BudComm meeting of 10/23/08
Once again, we met to go over the budget sub-committee results. In this meeting, it was pretty much the Town Clerk / Tax Collector and the Planning and Land use. Not a lot of controversy - no problem!
That said, I think that you will see in the below video that a number of the BudComm members are questionable on the Supervisors of the Checklist requests. No, not on the need for space or for for computer equipment; rather, the request for a pay increase. Pretty much all of us realize that the Selectmen and the School Board members get stipends - they are "in session" all year round and for quite a number of hours. Upon hearing of the hours that the Supervisors recieved hourly pay, there were some raised eyebrows and furrowed brows - heck, we work pretty much the same number of hours (just condensed into a shorter time period) - and we serve the community for free. It looks like the Selectmen are going to try to figure out some amount of stipend for each that would be "fair" - the problem is that the number of annual hours varies depending on how many elections there are in a year (sometimes only 1, sometimes 4) which determines how many hours will be needed.
I did note that the Daily Sun article said that some of the towns in NH do pay their Supervisors for their time. It is my understanding that only about one third of the towns in NH do so.
Anyways, to the video!
