Town Finance Director Robert Tait released information to local officials recently detailing insurance claims paid by CIRMA — the Connecticut Interlocal Risk Management Agency — Newtown’s provider of municipal risk financing and risk management services.

Mr Tait said the town has received $1,167,244 according to a report generated in mid-April by the finance office. After covering $827,893 in losses, the balance of $339,351 is being designated to cover the cost of a Monroe police officer providing daily security at the Sandy Hook/Chalk Hill School location; $125,000 in anticipated moving expenses when Sandy Hook relocates back to its new home in town in 2016; and $70,000 for a booster pump replacement at Treadwell Park.

The finance director said the booster pump is required as part of the new Sandy Hook School construction and is therefore eligible under the claims criteria.

Among the other expenses the claim is covering related to the town’s temporary occupancy at the Chalk Hill complex are:

*$102,457 in custodial salaries and overtime;

*$118,844 for security services;

*$163,062 for various building and grounds repairs;

*$86,411 for emergency repairs;

*$40,218 for furniture; and

*$123,619 for fuel oil, electricity and water.

The CIRMA claim also paid an added $44,284 for security salaries; $13,234 for professional/legal expenses; $24,755 in workers comp costs; and $82,381 in additional various building and grounds services. The balance of $24,351 purchased a generator previously being rented by Monroe for the Sandy Hook/Chalk Hill facility.

Special Revenue Fund Update

In related news, the finance office also released its latest report on the Sandy Hook Special Revenue Fund, which collects donations and contributions made to the town post-12/14. One of the designated donations of $9,400 was released to pay for a new fence around the community garden at Fairfield Hills.

That fund still has a number of fund balances available for designated expenditures including $2,995 for services or expenses related to “Children,” $4,465 for “Schools;” $50,385 allocated to the new Sandy Hook School; and an undesignated fund with a balance of $13,832.

That Sandy Hook School fund has already paid $111,691 for preconstruction services and a “school facilitator.” While the undesignated fund has distributed $149,654 for ten separate expenses including summer camp counselor training; school IT services; school surveillance equipment; a contribution to Newtown Youth Academy; and to cover an insurance deductible for the first of two flood claims at C.H. Booth Library.