Last night, at the Pre Town meeting, the Town Administrator made the point I have been making for a long time, Ambulance service is going to cost the Town (taxpayers) more and more. The point was made by stating that full time people ( fire fighter/EMS-paramedics are needed this year and next and the next until Templeton can cover ALS ambulance service 24/7 and this has/is not going to work with on call people and the T/A further stated he would let the fire chief speak on this at Town Meeting. So, seems I was correct on saying over the years that the Ambulance service was going to cost more and more. Also stated at the meeting was that there are projections that ambulance billing receipts will eventually (in 3 years or more) begin to accumulate in sufficient numbers to cover the costs or most of it. One point was made that medicare/medicaid and insurance companies can have an effect on this if they begin to limit how much of those ambulance fees they will cover. Meaning that whom ever uses an ambulance will be responsible for the not covered costs and if they cannot pay, those dollars will most likely be written off as uncontrollable and those dollars lost, unless some sort of collection process is followed with associated costs.
what this means is you either vote for government growth or you probably lose town ambulance service completely. The kicker is, there is still a 100 thousand dollar deficit built into the spending plan you will be asked to support. Advisory Committee voted to recommend for with an explanation to Town Meeting and allow voters to decide.
posted by Jeff Bennett
I still believe the town has not enough revenue to float the boat that is our town ! Looking at the audit report, it seems our treasurer used funds to pay bills with money from accounts that should not have been in the general fund, in the first place. It does seem money was tight, so she did what she had to, to keep the Town going. Did she do this on her own ? I will bet she didn't. She had a boss, so think about that !
ReplyDeleteWe have a budget that has a huge deficit in it ! It is not like the people who worked on this plan tried to save a dime. But now it is the fault of Fire Department. So the story is, vote the budget with a deficit in it, or cut the Fire Department by 100,000. I will have to look to see what the budget would be worth without the emt's and all that goes with it ! No talk of cutting hours at Town Hall, or making changes any place else ! I guess that will come next year. You have to come to Town Meeting. It is your dime. Bev.
ReplyDeleteThe kicker is, there is still a 100 thousand dollar deficit.
ReplyDeleteAdvisory Committee voted to recommend for this budget.
So the school assessment amount is wrong.
Hows that all working out for the towns tax payers?
Is it time to clean house?
Is the school amount enough or should we give them extra so the E+D funds will grow for their future?
Great job all can't wait to hear this shit show again.
Go ahead do is stupid remove this too!
It is up to the people ! What they want to do with this budget, is up to them. I will explain my position as I can only speak for myself. I do not know if it is even legal to pass a budget with a deficit ! I am not a lawyer., can you believe our TA when he says we will pay a 3 1/2% interest rate on the school loan ? You may note, we are paying 4% on the wood chip furnace, and that was handed out a few years ago. Would you give us a Google interest rate ? I would not. Bev.
DeleteI think I'm meant "good" interest rate ! How google got there ?? Dam I pad does it's own thing.
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