Brookfield Special Town Meeting
Politics - Meeting
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Thursday, March 18, 2010 7:00 PM-9:00 PM |
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| Suggested Audiences: | Elders, Adult, College | |
| Location: Find Local Food & Accommodations |
Brookfield Elementary School Cafeteria 37 Central Street Brookfield, MA 01506 |
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| Sponsored by: | Board of Selectmen & Town Hall Barrier Removal Committee | |
| Description: | More information relative to this Special Town Meeting will be posted at thsi location at a later date, but the main purpose of this meeting will be to see if the registered voters of the town are interested in funding renovations to the Town Hall. The majority of the renovations are "barrier removal" which means that the building will be made handicapped accessible under the American with Disabilities Act (ADA. Some proposed renovations will place the police department in the basement of the Town Hall thus eliminating the need of either continuing to lease the current location or build a new building. The installation of an elevator will make the entire building usable and ADA accessible where now only the main floor is accessible. There will be two opportunities to tour the Town Hall. Watch this site for those dates and times. **** HERE IS THE WARRANT FOR THE SPECIAL TOWN MEETING AS SIGNED BY THE SELECTMEN ON MARCH 3, 2010 AND AS POSTED BY THE TOWN CLERK & CONSTABLE ON MARCH 4, 2010. THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS SPECIAL TOWN MEETING WARRANT March 18, 2010 WORCESTER, SS: TO EITHER OF THE CONSTABLES OF THE TOWN OF BROOKFIELD IN THE COUNTY OF WORCESTER GREETINGS: 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 TO MEET AT THE BROOKFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, CAFETERIA, 37 CENTRAL STREET, BROOKFIELD, MA ON THURSDAY, March 18, 2010at 7:00 P.M. TO ACT ON THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES: ARTICLE 1: To see if the Town will vote to raise, appropriate, transfer or borrow a sum of money not to exceed $5,000,000 for the purpose of designing and constructing an elevator addition and related improvements to the Town Hall and for the associated design and renovation costs of the Town Hall to fully comply with all Americans With Disabilities Act, the Architectural Access Board, and the building code of Massachusetts, including all other costs incidental and related thereto, to make the Town Hall fully usable for Town offices and as a center of community activities, “the Town Hall Renovation Project”, contingent on the following: (a) The Town submit an application for a Community Development Block grant in Fiscal Year 2011 and/or application for other grants for funding of not less than $500,000 to be applied to the total Town Hall Renovation Project, and that (b) To meet this appropriation, the Town Treasurer be authorized to borrow a sum of money from United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Rural Development program, as provided for by M.G.L. Chapter 44, Section 8, or any other enabling authority, such sum not to exceed $4,500,000 for the purpose of financing all costs related to the construction of an elevator addition and all other costs incidental and related to the Town Hall Renovation Project, and that (c) The appropriation under this vote shall not take effect unless the Town shall have voted at a regular or special election to exempt the amounts required to pay the borrowing from the provisions of Proposition 2½ so-called, as provided for by M.G.L. Chapter 59, Section 21C(k), or take any other action relative thereto. (2/3rds vote required) ARTICLE 2: To see if the Town will vote to transfer from available funds, a sum of money to the Full-Time Officers Wages Account, or take any action relative thereto. ARTICLE 3: To see if the Town will vote to transfer from available funds, a sum of money to the Part-Time Officers Wages Account, or take any action relative thereto. ARTICLE 4: To see if the Town will vote to transfer from available funds, a sum of money to the Legal Services Account, or take any action relative thereto. ARTICLE 5: To see if the Town will vote to transfer from available funds, a sum of money to the Unemployment Account, or take any action relative thereto. NO OTHER ARTICLES – 5 total. And you are directed to serve this warrant, by posting up attested copies thereof, at the Town Hall and Post Office in said Town, fourteen days at least before the time of the holding of 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 the meeting, as aforesaid. Given under our hands this Third (3rd) day of March, in the year of our Lord, Two Thousand and Ten. Respectfully Submitted, SELECTMEN OF BROOKFIELD Rudy Heller, Chairman James W. Allen, Vice Chairman Peter S. O’Connell, Clerk |
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| More Information: |
E-mail:
dneylon@brookfieldma.us
Phone: 508-867-2930x10 Entered by: Donna L. Neylon |
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Last Modified: March 4, 2010 at 11:55 AM
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