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WHEREAS the conference produced a series of specific recommendations for
further study and action ,
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Town of Brewster declares
that housing is in insufficient supply at affordable cost for its work force and is
a critical community problem ; and FURTHER that the Selectmen be , and here-
by are , directed to appoint a Task Force to work with similar groups through-
out Barnstable County to develop strategies and programs to implement con.
ference recommendations within the Town .
MEETING ADJOURNED AT 9 : 50 P. M .
A True Copy ATTEST :
Barbara A . Vaughn , CMC
Town Clerk
Report of the
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
May 12, 1986
In accordance with the warrant, the Special Town Meeting was held in the
Brewster Elementary Cafetorium , Monday , May 12 , 1986 .
This meeting was called to order at 9 : 14 P . M . by the moderator Stephen L .
Doyle . The tellers were Dorothy Grenier, June Gallant, Gladys Curtis , Doris
Powell , J . Ogden Tyldsley Jr. , Ruth Hanlon and Edwin Blease . Checkers were
Dorothea Dugan , Carl Scrivener, Jean Gage and Margo Cathie . A quorum of
216 was present.
The warrant was read by the Town Clerk Barbara A. Vaughn , CMC , with the
exception of the Articles which were read as they were being considered .
ARTICLE 1 . To see if the Town will vote to accept a grant from Elder Affairs
in the amount of One thousand five hundred and 00/ 100 ( $ 1 ,500. 00 ) Dollars ;
to be used for the completion of a concrete ramp at the Senior Center .
Adopted unanimously
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ARTICLE 2. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum
of Forty eight thousand and 00/ 100 ( $48 ,000 . 00 ) Dollars to purchase and
equip a radio communications console for the Police Department and Fire
Department communications center , to authorize the Chief of Police to trade
the present console and to apply the funds or credits so received to defray the
expenses of purchasing the new console , and to take any other action relative
thereto .
Adopted
ARTICLE 3 . To see if the Town will vote that the sum of Three hundred fifty
thousand and 00/ 100 ($350 ,000 .00 ) Dollars ; hereby appropriated for the
purpose of expanding and modernizing the existing Town Hall by constructing ,
equipping and furnishing an addition or additions thereto and by reconstructing,
renovating and making extraordinary repairs to the existing building to be
expended in combination with the One million and 00/ 100 ( $ 1 , 000,000 .00 )
Dollars previously appropriated for the same purpose by the Town at its August
26 , 1985 Special Town Meeting , which total sum will include funds for the
relocation expense from the current temporary site to the renovated Town Hall
and incidental expenses ; to authorize the Treasurer to borrow the aforemen-
tioned sum of Three hundred fifty thousand and 00/ 100 ( $350 ,000 . 00) Dollars
in accordance with Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 44 , as amended , and
other enabling authorities ; and to issue bonds or notes therefor ; that the sum
of Three thousand five hundred and 00/ 100 ($3 , 500 . 00 ) is raised and appropri -
ated for the purpose of paying the cost of preparing , issuing and marketing said
bonds and notes and for the purpose of paying the interest on the notes issued in
anticipation thereof ; to authorize the Board of Selectmen to apply for and to
receive funds from any source ( state , federal , or other ) in order to defray the
expenses of this project ; provided that no money shall be expended or borrowed
under this vote unless the Town shall have voted at a regular or special election
to exempt from the amounts required to pay the bonds or notes from the
limitation of Proposition 2% , so-called ; and to take any other action relative
thereto .
Defeated YES 262 NO 198
MEETING ADJOURNED AT 10 : 59 P . M .
MEETING RECONVENED AT 7 : 05 P .M . TUESDAY , MAY 14 , 1986
Moved that Article 5 be considered before Article 4 .
Adopted
ARTICLE S . To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Town Offices Com -
mittee to revise the plans for the alteration and reconstruction of Town Hall
by reducing the scope and nature of the plans in such a way as to make the cost
of proposed work fit into the amount of money previously appropriated for this
purpose and to present such plans at a later Town Meeting for approval as
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revised . Approval of this Article will reaffirm the Town 's intent to use the
renovated Town Hall for the purposes of Town Offices .
Adopted YES 263 NO 72
ARTICLE 4 . To see if the Town will vote to rescind its action taken on Article
15 of the Special Town Meeting of August 26 , 1985 , and to instruct the Town
Offices Committee to cease all activity leading toward the alteration of Town
Hall and to terminate the committee .
Withdrawn
ARTICLE 6. To see if the Town would instruct the Board of Selectmen to
appropriate a sum of money for purposes of drawing necessary plans and specifi -
cations for the renovation of the Community Center so that it may be used for
the Town Offices and further , to instruct them to present such plans once
completed , to the voters for purposes of funding such renovation .
Indefinitely postponed
ARTICLE 7 . To see if the Town will vote to create a committee of five ( 5 )
members to be appointed by the Town Moderator to study the Town Hall ,
which study will include the subject of community activities , space needs and
alternate ways of utilizing the building ; said committee to be known as the
Town Hall Study Committee and report to the Annual Town Meeting of 1987
or such earlier time as it may deem appropriate or to take any other action
relative thereto.
Withdrawn
MEETING ADJOURNED AT 7 : 49 P . M .
A true copy , ATTEST :
Barbara A . Vaughn , CMC
Town Clerk
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