Thursday, March 2, 2017

"We are reserving funds"

From the Milford Daily News, articles of interest for Franklin:

"The Town Council took up and approved a number of capital items - including the purchase of a new fire engine - at its Wednesday night meeting. 
The council considered a slate of capital expenditures, which would mostly be funded out of the town's $3.6 million in free cash. 
The first matter taken up was allocating $115,000 to the town's fire truck stabilization account and use the total in the account to purchase a new fire engine. 
Town Administrator Jeffrey Nutting said the town had been saving up for the purchase for several years, and has $485,000 in the account. The estimated total cost of the engine is $600,000."
Continue reading the article online (subscription may be required)
http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/20170301/franklin-council-approves-capital-items

For the complete set of notes from the Town Council meeting on Wednesday check here
http://www.franklinmatters.org/2017/03/live-reporting-town-council-march-1-2017.html

and here
http://www.franklinmatters.org/2017/03/live-reporting-closing-etc.html

the cover did not help this winter, as noted in the meeting, the whole playground unit at DelCarte unit is to be removed and 
replaced by the vendor with no cost to the Town

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