A Special Town Meeting will have 7 articles and the Annual Town Meeting includes 24 articles.
SOUTHWICK – When voters head to the Annual Town Meeting on Tuesday they will be asked to decide the fate of 24 warrant articles, as well as seven additional articles slated for the Special Town Meeting scheduled to begin first.
The Special Town Meeting will be held Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. with the Annual Town Meeting scheduled to begin immediately afterward.
Special Town Meeting articles include using current year monies to pay for a contractual expense for the Chief of Police Department Head Level that was settled last summer; settling ice and snow removal debts and computer hardware upgrades for the fire department
Officials are also asking townspeople to consider the transfer of $30,000 from water-retained earnings to supplement the construction budget for the new water tank; the transfer of $5,000 from the Sewer Retained Earnings Account to supplement Sewer Capital Grinder Pump maintenance account and the re-appropriation of the remaining bond funds from the repair of the culvert on South Longyard Road at Great Brook, which is complete, to projects of a similar nature, specifically on Depot and at the culvert on Fred Jackson Road at the Shurtleff Brook Culvert.
Article seven states that “the above projects were either not undertaken if grants not received or were completed below the dollar amount authorized to be borrowed,” and the outside town auditor has recommended the unissued or unused balances that could be borrowed be rescinded.
Among the “general housekeeping” articles included in the 24 Annual Town Meeting questions, residents will have the opportunity to cast their votes on the town’s $8.5 million proposed budget, as well as re-authorize funding to keep both town boat ramps at Point Grove Road and Berkshire Avenue running for the next fiscal year; approve the town’s $8.2 million assessment of the Southwick-Tolland Regional School District’s $19.1 million budget.