HomeMy Public PortalAbout2001-07-11-Special Town Mtg Warrant SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
) ULY 11, 2001
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 Wednesday
the eleventh day of July, 2001 next, at 7 : 00 p.m . in the evening, then and there to act
upon the following article :
YANKEEORIVEAFFORDABLE HOUSING PROPOSAL
ARTICLE I; To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen
to acquire by purchase or the exercise of eminent domain powers under Massachusetts
General Laws, Chapter 79, or any other enabling authority, the land with the building
located thereon which is designated as Lot 4- 1 on Brewster Assessor's Map 26, located
at 10-28 Yankee Drive, Brewster, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, and more
particularly described in Barnstable County Registry of Deeds Book 9870, Page 010 and
shown on plan of land recorded in said Registry in Plan Book 516, Page 81 ; to acquire
this land for the purpose of maintaining and operating six (6), town-owned, affordable
housing apartment units for lease to income qualified individuals and one ( 1) buildable,
single family dwelling lot to be sold at fair market value to assist in funding affordable
housing projects in the Town of Brewster or to be developed as a single family
affordable housing unit for sale to income qualified buyers or to be used in a land swap
with other land owned by the Yankee Village Owners Association; to commit this land to
the care, custody, control and management of the Board of Selectmen ; to authorize the
Board of Selectmen to enter into any agreements with the Brewster Housing Authority
or with a non-profit affordable housing management corporation for the purpose of
managing and operating this property; to appropriate a sum of money for the purpose
of planning, acquiring, developing, constructing, renovating and equipping it for the
purpose of affordable housing; to transfer from available funds a sum of money
therefor; to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, to
borrow a sum of money under and pursuant to Chapter 44, Section 7(3), and/or any
other enabling authority and to issue notes and bonds of the Town therefor; to transfer
from available funds a sum of money to pay for the preparation, issuance, and
marketing of notes and bonds issued under the authority of this vote; to authorize the
Board of Selectmen to establish a revolving fund for operating the property, with the
provision that any surplus retained in the fund will be available for future affordable
housing projects; to appropriate a sum of money for purposes of initially funding said
revolving fund; to authorize the Board of Selectmen to petition the General Court, if
necessary, for legislation drafted to enable the Town to provide for the following : (a) to
establish a revolving fund for operating the property, with the provision that any surplus
retained in the fund will be available for future affordable housing projects; (b) to
develop a lottery for choosing the income-qualified individuals and that incorporates a
primary preference for full-time, year round Town employees, a secondary preference
for full-time, year round Nauset Regional School District employees, and thereafter a
preference for Brewster residents; (c) to qualify the resulting six (6) affordable housing
units complex as part of the ten ( 10%) percent affordable housing stock of the Town of
Brewster as defined in Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 40B, Sections 20-22; or to
take any other action relative thereto .
(Board of Selectmen)
ANY OTHER BUSINESS
ARTICLE NO. 2, To act upon any other business that may legally come
before this meeting .
(Board of Selectmen)
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 hands and Seal of the Town of Brewster affixed
this eighteenth day of June, 2001 .
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Grego Levasseur, Vice Chairman
Robert B/Hirschman,
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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 July 11 , 2001 by posting attested copies thereof, in the following locations in
the Town on the ;� ? day of June, 2001 .
Brewster Town Hall
Brewster Farms
Brewster General Store
Brewster Ladies Library
Brewster Pizza House
Millstone Liquors
U. S. Post Office
Roland W. Bassett, Constable