SPECIAL TOWN MEETING: The June 30th special town meeting was off to a good start with forty registered voters unanimously passing the first six (6) articles which dealt mostly with the transfer of end-of-fiscal-year-funds from one account to another. Article #4 addressed the $1,500 from the Free Cash Account to purchase the 1983 Mack Truck for the Fire Department. It generated a lively discussion on how many calls the fire department answered during the year and how much money would be left in the Free Cash account. The discussion influenced the vote on Article #5 as well, which also took $4,077 from the Free Cash account to repair the same truck. In the end, the voters unanimously approved both articles.
The five remaining articles involved bylaws and bylaw changes. Each article produced a number of interesting questions as well as criticism. Article #7, addressing handicap parking, caused the least concern for the voters, but Articles 9,10, and 11, all of which were eventually approved by the voters, generated a great deal of debate as to their merit. These three articles concerned the responsibility for mailboxes along the roadside, which barly passed by a 14 to 13 vote, the raising of fines for littering, which passed with a 19 in favor to one opposed in the final vote, but at least half of the town's voters in attendance abstaining on each of these two article. The street numbers bylaw went through easily. Only one article (#8) which dealth with the logging issue was defeated. Voters did not think the wording of the bylaw was sufficient to address the issue and asked the Select Board to go "back to the drawing board" on that one.
The meeting began promptly at 7PM and ended at 8:05. From the Town Clerk's Office