Town Meeting Results Day 1 (unofficial)
CONSENT AGENDA – PASSED:
- 3. FY 2016 Budget Transfers – NO ACTION
- 5. Property Tax Exemption Increase PASSED
- 26. School Building & Grounds Storage Facility – Design & Feasibility $25,000 – NO ACTION
- 45. Gift of land – Hilltop Road – NO ACTION
- 52. Trustees of the School Trust Fund in the Town of Hopkinton – to appoint Jeanne Bernardin (7 Kimball Road) as a Trustee PASSED
REPORTS:
- Acceptance of Town Reports – PASSED
FINANCIAL – FISCAL YEAR 2016:
- FY 2016 Supplemental Appropriations – $200,000 FY16 Snow and Ice Deficit, and $31,500 for Sewer Enterprise Fund – PASSED
- FY 2016 Budget Transfers – NO ACTION in Consent Agenda
- Unpaid Bills from Previous Fiscal Years $3,142.25 – PASSED
FINANCIAL – FISCAL YEAR 2017:
- Property Tax Exemption Increase – PASSED in Consent Agenda
- Personal Property Tax Bill Threshold – PASSED
- Set the Salary of Elected Officials – Town Clerk $65,630 – PASSED
- Town Clerk – to change the position of Town Clerk from elected to appointed (hired). FAILED
- Fiscal 2017 Operating Budget $75,982,132.38, which is a +2.46% Tax Impact (net of new growth) PASSED
- Motion by Ron Shamus to divide the article so that line 422 (including Lake Weeds) is voted separately. PASSES YES-100 to NO-65
- Revote of Motion by Ron Shamus to divide the article so that line 422 (only Lake Weeds) is voted separately. FAILS YES-76 to NO-94
- Main Motion Operating Budget PASSED
- FY 2017 Revolving Funds. PASSED
- Chapter 90 Highway Funds – $651,957 PASSED
- Transfer to General Stabilization Fund – $300,000 PASSED
- Other Post Employment Benefits Liability Trust Fund – $612,647 PASSED
CAPITAL EXPENSES AND PROJECTS:
- Pay-As-You-Go Capital Expenses PASSED
- Highway F-350 Pickup $60,000 DPW
- Fire Apparatus/Vehicles $46,394
- IT Equipment Replacement $100,000
- Replacement of Police Cruisers $74,000
- Systemwide School Security Upgrades (FY17 Upgrade intrusion alarm systems at Elmwood and High School) $100,000
- Hopkins School Boiler Replacement (Replace boiler #2 at Hopkins – town received insurance proceeds $42,088 in FY16) $55,000
- Middle School Water Heater Replacement (Replace water heater installed in 1996) $33,000
- High School Athletic Center Scoreboard Replacement $25,000
- Systemwide School Technology Upgrades (FY17 New student information system & wiring upgrades) $100,000
- School Dept. – Replacement of Tractor $81,000
- Middle School and High School Bleacher Upgrades and Repairs $85,000
- Weed Control at Lake Maspenock – NO ACTION
- Sidewalk Master Plan Phase II – $136,000 – PASSED
- Transfer Funds to Purchase Fire Vehicle and Equipment – $500,000 PASSED
- Transfer Funds to Purchase Fire Vehicle – $125,000 PASSED
- Transfer Funds to Reequip/Reconfigure Fire Vehicle and Equipment – $55,000 PASSED
- Purchase of Dump Truck $200,000 DPW PASSED
- Grove Street Water Tank Replacement $1,530,000 from DPW Water Enterprise Fund PASSED
- Water Main Replacement – Hayden Rowe Street $260,000 from DPW Water Enterprise Fund PASSED
- Water Source of Supply $1,000,000 from DPW Water Enterprise Fund PASSED
- Biological Filtration Wells #4 & #5 $50,000 from DPW Water Enterprise Fund PASSED
- Middle School Auditorium Upgrades (Install air conditioning, repaint stage floor, replace curtains, stage rigging, control console, & light board) $167,000 PASSED
- School Bus Parking Lot (Construct gravel parking lot for buses at the proposed new elementary school – results in estimated annual positive impact of $111K ) $320,000 – A motion for No Action FAILED. An alternate motion will be considered as the first Agenda item for Tuesday’s Town Meeting.
- School Building & Grounds Storage Facility – Design & Feasibility $25,000 – NO ACTION – Consent Agenda
- Artificial Turf Field with Lights – Design & Feasibility $100,000 – NO ACTION
- Signage for Historical Sites – $15,000
- Transfer Funds for New Capital Projects – NO ACTION
- Cemetery Roadway Opening – access to the Claflin St from Mt Auburn Cemetery – $2,500 PASSED
There was some discussion of article 31 (CPC Funding Projects), but it was not ultimately voted. The meeting adjourned at 11:06 PM.