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BOARD OF SELECTMEN Minutes of the Meeting of 18 May 2011. The meeting took place in the Town Building Conference Room, 16 Broad Street, Nantucket, MA 02554. Members of the Board present were Rick Atherton, Michael Kopko, Robert DeCosta, Patricia Roggeveen, and Whiting Willauer. Chairman Atherton called the meeting to order at 9:04 AM. I. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES WORKSHOP Mr. Atherton stated C. Elizabeth Gibson, Town Manager, and Greg Tivnan, Assistant Town Manager, developed ideas of top three goals from last week. 9:06 AM Mr. DeCosta joined the meeting. Mr. Kopko feels an ongoing issue is the need to improve financial management. On the sewer issue, we need to develop a long range plan including outreach and stakeholder discussions. Ms. Gibson stated she met with Mr. Atherton and Mr. Willauer and that Town Administration was instructed to come up with objectives – top three goals that are doable: 1) improved financial management; 2) long term sewer/water quality plan; and, 3) long term municipal facilities management. These three goals will need support from the Board of Selectmen to get funded. Ms. Roggeveen feels the job is done. Mr. DeCosta is pleased to see three goals and it is great to have a long range plan, but need to concentrate on one year attainable goals. Mr. Atherton suggested possibly creating additional goals list – in addition to top three goals. Mr. Willauer asked where IT development falls on the goals list. Ms. Roggeveen feels that is more of an Administration Management issue and not a Board of Selectmen issue. A discussion was held. Mr. Kopko stated the Board of Selectmen needs to decide for the upcoming year, what is not a goal, i.e. parking. Mr. DeCosta stated the Board is in agreement on the top three goals, and stated the need to look at the other priority items to see if they should stay on secondary list. Mr. DeCosta feels the Board also needs to look at financial impacts of the goals on the list. He feels energy needs to take a backseat. The Board needs to concentrate on sewers and roads. A discussion was held regarding public policy versus municipal responsibility, i.e. parking. Mr. Atherton stated some items, whether identified as goals of not, will make their way as policy items. Mr. Kopko feels some items identified last week can be tied into top three goals, i.e. wage survey/controlling personnel costs under financial management improvement. Mr. Atherton disagrees with Mr. Kopko. He feels finance is more internal controls. Mr. Atherton stated the Board agrees the top three are the focus. Mr. Kopko feels paving needs to be somewhere. Mr. DeCosta feels paving doesn’t need to be on top three. Mr. DeCosta stated it needs to be done and the Board can deal with it during the budget/capital projects process. Ms. Gibson stated there is not enough money to do it all and the Board needs to prioritize, i.e. energy, paving, IT. Mr. Willauer asked about policy issues. What are the Board of Selectmen and the Board of Health policy issues? Mr. DeCosta stated the Board needed to vote what is a priority. He doesn’t want to waste time if projects are not going to move forward because of lack of funding, specifically energy plan. The Board of Selectmen and Ms. Gibson reviewed the goals and decided to keep the top three goals and let other discussed items bubble up as future agenda items. Adjourned at 10:00 AM Approved the 8th day of February, 2017.
BOARD OF SELECTMEN MAY 18, 2011 – 9:00 AM PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY COMMUNITY ROOM 4 FAIRGROUNDS ROAD NANTUCKET, MASSACHUSETTS List of documents used at the meeting: I. Board of Selectmen FY 12 Goals and Objectives spreadsheet