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Budget Committee Meeting 4/27/11 6pm

The Budget Committee will be meeting on Wednesday 4/27/11 at the Lebanon Elementary School at 6pm. The purpose is to review / vote on petition items.

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Budget Committee Meeting 01/25/11

Meeting Highlights:    -  Video Link of Meeting to View On Demand
Attending: Nancy Neubert, Judy Churchard, Glen Stadig, Karen Gerrish, Chris Gilpatrick, Tony Bragg, Mark Stuart, Mary Hastings, Ethel Lizzotte, David White
Meeting Started at 6pm – - Minutes Reviewed and Accepted … Continue reading

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Budget Committee Denied Information

The Lebanon Maine Budget Committee has had a couple meetings to organize for the upcoming Budget year and we have repeatedly met resistance with getting information. We started with a request on 11/13/10 and also on 12/5/10. What has been requested … Continue reading

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Budget Committee Meeting 11/10/10

Meeting Highlights:
The Budget Committee met to organize and prepare for the upcoming  budget season.
The meeting opened at 7pm with introductions and the election of a chairperson and secretary. The Budget committee elected Nancy Neubert  as Chairperson and Laura Bragg as … Continue reading

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Response to Newspaper Article

I wanted to follow-up to the article in the newspaper that appeared about “Ballot changes cause conflict between selectmen, committee”.
The budget committee and its recommendations are not a waste of time, the opinion is still on the ballot and the … Continue reading

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Budget Committee Meeting 04/26/10

Budget Committee met this past Monday to vote their will on each of the upcoming Referendums for the Town. All Selectmen were present to vote their recommendations as well. The meeting lasted roughly an 1:48.
Meeting Highlights:

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Budget Committee Meeting 04/21/10

Budget Committee met to review ballot items…
Meeting Highlights:
Selectmen Cole was in attendance – Meeting lasted 2:28 min

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Budget Committee 04/20/10

Meeting Highlights:
No Selectmen were in attendance at the meeting,  Meeting lasted about 2 hours

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Budget Committee 04/13/10

Meeting Highlights:
Selectmen Patch and Selectmen Cole were in attendance. Meeting Length appx 2:21 min

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Budget Committee Meeting 04/07/10

Meeting Highlights:
This weeks meeting focused on a discussion of prior budgets and the review of some changed Budgets from the Selectmen.

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Budget Committee Meeting 03/30/10

Meeting Highlights:

Budget Committee discusses the extreme delays on receiving budgets. All budget have been late and it has been over three weeks and still no general government budget.
Disappointment was expressed over the lack of cuts in budgets for all the … Continue reading

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Budget Committee Meeting 03/17/10

This week the Budget Committee reviewed the Rescue Department budget at the Blaisdell Station.

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Selectmen Meeting 03/16/10

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Research and Video Pages Updated

The Video and Research pages have been updated. This includes the preliminary Town and School budgets

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Budget Committee Meeting 03/10/10

Budget Committee meets to review the Transfer Station

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Budget Committee Meeting 03/08/10

The Budget Committee met to review the Recreation Budget and also had a visit by the School Superintendent Paul Andrade, and School Board member Joanne Potter to discuss the upcoming Budget for the schools. 

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Budget Committee Meeting 03/03/10

Meeting Highlights:
This week the Budget Committee reviews the Code Enforcement Officer (CEO) and Road Commissioners Budgets.
I would like to mention there were Three residents who came and observed. It is great to see people taking an interest in seeing for … Continue reading

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The Power You Have, Vote NO

Fellow Residents, I sit hear typing this post with a sense of consternation, aggravation and dismay. I would like You to take a moment to reflect and ask yourself a couple questions…
What do You expect of your Budget Committee and … Continue reading

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Budget Committee 02/23/10

The Budget Committee met last evening to review the Fire Department budget.

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Budget Committee Meeting 02/17/10

The Budget Committee met last evening to review the Planning Board and Library budgets.

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Budget Committee Meeting 02/11/10

Meeting Highlights:

Minutes were read and approved
The Budget Committee had not met in two weeks due to lack of Budgets being available from Selectmen.

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Budget Committee Meeting 01/27/10

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Budget Committee Does Right Thing

An informational meeting was scheduled at the Firehouse tonight for the Budget Committee to learn more about the Fire Departments needs for a new Engine. Being a Budget Committee member I was concerned if the meeting was still occurring since … Continue reading

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Budget Committee Meeting 11/18/09

Meeting Highlights:
This was the first meeting of the new Budget Committee since the election in June. Business commenced with the election of  a Chairperson

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Budget Committee Meeting 4/22/09 – The Vote

Meeting Highlights:

Selectmen Churchard explained a desire to relax the Conflict of Interest Policy on 4/7/09 (15 days ago). She has spoken with the Town Attorney to see if the language can be simplified and she is working to get a … Continue reading

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Budget Committee Meeting 04/16/09

This meeting represents the Warrant Article review. The Budget Committee goes down through each of the Warrant Articles asking questions of Selectmen and getting clarification on each of the items.There are 47 Warrant Articles in total.

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Budget Commitee Meeting 04/14/09

Meeting Highlights:

Sheriff Maurice R. Ouellette outlines the proposal he made to the Selectmen to have a full-time Deputy in town for the next four years and answers questions as posed by the Budget Committee. All Residents should view the … Continue reading

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Budget Committee Meeting 04/08/09

Highlights / Observations:

(From Previous Meeting) S.T.S. was contacted and they do have someone available to load trucks to meet Highway Dept. Needs.
Budget Committee reverses it’s opinions on closing the Transfer Station for a day as well as any further budget … Continue reading

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Budget Committee Meeting 04/02/09

This week the Budget Committee reviewed the General Government budget and the Animal Control Officer (ACO) budget.

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Budget Committee Meeting 03/26/09-Highway Dept.

This week the Budget Committee reviews the Highway Dept. Budget

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Budget Committee Meeting 03/25/2009 – Rescue

This week the Budget Committee reviews the Rescue budget

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Budget Committee Meeting 03/19/09

This week the Budget Committee was to review the Highway Department budget but the figures were just received, in fairness to the Budget Committee to allow for thorough review the actual meeting review was postponed. Tentative plans are to review … Continue reading

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Budget Committee Meeting 03/05/09

This week the Budget Committee reviews the Fire Department Budget…
Observations:

It was  painful to observe the Budget Committee members try to sift through the budget line information. It wastes the Budget Committee’s time trying to figure out what figures are what … Continue reading

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Budget Committee Meeting Minutes 02/03/2009

Here are the minutes from the 02-03-09 Budget Committee Meeting. I will also add a link to the original posting.

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Budget Committee Letter from 11/3/2008 Available

The Budget Commitee chairperson Nancy Neubert was kind enough to provide a copy of the letter the Budget Committee submitted to the Selectmen back on 11-3-08. You may view it here.
It had been discussed at the January Meeting…

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Budget Committee Meeting 02/12/09

Budget Committee reviews budgets for the Library, EMA (Emergency Management Agency), and E911 services.
Observations…

The Library is hindered from getting assistance from many State grants and participating in programs due to the fact it is not open year round.  To qualify … Continue reading

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Budget Committee Meeting Minutes 01/09/09

Minutes from the 01/09/09 Budget Committee Meeting have been released and are viewable here.

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Budget Committee Meeting 02/03/09

The Budget Committee reviews the upcoming School budget needs during this weeks meeting. Special guests MSAD #60 Superintendent Paul Andrade and Lebanon School Board member Joanne Potter provide outlook for upcoming year and answer questions.

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Budget Committee Sends Letter to Selectmen

The Budget Committee sent a letter to Selectmen with several requests. I have requested the letter from the Budget Chairperson and I will share once received. Here is a Link to a related article at Fosters Online highlighting some of … Continue reading

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Budget Committee Meeting Minutes 10-22-2008

The minutes for the the 10-22-2008 Budget Committee Meeting have been uploaded and are available here. I have also added a link to them in the recent article from 1/8/09.

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Budget Committee Meeting 1/08/09

Here is the Webcam video recorded from the Budget Committee Meeting on 01/08/09. I must apologize for some annoying low level hum noise that appears in it. The video is 1:21 in length and 299mb it may be downloaded here … Continue reading

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Budget Committee Alternate Needed

The Lebanon Selectmen are accepting letters of interest for a Budget Committee Alternate this is a one year term. All letters are due by Tuesday November 25th at 5pm at the Lebanon Town Office.

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Is it a Conflict of Interest?

In going through the town reports I see people on the Budget Committee and on other committees that also work inside the town hall or in other town departments. Does that seem at all odd to you? I could hear … Continue reading

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