April 5 - Town of Falmouth

slide, we’ve had some tremendous success in the renewable energy field.
We have a highly talented project manager, Heather Harper, at the front,
here, that has just done such great work in speeding up our ability to get
these systems online. They will generate, Wind Turbine Number One and
Two, hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in direct cost savings. That
is probably, you know, one of the most fundamental financial impacts that
we’ll see. The financial software, again, will help streamline a lot of our
functions.
We’re supporting wholeheartedly the Open Cape Broadband
Network, which will provide additional fiberoptic communications between
our key Town facilities and also help make that financial software worth its
weight in gold. So the technological solutions are also very, very much a
part of the process, very important moving forward.
Now, it’s not all going to be easy. A very important
characteristic of the successful communities has also been the ability to
increase revenues to meet those very priorities that have been set by
policymakers in an open, public forum. That is easier said than done.
We’ve struggled mightily in terms of being able to address some of the
revenue issues and get it so that the revenues are rebounding and coming
back up, and it’s never easy. It’s never easy to address those problems
when you identify the priorities but there’s a lack of funding for them.
Action is needed to address those items. We’re not starting blank from it.
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