List of Articles for Town Meeting 2016
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eHop will provide more details and links next weekend prior to Town Meeting, but for now here are the key documents and the list of articles.
REPORTS:
- Acceptance of Town Reports
FINANCIAL – FISCAL YEAR 2016:
- FY 2016 Supplemental Appropriations
- FY 2016 Budget Transfers
- Unpaid Bills from Previous Fiscal Years
FINANCIAL – FISCAL YEAR 2017:
- Property Tax Exemption Increase
- Personal Property Tax Bill Threshold
- Set the Salary of Elected Officials
- Fiscal 2017 Operating Budget $70,846,691, which is a +3% Tax Impact (net of new growth)
- FY 2017 Revolving Funds
- Chapter 90 Highway Funds
- Transfer to General Stabilization Fund
- Other Post Employment Benefits Liability Trust Fund $612,647
CAPITAL EXPENSES AND PROJECTS:
- Pay-As-You-Go Capital Expenses
- Highway F-350 Pickup $60,000
- 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
- Replacement of Tractor $81,000
- Middle School and High School Bleacher Upgrades and Repairs $85,000
- Weed Control at Lake Maspenock $60,000
- Sidewalk Master Plan Phase II
- Transfer Funds to Purchase Fire Vehicle and Equipment
- Transfer Funds to Purchase Fire Vehicle
- Transfer Funds to Reequip/Reconfigure Fire Vehicle and Equipment
- Purchase of Dump Truck $200,000
- Grove Street Water Tank Replacement $1,530,000 from DPW Water Enterprise Fund
- Water Main Replacement – Hayden Rowe Street $260,000 from DPW Water Enterprise Fund
- Water Source of Supply $1,000,000 from DPW Water Enterprise Fund
- Biological Filtration Wells #4 & #5 $50,000 from DPW Water Enterprise Fund
- Middle School Auditorium Upgrades (Install air conditioning, repaint stage floor, replace curtains, stage rigging, control console, & light board) $167,000
- School Bus Parking Lot (Construct gravel parking lot for buses at the proposed new elementary school – results in estimated annual positive imnpact of $111K ) $320,000
- School Building & Grounds Storage Facility – Design & Feasibility $25,000
- Artificial Turf Field with Lights – Design & Feasibility $100,000
- Signage for Historical Sites
- Transfer Funds for New Capital Projects
- Cemetery Roadway Opening
COMMUNITY PRESERVATION FUNDS:
- Community Preservation Recommendations – CPC Project Narratives:
- $20,000 from funds reserved for Historic Preservation to preserve Town records
- $2,500 from funds reserved for Open Space for Boundary Markers/Medallions to be acquired and installed on Town owned parcels
- $50,000 from Budgeted Reserve Funds to improve the public trail and create a dog park on 192 Hayden Rowe Street (Hughes Property)
- $50,000 from funds reserved for Open Space to acquire approximately 6 acres of land located at 0 East Main Street and shown as parcel U12-23-0 on the Assessors Map
- $60,000 from funds reserved for Historic Preservation to rehab and restore the McFarland Sanger House
- $75,000 from funds reserved for Historic Preservation to rehab and restore the Rte 85 Stone Bridge
- $25,000 from Budgeted Reserve Funds to construct a recreational path from Rte 85 to the Stone Bridge
- $10,000 from Budgeted Reserve Funds to install fencing around the Claflin Fountain
- $50,000 from Budgeted Reserve Funds to install protective netting at the Fruit Street Athletic Complex
- $20,000 from Budgeted Reserve Funds to install a boat dock at Sandy Beach
ZONING BYLAW AMENDMENTS:
- Amend Open Space Mixed Use Development Overlay District Site Plan Review and OSLPD Bylaws draft 2-2-16
- Amend Garden Apartments in Residential Districts and Village Housing in Residential Districts Bylaws Garden Apartments and Village Housing bylaws draft 2-2-16
- Repeal Senior Housing Development Bylaw Senior Housing Development Bylaw draft 2-2-16
- Amend Site Plan Review and Open Space and Landscape Preservation Development Bylaws
- Amend Sign Bylaw Sign Bylaw draft 2-2-16, Document depicting proposed changes to Sign Bylaw 2-2-16
- Amend Hotel Overlay District Hotel Overlay District draft 2-2-16
- Elmwood Park Business District Elmwood Park Business District draft 2-2-16, Proposed Elmwood Park Business District Map
- Dog Day Care Dog Day Care Facilities draft 2-2-16
- Animal Shelters Animal Shelters draft 2-2-16
GENERAL BYLAW AMENDMENTS:
- Repeal Sex Offender Residency Requirement
LAND ACQUISITIONS AND DISPOSITIONS:
- Acquisition of Easement – 91 West Main Street
- Acquisition of Easement – Leonard Street
- Gift of Land – Connelly Hill Estates
- Gift of land – Hilltop Road
- Gift of land – Legacy Farms Recreation Parcel
- Street Acceptance
- Connelly Hill Road, from Smith Road to Bowker Road
- Valleywood Road, from Erika Drive to dead end
- Carol Ann Drive, from West Elm Street to dead end
- Kerry Lane, from Eastview Road to dead end
- Nancy Lane, from Teresa Road to dead end
- Street Discontinuance
- Frankland Road from its intersection with East Main Street to its intersection with Legacy Farms Road
- Disposition of Property
ADMINISTRATIVE:
- Solar Tax Agreements
- Town Clerk
- Trustees of the School Trust Fund in the Town of Hopkinton