1988-10-12 Bylaw Committee Minutes

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By-law Committee Minutes #137 October 12, 1988 Members present: Ed Murphy, George Thoephanis, Nils Nordberg, Dolores Carroll and Phil Pacino 7:30 Chairman Murphy called the meeting to order in the Coolidge Middle School library The 1st order of business was discussion of Articles 18 and 19 of the Fall Town meeting warrant. The articles presented by the Cemetary Commission. Present for the Cemetary Commission were Carl Amon, Joyce Miller, John Si$vaggi and Henry Vik. Carl Amon stated that the proposed change set forth in the article would put the Cemetary rules and regulations in proper language and constituted no serious change. It was further stated that Town Counsel had agreed that the changes could be made. After further discussion the Bylaw agreed that these articles should discussed further with Town Counsel. At 7:45 the members of the Cemetary Commission and Mr. Vik exited the meeting. Article 17 was then reviewed. Bill Locke presented the article for the Assessors. He stated that the intent of the article was to make the appraisor position in the Town competitve with other Towns in the Commonwealth and thus give the assessors the means to retain competent personnal. At 8:40 Mr Locke left the meeting. Minutes #136 were approved Article 30 was recommended by a vote of 5-0 on a motion of Nils Nordberg and seconded by Phil Pacino. The committee then met with Peter Heckenbliekner and Gene Nigro on several articles. The committee discussed with them Articles 20, 21,22, 23, 24and 25. Areas of concern raised on the articles were: Article 20 the legality of including the Antiquarian Society in the motion. Article 21 why the entire statue was not included to be made part of the bylaws. Article 24 the general overall effect Article 25 the general feeling that the amount should be pegged to the bid law limit The committee then discussed Article 31. Present to discuss the article were Rick Maybury and Frank Driscoll-The intent of the article is to rezone 14 Chapin Ave. The petitioners reviewed the reasons and their thpughts on the matter with the committee. An outstanding question is the effect this zoning change would have on the present owner in view of the fact that a site plan had not been filed timely and thus the present owner may not be grandfathered out of any changes. Mr. Maybury and Mr Driscoll left the meeting at 9:50 The committee in general terms discussed Articles 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 39 with Dan Ensinger of the CPDC. Respectfully submitted, Philip B. Pacino, Clerk