Public Works board backs one-year cost allocation

Board of Public Works · Meeting of June 22, 2026

EASTHAMPTON — The Board of Public Works voted 3-0 to recommend approval of a one-year fiscal 2027 indirect cost allocation for the enterprise funds. Thomas Malsbury, Leah Strode and Gilson Hogan voted yes by roll call. Total enterprise indirect costs stand at about $2.7 million, and the agreement replaces a flat-percentage arrangement last updated in fiscal 2015.

Planning now has its own 10 percent line, and the enterprise recently moved $1.15 million from retained earnings into a stabilization account. Speakers said the rate structure should keep reserves above a 25 percent threshold even though a 40 percent target is out of reach for now. The board also left open whether to charge benefits for a new part-time collections clerk, a question a member suggested studying next year.

In the full story:

• Public Speak
• Enterprise Indirect Cost Allocations: background
• Term and scope
• What changed since the last meeting
• Total cost and the rate study
• Reserves and the stabilization account
• Collections clerk and benefits
• Signature and vote
• What is next
• Who Was There
• Organizations And Documents Referenced
• The complete report: 1,605 words

Source: the Board of Public Works meeting of June 22, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.

Checked against the record: before publication this article was automatically compared with the meeting transcript.