2012-10-15 finance committee

24:33
The discussion about the Law item line A1420.4 starts back at 7min. The estimated cost for 2011 merged government is at this time at $75,000 and Dave argues that it should be higher, considering that the 2011 Town Actual was $115,484. Ross comments that there will be only one planning board and one zoning board so the need for lawyers will be less, and Sally picks up that reasoning and reiterates that with merger, you don't need two planning board attorneys and two zoning board attorneys. At 24m33sec, Dave responds "Yes, you can say you have just one zoning board and you have one planning board. But let's face it. The activity coming before those two boards will be equivalent to what the boards handle separately today. You're not going to have less developments, you're not going to have less requests for changes on variances and so forth -- even though those boards are combined into one board, that board in itself will have more work to do, so therefore rather than having a meeting once a month or twice a month, they're going to have more meetings than that.