HomeMy WebLinkAbout1982-04-15 Special Town Meeting WarrantSPECIAL TOWN MEETING
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
APRIL 15, 1982
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 Thursday, April 15, 1982, at eight 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 what sum the Town will raise by borrowing or transfer from
available funds or otherwise and appropriate to the Law Committee Budget for legal
fees or take any other action with respect thereto.
Board of Selectmen
ARTICLE 4. To see if the Town will vote to transfer Twenty -Three Hundred
Dollars ($2,300.00) to the Conservation Fund established pursuant to Massachusetts
General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 5(51) only upon receipt of Thirteen Thousand One
Hundred Twenty -Five Dollars ($13,125.00) as reimbursement from the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts for Self -Help Grant #17.
Conservation Commission
ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will accept $3,597.72 from the Babcock estate
to set up a Library Trust Fund to be known as the "Ralph G. Babcock and Mildred R.
Babcock Library Fund ". Said fund will be under the control and direction of the
Commissioners of Trust Funds and the income from such fund will be under the control
of the Library Trustees for the purchase of books on literary subjects and self
government.
Board of Library Trustees
ARTICLE 6. To see what sum the Town will raise by borrowing or transfer from
available funds or otherwise and appropriate to the Police Salary Account for overtime
pay or take any other action with respect thereto.
Board of Selectmen
ARTICLE 7. To see what sum the Town will raise by borrowing or transfer from
available funds or otherwise and appropriate for the purpose of purchasing two radar
guns for the Police Department or take any other action with respect thereto.
Board of Selectmen
ARTICLE 8. To see what sum the Town will raise by borrowing or transfer from
available funds or otherwise and appropriate to the Fire Department Salary Account
for overtime pay or take any other action with respect thereto.
Board of Selectmen
ARTICLE 9. To see what sum the Town will raise by borrowing or transfer from
available funds or otherwise and appropriate for the purpose of purchasing repairs and
a cab and chassis for the ambulance or take any other action with respect thereto.
Board of Selectmen
ARTICLE 10. To see what sum the Town will raise by borrowing, or transfer from
available funds, or otherwise, and appropriate for Casualty Insurance, or take any
other action with respect thereto.
Board of Selectmen
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting an attested copy thereof in
at least three (3) public places in each precinct of the Town not less than fourteen (14)
days prior to April 15, 1982, 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 25th day of March, 1982.
Marvin M. Rosenthal
Maureen T. O'Brien
John W. Price
John H. Russell
Paul C. Dustin
SELECTMEN OF READING
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