Durham 2019 Budget - Fire + Rescue

2019-01-22 · Select Board · 2:38 · watch on YouTube →

Two and a half minutes from the end of a board meeting, immediately before it recessed into a joint budget session with the Budget Committee. The board called the vote on its consent agenda, and the chair gave the upcoming dates: regular meetings on Tuesday 12 February and Tuesday 26 February, both at 6:30 p.m. at the town office. He also announced a 31 January meeting that is not regular business, at which the board goes through the budgets proposed by department heads and settles the recommendations it hands to the Budget Committee for review. The chair then declared the meeting in recess until 6:30, when the board would reconvene. Only this closing stretch is captured; the rest of the evening is not in this recording.

What was discussed

1. 1:20
   Consent agenda

   The chair called the vote on the consent agenda. The result is not audible in the recording.

2. 1:20
   Upcoming regular meetings

   Regular board meetings were announced for Tuesday 12 February and Tuesday 26 February, both at 6:30 p.m. at the town office.

3. 1:49
   31 January budget working session

   The chair announced a 31 January meeting set apart from regular business. It is the session at which the board works through the budgets proposed by department heads and decides the recommendations it passes to the Budget Committee for review.

4. 2:11
   Recess

   With no other business raised, the chair declared the meeting in recess until 6:30 p.m., when the board would reconvene.

What was decided

• 1:20
  Vote called on the consent agenda.outcome unclear
• 2:11
  The chair declared the meeting in recess until 6:30 p.m., to reconvene with the Budget Committee.passed

An outcome reads "unclear" where the recording does not state it plainly. The recogniser drops short words, and "the motion does not carry" is one missing word from its opposite.

Motions the minutes record

The town's own written account of what was decided, taken from 1-22-19.txt. It owes nothing to the recording or to a model: the clerk typed it, with the vote. Where the summary above claims a decision this list does not carry, the summary is the part to doubt.

• accept the Consent Agendacarried 4-0

  Moved by Mark Blake, seconded by Richard George

Worth knowing

• 1:49
  The 31 January session is where the board turns department heads' proposals into its own recommendations to the Budget Committee, so it is the point at which the board's budget position is actually set.
• 1:20
  The next regular board meetings are 12 and 26 February, both at 6:30 p.m. at the town office.

Elsewhere

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