come in, coming in, starting in October the 29th. So, what's that? [44:08] Linda Friedrich: Do you really want to wait that long to start having department heads in? [44:11] Cheryl Edgerly: I'm going to be gone the whole month of October. [44:13] Janet Legere: Yeah, there's still four of you. If [44:19] Linda Friedrich: you want to hold it off, you can. [44:20] Cheryl Edgerly: No, we're only going to have one meeting while I'm gone. So, well, we can decide that next week. [44:32] Amanda Mason: Maybe the simple one. The little ones. [44:34] Janet Legere: If there's some easier ones. Yeah. Right. I mean, you guys do those on the 15th. [44:38] Linda Friedrich: The planning board, the zoning board of appeals. [44:40] Cheryl Edgerly: But do we need to see their department? No. No, and that's what I mean. [44:44] Linda Friedrich: That's what I'm saying on those weeks when you're not here. [44:47] Janet Legere: We'll get all those done once Sue's not here. [44:50] Linda Friedrich: Yeah, it would be good to get through as many as you can that you don't need to, yes, have department heads come in, and then so we'll be here for the difficult ones, [44:59] Janet Legere: the more complex [45:14] Amanda Mason: these things, but that can wait, that's old. I can't. I can't. I can't. I'm glad I'm the only one. I'll sit down with you sometime because, oh, I'm glad. I have [45:30] Cheryl Edgerly: Samsung, too, so. Well, again, I went through this one with, I was on the board of my veterans organization, and I could never get my email to come up with my, in my Gmail there. I really don't have a problem intermingling. But I would like to have, you know, if anybody wants to contact me, I would like to have the limerick.org. [45:57] Linda Friedrich: So. We'll get you on there. Okay. Eventually. We'll get you on. I'll work with you to get a comment. Okay. [46:05] Cheryl Edgerly: Well, I guess we can adjourn the meeting. I make a motion to adjourn. Second. All in favor? Oh. Sounds good. Well, thank you. That was good.