By Brian Messenger
Staff writer
May 01, 2008 11:52 pm This year's Town Meeting is history. Having motored through 35 articles on April 30, the majority of which were approved with little debate, Town Meeting's second night, held May 1, unfolded with lengthy discussions. Voters disapproved the proposed purchase of a $200,000 sewer infrastructure maintenance vehicle, despite being told by Public Works Director Jack Petkus that the town's current equipment is "absolutely, totally inadequate." A request for $900,000 to buy more conservation land was also defeated because it failed to acquire the two-thirds approval needed. The vote was 203 in favor and 112 opposed. Voters nearly refused to provide $300,000 toward reimbursement of town employees' unused sick-time, known as the accumulated employee benefit account. The article, normally approved each year with little or no discussion, was approved by only by a ten-vote margin, 145 to 135. Here is a complete list of 2008 Town Meeting results:
1 - Town election results - Approved 2 - Election not required by ballot - Approved 3 - Salaries of elected officials - Approved 4 - The FY2009 budget - Approved 5 - Exempt senior citizens from proposition 21/2 override - Withdrawn 6 - FY2009 contingent override - Withdrawn 7 - Proposition 21/2 vote for town and school override - Withdrawn 8 - FY 2009 capital projects fund appropriation - Approved 9 - Budget transfers - Withdrawn 10 - Supplemental budget appropriation - Approved 11 - Free cash - Approved 12 - Unexpended appropriations - Approved 13 - Stabilization fund - Approved 14 - Transfer of funds for school department's FY2009 budget - Withdrawn 15 - Transfer from stabilization fund for school FY2009 budget - Withdrawn 16A - Grant program authorization - Approved 16B - Road contracts - Approved 16C - Town report - Approved 16D - Property tax exemptions - Approved 16E - Contracts in excess of three years - Approved 16F - Accepting easements - Approved 16G - Rescinding of board authorizations - Withdrawn 17 - Granting easements - Approved 18 - Unpaid bills - Withdrawn 19 - Chapter 90 authorizations - Approved 20 - Revolving accounts - Approved 21 - Elderly/disabled transportation program - Approved 22 - Fireworks - Approved 23 - Local options revenues - Withdrawn 24 - Feasibility study — Bancroft Elementary School - Approved 25 - School facilities maintenance trust fund - Approved 26 - Trench safely regulations - Approved 27 - School building maintenance and renovation - Approved 28 - Town building maintenance and renovation - Approved 29 - Lovely field improvements - Approved 30 - Amend home occupation and permitted signs — zoning bylaw - Approved with amendment 31 - Ledge Road land closure - Approved 32 - Bridge repairs - Approved 33 - Outfall sewer - Shawsheen River - Approved 34 - Priority development sites - Approved 35 - Outdoor dining - general bylaw - Approved 36 - Fire rescue and DPW vehicles - Approved 37 - DPW sewer division vehicle - Disapproved 38 - Stormwater management - general bylaw - Approved 39 - Open space land acquisition - Disapproved 40 - Accumulated employee benefit account - Approved 41 - Residential anti-blight bylaw - general bylaw - Disapproved 42 - Finance committee report - general bylaw - Disapproved 43 - Medicare extension plans for retirees -Withdrawn 44 - William M. Wood Memorial - Approved 45 - William M. Wood Memorial Park Improvements - Withdrawn 46 - Lowell Street sidewalk reconstruction - Disapproved 47 - Conveyance and transfer of land - Dwight Street and School Street - Withdrawn 48 - Recreation Park ballfield lighting project - Approved 49 - Parks and grounds appropriation transfer - Approved with amendment 50 - Storm drainage construction and improvements - Approved 51 - Sewer main construction and reconstruction - Approved 52 - Amend dog bylaw - general bylaw - Approved 53 - Amend signs - zoning bylaw - Disapproved 54 - Banners - general bylaw - Approved 55 - News boxes - general bylaw - Approved 56 - Lease of Old Town Hall - Disapproved 57 - Discontinue portion of Paulornette Circle as public way - Approved
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