At tonight's Advisory Committee meeting, Dave Smart stated the town's screening plant was repaired in the middle of the winter because it is used to screen the frozen crust from the sand pile, so it can go into the sanders because most of the sanders do not have screens on them.
I know of no other town that does that and the idea sounds bizarre. Peel off the crust and set it aside, when the weather warms, the sand will crumble and be, well sand again. It seems it is to easy to just "charge it" and use the snow & ice deficit to pay for it. Sometime ago, I commented on this subject and Dave came back with a comment about how he was looking forward to my idea or reason for the screen plant being repaired out of snow & Ice. Well, turns out Dave gave the reason himself. So there you have an example of mismanagement of the snow & Ice deficit spending mechanism.

posted by Jeff Bennett

Templeton Light to help out the Town with a payment.

PILOT from FY2008 through FY2017 (from the FY2018 budget book)

You can probably check with the Town's finance Team with regards to these numbers.
posted by Jeff bennett

Fiscal Year	Town Tax Rate	TMLP Revenue	TMLP PILOT
2008	$ 8.54	$7,374,766.00	$115,000.00
2009	9.20	7,870,034.00	125,000.00
2010	10.20	7,876,343.00	125,000.00 Contribution
2010			50,000.00 Budget Shortfall
2010			175,000.00 Total
2011	11.75	8,109,983.00	100,000.00
2012	12.55	7,706,222.00	100,000.00
2013	13.78	7,647,754.00	100,000.00
2014	14.12	7,436,045.00	150,000.00
2015	16.24	7,707,692.00	21,957.00 Electricity
2015			20,412.00 Street Lighting
2015			31,552.00 Town Roads
2015			73,921.00 Total
2016	16.64	7,475,920.00	22,794.00 Electricity
2016			19,476.00 Street Lighting
2016			42,270.00 Total
2017	16.47	7,673,051.00	41,680.00 police Cruiser
2017			25,212.00 Electricity
2017			19,248.00 Street Lighting
2017			86,140.00 Total