TO: Board of Selectmen
FROM: Carter Terenzini, Town Administrator
RE: Administrator’s Weekly Report
DATE: January 31, 2019
CC: All Departments

Weekly Report: We participated in the Moody’s Credit rating conference. We expect to have the actual rating in hand early next week though it may be a few weeks longer until we have all of their rationale. I attended the public meeting on improving Town Meeting attendance. We will get those minutes up on the web site in the next few days. We have been advised by Phillipston they have signed off on the Community Compact Fire Study so we will proceed to file that early next week. They have also signed off on the dispatch IMA subject to review by their town counsel. We had a second round of budget reviews. We opened the proposals on the revaluation (there was only one). They have been referred to the Board of Assessors for review and may be viewed there if you are interested. This will be an item for action on 02/13 although it may be the evening of 02/12 before we can get the BoA memo of advice out to to you. Please remember to send me items of concern if you have not yet had a chance to review the DPW CBAs.


CBA: = collective bargaining agreement / union contract.

Administration & Finance Town Accountant: Nothing reported?

from an email of the Town Administrator:
STM article 13 of the special town meeting, the town voted to appropriate $15,000 to the highway department; the accountant in error put it to the B & G and it has now been corrected.

Why is something like this not reported? There had to be some activity in the town accountant office.
I mean selectmen Brooks all but demanded departments respond to the weekly report, stating that there has to be some business being conducted and should be reported; on this, we agree on!

Note; the above mention error is one of many small errors made over the past several years. While looking ahead, one always should look in the mirror, at the past, to ensure the same miss-steps are not being repeated.