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Wayne selectboard debates snow-plow contract CPI error, overpayment and refund options
Summary
Selectboard members debated whether a mistaken 15% CPI adjustment on the snow-plow contract (instead of the contract’s referenced New England transportation CPI) produced an overpayment and whether the town should seek repayment; the board agreed to use the correct CPI going forward and to reset the contract baseline but did not record a clear vote on collecting past overpayments.
The Town of Wayne Select Board spent a large portion of its Oct. 15 meeting debating a misapplied consumer-price-index adjustment tied to the town’s snow-plow contract and what to do about past payments.
Several members said the contract specifies the New England urban consumer transportation index, not a blanket 15% increase. "The contract is what the contract is," one board member said, arguing the town should apply the correct CPI moving forward and recalculate the baseline. Another member said the town manager’s earlier public statement that the adjustment was 15% appears to have propagated the error…
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