Monday, April 27, 2009

Draft Spring Town Meeting Warrants

You can find the latest draft of the June 2nd Town Meeting Warrant here and the draft Special Town Meeting Warrant to be held on the same day here. I want to emphasize the caveat that these are drafts of the warrant, not the final version. Articles can and will be withdrawn, added, and revised before they are presented at Town Meeting.
Just to get the discussion rolling, ...

... I think the Community Preservation projects (articles D,E,F and F1) spend too much. The scope of projects should be reduced or one or more projects should be delayed.
I have to get out my copy of the Lincoln Park Overlay bylaw and go over Article R. I will post the whole bylaw with the changes marked up to this blog. I think that's the only way to make sense of this article.
I have a problem with the proposed section 7 Commercial Vehicle parking of article DD since I think it may place a burden on local craftsmen who don't have off street parking for their vehicles. I'm not talking about tractor trailers but many tradespeople have a small truck or heavy duty pickup that may meet the criteria in the proposed bylaw.
In the Special Town Meeting, article I has the Water Enterprise buying land from the Town of Darmouth? I'll have to call someone about that one. I'll blog about what I find.
Article J of the Special Town Meeting is to appropriate funds from the Stabilization Fund for this year's (FY09) expenses. Last year, the Town Meeting put an extra $500,000 in the Stab Fund in anticipation of budget cuts this year. Turns out to have been a prescient move. The town needs to take it out to meet our obligations.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The town budget should be moved to the end to make sure we keep a quorum.