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Home My WebLink About2008 Annual Town Meeting WarrantCOMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Middlesex, ss. Officer's Return, Reading: By virtue of this Warrant, I, on Tanuary 11, 2008 notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Reading, qualified to vote on Town affairs, to meet at the place and at the time specified by posting attested copies of this Town Meeting Warrant in the following public places within the Town of Reading: Precinct 1 J. Warren Killam School, 333 Charles Street Precinct 2 Peter Sanborn Place, 50 Bay State Road Precinct 3 Reading Police Station, 15 Union Street Precinct 4 Joshua Eaton School, 365 Summer Avenue Precinct 5 Town Hall, 16 Lowell Street Precinct 6 Austin.Preparatory School, 101 Willow Street Precinct 7 Reading Library, Local History Room, 64 Middlesex Avenue Precinct 8 Wood End School, 85 Sunset Rock Lane The date of posting being not less than fourteen (14) days prior to February 5, 2008, the date set for the Local Election in this Warrant. I also caused an attested copy of this Warrant to be published in the Reading Chronicle in the issue of Th a H. Freeman, Constable A true copy. Attest: ryl V,'Johnson/Town Clerk 1 TOWN WARRANT (Seal) COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Middlesex, ss. To any 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 the Presidential Primary and Local Elections and Town affairs, to meet in the following place designated for the eight precincts in said Town, namely: Precincts 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 and 8 RMHS Hawkes Field House, Oakland Road TUESDAY, the FIFTH DAY OF FEBRUARY, A.D., 2008 from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. to act on the following Articles, viz: ARTICLE 1 To cast their votes in the Presidential Primary for the candidates of political parties for the following offices: PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE ......................................FOR THIS COMMONWEALTH STATE COMMITTEE MAN ..................MIDDLESEX & ESSEX SENATORIAL DISTRICT STATE COMMITTEE WOMAN ............MIDDLESEX & ESSEX SENATORIAL DISTRICT TOWN COMMITTEE ............................................................................................READING and To elect by ballot the following Town Officers: A Moderator for one year; Two members of the Board of Selectmen for three years; One member of the Board of Assessors for three years; one member for one year; Two members of the Board of Library Trustees for three years; One member of the Municipal Light Board for three years; Two members of the School Committee for three years; and seventy two Town Meeting Members shall be elected to represent each of the following precincts: Precinct 1 Eight members for three years; one member for two years; one member for one year; Precinct 2 Eight members for three years; two members for one year; Precinct 3 Eight members for three years; one member for one year; Precinct 4 Eight members for three years; one member for two years; Precinct 5 Eight members for three years; one member for one year; Precinct 6 Eight members for three years; Precinct 7 Eight members for three years; Precinct 8 Eight members for three years; one member for one year. 2 and to meet at the Reading Memorial High School, 62 Oakland Road, in said Reading on MONDAY, the TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY OF APRIL A.D., 2008 at seven-thirty o'clock in the evening, at which time and place the following Articles are to be acted upon and determined exclusively by Town Meeting Members in accordance with the provisions of the Reading Home Rule Charter. ARTICLE 2 To hear and act on the reports of the Board of Selectmen, Town Accountant, Treasurer-Collector, Board of Assessors, Director of Public Works, Town Clerk, Tree Warden, Board of Health, School Committee, Contributory Retirement Board, Library Trustees, Municipal Light Board, Finance Committee, Cemetery Trustees, Community Planning & Development Commission, Town Manager and any other Official, Board or Special Committee. Board of Selectmen ARTICLE 3 To choose all other necessary Town Officers and Special Committees and determine what instructions shall be given Town Officers and Special Committees, and to see what sum the Town will vote to appropriate by borrowing or transfer from available funds, or otherwise, for the purpose of funding Town Officers and Special Committees to carry out the instructions given to them, or take any other action with respect thereto. Board of Selectmen ARTICLE 4 To see if the Town will vote to amend the FY 2008 - FY 2017 Capital Improvements Program as provided for in Section 7-7 of the Reading Home Rule Charter and as previously amended, or take any other action with respect thereto. Board of Selectmen ARTICLE 5 To see if the Town will vote to amend one or more of the votes taken under Article 13 of the Warrant of the Annual Town Meeting of April 23, 2007, as amended by Article 4 of the November 13, 2007 Subsequent Town Meeting; and to see what sum the Town will vote to appropriate by borrowing or transfer from available funds, or otherwise, as the result of any such amended votes for the operation of the Town and its government, or take any other action with respect thereto. Finance Committee ARTICLE 6 To see if the Town will vote to authorize the payment during Fiscal Year 2008 of bills remaining unpaid for previous fiscal years for goods and services actually rendered to the Town, or take any other action with respect thereto. Board of Selectmen ARTICLE 7 To see if the Town will vote to approve the FY 2009 - FY 2018 Capital Improvements Program as provided for in Section 7-7 of the Reading Home Rule Charter, or take any other action with respect thereto. Board of Selectmen 3 ARTICLE 8 To see what sum the Town will vote to appropriate by borrowing, whether in anticipation of reimbursement from the State under Chapter 44, Section 6, Massachusetts General Laws, or pursuant to any other enabling authority or from the tax levy, or transfer from available funds, or otherwise, for highway projects in accordance with Chapter 90, Massachusetts General Laws, or take any other action with respect thereto. Board of Selectmen ARTICLE 9 To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to sell, or exchange, or dispose of, upon such terms and conditions as they may determine, various items of Town tangible property, or take any other action with respect thereto. Board of Selectmen ARTICLE 10 To see what sums the Town will vote to appropriate to establish revolving funds under Chapter 44, Section 53E'/2 for any or all of the following purposes: ♦ Using the receipts generated through the sale of compost and recycling bins to purchase additional compost and/or recycling bins, said expenditures to be administered by the Public Works Director; ♦ Administering the consultant fee provision of the Reading General Bylaws Section 5.7, Wetlands Protection, said expenditures to be administered by the Conservation Commission; ♦ Using all or part of the receipts generated from the issuance of Building, Plumbing or Gas, and Wiring and other permits for the Archstone Development, the Johnson Woods Development, and/or the Addison Wesley/Pearson development to pay the costs of legal expenses, oversight and inspection, plan review, initial property value appraisal and appeals, and general management of the Community Services operations related to that development; and to pay for curb, sidewalk, and pedestrian improvements, and to pay for related expenditures, said expenditures to be administered by the Town Manager; ♦ Operating public health clinics and any related expenses which fund shall be credited with receipts from clinic fees and third party reimbursement administered under the authority of the Health Services Administrator acting with the approval of the Town Manager; and to determine the total amount of expenditures during Fiscal Year 2009 which may be made from each such fund, or take any other action with respect thereto. Board of Selectmen ARTICLE 11 To see if the Town will vote to determine how much money the Town will appropriate by borrowing, or from the tax levy, or transfer from available funds, or otherwise, for the operation of the Town and its government for Fiscal Year 2009 beginning July 1, 2008, or take any other action with respect thereto. Finance Committee ARTICLE 12 To see if the Town will vote to accept the report of the Board of Selectmen upon the laying out as a public way the following described private way under the provision of law authorizing the assessment of betterments, such ways being laid out in accordance with plans duly approved by the Board of Selectmen; and to authorize the Board of Selectmen to take such ways under the provision of law authorizing the 4 assessment of betterments, in fee or rights of easement therein by eminent domain, under the provisions of Chapter 79 of the General Laws, as amended, or acquire said lands in fee or rights of easement therein by purchase, gift or otherwise and to assess betterments therefore, the plans and descriptions for such way being filed in the Office of the Town Clerk in accordance with the statutory requirements; and to see what sum the Town will vote to appropriate by borrowing, or from the tax levy, or transfer from available funds, or otherwise, for the acquisition of said lands or easements therein or for payment of any eminent domain damages and for the construction of said ways, or take any other action with respect thereto. • Timothy Place • Nugent Lane Board of Selectmen ARTICLE 13 To see if the Town will approve a home rule petition to the General Court which would permit the Board of Selectmen to allow some or all restaurants holding a All Alcoholic Restaurant Liquor License to have less than 100 seats subject to rules and regulations established by the Board of Selectmen, or take any other action with respect thereto. Board of Selectmen ARTICLE 14 To see if the Town will vote, pursuant to Section 2-6 of the Reading Home Rule Charter, to declare the seats of certain Town Meeting Members to be vacant and remove certain described persons from their position as Town Meeting Members for failure to take the oath of office within 30 days following the notice of election, or for failure to attend one half or more of the Town Meeting sessions during the previous year, or take any other action with respect thereto: Precinct 1 Steven L. Perry Precinct 2 Robert L. Green Lizabeth Ann Malinski Christopher A. Powers Karen Lynn Powers Donald C. Stroeble Precinct 4 John B. Latham Precinct 5 Patrick M. Fennelly Thomas Joseph Quintal Precinct 6 Diane N. Slezak Precinct 7 John E. Carpenter Michael F. Lyons Michael Carmen Merullo Precinct 8 Andrew Patrick Murphy Robert L. Spadafora, Jr. Board of Selectmen 5 and you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting an attested copy thereof in at least one (1) public place in each precinct of the Town not less than fourteen (14) days prior to February 5, 2008, the date set for the Election in said Warrant, and to publish this Warrant in a newspaper published in the Town, or providing in a manner such as electronic submission, holding for pickup or mailing, an attested copy of said Warrant to each Town Meeting Member. 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 2nd day of January, 2008. James E. Bonaz airman Stephen. old Vice Chairman Ben Tafo etary Camille W. Anthony Richard W. Schubert / SELECTMEN OF READING Thomas freeman, Constable 6