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Home My WebLink Aboutmin brd of selectmen 05/18/04 · ... r Board of Selectmen Minutes from May 18, 2004 Annual/Special Town Meeting ~EcEtvEœ f!OWN CLERKS OFF ICE 04 HAY 20 PM 2: 59 MAN SF IELD MASSACHUSETTS The Board of Selectmen convened in the Mansfield High School Cafeteria at 6:00 p.m. prior to the start of the Annual and Special Town Meetings to review final changes to the Warrants and vote on their recommendations. Present were Chairman Steven W. MacCaffrie; Clerk Bernard J. Dolan; Selectmen Michael W. McCue and Louis P. Amoruso. Vice Chairman Roger S. Achille was not present for this portion of the meeting. Also present was Town Manager John O. D' Agostino. Review of Annual Town Meetine: Warrant Articles Town Manager D' Agostino advised the Selectmen that a meeting was held with the School Department that afternoon and they have agreed to reduce their budget by $80,000 with the provision that an additional $100,000 to $200,000 will be considered at the Fall Town Meeting, at which time they expect to have completed contract negotiations. . Article 2 r Motion: To amend Article 2 of the Annual Town Meeting by reducing the amount to be transferred to $512,000. and reducing the total to $30,980,000 (Amoruso-McCue) 4-0 Passes Motion: To support a budget of $30,980,000. for the Mansfield Public Schools with the transfer of $512,000 from Stabilization (Amoruso-McCue) 4-0 Passes Motion: To reconsider the 4 Y2% salary increase voted for the Town Manager (McCue-Amoruso) 4-0 Passes Motion: To grant the Town Manager a 3 Y2% salary increase effective December 1, 2004 (Dolan-Amoruso) 3-1 with Chairman MacCaffrie opposed Passes Article 1 Motion: To support a figure of $29,865,072.38 for the operation of various Town Departments (Amoruso-McCue) 4-0 Passes Article 3 Selectman McCue asked that his support for this article be added to the vote taken at the r Selectmen's Meeting of May 12. Special and Annual Town Meeting of May 18,2004 1 r Article 4 Motion: To support $3,291,570.91 of which $98,007,51 will be transferred from the General Fund to defray the expenses of the Water Enterprise (Dolan-McCue) 4-0 Passes Article 6 Motion: To support $245,751 to defray the expenses of the Southeastern Regional School District, with the understanding that it may be possible that we pay less (Amoruso-Dolan) 4-0 Passes Article 17 Motion: To support the appropriation of $63,000 from the Water Enterprise Retained Earnings for Water Main Improvements for the Water Division (Amoruso-Dolan) 4-0 Passes Article 26 Motion: To support the sum of $125,000 for the acquisition ofthe State-owned property at Campbell Street and Route 140 (Amoruso-Dolan) 4-0 Passes Article 30 - r Motion: To support the amended version of leash law by-law, including the language with the front yard being allowed with the use of an electronic fence (Dolan-Amoruso) 4-0 Passes Article 34 Zoning By-Law change for parking in the rear for Downtown construction Motion: To support (Dolan-McCue) 3-1 Amoruso opposed Passes Article 42 Motion: To support the amend Zoning Map for the 15 West Street Church Parsonage into the B-2 Zoning District (McCue-Dolan) 3-1 MacCaffrie opposed Passes Article 43 Citizens Petition for the renovation of the Hartwell School Motion: Not to support because we don't have the money (McCue-Dolan) 4-0 Passes Article 45 Operation override Motion: Not to support r (Dolan-Amoruso) 4-0 Passes Special and Annual Town Meeting of May 18,2004 2 r Special Town Meetin2 Warrant Articles Article 1 A questions was raised as to the transfer of$14,738 to MIS Salaries. It was noted it must be appropriated and it's an amount we've been paying all along. It will come back as revenue. Motion: To support (McCue-Dolan) 4-0 Passes Article 7 Transfer of $12,500 to defray the cost of a demographic planning analysis conducted by Mullin Associates - withdrawn Motion: To support the withdrawal (Dolan-Amoruso) 4-0 Passes r Article 9 Article deals with on-going GIS for Water Department. DPW Director Lee Azinheira explained why funds were needed. These are temporary position and no new positions are being created Motion: To support (Dolan-Amoruso) 4-0 Passes Article 10 Motion: To support putting the $52,492.90 received as insurance proceeds for the incident of December 16, 2003 at the Water Pollution Control Facility to reimburse the costs incurred (Dolan-Amoruso) 4-0 Passes It was noted that Articles 11 and 14 have been withdrawn. Motion: To suspend the meeting and adjourn into the auditorium at 6:45 p.m. (Dolan-Amoruso) 4-0 Passes The Selectmen reconvened in the Mansfield High School Auditorium where the Annual and Special Town Meetings were conducted. Selectman Roger Achille arrived for this portion of the meeting. The Selectmen's recommendation was given on all appropriate articles. At 11 :40 p.m. Article 43 of the Annual Town Meeting was presented by petition of Annette Shaw of Mill Street for the repair and renovation of the Hartwell School. Funding was unavailable and Walnut Street resident Sandra Levine asked if a gift account could be established to accept donations for this purpose and offered to make a donation of$100. Motion: To establish a gift account under MGL Chapter 44 §53 for the refurbishment, design and reconstruction of the Hartwell School and to accept the donation offered by r Sandra Levine, with additional donations to be accepted. Special and Annual Town Meeting of May 18,2004 3 - (' ,-..- I r r (Amoruso-Dolan) 4-0 Passes Town Meeting continued to just prior to midnight, at which time all business had been concluded and the meeting was adjourned. All votes taken were duly recorded by Town Clerk Helen Christian. Respectfully submitted, Mary-Lou Cotton Selectmen's Executive Secretary ~~ Signature of CI ( 5~ ) '3 --¿rJ Date of Approval Special and Annual Town Meeting of May 18,2004 4