Grafton Sustainability Commission

Meetings

  • 7 pm
  • Monthly as posted
  • Grafton Municipal Center
    30 Providence Road
    Grafton, MA 01519

Agendas & Minutes

Agendas are available prior to the meetings. Minutes are available following approval.

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Members

  • Edward Prisby, Chairman
  • Mark Haddad, Vice Chairman
  • Amy Marr, Clerk
  • Angie Correia
  • Laura Didio
  • Pamela Hill
  • Martin Jahn
  • Colleen Roy

Overview

Charge

Be it resolved that the Grafton Board of Selectmen hereby establish the formation of the Grafton Sustainability Commission (GSC), an advisory committee which shall include nine total members, including two members of each of the School Committee, Finance Committee, and Board of Selectmen. The School Committee and Finance Committee shall determine their members at their sole discretion. Those five members shall constitute the GSC's Execute Committee, and are empowered to appoint by majority vote four additional members of the Grafton community as they see fit to accomplish the committee's charge.

The GSC will be advisory in nature, and is charged with assisting in planning for additional tactics and strategies to improve the Town's future fiscal years including offering guidance to the Executive (Select Board) and School Committee branches of Grafton's government. The GSC will do so by helping to define the choices facing Grafton with respect to municipal and educational service levels and their long-term funding requirements and identify, within this context, innovative ways of increasing short-and long term operational efficiency and effectiveness, and identify new or enhanced sources of funding for Town services. As part of its overall review, the GSC should look at the assumptions about revenues and expenditures to determine if the forecast of the next five years is within the range or reasonable projections and if adjustments should be made on what basis. The GSC will provide research, comparables, and forecasts, and ultimately will provide Grafton with key information that Grafton government can draw upon to make key long-term fiscal decisions in the future.

The GSC will, with the assistance of the Town Administrator's office and the Superintendent's office, research benchmarking, income analysis, and spending analysis, to ultimately determine and make recommendations upon the sustainability of the services that Grafton residents rely upon.

Its report shall be completed no later than January 1, 2020.