Following is the warrant for the Fall Town Meeting on Monday, November 19th at 7 PM at the Raynham Middle School:
TOWN OF RAYNHAM
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
November 19, 2007
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’s Joseph A. Bettencourt Auditorium in said Raynham, on the 19th day of November, 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 Free Cash the sum of $2,700 for the payment of bills incurred during the previous fiscal year, which remain unpaid, or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by the Board of Selectmen)
ARTICLE 2. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from Free Cash the sum of $16,760 to the Highway Department Salary account to pay for the settlement of the Highway contract negotiations for FY08, or take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 3. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from Free Cash the sum of $4,800 to the Highway Department Wage account to pay for the settlement of the Highway contract negotiations for FY08, or take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 4. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from Free Cash the sum of $5,000 to the Highway Maintenance account for the settlement of the Highway contract negotiations for FY08, or take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from Free Cash the sum of $11,912.23 to the Police Detail Revolving account to offset receivables deemed uncollectible, or take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 6. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $15,000 from Free Cash to fund the settlement of a union grievance related to health insurance co-pays, or take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 7. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the Ambulance Receipts Reserved Account the sum of $170,127.00 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 2008, or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by Fire Department)
EMT Stipends $ 81,765.00
Wages $ 33,812.00
Expenses $ 54,550.00
Total $170,127.00
ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to enter into an agreement with Aquaria LLC doing business in Massachusetts as Aquaria Water LLC (“Aquaria”), on terms and conditions acceptable to the Board of Selectmen, allowing Aquaria to construct a water pipeline and appurtenances through the Town, or take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will vote to rescind the authorization to borrow the following amounts for the stated purposes: $142,972 of Article 43 of the 1997 Annual Town Meeting for Title V Loan program; $56.00 of Article 21 of the 1999 Annual Town Meeting for Sewer Construction and $50,000 of Article 8 of the 2000 Annual Town Meeting for School Boiler, or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by the Treasurer/Collector)
(Note: The time period for the Title V loan program has passed; the amount for sewer construction is left over from MWPAT borrowing and the amount for the school boiler is left over from the costs).
ARTICLE 10. To see if the Town will vote to reduce the amounts appropriated for the following line items from the May 2007 Annual Town Meeting, or take any action relative thereto:
Line Item 134 - Long Term Debt Principal from $987,498 to $740,624
Line Item 135 – Long Term Debt Interest from $629,423 to $490,818
Line Item 136 – Long Term Debt Administrative Fees from $19,357 to $14,518
Line Item 139 - Short Term Interest from $295,822 to $254,492
Note: Amounts are being reduced by the 25% of sewer debt attributable to sewer betterments.
ARTICLE 11. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the Sewer Stabilization Account $167,002 to help fund the 25% of the sewer debt attributable to sewer betterments, or take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 12. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from Overlay Surplus the sum of $16,800 for the payment of the FY2009 Data Conversion of existing CAMA system; or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by the Board of Assessors)
ARTICLE 13. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from Overlay Surplus the sum of $7,000 for the payment of Department of Revenue mandated field review of all real and personal property, or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by the Board of Assessors)
ARTICLE 14. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $6,130.00 from Article 3 of the November 15, 2005 Special Town Meeting to repair or replace an existing wall and install a fence along Broadway at the Shaw Cemetery. Any remaining funds will be utilized to survey the right of way from Sachem Road to the Gilmore/Field/Britton Cemetery, or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by the Cemetery Commission)
ARTICLE 15. To see if the Town will transfer from the General Stabilization account the sum of $39,000, which came from the Firearms Licensing fees and went into the general fund, to a Police Department Technical (Computer and Information Technology) account to offset technology upgrade and maintenance costs, or take any action relative thereto.(Submitted by the Police Department)
ARTICLE 16. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $442,000 from the General Stabilization Account as an “other financing source” for the purpose of reducing the tax rate, or take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 17. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the balance of the School Land Purchase Stabilization account ($22,008) as an “other financing source” for the purpose of reducing the tax rate, or take any action relative thereto.
Note: Town has paid its share of the land purchase to the District and the remaining funds are surplus.
ARTICLE 18. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from Overlay Surplus the sum of $32,137 as an “other financing source” for the purpose of reducing the tax rate, or take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 19. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the balance of Article 31 of the May 17, 2004 Annual Town Meeting($10,893.68) for the purpose of performing maintenance, purchasing new infrastructure and hiring consultants or contractors to perform work on the Park & Grounds infrastructure, or take any action relative thereto. Note: Article 31 was for improvements to Johnson’s Pond dam. (Submitted by the Capital Planning Committee)
ARTICLE 20. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the balance of Article 6 of the November 22, 2005 Special Town Meeting($22,000) for the purpose of performing maintenance, purchasing new infrastructure and hiring consultants or contractors to perform work on the Park & Grounds infrastructure, or take any action relative thereto. Note: Article 6 was for engineering work to repair the South Street East bridge. Money is to be combined with funds appropriated in the previous article. (Submitted by the Capital Planning Committee)
ARTICLE 21. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the balance of Article 22 of the November 15, 2005 Special Town Meeting ($14,210.17) to the Highway Department’s Parks & Grounds account, or take any action relative thereto.
Note: Money is to replenish account from which the 2nd year of a 3 year lease for a John Deere1600 Turbo Series II commercial diesel-powered mower with an 11-foot cut was paid. Article 22 was for work to remediate an underground fuel tank removed in 1998.
(Submitted by the Capital Planning Committee)
ARTICLE 22. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $18,000 from the Highway Department’s Fiscal Year 2008 Maintenance of Public Ways account for the purpose of the construction of a 4,200 square foot addition to the Highway Garage including any remodeling/ reconstruction of the existing Highway Garage required by the Americans with Disabilities Act, or take any action relative thereto. Note: Money is to be combined with funds appropriated at previous Town Meetings. (Submitted by the Capital Planning Committee)
ARTICLE 23. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the General Stabilization Account the sum of $25,000.00 for construction and improvements to any Town infrastructure under the responsibility of the Highway Department to include equipment purchases in addition to any funds allotted by the Commonwealth and/or County, or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by the Capital Planning Committee)
ARTICLE 24. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the General Stabilization Account the sum of $61,380 for the purchase of two new police vehicles and the repair of one vehicle for the Police Department; or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by the Capital Planning Committee)
ARTICLE 25. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the General Stabilization Account the sum of $77,000 for the purchase of turnout gear for members of the Fire Department, or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by the Capital Planning Committee)
ARTICLE 26. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $180,000.00 from the Sewer Enterprise~retained earnings for the replacement of the two wastewater pumps / motors and their dedicated electrical / control components at the Paramount Sewage Pumping Station; or take any action relative thereto.~~(Submitted by the Capital Planning Committee)
ARTICLE 27. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $35,000.00~from the Sewer Enterprise~retained earnings for the purchase of an F-350 pickup truck with utility body, with the Department’s current 1999 F-250 being given to the Highway Department, or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by the Capital Planning Committee)
ARTICLE 28. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the General Stabilization Account the sum of $10,000 for the removal of trees recently killed by drought/defoliation, or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by the Tree Warden)
ARTICLE 29. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the General Stabilization Account the sum of $10,000 to the Fire Department Expenses account for replacement of the springs on the two (2) front line engines for the Fire Department, or take any action relative thereto.
(Submitted by the Fire Department)
ARTICLE 30. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the care, custody, management and control of the real estate with all improvements thereon described as Raynham Assessors’ Parcel Map 8, Lot 246-03 (conveyed to the Town by deed recorded at the Bristol County Northern District Registry of Deeds at Book 13423, Page 77) to the Town of Raynham Board of Selectmen for the public purpose of conveying the said real estate as a gift to the Raynham Housing Authority for the purpose of building additional elderly housing, or take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 31. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to convey the real estate with all improvements thereon described as Raynham Assessors’ Parcel Map 8, Lot 246-03 (conveyed to the Town by deed recorded at the Bristol County Northern District Registry of Deeds at Book 13423, Page 77) as a gift to the Raynham Housing Authority, 75 Mill Street, Raynham, MA 02767 for the public purpose of building additional elderly housing, or take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 32. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the care, custody, management and control of the real estate with all improvements thereon described as Raynham Assessors’ Parcel Map 8, Lot 243-A (conveyed to the Town by deed recorded at the Bristol County Northern District Registry of Deeds at Book 13224, Page 98) to the Town of Raynham Board of Selectmen for the public purpose of conveying the said real estate as a gift to the Raynham Housing Authority for the purpose of building additional elderly housing, or take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 33. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to convey the real estate with all improvements thereon described as Raynham Assessors’ Parcel Map 8, Lot 243-A (conveyed to the Town by deed recorded at the Bristol County Northern District Registry of Deeds at Book 13224, Page 98) as a gift to the Raynham Housing Authority, 75 Mill Street, Raynham, MA 02767 for the public purpose of building additional elderly housing, or take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 34. 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)
ARTICLE 35. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a gift the sum of $100,000 from Electrochem Commercial Power, Inc., formerly known as Battery Engineering, Inc., a Massachusetts corporation with a principal place of business located at 100 Energy Drive, Canton, MA 02021 (“ECP”), in order to conduct a drainage study for the Hill Street culvert that presently is flooding and to take all actions necessary to implement any drainage improvements, or take any action relative thereto. ~~
Note: The study at a minimum shall identify the watershed that flows through the Hill Street culvert, identify a solution to eliminate this flooding and identify a solution that prevents flooding in the future as future development occurs within this watershed. ~The study at a minimum shall also design permit plans for the drainage solution. ~The money shall also be used for any action necessary to implement the drainage improvements.
ARTICLE 36. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Town way the way designated as Terrier Way and laid out by the Board of Selectmen, and described as Parcel T-1 on a plan entitled: “TOWN OF RAYNHAM PLAN OF THE LAYOUT OF TERRIER WAY TO ACCOMPANY DESCRIPTION FOR ACCEPTANCE, SCALE 1” = 20’, JANUARY 23, 2007”, plan prepared by: GREENMAN–PEDERSEN, INC., 800 SOUTH MAIN STREET, 1st FLOOR, MANSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, and further bounded and described as follows:
Bounded westerly by the easterly location line of the 1996 town layout of North Main Street, and by the line described as follows: beginning at a point on said 1996 easterly location line of North Main Street at a point bearing N09°53’55”E and 21.17 feet distant from an iron pipe at an angle in said location line, thence turns and runs southerly to southeasterly along a curve to the left of twenty and no hundredths (20.00) feet radius thirty-two and fifty-six hundredths (32.56) feet to a point; thence runs south 83°-22’05” east one hundred twenty and seven hundredths (120.07) feet to a point; thence runs north 06°-37’-55” east thirty-five and fifty-four hundredths (35.54) feet to a point; thence runs south 83°-22’-05” east fifty-eight and thirty-one
hundredths (58.31) feet to a point; thence runs south 06°-37’55” west one hundred and no hundredths (100.00) feet to a point; thence runs north 83°-22’-05” west forty-one and sixty-nine hundredths (41.69) feet to a point; thence runs north 06°-37’-55” east twenty-four and forty-seven hundredths (24.47) feet to a point; thence runs north 83°22’05” west one hundred twenty-nine and thirty-one hundredths (129.31) feet to a point; thence runs southwesterly to southerly along a curve to the left of twenty and no hundredths (20.00) feet radius thirty-seven and eighty-one hundredths (37.81) feet to the point of ending thereof again on said July 16, 1996 Town layout of North Main Street; or take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 37. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to file a home rule petition with the Massachusetts General Court for the purpose of establishing a ‘Raynham Development Revolving Fund’, in substantially the following form;
Section 1: Notwithstanding the provisions of M.G.L., c. 44, Section 53, or any other provision of the law to the contrary, the Town of Raynham, a municipal corporation duly organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, having a principal place of business at Town Hall, 558 South Main Street, Raynham, Massachusetts 02767 (hereinafter referred to as the “Town”) is hereby authorized to establish in the Town Treasury a special account to be known as the “Raynham Development Revolving Fund”, into which account shall be deposited certain receipts which comprise the total amounts requested through written agreements between the Town, and the owners, developers or parties (hereinafter referred to as the “DONORS”), relative to tax incentive agreements as negotiated and approved
by the Massachusetts Economic Assistance Coordinating Council, as outlined in specific Tax Increment Finance agreements under Massachusetts Economic Development Incentive program, notwithstanding the provisions in accordance with Chapter 23A, Section 3A-H; Chapter 40, Section 59; and Chapter 59, Section 5 of the Massachusetts General Laws, and also the, Act of 1993 and in 751 CMR 11.00 and 402 CMR 2.00 and regulated by the Department of Revenue.
Section 2: The “Raynham Development Revolving Fund” (hereinafter referred to as the “FUND”), shall be established to reinvest contributions by the DONORS receiving tax incentives through the Town’s and the Commonwealth’s Economic Development Incentive Program as negotiated within Tax Increment Finance agreements. The annual contributions by the DONORS shall be deposited into the FUND, for future reinvestment into the community for economic development purposes without further appropriation. The guidelines for future use of all contributions and disbursement of the FUND proceeds will be as follows:
a. There is hereby established a seven member Town of Raynham Board of Overseers, comprised of the Chairman of the Capital Planning Committee or his or her designee, Chairman of the Tax Increment Financing Committee or his or her designee, Chairman of the Planning Board or his or her designee, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen or his or her designee, Chairman of the Business and Economic Development Committee or his or her designee, one citizen appointed annually by the Board of Selectmen, Chairman of the Finance Committee or his or her designee, and the Town Planner as an ex-officio non voting member. The Board of Overseers, acting as the exclusive arm of the
Town for economic development expenditure purposes, will be the designated body to make specific expenditures of said FUND proceeds for Town economic development purposes. A majority vote of the Board of Overseers shall be needed to approve said expenditures without further appropriation. The Board of Overseers shall conduct their business in accordance with M.G.L. Chapter 39, Section 23B, as from time to time amended.
b. The proceeds of the FUND, will be approved only for the parameters set forth in the following guidelines:
· Feasibility studies, economic data gathering, and payment of consultants to compile reports relative to economic development activities that will foster increased tax revenues to the Town and create quality employment opportunities for its residents.
· General operations of the Board of Overseers, which include but are not limited to: purchasing of literature, software, office supplies, computers, or other products that would assist the economic development efforts of the Town.
· Activities related to marketing and promoting the Town for economic development purposes for new businesses, as well as, economic development activities related to business retention and expansion.
· Matching grants or funding of, the construction, installation of, or improvements needed and for infrastructure related to projects of development past, present and future that will leverage future developments resulting in quality employment opportunities and increased tax revenues.
· Construction, installation, or improvement of infrastructure related to projects of development that will leverage future developments resulting in quality employment opportunities and increased tax revenues.
Section 3: The provisions of this Act shall take effect immediately following approval. Each year the Board of Overseers will provide an annual report to the Town on expenditures from the FUND; or take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 38. To see if the town will vote to amend the Raynham Zoning Bylaws by adding to Article 10: Definitions the following new definitions:
Adult day care (drop-in) facility- Premises or buildings used for the provision of supervised care for adults or the elderly on a daily basis.
Arts and crafts studios- A place designed to be used as both a dwelling and a place of work for artists, artisans and craftspersons, including persons engaged in the application, teaching, sale or performance of: wood carvings, baskets, cabinetry, ceramics, clothing, flower arrangements, jewelry, musical instruments, paintings, pottery, sculpture, children’s toys, woven objects, ceramics, hand-blown glass objects, dolls, silver goods or other goods fabricated of precious metals, photographs, candles, graphic arts, taxidermy and leather goods (not including tanning or processing), picture framing, wood working, candles and art work.
Athletic/physical fitness facility- An indoor and/or outdoor facility designed and equipped for active exercise and related activities which are performed utilizing weight control or muscle building equipment or apparatus for the purpose of physical fitness. The facility may include game courts, running and jogging track, swimming pools, saunas, showers, lockers, and gymnasiums. The facility may provide massage, holistic treatments, salons, nutrition counseling, and other associated uses.
Biotechnology – A laboratory or similar facility that has as its primary purpose the manufacture of products related to the fields of medicine, pharmacology and biology, but does not involve radioactive materials, high intensity electromagnetic radiation, recombinant DNA, and controlled substances.
Conference facility- A place used for banquets, conferences and seminars for the public and/or service organizations and/or business and professional conferences with accommodations for food preparation and eating, entertainment excluding Adult Club, and meeting rooms.
Consulting firm(s) - A place where persons provide professional advice or services to people, organizations, individuals and others. They specialize in financial, personal, and professional services. Persons who entertain, including but not limited to fortune tellers and psychics, are not considered consultants.
Funeral home – A building or part thereof used for human funeral services. Such a building may contain space and facilities for embalming and the performance of other services used in the preparation of the dead for burial; the storage of caskets, funeral urns, and other related funeral supplies and the storage of funeral vehicles.
Light manufacturing – Production from previously prepared materials, of finished products or parts, including processing, fabrication, assembly, treatment and packaging of such products, and incidental storage, sales, and distribution of such products.
Medical or health related facility – A public or private facility (with or without laundries) principally engaged in providing services for health maintenance and the treatment of mental or physical conditions. A medical or health related facility may include public health centers, diagnostic centers, treatment centers, rehabilitation centers, outpatient care, cafeterias, gift shops, and laboratories.
Parking facility- A structure or portion thereof composed of one or more levels or floors used exclusively for the parking or storage or motor vehicles. A parking structure may be totally below grade (as in an underground parking garage) or either partially or totally above grade with those levels being either open or enclosed.
Retail – An establishment principally engaged in selling goods or merchandise to the general public and which may include selling of goods or merchandise to other retailers, contractors, or businesses, and rendering services incidental to the sale of such goods.
Office – A place of business providing professional service to individuals and businesses, including, without limitation, accountants, advertising agents, architects, attorneys, insurance producers, travel agents, realtors, investment counselors, publishers, surveyors, mortgage originators, graphic design, industrial design and services where a majority of client contacts occur at the office there is no display of merchandise and the storage and sale of merchandise is incidental to the service provided.
Research and development – A laboratory or similar facility that has as its primary purpose research, investigation, experimentation, and testing activities related to the fields of electronics, engineering, geology, physics, or other scientific area, but which does not involve research with radioactive materials, high intensity electromagnetic radiation, recombinant DNA, or controlled substances, or ordinarily involves processes that produce medical, biological, chemical or radioactive wastes.
Service – An establishment that provides personal services for the convenience of the neighborhood, including, without limitation, barber and beauty shops, shoe repair shops, bicycle repair, dry cleaners, laundries, self-service laundries, bakeries, martial arts, newsstands, pharmacies, photographic studios, duplicating services, automatic teller machines, and the healing arts (health treatments or therapy generally not performed by a medical doctor or physician such as physical therapy, massage, acupuncture, aromatherapy, yoga, audio logy, and homeopathy).
Restaurant (fast food)- A principal place of business principally for the sale of foods or beverages in a ready-to-consume state within the building or off premises and whose principal method of operation includes sale of foods and beverages in paper, plastic or other disposable containers, or where consumption of foods and beverages on the premises outside the restaurant building or with parked motor vehicles on the premises is allowed and encouraged or where foods and beverages are served directly to the customer in a motor vehicle.
Retail (Specialty)- The selling of goods, wares or merchandise directly to the general public which is directly related to and/or is incidental to the principal use of the business
Warehouse and distribution – A building used for inside storage, and distribution of manufactured products, supplies, and equipment, but excluding bulk storage of materials that are flammable or explosive or that create hazardous or commonly recognized offensive conditions.; or take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 39. To see if the town will vote to amend Article 4: Permitted Uses Section 4.10 of the Raynham Zoning By-laws by deleting the following strikethrough language and adding the following new language in bold print.
4.10 PERMITTED USES: DESIGNATED DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT ~~~~~~~~
(a). Office, banking or wholesale or related business; except that any such use that would be injurious, obnoxious, hazardous or offensive to the surrounding area by reason of actual or probable emission of noise, odors, gases, liquids, dust, chemicals, fumes or smoke shall be prohibited (revised May 18, 1987); or
(b). ~Research and development, engineering, light manufacturing and assembly, high technology, warehouse or distribution center, communications and utilities facilities, and other similar commercial uses, except that any such use that would be injurious, obnoxious, offensive, or hazardous to the surrounding area by reason of actual or probable emission of noise, odors, gases, liquids, dust, chemicals, fumes or smoke shall be prohibited.
(c). Hotel, conference facility, parking facility or restaurant except that so-called “fast food” restaurants shall be prohibited. A “fast food” restaurant shall mean a restaurant whose principal business is the sale of foods or beverages in a ready-to-consume state within the building or off premises and whose principal method of operation includes sale of foods and beverages in paper, plastic or other disposable containers, or where consumption of foods and beverages on the premises outside the restaurant building or with parked motor vehicles on the premises is allowed and encouraged or where foods and beverages are served directly to the customer in a motor vehicle; or
(d). Educational, hospital or medical or health related, athletic/physical fitness or agricultural.
(e). Specialty Retail is only allowed incidental to any permitted uses in Section 4.10. The maximum space available for specialty retail area shall not exceed the lesser of twenty percent (20) or 1,000 square feet of the total aggregate space of the principal use, a portion of which is specialty retail; or take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 40. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Town of Raynham Zoning Map Section 3.2, by changing the cross hatched area from Industrial and Business to Designated Development; or take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 41. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Town of Raynham Zoning Map Section 3.2, by changing the cross hatched area from Industrial to Farm and Forest; or take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 42. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Town of Raynham Zoning Map Section 3.2, by changing the cross hatched area from Industrial to Residential A; or take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 43. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Town of Raynham Zoning Map Section 3.2, by changing the cross hatched area from Office Development and Residential A, Business to Designated Development; or take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 44. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Town of Raynham Zoning Map Section 3.2, by changing the cross hatched area from Office Development to Farm and Forest; or take any action relative thereto.
ARTICLE 45. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to choose a vendor and negotiate a contract with that vendor on terms and conditions acceptable to the Board of Selectmen for the purposes of evaluating, constructing and operating a compost facility on Town owned in the event that the Board of Selectmen determines that it is in the best interest of the Town to do so, or take any action relative thereto. (Submitted by Highway Department) Note: The land being considered has already received a site assignment for solid waste.
ARTICLE 46. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the General Stabilization Account the sum of $75,000.00 for repairs and /or reconstruction work at the Fire Station, or take any action relative thereto.
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 16th day of October in the year of our Lord two thousand and seven.
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JOHN M. DONAHUE
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DONALD L. McKINNON
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JOSEPH R. PACHECO
SELECTMEN OF RAYNHAM
A true copy. Attest:
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LOUIS PACHECO
CONSTABLE
October 16, 2007
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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