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HomeMy Public PortalAbout1975-02-10 Special Town Mtg Warrant SPECIAL TOWN MEETING WARRANT February 10, 1975 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 in the Nauset Regional Middle School on Monday, the tenth day of February next at seven- thirty o'clock in the evening, then and there to act on the following Articles: ARTICLE 1. To see if the Town will vote to accept the proposal of the Nauset Regional District School Committee passed on December 18, 1974 to amend the agreement establishing the Nauset Regional School Distract (a) by providing that as of June 1, 1975 the Committee shall consist of twelve elected members, four from Orleans, three from Brewster, three from Fastham and two from Wellfleet, and that thereafter, following each federal census beginning with the 1980 census, the Committee shall reapportion itself, without further action by the towns, to form a com- mittee of from nine to thirteen members to comply as closely as possible with present constitutional one-man, one-vote requirements; (b) by pro- viding that the district will assume jurisdiction over all grades from kindergarten to grade twelve as of July 1, 1975 and that all existing elementary schools within the district will be transferred to the dis- trict for nominal consideration by the member towns to become district elementary schools; (c) by providing that capital costs for each elemen- tary school shall be paid by the town in which it is Located, and opera- ting costs for each elementary school shall be apportioned among the member towns on the basis of their enrollments in that school; (d) by providing that capital costs and operating costs for schools other than elementary schools shall be apportioned on the basis of total enrol'_- ments in such other schools; (e) by providing for apportionment of special operating costs and transportation costs; (f) by providing that the incurring of indebtedness authorized b_y the committee after-, December 31, 1975 shall be approved by a majority of the voters voting at a district-wide election under G. E. c.71, s.16 (n); and (g) by Waking technical changes incidental to the foregoing amendments. Copies of the revised agreement with all of the proposed amendments are available at the office of the Town Clerk. ARTICLE 2. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from Available Funds a sum of money for the purpose of creating additional Town Hall working office space, including architect's fees, on the second floor of Town Hall.(transfer to be under the direction of the Board of Selectmen'.. ARTICLE 3. To see if the Town will vote to transfer as an emergency measure the sura. of Eighteen Thousand Dollars ($18,000.00) from Overlay Surplus or Available Funds for the removal of designated diseased Dutch Elm trees on or before March_ 31, 1975 thi61ghott the T as �:Z;gvired by Chapter 132 of the General Saws of Massachusetts. ARTICLE 4. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from Available Funds the sum of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) for the appraisal by the Town of the State owned Nickerson State Park acreage. 1.52 ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will transfer from Available Funds the sum of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) for use through June 30, 1975 by the newly created Historic District Committee. ARTICLE 6. To act on any other business that may legally come before this meeting. .And you are 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 Seventeenth day of January, 1975. cu�{� Robe A. Sawtelle Richard�Lazar Selectmen of Brewster I hereby certify that I have posted copies as attested as directed q Constable date ' — ,��