Franklin Matters

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Live reporting - School Committee

Present: Douglas, Cafasso, Rohrbach, Mullen, Roy, Trahan, Glynn
Absent: none

1. Routine Business
Citizen’s Comments
Review of Agenda - adding MSBA letter being added as an action item
Minutes: I recommend approval of the Open Session minutes from the April 27, 2010 School Committee Meeting. motion to approve, passed 7-0
Payment of Bills - Mr. Glynn motion to approve, passed 7-0
Payroll - Mrs. Douglas
FHS Student Representatives
What does OSKEY stand for - "Our School Key"
Night of the Arts at the high school at 7:00 PM, art show in the hall, all the bands and chorus will perform as well

Pat Slight - went in early for cross country
was well prepared for school, tested out of some Math classes
He did watch some meetings, couldn't top Brittany's return to the School Committee meeting
He is now class president

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Override History updated

I met with Treasure/Collector Jim Dacey today to get into some of the stories around the overrides and debt exclusions. I ended up making an update to the spreadsheets to correct:

one typo (5/22/1998 should have been 5/2/1998)
changed 6 election categories from "overrides" to "capital exclusions". All 6 occurred in 1991.

The history now shows only one override has passed of 6 put forward with the 7th override scheduled for June 8, 2010.

The updated spreadsheet can be found here:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkwjbnXDBhczdDVWaFU0N2ZsTEE2TUVuWHk5NURvQWc&hl=en

Franklin, MA

Franklin, MA: Fire Dept presentation

This is the presentation document used by Chief Gary McCarraher and Paul Sharpe, Jr for the Budget Hearing at the Finance Committee meeting on May 10, 2010:

Franklin Fire Dept FINCOM Budget FY 2011

View more presentations from Steve Sherlock.

The discussion notes as captured live during the meeting can be found here:
http://franklinmatters.blogspot.com/2010/05/live-reporting-finance-committee_10.html

Reminder: Special Election - Precinct 2, 3, 4 only

SPECIAL STATE ELECTION

May 11th

Precincts 2-3-4 only

Franklin High School

6:00am – 8:00pm

If you have any questions please call

Deborah L. Pellegri, CMC

Town Clerk/Election Administrator 508-520-4900

Finance Committee 05/10/10

The collection of posts that were live reported from the Finance Committee meeting on Monday, May 10th can be found here:

Franklin, MA

Franklin Food Pantry - Stamp Out Hunger drive

About 40 volunteers got really organized to help the Franklin Food Pantry to process the receipts from the US Post Office letter carriers on Saturday, May 8th. As the letter carriers finished their routes, they drove by the Food Pantry to drop off the bags of food items they collected. Prompted by post cards and TV advertisements, as well as word of mouth, Franklin residents left out bags of non-perishable food to be donated.

With the new Food Pantry location in the middle of downtown, it was a convenient drive through operation. The trucks pulled up. A group took out all the bags of food stuffs.

Individual bags were put into letter boxes.

The bags and boxes were weighted.

The bags/boxes were opened and checked for "freshness dates". The good items were passed along to the sorters. The older items went into a waste box. Items that could not be determined by date when into a 'check later' box.

The sorters put like items together.

"flats" of similar items then stocked the shelves.

The shelves were completely empty early Saturday afternoon and filled up as the processing took place.

For those who did leave out a donation, the letter carriers left a thank you card:

Thanks to the many hands for helping to process over 5.000 pounds of food!

Weight In	4746.7
Spoils	877.2	18.48%

Net	3869.5

Strictly speaking, since the food was handled going in and then the spoils (waste) was handled again going out, we did go over 5,000. Which also excludes the multiple touches on a single item as it moved along the process.

Visit the Franklin Food Pantry online here: http://franklinfoodpantry.org/