Finance Committee Meeting Minutes
November 5, 2025 5:30 pm
Author:
Sarah White
Attendees
Chris Peterson, Pat Smally, Anna Taylor, Sarah White, Ben Wisniewski
Meeting Notes
- Charter. Chris distributed a draft charter for review.
- Budget plan.
- Reserve funds. Discussion of how much to keep in interest-earning accounts. Preliminary decision: $20k
- Line item budget amounts. With roughly $10k in income each year (excluding dedicated grants), decision to propose deficit spending of $12k, continuing to spend down grant monies. Chris to circulate a draft for review at the next meeting.
Decided to make ReTree a separate line item for tracking spending. - Responsible parties for income sources and spending. Preliminary decision to set as follows:
- Sources:
- Membership/gifts (separate categories): Denise
- Events: Anna
- Town of Webster: Anna/President
- Other grants: Anna
- Interest: Chris
- Uses:
- Trail projects/maintenance (separate categories): Linda
- Scout/student projects: Pat F.
- Major initiatives: Anna
- ReTree: Sarah
- Other: All
- Insurance: Chirs
- Events: Anna
- Supplies: TBD
- Vehicle: TBD
- Other: TBD
- Sources:
- Next steps
- Set next meeting date – Sarah to coordinate for early December
- Complete action items
- At next meeting finalize charter, finalize proposed spending targets, discuss spending authorization proposal, develop job descriptions
Action items – due by next meeting
- Review draft charter and circulate changes
- Review proposed spending targets