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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1985-06-25 Town Meeting Warrant332 TOWN WARRANT (Seal) COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Middlesex, ss. To either of the constables of the Town of Reading, Greetings: In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Reading qualified to vote in elections and town affairs to meet at the Reading Memorial High School, 62 Oakland Road in said Reading, on Monday, June 24, 1985, at seven - thirty o'clock in the evening to act on the following articles: ARTICLE 1. To hear and act on the reports of the Board of Selectmen, Town Accountant, Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, Board of Assessors, Board of Public Works, Town Clerk, Tree Warden, Board of Health, School Committee, Contributory Retirement Board, Library Trustees, Municipal Light Board, Finance Committee, Cemetery Trustees, Planning Board, and any other Board or Special Committees. Board of Selectmen ARTICLE 2. To choose all other necessary Town Officers and Special Committees and determine what instructions shall be given Town Officers and Special Committees. Board of Selectmen ARTICLE 3. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Capital Outlay Plan as provided for in Article III, Section II of the By -Laws of the Town as adopted at the Annual Town Meeting of April, 1985, or take any other action with respect thereto. Finance Committee ARTICLE 4. To see whether the Town will vote to revise the Assessors' Salaries for Fiscal 1986 as previously set by Article 15, line item 17 of the Annual Town Meeting, in accordance with Chapter 41 of Section 108 of the Massachusetts General Laws, and to see what sum the Town will raise by borrowing, or from the tax levy, or transfer from available funds, or otherwise, and appropriate to fund such revisions, or take any other action with respect thereto. Board of Assessors ARTICLE 5. To see whether the Town will vote to revise the Treasurer's Salary for Fiscal 1986 as previously set by Article 15, line item 25 of the Annual Town Meeting in accordance with Chapter 41 of Section 108 of the Massachusetts General Laws, and to see what sum the Town will raise by borrowing, or from the tax levy, or transfer from available funds or otherwise, and appropriate to fund said revision, or take any other action with respect thereto. Office of Treasurer ARTICLE 6. To see what sums the Town will vote to raise from the tax levy, or by borrowing, or transfer from available funds, or otherwise, and appropriate to the various boards and departments of the Town in order to fund salaries and to fund such other cost items as may be contained in agreements reached with employees of the Town, whether through collective bargaining or otherwise, or take any other action with respect thereto. Board of Selectmen ARTICLE 7. To see what sum the Town will raise by borrowing, or from the tax levy, or transfer from available funds, or otherwise, and appropriate to the Northeast Regional Vocation School for the purpose of additional funding to meet its assessment to the Town, or take any other action with respect thereto. Board of Selectmen 0 C) � Town Warrant June, 1985 i) ;) i ARTICLE 8. To see what sum the Town will raise by borrowing, or from the tax levy, or transfer from available funds, or otherwise, and appropriate for the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority sewer assessment, such funds to be spent by and under the direction of the Board of Public Works, or take any other action with respect thereto. Board of Public Works ARTICLE 9. To see whether the Town will vote to rescind remaining authorization for the bond issue voted in Article 22 at the Adjourned Session of the Subsequent Town Meeting on November 13, 1980, or take any other action with respect thereto. Treasurer ARTICLE 10. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of General Laws, Chapter 41, Section 69B relative to the disposition of Water Revenue, or take any other action with respect thereto. Board of Public Works ARTICLE 11. To see if the Town will vote to accept the report of the Board of Public Works upon the laying out as a public way of the following private way known as Granger Avenue, under the provision of law authorizing the assessment of betterments, such highways being laid out in accordance with plans duly approved by the Board of Survey and filed in the office of the Town Clerk in accordance with the statutory requirements, and that the Town authorize the Board of Public Works to take such land in fee or rights of easements therein by eminent domain, under the provisions of Chapter 79 of the General Laws, as amended, or acquire said land in fee or rights of easement therein by purchase, gift or otherwise and to assess betterments therefore and to see if the Town will vote to accept the public way laid out by the Board of Public Works as Granger Avenue, and to see what sum the Town will raise by borrowing, or from the tax levy, or transfer from available funds, or otherwise, and appropriate for acquisition of said land or easement therein and for the construction of said way, or take any other action with respect thereto. Board of Public Works And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting an attested copy thereof in at r least three (3) public places in each precinct of the Town not less than (14) days prior to June 24, 1985, the date set for the meeting in said Warrant, and to publish this Warrant in a newspaper published in the Town or by mailing an attested copy of said Warrant to each Town Meeting Member at least fourteen (14) days prior to the time of holding said meeting. Hereof fail not and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at or before the time appointed for said meeting. Given under our hands this 6th day of June, 1985. Paul C. Dustin Paul E. Landers Mary E. Ziegler John H. Russell Eugene R. Nigro SELECTMEN OF READING