Annual Town meeting, May 16, 2016

Article 3 - financial transfers: equal a pay raise for highway superintendent.



Change the amount of 1000-510-500-51-5110-000/Board of Health/from $75.00 to $80.00.
 Change the amount of 1000-421-400-51-5110-0000/Highway Super/from $75.00 to $80.00

this is a transfer from board of health to highway superintendent salary, you can check the account number from posting on town web site.

Add lines 1000-294-200-51-5115-0000/Tree warden/$2,500 and 1000-421-400-51- 5110-0000. Passed Unanimously/May 16th @ 11:03am

This is the part at town meeting, if you were there, you saw the selectmen and town account have a pow wow and then town accountant said tree warden salary would be reclassified so the tree warden salary account would be added to highway superintendent salary, there was an issue of the highway superintendent receiving two pay checks. It is on video I believe. That is a pay raise no matter how you call it.

Also, on the budget handout which was available on a table, line item by line item, it shows a salary of $3000.00 for tree warden. Under highway administration, it shows a total of $411,093.00
On Town website, under summary, it shows highway administration total of $414,094.00 which is a difference of $3001.00.
On the handout, it shows salary for highway super at $63,392.00 and on town website, it shows salary for highway super at $66,392.00. So does that look like a raise or what?

You can check this out on Templeton town website, under town meeting. You can also look at the budget line items on the Templeton town website to look at the account numbers.

enjoy.

posted by Jeff Bennett