SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
November 8, 2010
PROCEEDINGS
The meeting was called to order and declared open by the Moderator, George A. Balko III, at 7:06 p.m. at Mountview Middle School. The salute to the flag followed. There were 211 registered voters present. Thirteen persons without voting privileges were present. The Moderator waived the reading of the warrant.
ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator for said Meeting. No action being necessary, the Article was passed over.
ARTICLE 2. On motion made by Donald Mancini it was unanimously voted that the Town transfer from available funds the sum of $45,000 to balance the Fiscal Year 2010 Water-Sewer Enterprise Fund.
ARTICLE 3. On motion made by Paul Challenger that the Town appropriate the sum of Six Hundred Twenty-five Thousand ($625,000) Dollars for conducting a Feasibility Study to renovate, expand or replace Mountview Middle School, 270 Shrewsbury Street, Holden, Massachusetts, said sum to be expended under the direction of the Mountview School Building Committee, and that to raise said appropriation the Town Treasurer/Collector, with the approval of the Selectmen, is authorized to borrow said sum under M.G.L. Chapter 44, or any other enabling authority; that the Town of Holden and the Wachusett Regional School District acknowledge that the Massachusetts School Building Authority’s (“MSBA”) grant program is a non-entitlement, discretionary program based on
need, as determined by the MSBA, and any costs the Town incurs in excess of any grant approved by and received from the MSBA shall be the sole responsibility of the Town and that the amount of borrowing authorized pursuant to this vote shall be reduced by any grant amount set forth in the Feasibility Study Agreement that may be executed between the Town of Holden or Wachusett Regional School District and the MSBA; the Moderator declared that the motion carried by a two-thirds voice vote. 2/3rds VOTE REQUIRED
ARTICLE 4. On motion made by James Jumonville it was voted by a majority that the Town accept the following streets as public ways:
Brice Circle from Station 0+16.58 to Station 6+14.58, for a distance of approximately 598.00 feet; and
Alden Hill Road from Station 0+13.63 to Station 5+83.48, for a distance of approximately 569.85 feet; and Blair Drive from Station 0+25.40 to Station 16+09.46, for a distance of approximately 1,584.06 feet; all of said streets having been laid out by the Selectmen and approved by the Planning Board.
Voted to adjourn the meeting at 7:54 p.m.
A true copy.
Attest:
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Cheryl A. Jenkins
Town Clerk
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