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Residents question closure of BTI event as Morehouse increases celebrations/fireworks line
Summary
Public commenters asked why the BTI event was removed from the budget while celebrations and fireworks spending rose; Supervisor Fernandez said the BTI was ended because too few volunteers remained and the town estimated it would need about 10 people to staff the event.
During the Oct. 8 workshop, resident Nicki Suba asked why the BTI program was removed from the tentative budget while the celebrations/fireworks line increased. Supervisor Anthony Fernandez said the decision was based on volunteer and staffing limitations rather than purely budgetary reasons: "Doing the BTI is a very strenuous and very expensive job. If you don’t have enough employees to work the BTI the program will not work. You would need at least 10 people to make the BTI work," he said.
Suba offered to help with tasks such as scraping paint off the church to reduce costs, and Fernandez thanked her but said the immediate problem was repairing the church steeple. The transcript uses the acronym "BTI" without defining it; the minutes do not explain the program’s full name, scope, or historical budgetary cost. The board discussed what the celebrations/fireworks budget line covers but did not provide a detailed breakdown in the minutes.
