HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - TM - 11/13/2000Special Town Meeting – November 13, 2000
At the Special Town Meeting held on Monday, November 13, 2000 at the Cohasset High School Auditorium the following articles were contained in the warrant and acted upon as follows.
Checkers sworn in by the Town Clerk, Marion L. Douglas at 6:30 p.m. were Carol St. Pierre, Janice Rosano, Margaret Hernan, Kathleen Rhodes and Debra Krupczak. Tellers were appointed
and sworn in by the Moderator, George L. Marlette, III.
The Moderator called the meeting to order at 7:20 p.m. and a quorum of 100 was present at that time. The registered voters checked in on the voting list totaled 192. Precinct 1 –
105 voters; precinct 2 – 87 voters.
Voted unanimously to dispense with the reading of the call of the Meeting and Return of Service having been examined by the Moderator and found to be in order.
It was agreed to take the articles in reverse order.
ARTICLE 4:
To see if the Town will vote to acquire in fee by purchase, gift, or eminent domain, a parcel of land located off Forest Avenue, adjacent to Wheelwright Park, consisting of approximately
32.13 acres, more or less, and identified on Assessors’ Map 13, as Parcel 001; and, further, to raise and appropriate, transfer from available funds, and/or borrow pursuant to any applicable
statute, a sum or sums of money, to be expended by the Town Manager, for this purpose.
ARTICLE 4:
Moved to indefinitely postpone consideration of this article.
Motion adopted unanimously.
ARTICLE 3:
To see if the Town will vote to designate the land commonly known as the Old Colony Railroad Right-of-Way, and more particularly described in the deed to the Town of Cohasset recorded
in Norfolk County Registry of Deeds, Book 6022, Page 710, now and in perpetuity as a public park to be administered by the Board of Selectmen acting in their capacity as the Board of
Park Commissioners, pursuant to the provisions of Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 45.
ARTICLE 3:
Moved to indefinitely postpone consideration of this article.
Motion adopted unanimously.
ARTICLE 2:
To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen, on behalf of the Town of Cohasset, to execute Intermunicipal Agreements with terms of up to five (5) years for the disposal
of construction and demolition materials at the Bourne Regional Waste Management Facility.
ARTICLE 2:
Moved that the Board of Selectmen, on behalf of the Town of Cohasset, is hereby authorized to execute Intermunicipal Agreements with terms of up to five (5) years for the disposal of
construction and demolition materials at the Bourne Regional Waste Management Facility.
Motion adopted unanimously.
ARTICLE 1:
To see what sums of money the Town will raise and appropriate, transfer from available funds, and/or borrow from the Massachusetts Water Pollution Abatement Trust, or otherwise borrow
pursuant to any applicable statute, to be expended by the Town Manager, to supplement the funding for the Central Cohasset Sewer Project as voted in Article 5 of the March 1997 Special
Town Meeting, as amended by Article 11 of the October 1998 Special Town Meeting, and as further amended by Article 15 of the March 1998 Annual Town Meeting, and as further amended by
Article 15 of the March 1999 Annual Town Meeting, and, further, that the Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, borrow such supplemental sum or sums of money to supplement
Article 5 of the March 1997 Special Town Meeting, as amended, for funding the design, engineering, construction, and installation of said project, which borrowing is to be repaid by
betterments assessed upon the properties benefited thereby.
ARTICLE 1:
Moved that Article 5 of the March 1997 Special Town Meeting, as previously amended by Article 11 of the October 1998 Special Town Meeting, and as further previously amended by Article
15 of the March 1998 Annual Town Meeting, and as further previously amended by Article 15 of the March 1999 Annual Town Meeting, be hereby amended to increase the amount appropriated
and amount authorized to be borrowed by Six Hundred Thousand ($600,000.00) Dollars, from $14,986,800.00 to $15,586,800.00, to be expended by the Town Manager, for the purpose of funding
the design, engineering, construction, and installation of the Central Cohasset Sewer Project, which borrowing shall be a general obligation of the Town, although it is the intent of
the Town that fifty (50%) percent of the debt service for the new Six Hundred Thousand ($600,00.00) Dollars hereby appropriated is to be paid from tax revenues of the Town and fifty
(50%) percent is to be paid from revenues received by the Sewer Betterment Fund.
A 2/3 vote is required.
Motion adopted by the necessary 2/3’s.
It was moved and seconded that the Special Town Meeting be dissolved at 8:30 p.m.
Motion adopted unanimously.
A True Record, ATTEST:
Marion L. Douglas
Town Clerk