Advisory Committee

Annual (FY24) Budget Appropriations Article.

To see if the Town will:

A.) Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Appropriate the sums requested or proposed by the Select Board or by any other officer, board or committee, or any other sum or sums, for the fiscal year 2024 budget; without limiting the foregoing, appropriate the sums necessary for all town expenses, including the snow and ice budget, debt and interest, and operating expenses; fix the salaries of all elected officers as provided for in General Laws, Chapter 41, Section 108; authorize the 3 leasing, leasing with an option to purchase or installment purchase of equipment; appropriate to or from a stabilization fund as provided for in General Laws Chapter 40, Section 5B; appropriate CPA funds as provided in General Laws, Chapter 44, Section 44B; authorize the continuation of all revolving funds in accordance with General Laws, Chapter 44, Section 53E½ and all Enterprise Funds in accordance with General Laws, Chapter 44, Section 53F½; allocate available free cash; provide for a reserve fund; and establish the requirements for transfers among appropriations, interfund transfers, transfers for the purposes of salary adjustments, filling vacant positions and budgetary reporting.

B.) Fiscal Year 2024 Special Appropriations Appropriate sums of money for the following special purposes:

1.) Appropriate $25,000, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Chief Procurement Officer for town furniture upgrades.

2.) Appropriate $375,000, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Building Commissioner, with any necessary contracts over $100,000 to be approved by the Select Board, for the Brookline Village Library HVAC improvements.

3.) Appropriate $900,000, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Police Chief, with any necessary contracts over $100,000 to be approved by the Select Board, for upgrades/replacement of the Police and Fire Department’s radio infrastructure.

4.) Appropriate $200,000, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Police Chief, with any necessary contracts over $100,000 to be approved by the Select Board, for the equipment and of the Body Worn and In-Car Camera program.

5.) Appropriate $500,000, or any other sum, with any necessary contracts over $100,000 to be approved by the Select Board, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works, for traffic calming.

6.) Appropriate $700,000, or any other sum, with any necessary contracts over $100,000 to be approved by the Select Board, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works, for bike access improvements.

7.) Appropriate $75,400, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works, for Accessible Pedestrian Signals.

8.) Appropriate $3,930.000, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works, with any necessary contracts over $100,000 to be approved by the Select Board, for the rehabilitation of streets. 4

9.) Appropriate $500,000, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works, with any necessary contracts over $100,000 to be approved by the Select Board, for the rehabilitation of sidewalks.

10.) Appropriate $800,000, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works, with any necessary contracts over $100,000 to be approved by the Select Board, for design work related to the Washington Street Rehabilitation and Complete Streets Program.

11.)Appropriate $600,000, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works, with any necessary contracts over $100,000 to be approved by the Select Board, for storm water improvements.

12.)Appropriate $2,000,000, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works, with any necessary contracts over $100,000 to be approved by the Select Board, for water system improvements.

13.)Appropriate $3,000,000, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works, with any necessary contracts over $100,000 to be approved by the Select Board, for wastewater system improvements.

14.)Appropriate $520,000, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works, with any necessary contracts over $100,000 to be approved by the Select Board, for the design of the renovation of Amory Tennis Courts, Parking and Halls Pond.

15.)Appropriate $350,000, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works, with any necessary contracts over $100,000 to be approved by the Select Board, for improvements to Monmouth Park.

16.)Appropriate $2,000,000, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works, with any necessary contracts over $100,000 to be approved by the Select Board, for the renovation of Schick Playground.

17.) Appropriate $285,000, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works, with any necessary contracts over $100,000 to be approved by the Select Board, for the renovation of playground equipment, fields, and fencing.

18.) Appropriate $100,000, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works for the rehabilitation of Town and School grounds.

19.)Appropriate $300,000, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works, with any necessary contracts to be approved by the Select Board and the Park and Recreation Commission, for the rehabilitation of tennis courts and basketball courts. 5

20.) Appropriate $375,000, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works, with any necessary contracts over $100,000 to be approved by the Select Board and the Tree Planting Committee, for the removal and replacement of trees.

21.) Appropriate $150,000, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Recreation Director for the renovation of the Soule Courtyard.

22.)Appropriate $300,000, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Recreation Director, with any necessary contracts to be approved by the Select Board and the Park and Recreation Commission, for tree work at Putterham Woods.

23.) Appropriate $25,000, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Chief Procurement Officer for school furniture upgrades.

24.) Appropriate $200,000, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Building Commissioner for HVAC equipment.

25.) Appropriate $90,000, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Building Commissioner for ADA renovations to Town and School facilities.

26.) Appropriate $250,000, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Building Commissioner for elevator renovations.

27.) Appropriate $130,000, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Building Commissioner for upgrades to energy management systems in Town and School facilities.

28.)Appropriate $125,000, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Building Commissioner, for public building fire alarm upgrades.

29.)Appropriate $170,000, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Building Commissioner, for improvements to life safety systems and building security in Town and School facilities.

30.) Appropriate $1,000,000 or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Building Commissioner, with any necessary contracts over $100,000 to be approved by the Select Board and the School Committee, for minor renovations / upgrades to school buildings.

31.) To see if the Town will appropriate Two Hundred Nine Million Nine Hundred Fifteen Thousand Nine Hundred Fifty-Eight Dollars ($209,915,958) to the pay costs of constructing a new PreK-8 School which includes renovations/addition to the existing 6 historic Pierce School and other site improvements including reconstruction and repair of the Town Hall and Pierce School garages which are beneath the new school and the Town Park across School Street to be located on the site of the existing John R. Pierce School at 50 School Street in Brookline, Massachusetts replacing the existing John R. Pierce School, including the payment of all costs related to designing the new school project, equipping and furnishing the school, site improvements, and all other costs incidental and related thereto (the “Project”), which new school facility shall have an anticipated useful life as an educational facility for the instruction of school children of at least 50 years, and for which the Town may be eligible for a grant from the Massachusetts School Building Authority (the “MSBA”); and to determine if said appropriation shall be expended under the direction of the Town of Brookline Select Board; to determine if said appropriation shall be raised by borrowing or otherwise; to determine if the Town shall acknowledge that the MSBA’s grant program is a nonentitlement, discretionary program based on need, as determined by the MSBA, and any project costs the Town incurs in excess of any grant approved by and received from the MSBA shall be the sole responsibility of the Town and that any grant that the Town may receive from the MSBA for the Project shall not exceed the lesser of (1) thirtyfive and fifty-five hundredths percent (35.55%) of eligible, approved project costs, as determined by the MSBA, or (2) the total maximum grant amount determined by the MSBA; to determine if the amount of any borrowing authorized for the project shall be reduced by any grant amount set forth in and received pursuant to the Project Funding Agreement that may be executed between the Town and the MSBA; to determine whether the appropriation and any borrowing authorized for the project shall be contingent upon the Town’s passage of a ballot question to exempt the principal and interest payments on such borrowing from the tax limitations of G.L. c.59, §21C (Proposition 2 ½); or to take any other action relative thereto.

32.) Appropriate $2,026,982, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the School Superintendent, with any necessary contracts to be approved by the School Committee, for the expansion of classroom capacity in various schools.

33.) Appropriate $275,000, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works, with any necessary contracts over $100,000 to be approved by the Select Board, for improvements at Robinson Playground, and to rescind a like amount voted at the November 15, 2022 Special Town Meeting under Article 1, Item 4, which item was inadvertently omitted from the warrant for such meeting;

34.) Appropriate $355,000, or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works, with any necessary contracts over $100,000 to be approved by the Select Board, for improvements at Murphy Playground, and to rescind a like amount voted at the November 15, 2022 Special Town Meeting under Article 1, Item 5, which item was inadvertently omitted from the warrant for such meeting; 7

35.) Appropriate $1,259,083, or any other sum, to resolve the special revenue account deficit as a result of COVID expenses that may not be eligible for reimbursement.

C.) Funding And determine whether such appropriations shall be raised by taxation, transferred from available funds, borrowed or provided by any combination of the foregoing, and authorize the leasing, leasing with an option to purchase, or the installment purchase of any equipment or any capital items; and authorize the Select Board, except in the case of the School Department Budget, and with regard to the School Department, the School Committee, to apply for, accept and expend grants, gifts, reimbursements, and aid from both federal, state, and other sources and agencies for any of the purposes noted in this Article, or act on anything relative thereto.