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Votes at a glance: Lakeville special town meeting outcomes, Nov. 30, 2009
Summary
Summary of motions and outcomes for Articles 1–10 considered at Lakeville’s Nov. 30 special town meeting, including budget transfers, equipment lease, water system formation, zoning, school funding and road acceptance.
Lakeville — Below are the motions and recorded outcomes from the Nov. 30 special town meeting as read in the warrant and recorded by the moderator and tellers. Where tallies were given in the transcript they are recorded; where the transcript recorded only that an article passed by majority the transcript is noted accordingly.
- Article 1: Amend annual budget (housekeeping) — Motion to amend the FY2009 budget with adjustments including $21,504 raised and transfers from free cash and enterprise retained earnings; finance committee recommended approval; declared passed unanimously (tally not separately recorded).
- Article 2: Transfer/appropriate unanticipated FY2010 costs (special town meeting transfers) — Motion to transfer $243,077 (detailed line items read into record including $150,000 to water infrastructure stabilization fund and multiple wage/expense transfers). Finance committee recommended approval; required two-thirds and was declared passed (moderator recorded two opposed but counters indicated the article passed by more than two-thirds).
- Article 3: Transfer $64,117 from employee benefits to school health insurance/wages related to educators’ collective bargaining agreement — Finance committee recommended approval; motion passed by majority (tellers recorded majority; specific tally not provided).
- Article 4: Transfer $86,625 from stabilization fund to establish tuition-based elementary substantially separate special-education classroom (and create revolving fund); expenditure contingent on district funding a full-time teacher and an MOU — Finance committee recommended approval; passed two-thirds, recorded 157–3.
- Article 5: Authorize 5-year lease for a new front-end loader for highway department (funded with Chapter 90 funds; roughly $28,000/year with ownership for $1 at term end) — Finance committee recommended approval; motion passed unanimously (no opposition recorded).
- Article 6: Establish town water supply and distribution system and authorize board of selectmen to act as water commissioners (enabling future betterments/user fees) — Finance committee recommended approval; passed by majority, recorded 129–33.
- Article 7: Accept G.L. c.44 §53F½; create water enterprise fund; transfer $650,000 from water infrastructure stabilization fund and appropriate FY2010 enterprise budget — Finance committee recommended approval; passed two-thirds, recorded 114–25.
- Article 8: Accept Mass. Gen. Laws chapter 40, sections 42A–42F (collection methods for water charges) — Finance committee recommended approval; passed by majority (tally not specified in transcript).
- Article 9: Amend official zoning map to rezone three Main Street parcels from residential to business (237, 239, 241 Main St.) — Planning board recommended disapproval; extended public comment; motion was defeated, recorded 82–92.
- Article 10: Accept Beameramville Drive (subdivision road) as a town way per plan on file and authorize selectmen to acquire easements if needed — Highway superintendent recommended approval; planning board and finance committee reported as required; motion passed by majority (no recorded opposition count in transcript).
Other: The meeting was dissolved by majority vote following Article 10.
Sources: Motions, teller counts and recommendations as recorded in the Nov. 30, 2009 Town of Lakeville special town meeting transcript.
