Dalton Brief: Approval of Donation and Budget Items
DALTON, Mass. — The Select Board last week accepted the 4th quarter franchise fee for Dalton Community Cable Association.
• The board also accepted a $3,000 donation from the Katharine L.W. and Winthrop M. Crane 3D charitable foundation for the Dalton Free Public Library. The funds will assist in updating the library's juvenile nonfiction collection.
• The board approved the annual Buddy Walk that will be on Saturday, Sept. 30, starting around 11.
The route will stay the same as previous years starting and ending at Craneville Elementary School, looping down Park Street, up Main Street, down Crane Ave until 1st street, and the final stretch down John Street.
The goal of the walk is to fundraise for residents of Berkshire County with Down Syndrome while promoting awareness and inclusion for them.
• The Select Board, acting as the Licensing Board approved Wahconah Country Club's Change of Manager application for Eric Jost.
• The town treasurer's budget is projected to decrease 1.5 percent bringing the total to $129,249.
Although the budget had increases in salaries, subscriptions, financial advisory services, and bank services charges the town does not need to budget for the OPED study because that happens every other year.
The department is also going to switch to the online state bank rating system which gives them access to the bank's ratings on a monthly basis instead of waiting for the quarter to end.
The Select Board also approved the Finance Committee budget in the amount of $1,685.
The board and Finance Committee approved the following budgets with little to no discussion:
- the amended Town Report budget for $7,915,
- the amended Tree Warden budget for $42,634,
- the highway budget for $599,343,
- the sewer budget for $139,026,
- the Tax Title Foreclosure budget for $2,500,
- the Berkshire County Retirement budget for $554,979,
- the Unemployment Insurance budget for $7,500,
- the Group Health And Dental Insurance budget for $761,214,
- the Life Insurance budget for $17,811,
- the Medicare town share budget for $50,000
- the Employee Fringe Benefits budget for $48,294,
- the Judgment And Claims budget for $3,000.
- the Town Insurances budget for $253,500,
- the Conservation Commission budget for $2,175,
- the Town Advertising budget for $10,500
- the Veterans' Benefits Budget for $114,000,
- the streetlights budgets for $27,460,
The board approved Town Treasurer Dawn Fahey's request to get rid of the Commissioner of Trust Funds budget in the amount of $200 because she has never had to use it.
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