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Trustees press staff for details on $12,000 Waterworth budgeting‑software proposal
Summary
Trustees questioned whether Waterworth’s $12,000‑a‑year budgeting software is the right choice for Menands, asking for peer examples, savings guarantees, and alternatives such as hiring a part‑time staffer; staff will collect more information and revisit the proposal in mid‑December.
Menands trustees used their Dec. 2 meeting to press staff for more details about a proposal to purchase Waterworth budgeting and financial‑modeling software, described in the presentation at the prior meeting.
Speaker 5 raised multiple concerns about scale and value, asking whether any similarly sized municipalities use Waterworth and whether hiring a part‑time staffer would be cheaper than “paying…
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