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Minutes and Agenda on town website: click here
December 15, 2008
AGENDAS MINUTES
Part 1: Putting financial data on the town website; Chairman's Agenda (1:30); Chairman's Update (3:05); Town Manager Update (5:20); (Storm report, operational minute). Community Services Worked hired (8:30); Selectmen Reports (committees) (9:30); Town Manager FY10 Budget Presentation (23:10). All times approximate.
Part 2: Consent agenda; Class One and Class Two Car Dealer licenses (6:40); Acton Jazz Cafe Sign (11:20); Sign violation fines (14:35); ALG update (18:25); Discussion of ALG spreadsheet and state revenues (25:00); Cutting budgets and use of reserves (27:25); Change of Manager for Not your Average Joe's (34:40); ALG comment for a consistent set of financial documents (44:35). All times approximate.
Part 3: Site Plan, 88 Champs LLC, 525 Main St. (addition to building)
Part 4: Health Insurance Trust; Draft Charge for South Acton Parking Garage (17:55); Fee Approval, trench permit fees and fines (40:10); closing town warrant (47:55). All times approximate.
December 1 , 2008
AGENDAS MINUTES
Part 1: Citizen comments on Route 2 rotary design (2:30); Chairman comments (10:30); Town Manager comments and hiring freeze thaw (11:30); Selectmen committee reports (12:15); senior center expansion (13:30); health insurance trust (14:50); Mt. Hope cemetary land trail and dog walking (20:30); tax classification hearing (29:00). All times approximate.
Part 2: Hearing for 525 Main St; Citizens Group trying to buy Exchange Hall (5:50); License Renewals (30:35). All times approximate.
Part 3: Letter to Mass Highway - preferences for Route 2 rotary design; FinCom point of view (28:00). All times approximate.
Part 4: Quail Ridge trail easement; Letter of intent - Suburban Mobility Grant program (2:45); Terra Friedrichs on ideas for strategic planning - design review board - parking garage - BOS priorities - Master Plan (8:40). All times approximate.
November 17, 2008
AGENDAS MINUTES
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Part 4
November 3, 2008
AGENDAS MINUTES
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Part 3
Part 4
October 20, 2008
AGENDAS MINUTES
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
October 6, 2008
AGENDAS MINUTES
Part 1
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Part 3
September 22, 2008
AGENDAS MINUTES
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
September 21 , 2008 Joint Board Meeting
AGENDAS MINUTES
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
September 8, 2008
AGENDAS MINUTES
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
August 11, 2008
AGENDAS MINUTES
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Minutes and Agenda on town website: click here
December 18, 2008
AGENDAS MINUTES
Part 1: Joint Meeting minutes approvals; Bill Ryan Storm Update (1:35); Wellness Report and Recommendations (3:20); parent comments. All times approximate.
Part 2: Wellness Report, parent comments (continued); Motion on first recommendation (9:20); Vote on first recommendation (dangerous foods) (16:15); Motion on rest of Wellness recommendations (17:20); Vote (28:30); Superintendent Search update (29:40); Adjourn regional meeting (33:30); Question on Public School staffing (35:00); West Acton Boardwalk Project Update (CPC) (42:00). All times approximate.
Part 3: ALG Report; FinCom Report (5:40); LWV's Making Town Meeting Work Better report (10:15); FY09 Budget Update (12:25); FY10 Budget (18:20); How reduction in Ch70 state aid affects Acton's budgets (41:00); Cost reductions carry forward to FY10 (45:40); Per pupil spending question (46:00). All times approximate.
Part 4: How to make cuts at elementary school level, budget cuts, accepting choice students, use of reserves; Question on breaking out "per classroom" expenditures versus "per pupil" expenditures (3:50); Buildings must operate and safety (7:00); Health Insurance Trust report (11:50); Are Health Insurance Reserves appropriately sized? (17:00); Superintendent Search update (19:05); School district goals vote (19:50).
December 4 , 2008
AGENDAS MINUTES
Part 1: Technology update (2:45); Teachers show how technology is used in their classroom (15:50); SPED Financial Task Force final report (41:20)
Part 2: Superintendent Search Process update; Finance Commitee Report (7:50); FY09 Budget Update (20:20); School Committee Annual Report suggestion (31:10); FY10 Budget Update (37:10)
Part 3: FY 10 budget continued, SPED and SPED tuition; Regional Assessment calculations (2:27); Acton-Boxborough Split (5:00); Cost-cutting actions by schools (9:25); School Choice Budget Projections (12:00); ALG Plan (12:55); Spending less than state averages (15:00); Discussion of overall budget outlook by School Committee (17:40) (use of reserves, technology proposal, Boxborough's share of regional expenses).
Part 4: Questions on health insurance trust savings with higher co-pays; computer technology proposal (5:00); Salary-line budget increases (9:00); SPED tuition from out of district (19:40).
November 13, 2008
AGENDAS MINUTES
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Part 5
October 16, 2008
(Douglas School)
APS AGENDAS
ABRS AGENDAS APS MINUTE ABRS MINUTE
Part 1: Chris Whitbeck (2:30); Computers and technology at Douglas (6:20); Reading Street Program (13:30); Class size discussion (21:30); classroom assistants (28:00); More class size (38:20); ALG report (47:30). All times approximate.
Part 2: ALG Report (cont); Acton FinCom Report (1:20); FY09 Budget (2:20); Budget cutting - reviewing purchase orders, 5% budget rduction, review of any open positions (7:00); School parcel of land on Arlington Street (9:50); Question on cost reduction task force and re-engineering (13:00); Question on MCAS testing (19:40); FY10 Budget (22:45); Capital Plan - roofs (30:00); McCarthy-Towne Principal Search Committee (36:50); Wellness Report (38:30); West Acton Boardwalk Project (CPC Proposal) (43:00). All times approximate.
Part 3: Parker-Damon Shade Structure (CPC Proposal); Bill Ryan Appointment to CASE (15:20); MCAS Results (15:50); ABRSD Meeting (19:10); Craig Hardiman, Junion High School Principal, gives update (23:10); half-team report - stress (33:10); safety - staff feedback (39:30); Mandarin and world languages (41:10). All times approximate.
Part 4: Craig Hardiman continues, JHS Teams; Teacher mentoring and collaboration (9:40); Mandarin and language enrollment (13:00); SPED Connections program (19:20); ALG (22:25); BLF (22:45); State economic update (23:10); AB Cost Reduction steps (24:20); FY10 Budget (26:20); Enrollment Report (Oct. 1 numbers) (34:50); Technology lease of equipment (49:40); School District Goals (1:00:20); Foreign Exchange Students (1:08:20); Superintendent Search committee (1:12:20); Question One Motion (1:30:25). All times approximate.
September 21 , 2008 Joint Board Meeting
AGENDAS MINUTES
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September 18, 2008 (Conant School)
APS AGENDAS MINUTES
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Part 5
August 14, 2008
AGENDAS: Acton Public School Committee Meeting
Acton-Boxborough Regional School Committee Meeting
MINUTES
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Minutes and Agenda on town website: click here
December 16, 2008
AGENDAS MINUTES
Part 1: Approval of minutes; Steve Ledoux & Steve Barrett - Quarterly update FY09 (1:50); Nursing Enterprise Fund (3:50); NESWC (5:30); Council on Aging Van (6:55); Sewer Enterprise (8:30); Snow and Ice (10:30); $600k in savings on town side (24:00); union contracts (33:45); quarterly school update by Fincom (37:25)
Part 2: ALG Report; Use of Reserves (1:45); Dealing with declining state revenues; zero percent raises and lower budget increases (12:00); current budgets as proposed are too high (23:00); Health Insurance Trust reserves (31:00)
Part 3: SPED Financial Task Force report; League of Women Voters study and survey on Town Meeting (46:40); Committee reports (51:20) - BOS; CPC (Windsor Building, Woodbury Lane); Sewer Action Committee.
December 2, 2008
AGENDAS MINUTES
Part 1: Clint Seward presentation for the Acton Voters Group (AVG). Use of reserves, reserve spending policy, Acton's vulnerable citizens, budget choices at April Town Meeting, AVG raising funds to help with tax relief.
Part 2: Cost-reduction efforts, Shared services between town and school (9:50); 1999 re-engineering effort (19:25); Cooperative buying of utilities (16:50); accepting payments on-line (19:25); School regionalization K-12 (21:30); Are we providing the right services? (26:30); Re-engineering (33:30); Bottom-up or zero-based budgeting (42:40); Attrition or layoffs (44:20); Collective bargaining (46:00); Thawing of the hiring freeze (48:40); Economic Development Committee (EDC) (54:50); School Committee report (56:50); SPED task force (1:01:40); Senior Expansion Committee update (1:05:24). All times are approximate.
November 18, 2008
AGENDAS MINUTES
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October 21, 2008
AGENDAS MINUTES
Part 1
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October 8, 2008
AGENDAS MINUTES
Part 1
September 23, 2008
AGENDAS MINUTES
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Part 4
September 21 , 2008 Joint Board Meeting
AGENDAS MINUTES
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September 9, 2008
AGENDAS MINUTES
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September 2, 2008
AGENDAS MINUTES
Part 1
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August 28, 2008
AGENDAS MINUTES
VIDEO:
August 12, 2008
AGENDAS MINUTES
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
July 15 , 2008
AGENDAS MINUTES
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| League of Women Voters Candidates Debate Oct. 2008 |
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October 2, 2008 Special Town Meeting
WARRANT
ABSTRACT
VIDEO Part 1
VIDEO Part 2
April 2008: Town Meeting 4 Nights
WARRANT
ABSTRACT
April 2008: Night 1
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Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
April 2008: Night 2
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April 2008: Night 3
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April 2008: Night 4
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| Acton Leadership Group Minutes |
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September 15, 2008
Minutes: View Here
August 25, 2008
Minutes: View Here
July 28, 2008
Minutes: View Here
March 10, 2008
Minutes: View Here
February 28, 2008
Minutes: View Here
February 25, 2008
Minutes: View Here
February 13, 2008
Minutes: View Here
February 11, 2008
Minutes: View Here
January 18, 2008
Minutes: View Here
January 31, 2007
Minutes: View Here
November 26, 2007
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October 20, 2007
Minutes: View Here
October 16, 2007
Minutes: View Here
August 13, 2007
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March 12, 2007
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| 2008-2009 Board and Committee Meetings |
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ACT0N LEADERSHIP GROUP (7:30 AM)
Usual location: Room 204, Town Hall
October 10, 2008 (Friday)
October 27, 2008 (Monday)
November 10, 2008 (Monday)
December 8, 2008 (Monday)
BOARD OF SELECTMEN (usually about 7:00 PM
Usual location: Room 204, Town Hall
October 9, 2008 (Thursday)
October 20, 2008 (Monday)
November 3, 2008 (Nonday)
November 17, 2008 (Monday)
December 1, 2008 (Monday)
December 15, 2008 (Monday)
January 12, 2009 (Monday)
January 26, 2009 (Monday)
February 9, 2009 (Monday)
February 23, 2009 (Monday)
March 9, 2009 (Monday)
March 23, 2009 (Monday)
FINANCE COMMITTEE
Usual location: Room 204, Town Hall
October 7, 2008 (Tuesday)
October 21, 2008 (Tuesday)
November 18, 2008 (Tuesday)
December 2, 2008 (Tuesday)
December 16, 2008 (Tuesday)
January 13, 2009 (Tuesday)
January 27, 2009 (Tuesday)
February 10, 2009 (Tuesday)
February 24, 2009 (Tuesday)
March 10, 2009 (Tuesday)
March 24, 2009 (Tuesday)
PUBLIC SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Usual location: Junior High School Library (unless otherwise noted)
October 16, 2008 (Thursday) --- 6:30 p.m. --- Douglas School
November 13, 2008 (Thursday) --- Merriam School
December 18, 2008 (Thursday)
January 15, 2009 (Thursday)
February 26, 2009 (Thursday)
March 19, 2009 (Thursday --- McCarthy-Towne School
May 21, 2009 (Thursday) --- Gates School
June 18, 2009 (Thursday)
REGIONAL SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Usual location: Junior High School Library (unless otherwise noted)
October 16, 2008 (Thursday) --- 8:00 p.m. --- Douglas School
November 20, 2008 (Thursday) --- AB High School
December 4, 2008 (Thursday)
January 8, 2009 (Thursday)
February 6, 2009 (Thursday)
March 5, 2009 (Thursday)
May 7, 2009 (Thursday)
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