April 5 - Town of Falmouth

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Maybe the next slide – shows you in the police arena as well
some of the training is enormously specialized. It’s very difficult, the
missions that they accomplish, and to see them be able to hold those costs
down, you know, I think the next steps are going to be incumbent on us to
determine what those service levels need to be.
It’s a similar situation when you get into the Public Works
arena. These folks have done a great job in holding the costs down. Take
a look at these five years costs. We’re spending less now than we spent in
2007 in Highway; Water’s been able to get their costs down. Wastewater,
you know, it’s gone up a little but we’ve opened up in that period of time
two brand new wastewater treatment plants that both of them are
performing, you know, much higher than they had in the past.
Interestingly enough, you need to take a look at this item here.
You know, the trash collection budget is up 248,000. Does everyone
know that the trash budget is the biggest division in all of Public Works?
Well, well, well it is. And when, you know, we talk about – I know there’s
been so much discussion about the mechanisms that we employ to have
some fees for these types of services. I only ask that, in making these
determinations on what the most appropriate fees are, that you recognize
that we need 248,000 more dollars just to get the curbside program rolling
for next year. That this is an environment of shrinking revenues, but if you
don’t come up with another $248,000, you will not have your waste picked