an email response from the selectmen to Advisory Committee. The committee wanted to be on the agenda of a selectmen meeting to talk about the roles and responsibilities of the Advisory Committee. The following is the answer received:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Selectman Caplis <selectmen.caplis@templeton1.org>
Date: Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 9:16 AM
Subject: Fwd: request from Advisory Committee
To: advisorycommittee@templeton1.org, Wilfred Spring <185wilberdr@gmail.com>, Diane Haley Brooks <seldhaleybrooks@templeton1.org>, selectmen.fortes@templeton1.org, selectmen.richard@templeton1.org, selectmen.morrison@templeton1.org, townadministrator@templeton1.org

THIS IS INFORMATION ONLY 

Will:

I’m really not sure what you are seeking.  It seems to me that the roles are fairly well laid out in that the TA proposes a budget to us, we finalize it to send to you and then you make recommendations to us (if you have some before we finalize it) and then to the Town Meeting.  At this time the BoS expects an estimate of revenues from the staff at its workshop of 11/6, a presentation from the TA of his proposed budget on 2/26/18 and workshops in March with a goal of giving you its budget to you on or before April 9^th (possibly even March 26^th).   We intend to invite you to each of these meetings and will give you the final schedule once we adopt it (possibly as early as 10/10).

If you have want some columns added to the spreadsheets for your use, or something else along those lines, I’m sure the TA will accommodate you if you let him know. 

Let me know if there is something else we can do.

Respectfully 

John Caplis

'I am sure the TA will accomodate you?" Hate to bring this to anyone's attention, but that added column is in the Templeton Town by-laws, you know, those policies and procedures for running the Town!