Middleboro Town Meeting Tuesday May 26 at 7 PM

The following represents the Special Town Meeting Warrant posted on the new PTWS (Pathetic Town Web Site) --

WARRANT FOR SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
Middleborough, Massachusetts


To Gary J. Russell, Police Chief or any of the
Police Officers of the Town of Middleborough


Greetings:


In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby required to notify
and warn all the inhabitants of said Town, qualified to vote in Town affairs, to meet in the
Auditorium of the Middleborough High School, on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at 7:00 P.M., to act on the following articles:


ARTICLE 1. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate and/or transfer a sum of
money from taxation, free cash, another specific available fund, the Stabilization Fund, an
existing appropriation or account, or other available source, to supplement and/or adjust
departmental budgets for Fiscal Year 2009, or act anything thereon.


ARTICLE 2. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate and/or transfer a sum of
money from taxation, free cash, another specific available fund, the Stabilization Fund, an
existing appropriation or account, or other available source, for the purpose of reducing the
Fiscal Year 2009 budget due to the 9C local aid cuts of the Governor, or act anything thereon.


ARTICLE 3. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate and/or transfer a sum of
money from taxation, free cash, another specific available fund, the Stabilization Fund, an
existing appropriation or account, or other available source for unpaid bills from prior years, or
act anything thereon.


ARTICLE 4. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate and/or transfer a sum of
money from taxation, free cash, another specific available fund, the Stabilization Fund, an
existing appropriation or account or other available source to fund sick leave buy-backs, or act
anything thereon.


ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate and/or transfer a sum of
money from taxation, free cash, another specific available fund, the Stabilization Fund, an
existing appropriation or account or other available source to fund one or more collective
bargaining agreements, or act anything thereon.


ARTICLE 6. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of Sixty Five Thousand Dollars
($65,000) from the Sewer Enterprise Unreserved/Retained Earnings Account for the purpose of purchasing wastewater treatment chemicals, or act anything thereon.


ARTICLE 7. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of One Hundred Twenty Five
Thousand Dollars ($125,000) from the Sewer Enterprise Unreserved/Retained Earnings Account for the purpose of purchasing electricity, or act anything thereon.


ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of Seventy Five Thousand six
hundred ten dollars ($75,610.00) from the Water Enterprise Development Fund to the Water
Unreserved/Retained Earnings Account, or act anything thereon.


ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate and/or transfer a sum of
money from the Town’s Employee Fringe Benefits, Health and Life Insurance account,
Taxation, free cash, another specific available fund or Stabilization Fund, an existing
appropriation or account or other available source or by borrowing to continue to contribute the
same monetary percentage of the premium of a retired Town of Middleborough employee’s
contributory group, general or blanket hospital, surgical, dental and other health insurance, that
the Town contributed for the retired Town of Middleborough employee at the date of the Town
of Middleborough retiree’s retirement from the Town of Middleborough, but in no case less than
in effect in fiscal year 2007, or act anything thereon.
By Petition


ARTICLE 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate and/or transfer a sum of
money from the Town’s Employee Fringe Benefits, Health and Life Insurance account,
Taxation, free cash, another specific available fund, or Stabilization Fund, an existing
appropriation or account or other available source or by borrowing to continue to reimburse
retired Town employees for the increase in their health insurance HMO and PPO deductibles and co-pays paid by retired Town employees during fiscal year 2010 and thereafter in excess of the amounts for such deductibles and co-pays applicable during fiscal year 2007, or act anything
thereon.
By Petition




Given, under our hands at Middleborough, this 27th day of April, 2009.
PATRICK E. ROGERS
MURIEL C. DUPHILY
MARSHA L. BRUNELLE
STEPHEN J. MCKINNON
ALFRED P. RULLO, JR.
BOARD OF SELECTMEN
Pursuant to the instructions contained in the above warrant, I have notified and warned all
inhabitants of said Town of Middleborough, qualified to vote as expressed in said warrant, to
meet at the time and place for the purpose specified by causing an attested copy of the same to be
published in the Middleboro Gazette on the 7th day of May, 2009, that date being more than
fourteen days before the time specified for said meeting.
GARY J. RUSSELL
Police Chief