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Simsbury board seeks legal clarity on decades-old capital "payback" practice
Summary
At a special May meeting, the Simsbury Board of Finance asked town counsel and finance staff whether the town may stop funding the long-standing capital non-recurring (CNR) "traditional payback" system or must follow chapter 108 and Conn. Gen. Stat. —7-346; counsel said both keeping and unwinding the practice are legally permissible and recommended clearer local documentation and a summer review.
The Simsbury Board of Finance convened a special meeting to get a legal opinion on its "traditional payback" method for capital purchases and whether the practice can be halted without violating statutory procedure. Town counsel told members the charter references chapter 108 and that the board must follow statutory procedures if it relies on that authority.
Finance staff presented an accounting walkthrough showing the mechanics of the capital non-recurring (CNR) fund. Amy, the finance director, explained the town had a prefunded corpus (about $832,500 for the town and roughly $1.1 million for the board of education, totaling about $1.9 million) that offsets annual chargebacks. "If we did not have this beginning fund balance that prefunded it, this would be an…
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