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#+title: 2021 Castine Town Budget

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* February overview
<2021-02-23 Tue>
** General Government
+ 3% COL increase for employees
+ Will have to raise sewer rates
+ Nothing with code enforcement
+ PPG for heat is $3 per gallon
+ Insurance/Bonds/Workers Comp increase, Maine Municipal said Comp bumped rates up
  + Had one claim
+ Hancock Count Planning Commission has new org, worth updating our membership
+ New Gov. Accounting rules, need to bump up audits by $500
+ Reduced mileage due ot Covid, but keep it
** Pubilc Saftey
+ No fire department budget yet
+ TS operations up ~2K mostly demo increases due to building
  - Increased revenue as well
  - Generally offsets increases well
+ Hope for 2021 is the Fiberight re-opens and our costs go down
+ Not sure how that contract will play out
+ 55 tons of recycling usually goes out, budgeted at $70/ton
+ Harbor Master boat winterization, used to do our own work, now done by contractor ^$400
+ Law Enforcement amount down a lot, never get $26k worth of bills, usually around $15
+ Budget is realistic rather than optimistic
+ [[id:2ae57eed-46ba-4f00-a5b5-08caf8240976][MMA]] will reimburse us up to $13.4 per year, but never able to get there
+ Ended up with a $1500 credit in streetlight account
+ Electric bill is ~$100 per month for lights
** Public works
+ Henry is already very much like a salaried position
  - Managed weekend work by informally allowing him to take time off already
  - Makes sense to go to salaried position
  - If he got a 3% raise this year, put him at $23.20/hr
  - Cleaning help is $20/hr
  - $26.44/hr at $55k salary
+ Well maintenance plan is in place to try to move that back to property owners
  - 3 homes on well, $200 per home for leasing land to Ingrid Scott
  - $1150 per home paid by town for well maintenance
  - State standards for saline in water is fairly high
  - Need to test private home wells again
+ Road maintenance has gone down a lot, used to be done by town crews
  - Crack sealing and $19k of road work done out of this line because we were over budgeted
  - Continue to do crack sealing out of that account, but slowly work it down over next few years
  - Same is true with plow trucks