from May Town meeting 2015

LONG & SHORT TERM DEBT SERVICE                                            $    1,709,097.00
TOTAL - TOWN BUDGET                                                                         7,420,057.00

SCHOOL ASSESSMENTS
School Committee Stipends                                                                                          0
5 Elected Templeton Members - NRSD School Committee expense                                 0

 Narragansett Regional School Assessment                                              $   5,396,832.00

 Montachusett Regional Vocational School Assessment                             $      611,480.00
TOTAL SCHOOL ASSESSMENTS                                                           $   6,008,312.00

TOTAL TOWN AND SCHOOLS                                                                $ 13,428,369.00


4000 Operation of Plant

Director of Buildings and Grounds                                                                    $   67,461.94
Custodial Salaries                                                                                              476,400.51
Custodial Supplies                                                                                               33,689.33
Building and Grounds Travel                                                                                      124.30
Fuel $ 413,295.17 Electricity                                                                                217,862.61
Maintenance of Grounds                                                                                        53,170.22
Maintenance of Buildings                                                                                     163,278.13
Maintenance of Equipment                                                                                     20,079.80

The above is from Templeton annual Town report of 2014, so the question is, with one less building to take care of, as the district is scheduled to turn back to the Town, control of the Templeton Center school, there should be some savings in the above dollars, somewhere, to use to pay members of the school committee who feel they should be paid for volunteering to be on the school committee. Perhaps they could explain to their students the act of volunteering, civic duty and becoming involved with out looking for money or anything else, just a sense of helping to try to make things better. Perhaps there is an economics lesson in there as well?

Jeff Bennett