Finance Committee Aug 11, 2025 Transcript available

As noted, due to the room change on Monday from the Agenda posted on Friday, Studio personnel were not present to broadcast as normal. The Owl was used to enable video and audio for those participating via Zoom. The recording will be processed for broadcast later by Franklin TV.

The audio was posted earlier ->

https://www.franklinmatters.org/2025/08/finance-committee-recommends-option-b.html

The transcript is now available. As with prior transcripts, AI is used. We do edit for speaker name accuracy only.

In our cursory review of the transcript, it is not perfect but generally phonetically correct.

The timestamps for each speaker are shown in the transcript so you can also shift to the audio and scan to that time in the meeting to listen.

Transcript PDF (29 pages)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WupbCSx0GqVLLyMdyAqRY5J78CkXHjJr/view?usp=drive_link

Audio link -> https://franklin-ma-matters.captivate.fm/episode/fm-1492-tof-finance-cmte-mtg-08-11-25/

Slides as presented -> https://www.franklinma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/6560/2025-08-11-Fin-Comm-Slideshow

Model B

Model B makes some minor cuts ($21K), adjusts health care (by $75K) but also by restoring 2 firefighter/paramedics ($115K) is forecast to also bring in $249K in revenue to offset the adds and ‘balance’ the budget again