YARMOUTH, Mass. — The Town of Yarmouth Finance Committee on Jan. 29 voted provisionally to recommend multiple departmental budgets for presentation at Town Meeting, including the police budget and the community development budget, and approved prior meeting minutes.

The committee voted to recommend the police department budget after a motion and second; a roll call produced unanimous support from members who responded "aye." Committee members recorded as voting yes in the roll call were John, Nate, Rafael, George, Alyssa and Bob.

The committee then approved a package that included the building department and Board of Health inspection services budgets; the building department request figure discussed in the meeting was $759,001.98. The motion to recommend the building and Board of Health inspection services budgets passed on a roll call vote with the same members recorded as "aye."

The Finance Committee next moved a provisional recommendation for the Community Development budget; after a motion and second the committee approved the recommendation by roll call. Members recorded as voting yes included John, Nate, Rafael, Mister Perkins, Melissa and Bob.

The committee also approved the draft minutes from its Jan. 8 meeting by roll call.

What was not specified: Several dollar totals read aloud from the meeting record were garbled in the transcript; where the committee read or displayed recommended totals the meeting record itself contained unclear numeric strings for some departments. Where numbers were not clearly stated in the record, the transcript indicates they were discussed in the committee packet or on slides but does not provide a clean figure.

Ending: Following the provisional votes, the committee moved to other agenda items, including updates on the fire department presentation and school budget projections.