Bd. of Education:

1. Recognize the progress made over the past decade in the support of education and exercise some restraint to allow other Town needs to be addressed.
2. Provide a greater oversight of the Education budget.
3. Improve the clarity of the Education budget by breaking down large budget line items.
4. Establish procedures to identify and protect potential budget  surpluses.
5. Establish a permanent committee to review, understand and, if possible, control Special Education costs (which are well above average and amounted to $5.68 million (25.3% of the budget) in 05-06.
6. Define an objective measure of sucess for Special Education out-placement program.
7. Consider restructuring the current Sp. Ed. staff with the objective of reducing the above average out-placed pupils.

 Town Manager:

1. Minimize the use of placeholders to prevent disclosure of monies set aside for contract negotiations and to permit easier assessment by the public of budgeting accuracy.This would require having new contracts begin at the start of the fiscal year. 
2. Publish (in the newspapers) regular reports detailing roads commitments, contruction schedules, and the progress made on roads commitments.

Town Council:

1. Put out a more timely (November/December timeframe) and more substantive budget policy statement.
2. Quantify a spending limit within the statement.

Bd. of Finance:

1. Define a more rational approach to setting a spending limit. Publicize the approach.
2. Probe the education budget in more detail.
3. Define a more rational approach to the level of Undesignated General Fund.
4. Use any monies made available by reductions in Debt Service only to reduce taxes and/or to support Capital (and definitely NOT to support increases in ongoing operations).