TOWN OF RAYNHAM
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
October 30, 2006
Bristol, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Raynham, in the County of Bristol, GREETING.
IN THE NAME OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town, qualified to vote in elections and in Town affairs, to meet at the Middle School Auditorium in said Raynham, on the 30th day of October, at 7:00 in the evening, then and there to act on the following Articles: --
ARTICLE 1. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the Stabilization Account the sum of $90,049 for the purchase of three new police vehicles for the Police Department; or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by the Capital Planning
Committee) RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 2. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the Stabilization Account the sum of $15,000 for sealing and painting of Highway Department Office and Garage roof, or take any action relative thereto.(Submitted by the Capital Planning Committee)
RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 3. ~ To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the Stabilization Account the sum of $25,000 to purchase two (2) diesel-powered, self-propelled, zero-turn commercial mowing machines for the Highway Dept/Parks and Grounds for maintenance of fields and other Town property, or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by the Capital Planning Committee)
RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 4. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the Stabilization Account the sum of $10,000 to purchase a mower for the Cemetery Department, or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by the Capital Planning Committee)
RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the Stabilization Account the sum of $13,000 for the replacement of 3,000 feet of 4” hose for the Fire Department, or take any action relative thereto. (This is to replace the 4” hose carried on three Engines that is over 25 years old and is leaking and blowing holes in the hose under pressure creating a safety hazard for firefighters) (Submitted by the Capital Planning Committee)
RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 6. ~ To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the Stabilization Account the sum of $14,000 to purchase 35 minitor pagers for the Fire Department, or take any action relative thereto. (This is to replace the existing pagers that the Fire Department has that are over 20 years old and can no longer be repaired.) (Submitted by the Capital Planning Committee)
RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 7. ~To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $44,000 from the Sewer Enterprise for engineering/design work to modify the existing Rt. 44 sewer pumping station to accommodate a new generator, or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by the Capital Planning Committee) RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 8. ~ To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the Stabilization Account the sum of $26,300 for the purpose of repairing the elevator at the LaLiberte School, or take any action relative thereto.
Note: State regulations require that the hydraulic jack assembly be replaced on this elevator.
RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will vote to approve the $1,965,000 borrowing authorized by vote of the Bridgewater-Raynham Regional School District on September 13, 2006 for the purpose of paying additional costs of construction, originally equipping and furnishing a new District High School, or take any action relative thereto. RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 10. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the Overlay Surplus Account the sum of $242,947 to pay the Town of Raynham’s full share of the $1,965,000 authorized by the Bridgewater-Raynham Regional School District for the purpose of paying additional costs of construction, originally equipping and furnishing a new District High School, or take any action relative thereto.
RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 11. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the Stabilization Account the sum of $126,401.74 to pay off the principal and interest of the BAN for the Town Hall Addition/Police Station, or take any action relative thereto.
RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 12. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer the sum of $183,384.73 to pay the retroactive amounts due relative to the settlement of Police contract negotiations, or take any action relative thereto.
RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer the sum of $44,759.01 to Police Wages Account to pay for the settlement of Police contract negotiations for FY07, or take any action relative thereto.
RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer the sum of $72,328.20 to the Police Salary Account to pay for the settlement of Police contract negotiations for FY 07, or take any action relative thereto.
RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer the sum of $15,288.00 to the Police Salary Account to make up the difference between a first step patrolman and a fifth step patrolman for a veteran officer who was a lateral transfer from another civil service police department, or take any action relative thereto.
RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 16. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer the sum of $5,184.94 to the Police Wage Account to make up the difference between a first step patrolman and a fifth step patrolman for a veteran officer who was a lateral transfer from another civil service police department, or take any action relative thereto.
RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 17. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer the sum of $14,662.90 for Technical Review Services related to the National Reclamation of Raynham, Inc. Site Assignment, or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by Board of Selectmen) RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 18. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer the sum of $18,000 to operate and maintain the new Town Offices from the time it opens until the end of FY07, or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by Board of Selectmen) NOT RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 19. To see if the Town will vote to create a new Foreman position for the Cemetery Department and to raise and appropriate or transfer the sum of $23,000 to the Cemetery Wage account and $6,600 the Health Insurance account to fund the position beginning January 1, 2007, or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by the Cemetery Commissioners)
RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 20. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the Ambulance Receipts Reserved Account the sum of $137,220.00 as detailed below to the Ambulance Operating Account, for the purpose of operating the Ambulance Service for the Fire Department for the last six (6) months of FY 2007, or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by Fire Department)
EMT Stipends $ 52,000.00
Wages $ 27,720.00
Expenses $ 57,500.00
Total $137,220.00
RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 21. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the Ambulance Receipts Reserved Account the sum of $11,619.89 as detailed below to increase the hours of the Part Time Ambulance Billing Clerk to a Full Time Ambulance Billing Clerk, or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by Fire Department)
Ambulance Operating-Wages $ 5,014.85
Health Insurance $ 6,605.04
Total $11,619.89
RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 22. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the Stabilization Account the sum of $7,000.00 to the Fire Department Ladder Account, or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by Fire Department)
(This is the money the Fire Chief received for the old Ladder Truck and is to be used to buy additional equipment that is needed for the new Ladder Truck) NOT RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 23. To see if the Town will vote to reduce the amount appropriated for the Bristol-Plymouth Regional Technical School District at the May, 2006 Annual Town Meeting from $725,484 to $687,441, or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by Board of Selectmen)
Note: Bristol-Plymouth reduced its assessment to the Town after receiving additional State funding. RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 24. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $10,000 from the remaining funds of Article 1 of the June 16, 2003 Special Town Meeting, as originally submitted by the Park and Recreation Department, for the demolition of the two silos at Borden Colony, or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by Park & Recreation)
RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 25. To see if the Town will vote to transfer any money remaining from the renovation of the Sullivan School for use as new Town Offices for the purpose of purchasing necessary furnishings and for moving expenses, or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by the Building Committee) RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 26. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a gift the amount of $ from Bay State Gas’s Partners in Energy Program as a cash incentive to promote energy efficiency upgrades at the new Town Offices and to appropriate said amount for the purpose of paying for any necessary furnishings and moving expenses, or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by the Building Committee)
RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 27. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the Stabilization Account the sum of $_______ to purchase furnishings and pay for moving expenses for the new Town Offices, or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by the Building Committee) NOT RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 28. To see if the Town will vote to approve the amended Tax Increment Financing Agreement between the Town and Silvia & Quinn, P.C., 180 Paramount Drive, Raynham, MA 02767, substantially in the form as is on file with the Town Clerk (the “TIF Agreement”), pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 59, as an Economic Opportunity Area (“Silvia & Quinn, P.C., Economic Opportunity Area”) and to authorize the Board of Selectmen to submit an Economic Opportunity Area Application, Tax Increment Financing Plan, and Certified Project Application to the Massachusetts Economic Assistance Coordinating Council all relating to the project located on a parcel of land identified as Assessor’s Map 15, Lot 176-2G and 180 Paramount Drive, Raynham, MA 02767. Said
Agreement shall be considered in return for locating said business in Town and a subsequent increase in the assessed value of the property based on improvements to said property. To take such other actions as may be necessary to obtain approval of the Certified Project Application, the Economic Opportunity Area, the Tax Increment Financing Plan, and TIF Zone and to implement the TIF Agreement; or take any action relative thereto. NO ACTION
ARTICLE 29. To see if the Town will accept as a gift, purchase, or take by eminent domain permanent sewer easements in portions of certain parcels of land, as shown on plan (1 sheet) entitled, “ Revised Plan of Easements to be Acquired for Proposed Sanitary Sewer between Parkwood Drive & Walter Drive Town of Raynham, Massachusetts dated September 15, 2006, Tighe & Bond, Consulting Engineers Westfield, MA 01085” prepared for Board of Sewer Commissioners, Raynham, Massachusetts, and which is on file with the Office of the Town Clerk, or take any action relative thereto.
Note: Funds for the uses described in this Article were previously raised and appropriated pursuant to Article 21 of the 1999 Annual Town Meeting, an Article relating to the extension of the Town of Raynham Sewer System.
NO ACTION
Note: This Article will provide for the correction of sewer easements between Parkwood Drive and Walter Drive that occurred during Phase 6, Contract 1, sewer construction.
ARTICLE 30. ~~~To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $300,000 from the Sewer Enterprise to install a modern air-cooled 250 kilowatt diesel emergency generator for the Route 44 Sewage Pumping Station; or take any action relative thereto.
(Submitted by the Sewer Commissioners) NOT RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 31. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from the Stabilization Account the sum of $7,605.00 and to give said amount as a gift to the Bridgewater-Raynham Regional School District in accordance with G.L. c. 71, §37A to hire a part-time Raynham Coordinator of Volunteers for the balance of the 2006-2007 school year, or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by Citizen’s Petition)
RECOMMENDED
ARTICLE 32. To see if the Town will vote to waive the age requirement in order that Thomas E. Cady may become a full-time police officer in the Town or Raynham, or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by Citizen’s Petition)
NO ACTION
ARTICLE 33. To see if the Town will vote to waive the age requirement in order that Timothy R. Grabarz may become a full-time police officer in the Town or Raynham, or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by Citizen’s Petition)
NO ACTION
ARTICLE 34. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Town Way, the roadway known as Fair Lane as shown on a recorded plan of land entitled “Fair Lane” a definitive Subdivision Plan of Land in Raynham, MA by BDO Engineering, dated March 20, 2002 with revisions thru May 16, 2002. The Plan is recorded with Bristol County Northern District Registry of Deeds in Plan Book 408 at Pages 23 and 24. Such acceptance being subject to conveyance in fee of said way by owner or owners at no cost to the Town, or take any action relative thereto.
NO ACTION
ARTICLE 35. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Town Way, the roadways known as Carol Drive, Ridge Road, Alvin Circle and Finch Road as shown on a recorded plan of land entitled “Finch Farm, a definitive Subdivision Plan of Land located off Leonard Street in Raynham, MA prepared for Easecat Inc. dated January 11, 1999, last revised May 8, 2000 prepared by Sitec Inc, 12 Welby Road, New Bedford, MA 02745”. The Plan is recorded with Bristol County Northern District Registry of Deeds in Plan Book 395 Pages 19-24. Such acceptance being subject to conveyance in fee of said way by owner or owners at no cost to the Town, or take any action relative there.
NO ACTION
ARTICLE 36. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to accept as a gift, purchase, or take by eminent domain three parcels of land off of Gardner Street shown as parcels T1, T2, T3 and T4 on a plan entitled “Plan of Proposed Roadway Layout and Takings, Gardner Street, Raynham;, Massachusetts, Scale 1” = 20’, date 9/11/06, Alpha Land Surveying & Engineering Associates”, a copy of which is on file with the Town Clerk, for the purpose of the relocation of a portion of Gardner Street and for maintaining and repairing the Gardner Street dam. Note: Funds for this article have been previously appropriated by Article 24 of the 2006 Annual Town Meeting. (Submitted by the Highway Department)
NO ACTION
ARTICLE 37. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to accept as a gift a perpetual drainage easement on a certain parcel of land owned by Harry & Rita Carey shown on Assessors Map 4 Plot 86 for the purpose of completion of a drainage system along Carver Street, said perpetual drainage easement being shown on plan dated August 10, 2006 by Arthur F. Borden & Associates entitled, “Village of Foxwoods Drainage Easement Plan”, a copy of which is on file with the Town Clerk, or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by the Highway Department)
NO ACTION
ARTICLE 38. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to accept as a gift, purchase, or take by eminent domain perpetual drainage easements on two parcels of land off of Pine Street shown as parcels PE1 and PE2 on a plan titled, “Plan of Permanent Easement Takings to be Acquired for Proposed Pine Street Stormwater Pond” prepared by Tighe & Bond Consulting Engineers, of Westfield MA, dated October 2, 2006, a copy of which is on file with the Town Clerk, for the purpose of establishing a detention basin; and to transfer a sum of money $________ from a pass book account from the Developers of Finch Farms development for said purpose; or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by the Highway Department)
NO ACTION
ARTICLE 39. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a gift a certain parcel of land shown as Parcel A on a Plan of Land entitled “Definitive Subdivision of Rogers Lane, Raynham, MA Surveyed for Shawn Cairns surveyed by Ribelin Land Surveyors, Inc., 301 West Center Street, West Bridgewater, MA dated June 6, 2005 revised May 9, 2006" Scale 1" = 30', said Definitive Subdivision Plan being recorded at the Bristol County Northern District Registry of Deeds at Plan Book _______, Page _______, and a copy of which is on file with the Raynham Town Clerk. Said Parcel A contains a total area of 20,962 square feet as shown on said plan to which reference is made for a more detailed description of said parcel; or take any action relative thereto.
NO ACTION
ARTICLE 40. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a gift a certain parcel of land shown as Parcel B on a Plan of Land entitled “Definitive Subdivision of Rogers Lane, Raynham, MA Surveyed for Shawn Cairns surveyed by Ribelin Land Surveyors, Inc., 301 West Center Street, West Bridgewater, MA dated June 6, 2005 revised May 9, 2006" Scale 1" = 30', said Definitive Subdivision Plan being recorded at the Bristol County Northern District Registry of Deeds at Plan Book _______, Page _______, and a copy of which is on file with the Raynham Town Clerk, to be administered by the Raynham Conservation Commission. Said Parcel B contains a total area of 4,980 square feet as shown on said plan to which reference is made for a more detailed description of said parcel; or take any action relative
thereto. NO ACTION
ARTICLE 41. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a gift a perpetual access and utility easement and the perpetual right to access over, on and through, and to install, maintain, repair, relocate and replace utilities of all types in, on, over and under, the area shown as “EMERGENCY ACCESS AND UTILITY EASEMENT” on a Plan of Land entitled “Definitive Subdivision of Rogers Lane, Raynham, MA Surveyed for Shawn Cairns surveyed by Ribelin Land Surveyors, Inc., 301 West Center Street, West Bridgewater, MA. dated June 6, 2005 revised May 9, 2006" Scale 1" = 30', said Definitive Subdivision Plan being recorded at the Bristol County Northern District Registry of Deeds at Plan Book _______, Page ________, a copy of which is on file with the Raynham Town Clerk, in the same
manner as a public way may be used within the Town of Raynham, including motor vehicle and pedestrian access together with the right to construct, maintain and improve said access way, and to install, maintain, repair, relocate and replace all types of utilities, as the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Raynham shall from time to time determine; meaning and intending to provide to the Inhabitants of the Town of Raynham the above-referenced area as a complete access and utility easement for all purposes for which a public way may be used within the Town of Raynham; or take any action relative thereto. NO ACTION
And you are directed to serve this Warrant, by posting up attested copies thereof at the seven (7) places directed by vote of the Town, in said Town, fourteen (14) days before the time of holding said meeting.
HEREOF FAIL NOT, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of meeting, as aforesaid.
Given under our hands this 3rd day of October in the year of our Lord two thousand and six.
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DONALD L. McKINNON
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RAYMOND W. PLATT
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JOHN M. DONAHUE
SELECTMEN OF RAYNHAM
A true copy. Attest:
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LOUIS PACHECO
CONSTABLE
October 3, 2006
Bristol, ss.
PURSUANT TO THE WITHIN WARRANT, I have notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Raynham by posting up attested copies of the same at the seven (7) places directed by vote of the Town, fourteen (14) days before the date of the meeting, as within directed.
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LOUIS PACHECO
CONSTABLE OF RAYNHAM
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