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HomeMy Public PortalAbout1983-09-26 Special Town Meeting r. Report of the SPECIAL TOWN MEETING September 26 , 1983 In accordance with the Warrant the Special Town Meeting was held in the Brew- ster Elementary School Cafetorium , Monday , September 26 , 1983 . This meeting was called to order at 7 : 31 p . m . by the Moderator , Stephen L . Doyle . The tellers were Dorothy Grenier , June Gallant, Doris Powell , Gladys Curtis and J . Ogden Tyldsley , Jr. Checkers were Dorothea Dugan , Jean Gage , Carl Scrivener and Mae Olson . A quorum was present. The Warrant was read by the Assistant Town Clerk , Janice M . Stratton , with the exception of the articles which were read as they were being considered . ARTICLE 1 . To see if the Town will vote to reduce the FY '84 Town Share Group Plans budget as voted under Article 34 in the May 1983 Annual Town Meeting from $ 155,220 . 00 to $ 135, 000 . 00, a reduction of $20 ,220. 00 for Blue Cross/Blue Shield . Adopted unanimously . ARTICLE 2. To see if the Town will vote to amend Article 12 and Article 34 , line item 121 of May 9 , 1983 Annual Town Meeting, by substituting the amount of $ 1 ,324,259 . 73 in place of the amount of $ 1 ,422 ,251 . 73 of the Town 's share of the Nauset Regional School District Assessment to accommodate the adjust- ment of $97 ,992 . 00. Adopted unanimously ARTICLE 3 . To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to grant an easement to Commonwealth Electric Company for the installation • and maintenance of an overhead electric system over land of the Town of Brew- ster between Slough Road and Walkers Pond for service to a new home . The easement is to extend from a pole numbered 34/ 15 on Slough Road in a general northeasterly direction approximately eighty ( 80 ) feet to a pole numbered 149/ 1 on private property . The easement is to be ten ( 10 ) feet in width throughout and to act fully thereon . Adopted unanimously ARTICLE 4 . To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to appoint a three ( 3 ) member committee for a one -year term to make recom- mendations to the Selectmen to implement 'the improvement of the parcel known as "The Egg" for a Town Park . Adopted unanimously 109 E f IV II 1 14 ,t , �,,,, f. ` , f % Y, % % '. :� ARTICLE 5 . To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Clerk , with the approval of the Board of Selectmen , to sell , or otherwise dispose of, one ( 1 ) Silver Reed Portable Electric Typewriter. Adopted unanimously ARTICLE 6 . To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Three hundred and 00/ 100 ($ 300 . 00 ) Dollars for the purchase of dog tags and licenses and the sum of Two hundred and 00/ 100 ( $200 . 00 ) Dollars for a fund to reimburse for dog damage to implement the vote under Article 90 of Annual Town Meeting of 1982 . Adopted unanimously ARTICLE 7 . To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to sell , trade - in , or otherwise dispose of the old 3M 107 copying machine at the Brewster Council on Aging. Adopted unanimously ARTICLE 8 . To see if the Town will vote to authorize inclusion in departmen - tal budgets of capital items costing One thousand and 00/ 100 ($ 1 ,000 . 00 ) Dollars or less . Adopted ARTICLE 9 . 1 move the Town adopt the following resolution : Whereas , the Brewster Ladies ' Library serves all the people of Brewster as a free public library ; Now , therefore , be it resolved , that the Town fund up to 100% of the Brewster Ladies' Library operating expenses effective with the fiscal year beginning July 1 , 1984, subject to the condition that said funds are to be appropriated at the Annual Town Meeting of 1984 and are to be processed through the budget pre- paration period beginning October 1983 , and are to be subject to the same constraints under Proposition 2% and the same review and administrative deci- sion processes as any Brewster departmental budget. Adopted ARTICLE 10 . To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of Thirteen thousand five hundred eight and 85/ 100 ( $ 13 ,508 . 85 ) Dollars from the follow- ing accounts : Re -Assessment Cost — Art. 1 , S.T . M . 5/ 11 /81 $ 2 ,624 . 75 Lease Computer 7 ,384 . 10 Treasurer/Collector' s Expense (printing ) 31500 . 00 Total $ 131508 . 85 and to raise and appropriate the sum of Nine thousand three hundred and 00/ 100 ( $9 , 300. 00 ) Dollars and transfer from free cash the sum of Three thou 110 sand seven hundred and 00/ 100 ($3, 700. 00 ) Dollars to supplement the above balances and fund the additional cost of Town' s automatic data processing needs for the Assessor 's Office , and Treasurer/Collector's Office through June 30 , 1984. Adopted unanimously ARTICLE 11 . To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Select- men to sell , trade or otherwise dispose of the Burroughs B - 700 Computer hard- ware , all disk packs, disk storage cabinets , software , computer paper , ribbons and miscellaneous supplies , or to take any action relative thereto . Indefinitely postponed ARTICLE 12 . To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds the sum of Two hundred thirty -nine and 26/ 100 ( $239 .26 ) Dollars to pay the following unpaid bills for previous fiscal year : 3 .25 Stephen Weekes, Register of Deeds — Assessors $ 29 75 Stephen Weekes, Register of Deeds — Assessors 77 29 Stephen Weekes, Register of Deeds — Assessors 94 79 Stephen Weekes, Register of Deeds — Assessors 4 . 00 _ Appeals Cape Codder Board of App 30. 18 Lower Cape Typewriter Co . — Assessors Total $239 .26 Adopted unanimously ARTICLE 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Two thousand and 00/ 100 $2 ,000 . 00) Dollars to provide additional funds for the Off- Duty Special Detail Account, as authorized by Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 44 , Section 53C . Adopted unanimously ARTICLE 14 . To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Five thousand six hundred and 00/ 100 ( $ 5 ,600 .00) Dollars to create office space at the present Town Hall building . Adopted ARTICLE 15 . To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Six thousand and 00/ 100 ($6 ,000 . 00) Dollars to fund a study of the Re- use po- tential of the Brewster Community Center (Old Elementary School ) , said funds to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen . Indefinitely postponed %= 111 VI ARTICLE 16. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Thirteen thousand two hundred sixty -one and 85/ 100 ( $ 13 , 261 . 85 ) Dollars to the Clerical Pool Salary account. Adopted ARTICLE 17 . To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of One thousand and 00/ 100 ($ 1 ,000. 00 ) Dollars to fund the Deputy Shellfish Constables' Salary account. Adopted unanimously ARTICLE 18 . To see if the Town will vote to accept as a gift, two ( 2 ) wood frame " Baseball dugouts" located at the Little League field behind Town Hall . Adopted unanimously ARTICLE 19 . To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Two thousand four hundred and 00/ 100 ($ 2 ,400 .00 ) Dollars to improve the two ( 2 ) ballfields at the Brewster Elementary School , said funds to be spent under the direction of the Recreation Commission . Adopted unanimously ARTICLE 20 . To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds the sum of Three thousand four hundred thirty - seven and 00/ 100 ( $3 ,437 . 00 ) Dollars to fund the Board of Health Senior Clerk Salary account to increase the Senior Clerk 's hours to thirty -five ( 35 ) hours per week, from present 17% hours per week . Indefinitely postponed ARTICLE 21 . To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Four hundred eighty -one and 52/ 100 ( $481 .52 ) Dollars into the Health Agent' s Salary account for FY '84 , to fund non - budgeted step increase in salary for said Health Agent. Adopted unanimously ARTICLE 22. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from Water Receipts Reserved for Appropriation Account the sum of Seven thousand two hundred ninety -six and 00/ 100 ( $ 7 , 296 . 00 ) Dollars to the Water Department salary ac- count, for one additional employee . Adopted unanimously w ARTICLE 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Five thousand three hundred and 00/ 100 ( $ 5 ,300 . 00 ) Dollars for repairs and painting of the exterior of the office , garage and two well houses. VI 112 Adopted unanimously ARTICLE 24. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of Twenty thousand and 00/ 100 ( $20 ,000 . 00 ) Dollars from the Water Receipts Reserved for Appropriation Account to the Water Construction Account. Adopted unanimously ARTICLE 25. To seeif the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer to borrow the sum of Twenty -one thousand five hundred and 00/ 100 ( $21 , 500 . 00) Dollars to install water mains on Birch Lane , ( 1080' ) in accordance with the Water Betterment Program . Adopted unanimously ARTICLE 26 . To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen , on be - half of the Town , to enter into non -binding negotiations with a commercial vendor in regard to a Service Agreement between the Town and a commercial vendor for the disposal of solid waste at a commercial facility , and any agree - ment reached between the Selectmen and the commercial vendor to be subject to approval at a subsequent Town meeting. Adopted unanimously ARTICLE 27 . To see if the Town will vote to accept Chapter 597 of the Acts of 1982 which amended Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 60A , Section 1 to provide an exemption from the motor vehicle excise for any motor vehicle owned and registered by a former prisoner of war, which term is defined as any regularly appointed , enrolled , enlisted , or inducted member of the U . S . military forces who was captured , separated and incarcerated by an enemy of the United States during armed conflict, subject to the condition , that any such prisoner of war may exempt one motor vehicle in any particular year. Adopted unanimously ARTICLE 28 . To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Two thousand seven hundred fifty and 00/ 100 ( $2 , 750 . 00 ) Dollars to supple - ment the $ 12 ,000 voted in Article 81 , May 9 , 1983 Annual Town Meeting, to purchase and equip a new four-wheel drive pickup truck for the D . P . W . , with snow plow , and to raise and appropriate the sum of One thousand seven hundred fifty and 00/ 100 ( $ 1 , 750 .00 ) Dollars for a new snow plow to equip the four- wheel drive pickup truck voted under Article 80 , May 9 , 1983 Annual Town Meeting . Ile Pickup truck and plow $21750 . 00 Plow for existing truck _ 1 , 750 . 00 Total $41500 . 00 Adopted unanimously 113 ARTICLE 29. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Eight thousand nine hundred eighty -five and 60/ 100 ($8, 985. 60 ) Dollars to the D . P .W . Wages and Salaries account to reinstate one ( 1 ) temporary full - time posi- tion to the Department of Public Works for the Fiscal Year ending June 30 , 1984 . Adopted ARTICLE 30 . To see if the Town will vote to accept a gift of Four thousand ninety -one and 85/ 100 ($4,091 . 85 ) Dollars from the Recycling Center Opera - tion Committee, said gift to be used to fund recycling activities . Adopted unanimously ARTICLE 31 . To see if the Town will vote to transfer a sum of money from D . P .W . Recycling Program account for the purpose of holding a Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day , or to take any action relative thereto . Withdrawn ARTICLE 32 . To see if the Town will vote to relocate the Sanitary Landfill entrance from the present site on Run Hill Road to a proposed entrance on Stony Brook Road opposite Paines Creek Road and to raise and appropriate the sum of Six thousand five hundred and 00/ 100 ( $6 , 500 . 00 ) Dollars for the laying out, engineering and/or appraisal services for this proposed entrance off Stony Brook Road for the Sanitary Landfill . Defeated Yes 74 No 129 ARTICLE 33. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Six thousand five hundred and 00/ 100 ($6 ,500 . 00) Dollars to provide engineer- ing and/or appraisal services for a portion of GREAT FIELDS ROAD extending southerly from the intersection of STONY BROOK ROAD , Defeated ARTICLE 34. To see if the Town will vote to accept the report of the Board of Selectmen on file with the Town Clerk laying out and making public as Town Roads, the private ways known as WOODSTOCK DRIVE , PLEASANT COURT, RIDGE COURT and HIGHRIDGE ROAD , all as shown on a plan entitled " Cluster Development Plan in Brewster, MA, made for Heritage Development Corporation , August 16 , 1977 , Sheet 1 : Scale 1 " = 60', Sheets 2 & 3 : Scale 1 " = 40 ', Nickerson & Berger, Inc. — P. E . & R . L . S. , Orleans, MA" which plans are recorded in the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds, Book 319 , Pages 79 81 and a copy of which is on file with the Town Clerk and to authorize the Selectmen to acquire by eminent domain the fee in the land , drainage ease- ments and rights therein . Adopted unanimously 114 K .:. ARTICLE 35 . To see if the Town will vote an expression of opinion in the form of a resolution . Be it resolved that the Water Commissioners came before the residents of Brewster , at a Special Town Meeting , September 26 , 1983, to ask its resi- dents to direct the Water Commissioners to apply for a 100% reimbursable grant for the protection of the existing well fields . This grant is known as the Aquifer Land Acquisition Program , with the maximum grant money of $500 ,000 . 00. Unanimously approved To see if the Town will vote an expression of opinion in the form of a resolution : TO : His Excellency , Michael Dukakis , Governor Whereas the provision of advanced prehospital emergency medical care is in = herently different in the non -urban setting from the urban setting ; and Whereas the taxpayers of the Town of Brewster intend to maintain the level of service currently provided , at the lowest possible cost ; and Whereas in accordance with the letter and spirit of Massachusetts Law Chapter 580 , Acts of 1980 , all agencies of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts must refrain from promulgating regulations which will increase municipal costs . Be it Resolved, this twenty - sixth day of September, 1983, that the Town of Brewster is opposed to any revisions of the criteria for the Emergency Medical Technician—Paramedic' s recertification other than those required by the Na- tional Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians . Adopted unanimously There being no other business to come before this meeting, the meeting was adjourned at 11 : 14 p . m . A true copy , ATTEST : JANICE M . STRATTON Assistant Town Clerk I 115 1