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Home My WebLink About2025-04-02 Finance Committee Packet Town of Reading Meeting Posting with Agenda 2018-07-16LAG Board -Committee -Commission -Council: Finance Committee Date: 2025-04-02Time: 6:30PM Building: School - Memorial HighLocation: School Library Address: 62 Oakland RoadAgenda: Purpose:General Business Meeting Called By:Jacquelyn LaVerde on behalf of Chair Joe Carnahan Notices and agendas are to be posted 48 hours in advance of the meetings excluding operation and make necessary arrangements to be sure your posting is made in an adequate amount of time. A listing of topics that the chair reasonably anticipates will be discussed at the meeting must be on the agenda. All Meeting Postings must be submitted in typed format; handwritten notices will notbe accepted. 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Page | 1 Town of Reading Meeting Posting with Agenda 2018-07-16LAG Board -Committee -Commission -Council: Finance Committee Date: 2025-04-02Time: 7:00PM Building: School - Memorial HighLocation: Performing Arts Center Address: 62 Oakland RoadAgenda: Purpose:Attend Public Forum Meeting Called By:Jacquelyn LaVerde on behalf ofChairJoe Carnahan Notices and agendas are to be posted 48 hours in advance of the meetings excluding operation and make necessary arrangements to be sure your posting is made in an adequate amount of time. A listing of topics that the chair reasonably anticipates will be discussed at the meeting must be on the agenda. All Meeting Postings must be submitted in typed format; handwritten notices will notbe accepted. Topics of Discussion: AGENDA: Attend Capital Project Public Forum This Agenda has been prepared in advance and represents a listing of topics that the chair reasonably anticipates will be discussed at the meeting. However the agenda does not necessarily include all matters which may be taken up at this meeting. Page | 1 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Middlesex, ss. Officer's Return, Town of Reading: By virtue of this Warrant, I ______________________________, on ____________, 2025 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 1J. Warren Killam School, 333 Charles Street Precinct 2 Reading Police Station, 15 Union Street Precinct 3Reading Municipal Light Department, 230 Ash Street Precinct 4Joshua Eaton School, 365 Summer Avenue Precinct 5Reading Public Library, 64 Middlesex Avenue Precinct 6Barrows School, 16 Edgemont Avenue Precinct 7Birch Meadow School, 27 Arthur B Lord Drive Precinct 8Wood End School, 85 Sunset Rock Lane Town Hall, 16 Lowell Street The date of posting being not less than fourteen (14) days prior to May1, 2025, the date set for Town Meeting in this Warrant. _____________________________________________ Constable A true copy Attest: _____________________________________________ Laura Gemme, Town Clerk SPECIAL TOWN MEETING WARRANT 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 Local Elections and Town affairs, to meet at the Reading Memorial High School Performing Arts Center, 62 Oakland Road, in said Reading on THURSDAY, the FIRST DAY of MAY A.D., 2025 at seven- upon and determined exclusively by Town Meeting Members in accordance with the provisions of the Reading Home Rule Charter. ARTICLE 1Reports To hear and act on the reports of the Select Board, School Committee, Library Trustees, Municipal Light Board, Finance Committee, Bylaw Committee, Town Manager, Town Accountant and any other Town Official, Board or Committee. ARTICLE 2Killam School Building Project To see if the Town will vote to appropriate, borrow or transfer from available funds, an amount of money to be expended under the direction of the Killam School Building Committee to design, construct, reconstruct, remodel, add to, equip, and furnish a newPre-K through Grade Five Elementary School to replace the J.W. Killam Elementary School, with an approximate square -0000-19.0, inclusive of the abatement and demolition of existing school structures on said property, the design and construction of new parking lots and new multi-purpose fields, and all other costs incidental and related thereto, which school facility shall have an anticipated useful life as an educational facility for the instruction of school children of at least 50 years, and for which the Town may be eligible for a school construction grant from the Massachusetts School Building - entitlement, discretionary program based on need, as determined by the MSBA, and any project costs the Town incurs in excess of any grant approved by and received from the MSBA shall be the sole responsibility of the Town. Any grant that the Town may receive from the MSBA for the Project shall not exceed the lesser of (1) fifty-twoand nineteenone-hundredths percent(52.19%) of eligible, approved project costs, as determined by the MSBA, or (2) the total maximum grant amount determined by the MSBA. Or to take any other action relative thereto. Select Board ARTICLE 3Senior Center/Reading Center for Active Living Building Project To see if the Town will vote to appropriate, borrow,or transfer from available funds, an amount of money to be expended under the direction of the Permanent Building Committee to design, construct, equip, and furnish a new community center, so called the Senior Center/Reading Center for Active Living, located on a portion of an approximately 15.2 acre parcel off of Symonds Way, also known as, inclusive of the design and construction of new parking lots,improvements to Symonds Way,and all other costs incidental and related thereto; or take any other action relative thereto. Select Board 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 May 1, 2025, 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. th Given under our hands this __day of ___________, 2025. _______________________ Carlo Bacci _______________________ Mark L. Dockser _______________________ Karen Gately Herrick _______________________ ChristopherHaley _______________________ Melissa Murphy SELECT BOARD OF READING _______________________________ , Constable