| Agenda: | 2016
TOWN OF DALTON
TOWN HALL
BERKSHIRE COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS
WARRANT SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
GREETINGS:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby required and directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Dalton, qualified by law to vote in the Elections and Town Affairs, to meet in the:
NESSACUS REGIONAL MIDDLE SCHOOL
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2016 AT 7:00 P.M.
Then and there to act on the following articles:
ARTICLE 1. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and or transfer from available funds a sum
of money for the costs related to the Fiscal Year 2017 Capital Improvement Program; or to take any other action in relation thereto.
TWO-THIRDS VOTE REQUIRED
ARTICLE 2. To see if the Town will vote to incur debt for the costs related to the Fiscal Year 2017 Capital Improvement Program, including borrowing costs associated with said program, and authorize the Town Treasurer with the approval of the Select Board, to borrow in accordance with MGL. Chapter 44, Section 7; or to take any other action in relation thereto.
TWO-THIRDS VOTE REQUIRED
ARTICLE 3. To see if the Town will vote to amend the vote taken under Article 4 at the Annual Town Meeting on May 2, 2016, to increase, reduce or transfer the sums of money raised and appropriated for several departments for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2016; or to take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 4. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Sewer Commission to assess proportionately as betterments upon each of the properties benefitted thereby 100% of the cost of the installation of Sewer Laterals on Housatonic Street, in accordance with Massachusetts General Laws Chapters 80 and 83, and the Code of the Town of Dalton Chapter 252, by any method allowed by law; or to take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will vote to hear a report of the Old Dalton High School Advisory Committee on the alternatives for disposition of the former school; or to take any other action in relation thereto.
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And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting a minimum of five attested copies thereof as required by the Bylaws of said Town, fourteen days at least before the time of holding said meetings.
Hereof, fail not, and make due returns of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at the time and place of holding meetings as aforesaid.
Given under our hands and seal this____ day of October, 2016.
A true copy. ATTEST: _____________________________
Deborah J, Merry TOWN CLERK
SIGNED:_____________________________ ______________________________
John W. Bartels, Jr, Chairman Mary R. Cherry,
_____________________________ ______________________________ Robert W. Bishop, Jr., Vice-Chair Marc E. Strout
______________________________
Michael J. Szklasz
SELECT BOARD
By virtue of the within Warrant, I have served the same by posting at a minimum of five public places attested copies thereof as the Bylaws of the Town direct, fourteen days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
_____________________________ DATE:__________________________
CONSTABLE
POSTED: Dewey’s Public House, Dalton Restaurant, Greenridge Variety Convenience, Dalton General Store, U.S. Post Office, Berkshire Organics, Town Hall Bulletin Board |