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SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
MAY 7, 2012
Barnstable, ss
To: Roland W. Bassett
Constable of the Town of Brewster
Greetings:
t In the name of e Commonwe Massachusetts, you are
directed to notify and warn wt the inhabitants alth oof f the Town of Brewster, qualified hereby
to vote in town affairs, to meet at the Stony Brook Elementary School
Cafetorium, on Monday the 7th day of May, 2012 next, at 7:05 p.m. o'clock in
the evening, then and there to act upon the following articles.
UNPAID BILLS
ARTICLE NO. 1: To see if the Town will vote to transfer from available
funds a sum of money to pay bills incurred but unpaid during a previous fiscal
year, as follows:
a. Bonsai Logic $1,750.00
Grand-total $1,750.00
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or to take any other action relative thereto.
(Nine-Tenths Vote Required) (Board of Selectmen)
BUDGETARY TRANSFERS
ARTICLE NO 2: To see if the Town will vote in the following manner to
appropriate from available funds and/or to transfer from surplus funds in
some departments the amounts needed to prevent deficits in other
departments this fiscal year:
a. Transfer the sum of $6,500.00 from Free Cash to line item no. 5 (Town
Clerk Expenses) of article no. 3 of the 2011 Annual Town Meeting,
b. Transfer the sum of $1,000.00 from line item no. 20 (General Liability
Insurance) to line item no. 11 (Natural Resources Expenses) of article no.
3 of the 2011 Annual Town Meeting,
c. Transfer the sum of $10,000.00 from line item no. 20 (General Liability
Insurance) to line item no. 13 (Department of Public Works Road
Machinery) of article no. 3 of the 2011 Annual Town Meeting,
d. Transfer the sum of $8,000.00 from line item no. 17 (COA Wages),
$8,000.00 from line item no. 4 (Treasurer/Collector Wages), $7,000.00
from line item no. 10 (Building/HDC Wages) and $10,000.00 from Free
Cash to line item no. 13 (Department of Public Works Expenses) of article
no. 3 of the 2011 Annual Town Meeting,
e. Transfer the sum of $27,000.00 from line item no. 20 (General Liability
Insurance) to line item no. 20 (Utilities Expenses) of article no. 3 of the
2011 Annual Town Meeting,
f. Transfer the sum of $40,000.00 from the Ambulance Receipts Reserved
for Appropriation account to line item no. 8 (Fire Wages) of article no. 3
of the 2011 Annual Town Meeting,
g. Transfer the sum of $58,720.00 from Free Cash to line item no. 2
(Elementary Schools Operating Budget) of article no. 2 of the 2011
Annual Town Meeting,
or to take any other action relative thereto.
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(Majority Vote Required) (Board of Selectmen)
PRIVATE ROAD ENGINEERING SERVICES/Prell Circle Project
ARTICLE NO. 3: To see if the Town will vote to transfer from available
funds the sum of FIVE THOUSAND AND 00/100 ($5,000.00) DOLLARS to
finance costs associated with engineering services for a private road betterment
for Prell Circle and to authorize the Town Administrator to solicit bids and/or '
proposals, enter into a contract or contracts and expend said funds for this
purpose, said expense to be recovered through the betterment assessments
against the abutters, or to take any other action relative thereto.
(Majority Vote Required) (Board of Selectmen)
HAZARDOUS WASTE COLLECTION PROGRAM
ARTICLE NO. 4: To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the Water
Revenue account the sum of FOURTEEN THOUSAND AND 00/100
($14,000.00) DOLLARS to finance costs associated with the hazardous waste
collection day program and to authorize the Town Administrator to solicit bids
and/or proposals, enter into a contract or contracts and expend said funds for
this purpose, or to take any other action relative thereto.
(Majority Vote Required) (Board of Health & Water Commission)
COMMUNITY PRESERVATION ACT FUNDING
ARTICLE NO 5: To see if the Town will vote to act upon the
recommendations of the Community Preservation Committee to appropriate
from the Community Preservation Fund's Fund Balance Reserved for Open
Space Revenues, and to spend during Fiscal Year 2012, the following sums of
money to pay the Debt Services Expenses for the Seidel and Jackson
properties, which were acquired by the Town on February 14, 2012, pursuant
to the votes on Article 9 and 10 of the Warrant for the November 7, 2011
Special Town Meeting:
Item: Category: Request
1. Open Space
a. Seidel Property Land Acquisition Debt Service $250,000.00
Expense
b. Jackson Property Land Acquisition Debt Service $200,000.00
Expense
Grand Total $450,000.00
or to take any other action relative thereto.
(Majority Vote Required) (Community Preservation Committee)
PROPERTY EASEMENT/Dam Reconstruction Improvement Project
ARTICLE NO. 6: To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of
Selectmen to acquire an easement by gift for the purpose of reconstructing,
and maintaining the existing dam over the Herring Run on land
identified as parcels 18-1 and 36 of map 36, or to take any other action relative
thereto.
(Majority Vote Required) (Board of Selectmen)
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POLICE DEPARTMENT CRUISER REPLACEMENT PROJECT
ARTICLE NO. 7: To see if the Town will vote to transfer from available
funds the sum of THIRTY THOUSAND AND 00/100 ($30,000.00) DOLLARS
for the purpose of acquiring a new patrol vehicle for the Police Department and
to authorize the Town Administrator to sell, trade, lease, exchange or otherwise
L dispose of, in the best interests of the town, the old vehicle, if deemed available,
the proceeds from any such disposition to be applied toward the cost of
acquiring said equipment, or to take any other action relative thereto.
(Majority Vote Required) (Board of Selectmen)
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OTHER BUSINESS
ARTICLE NO. 8: To act upon any other business that may legally come
before this meeting.
(Board of Selectmen)
Given under our hand and Seal of the Town of Brewster affixed
thisSpday of March, 2012.
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Peter . Norton, hairman R. Daniel Rabold, Vice-Chairman
Jo Theodore Dickson, - s W. Fole
Edward S. Lewis
I, Roland W. Bassett, duly qualified Constable for the Town of Brewster, hereby
certify that I served the Warrant for the Special Town Meeting of May 7, 2012
by posting attested copies thereof, in the following locations in the Town on the
th day of Aprii, 2012.
Brewster Town Offices Brewster Farms Brewster
Ladies Library Brewster Pizza House
The Brewster Store Millstone Liquors
U. S. Post Office
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