New Britain herald., 1926-09-27
PMinuiM Mews
RECOMMEND BOARD OF FINANCE HERE
Committee Asks Matter Be Considered at Town Meeting

| AASnS NA~StSA ON
 Considered at Town Meeting
 MANY WEEKEND ARRESTS
 Several Accidents, Drunken Drivers
 and Abusive Language Keep Pc
 lice Busy-Au-Plain Wir | Benefit Game.
 With the expenditures of the towr
 of Plainville approximately s131,.
 900 for the past fiscal year ant
 mounting rapilly, the committee ap. pointed by the Plainville Chamber of Commerce to investigate the ad. visibility of establishing a board O. l finance here has reported favorably
 on the matter and will ask the SC. ! lectmen to include the proposition ir
 the call for the annual town meeting
 next week. This committee, consist, ing of Stanley s. Gwillim, II. s ! Washburn and Joseph T. Mccarthy
 has been making a comprehensive survey of the board of finance as il has worked out elsewhere in Con-
 necticut and as it would apply tc PfainVile and has come to the con- clusion that such a body would be of great benefit in conducting the l finances Of this town. Accordingly | letters were sent out to all registered voters today explaining the proposi- | ton in detail. The letter is as fol- | lows:
 As far as can be learned. boards
 of finance first came into being in Connecticut in the 1S90's.
 These boards were organized first l in the larger towns and cities and have, during the past ten years espe- cially, been extending to the smaller | towns.
 "A town without a board Of f. | nance may well ask what it would gain by creating such a board and it would seem as though a board Of finance has it's place in the fiscal sys- tenn of our town because of its great growth among the smaller towns during the last ten years. Tn the following paragraphs We hope to answer the question raised in the preceding paragraph.
 'Fifty-three towns in Connecticut have town board of finance or it's equivalent. ...
 50 far as can be learned, no town in Connecticut having once adopted 1 a board of finance has gone back to the old system.
 The fiscal functions Of town gov crnment may be classified under two headings. CD Receipts. CD EXpen- ditures.
 The purpose Of town board of finance is to provide q unified control over the receipts and expenditures of town.
 Under the general statutes or Connecticut these boards are made Up of six electors and taxpayers who shall hold no other salaricd town of fee and no member of the board shall receive compensation for his services, although the necessary eX- penses of the board. when approved by the selectmen, shall be paid by the town.
 The town clerk serves as clerk Of the board and q chairman IS elected from the board membership.
 Any town, at town meeting call ed for the purpose, may by resolu- ton provide for the esta tablishment of a board of finance and the election in any town at which such resolu- ton may be adopted shall be warned and held in the manner provided for the election of officers therein.
 At the next annual election after the adoption of such resolution or at a special election warned for such purpose. the town shall elect by bal lot six electors and taxpayers of said i town who shall constitute the board 1 of finance. until the next annual election, two i to serve until the second annual 1 election and two to serve until the . third annual election. and at each . annual election thereafter the town . shall elect by ballot in the same ! manner as the town officers are elected, two electors and taxpayers as members to serve for a period of three years.
 Not less than two weeks before the annual town meeting of any town having a board of finance, such board shall hold a public meet ing, at which itemized estimates of the expenditures of the town for the ensuing fiscal year shall be present. cd and they shall hear all persons who may wish 10 be heard in re- gard to any appropriation which they are desirous that such board should recommend.
 Such board shall, after such pub lie hearing, hold an eecutive session at which it shall consired the esti- mates so presented and any other matters brought 10 its attention and shall thereupon prepare and cause 10 be published in q newspaper in such town an itemized estimate of