You can also mark your calendar for November 19th for Third Thursday!
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Third Thursday - October 15th
So much is happening in downtown Franklin, come join the Third Thursday fun!
In the News - Vietnam, state mandates
State mandates take another step
State to require toothbrushing at daycares, preschools
Citing evidence of early decay in children's mouths, the state plans to require nursery schools, pre-schools and other licensed day care providers to give dental care lessons and supervise cleaning if their charges are there for more than four hours a day or eat a meal.Read the full article here:
State to require toothbrushing at daycares, preschools
"With the hectic and busy lives people live today and the mobile society that we are, it is understandable that people may forget the ultimate sacrifice made by soldiers in the Armed Forces," said Hunchard. "Maybe while stopped at a stop sign or stop light, people may notice a veteran's remembrance sign and realize the sacrifices made for our way of life."
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Recyle that plastic slide
Have your kids outgrown that plastic slide or turtle sandbox? Franklin now has a spot for recycling those large plastic items.
More details are available in this issue of Recycling News:
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More details are available in this issue of Recycling News:
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Friday, October 9, 2009
In the News - long term plan, state budget woes
Franklin planners: Override or cut services loom
from The Milford Daily News Homepage RSS by Ashley Studley/Daily News staffMinor corrections to the article. The reports distribution will be to the committee for final review, then to the Town Council to prepare them for their meeting Oct 21. Once finalized, then the report will be available to the current Town Council candidates and to the general population.
The report currently on the Town website is the version reviewed at the open forum held April 27 and reported on here.
Bottom line, the report was brought up to date with the current numbers. When developed earlier this year all the numbers were projections for the FY 2010 budget. Now that the budget is finalized, those numbers were updated throughout the report.
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State budget gap could grow from bad to worse
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Live reporting - Financial Planning Committee
Attending: Bartlett, Sabolinski, Roche, Kelly, Hardesty, Whalen, Nutting, Cameron,
Missing: Wilschek, Trahan, Zollo
Also present: Glenn Jones (Town Council candidate), Ashley Studley (Milford Daily News reporter)
Reviewing the updated slide deck, slides have the most recent numbers from the FY 2010 budget cycle.
A couple of numbers here and there require further checking.
The train left the station for the high school renovation project, the only question is how many folks jump on. In first or second quarter of 2011 we should have an opportunity to vote on the final number. The state would pay during the early construction period. We would only have to pay our portion in 2012 and after.
We have a good record in that we have built three schools for a total of about $200 per tax bill.
Discussion on how to estimate the high school cost. We will know sometime around next October what the number could be but we don't know now.
Should we include a slide on the roads? Many towns try to budget for road repaving, we don't budget anything. We use Chap 90 and Water funds when we can rebuild the road. We need to acknowledge that the State gives us a lot of money to fix our roads.
You can plan to put something aside for the roads in an up economy that you can't do in a down economy. We should start building a road fund similar to what we have done with the snow/ice.
Municipal per capita spending was added, to provide a comparison against the peers, neighbors and the state average.
The adjustments can be corrected this weekend. Get it to the councilors as soon as completed. They will have time to review it before the next council meeting. The last one before the election.
Missing: Wilschek, Trahan, Zollo
Also present: Glenn Jones (Town Council candidate), Ashley Studley (Milford Daily News reporter)
Reviewing the updated slide deck, slides have the most recent numbers from the FY 2010 budget cycle.
A couple of numbers here and there require further checking.
The train left the station for the high school renovation project, the only question is how many folks jump on. In first or second quarter of 2011 we should have an opportunity to vote on the final number. The state would pay during the early construction period. We would only have to pay our portion in 2012 and after.
We have a good record in that we have built three schools for a total of about $200 per tax bill.
Discussion on how to estimate the high school cost. We will know sometime around next October what the number could be but we don't know now.
Should we include a slide on the roads? Many towns try to budget for road repaving, we don't budget anything. We use Chap 90 and Water funds when we can rebuild the road. We need to acknowledge that the State gives us a lot of money to fix our roads.
You can plan to put something aside for the roads in an up economy that you can't do in a down economy. We should start building a road fund similar to what we have done with the snow/ice.
Municipal per capita spending was added, to provide a comparison against the peers, neighbors and the state average.
The adjustments can be corrected this weekend. Get it to the councilors as soon as completed. They will have time to review it before the next council meeting. The last one before the election.
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