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Home My Public Portal About2003-05-05 Special Town Mtg Warrant TABLE OF CONTENTS MA Y 5, 2003 SPECIAL AND ANNUAL TOWN MEETING WARRANTS ARTICLE NUMBER DESCRIPTION SPECIAL TOWN MEETING 1 Unpaid Bills 2 Budgetary Transfers 3 Private Road Betterment Engineering for Commons Way 4 Private Road Betterment Engineering for Meetinghouse Village 5 Brewster Bicentennial Celebration 6 Golf Course Irrigation System Engineering Services 7 Utility Easements for Water Tower Property 8 Ambulance Billing Services 9 Any Other Business ANNUAL TOWN MEETING 1 Annual Report/Consent Calendar 2 Herring Fisheries/Consent Calendar 3 Cape cod Vocational Technical School Operating Budget 4 Elementary Schools Operating Budgets 5 Town Operating Budget 6 Nauset Regional Schools Operating Budget 7 Assessment Formula for Nauset Regional Schools 8 Human Services Funding 9 Local Business Organization Funding Request 10 Brewster Town Band Funding 11 Capital Expenditures 12 Nauset Schools Intermunicipal Agreement 13 Records Microfilming Project 14 Hazardous Waste Collection Day Program 15 Special legislation for Town ClerKs Position 16 Massachusetts Technology Grant Program 17 Millsites Committee Membership 18 Funding for the Evaluation of Purchase of Real Estate 19 Police Collective Bargaining Agreement 20 SEIU Collective Bargaining Agreement 21 OPEIU, Units A & B. Collective Bargaining Agreement 22 IAFF Collective Bargaining Agreement 23 Non-Union Personnel Wage Funding 24 Conservation Restriction/Quivett Creek and Paines Creek 25 Zoning Bylaw Amendments/Cell Towers 26 Zoning Bylaw Amendments/Accessory Dwelling Units 27 Zoning Bylaw Amendments/Parking and Loading Lot Standards 28 Zoning Bylaw Amendments/Standard Industrial Classification Manual 29 Skateboard Park Intermunicipal Agreement 30 Professional Services for New Water Supply Well No . 5 31 Private Road Betterment Project/Commons Way 32 Private Road Betterment Project/Meetinghouse Village 33 Pension Fund 34 Stabilization Fund 35 Any Other Business SPECIAL TOWN MEETING MAYS, 2003 Barnstable, ss To : Roland W. Bassett Constable of the Town of Brewster Greetings : In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Brewster, qualified to vote in Town affairs, to meet at the Stony Brook Elementary School Cafetorium, on Monday the fifth day of May, 2003 next, at 7 : 10 p. m . o'clock in the evening, then and there to act upon the following articles. UNPAID BILLS ARTICLE NO. IN To see if the Town will vote to transfer from available funds the sum of a sum of money to pay unpaid bills from a previous fiscal year, 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 to transfer from available funds and/or appropriate from surplus funds in some departments an amount of money to be used in conjunction with funds appropriated under current fiscal year budgets during the current fiscal year to pay shortfalls that would otherwise exist in the Fiscal Year 2002 budgets of other departments, as follows : a) Transfer the sum of $4,000 . 00 from Line Item No. 10 (Town Clerk Staff Wages) to Line Item No . 28 (Natural Resources Wages), both of Article No . 7 of the 2002 Annual Town Meeting . b) Transfer the sum of $ 185 .00 from Line Item No . 10 (Town Clerk Staff Wages) to Line Item No . 10 (Town Clerk's Wages), both of Article No . 7 of the 2002 Annual Town Meeting . c) Transfer the sum of $28,000 . 00 from Line Item No. 23 (General Liability Insurance) to Line Item No . 20 (Fringe Benefits/Unemployment), both of Article No. 7 of the 2002 Annual Town Meeting . d) Transfer the sum of $95,000 . 00 from the Free Cash account to Line Item No. 31 (Snow & Ice Control ) of Article No . 7 of the 2002 Annual Town Meeting . e) Transfer the sum of $90,000 . 00 from the Ambulance Receipts Reserved for Appropriation account to Line Item No. 26 (Fire/Rescue Department Wages) of Article No. 7 of the 2002 Annual Town Meeting or to take any other action relative thereto. ( Majority Vote Required) ( Board of Selectmen) PRIVATE ROAD BETTERMENT ENGINEERING FOR COMMONS WAY ARTICLE NO. 3; To see if the Town will vote to transfer from available funds the sum of SEVEN THOUSAND AND 00/ 100 ($7,000.00) DOLLARS to finance costs associated with engineering services for a private road betterment for Commons Way 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) PRIVATE ROAD BETTERMENT ENGINEERING FOR MEETINGHOUSE VILLAGE ARTICLE NO. 4; To see if the Town will vote to transfer from available funds the sum of SEVEN THOUSAND AND 00/ 100 ($7,000 .00) DOLLARS to finance costs associated with engineering services for a private road betterment for Meetinghouse Village 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) BREWSTER BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION ARTICLE NO. 5; To see if the Town will vote to transfer from available funds the sum of SIX THOUSAND AND 00/ 100 ($6,000. 00) DOLLARS to finance various costs associated with the celebration of Brewster's Bicentennial 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 Selectmen) GOLF COURSE IRRIGATION SYSTEM ENGINEERING SERVICES ARTICLE NO. 6: To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the Golf Receipts Reserved for Appropriation Account the sum of TWENTY-SEVEN THOUSAND AND 00/ 100 ($27,000.00) DOLLARS to finance costs associated with contracting for professional services for the design, engineering and bidding of a replacement irrigation system for a portion ,of the Captains Golf Course and to authorize the Town Administrator to solicit bids and/or proposals, enter into a contract or contracts and expend said funds for this purpose, or to take any other action relative thereto. (Majority Vote Required) (Golf Commission) UTILITYEASEMENTSFOR WATER TOWER PROPERTY ARTICLE NO. 7.• To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to grant utility easements to Verizon New England , Inc. (formerly known as New England Telephone and Telegraph Company) and Commonwealth Electric Company, a Massachusetts corporation and electric company d/b/a NSTAR Electric over and under the town's property located on the West side of Yankee Drive, shown on Brewster Assessor's Map 26 as Lot IJ1 (the existing site of the Water Standpipes) for purposes of installing and maintaining the necessary poles, cables, wires, conduits, equipment and facilities for providing electric and telephone utility services to the property, or to take any other action relative thereto . (Majority Vote Required ) ( Board of Selectmen) AMBULANCE BILLING SERVICES ARTICLE NO. 8: To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the Ambulance Receipts Reserved for Appropriation Account the sum of SIXTEEN THOUSAND AND 00/ 100 ($ 16,000 .00) DOLLARS to finance costs associated with contracting for professional services for the ambulance billing services 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 Selectmen ) ANY OTHER BUSINESS ARTICLE NO. 9: To act upon any other business that may legally come before this meeting . And you are hereby directed to serve this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at the time and place of said meeting as aforesaid . Given under our hand and Seal of the Town of Brewster affixed this 17th day of March, 2003 . Gregory , . evasseur, Chairman Robert B . Hirschman, Vice-Chairman Peter G. NPAM, Clerk John C. \Nlitchell 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 5, 2003 by posting attested copies thereof, in the following locations in the Town on the day of March, 2003 . Brewster Town Offices Brewster Farm Market Brewster Ladies Library Brewster Pizza House The Brewster Store Millstone Liquors U . S. Post Office folard W. Bassett, Constable