Select Board Meeting Minutes 1/14/20

Meeting date: 
Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Minutes of the meeting of 1/14/20

Meeting Opened at: 6:30pm

Select Board Members Present: Kenneth Basler, Chairperson, Donald Coburn and Steven Weisz

Also in attendance: George Cain, Jon Sylbert, Rebecca Wolin, Chief Backhaus, Sergeant Fahey, Michele Miller and Peter Chait

The Board and Finance Committee met with the Police Department to discuss its budget request for FY21.

The Police Department is requesting an increase to his professional development line for additional trainings, communications and software licenses & agreements due to a 5% increase for his police software as well as an increase to his licenses and mobile data terminals.

Discussion ensued about whether there was a need for an additional cruiser, this will be tabled to a future date.  Chief Backhaus also explained that his current servers are due to be upgraded, everyone supported this and Chief Backhaus will come back with the cost for this.

A motion was made and unanimously approved to adjourn the meeting at: 7:30pm

 

Submitted by:

Melissa Noe, Administrative Assistant

Approved by:

Monterey Select Board

 

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