ARTICLE
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DATE
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SUBJECT
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RESULT
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1
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4/26
|
Choose Town Officers
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Passed
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2
|
4/26
|
Hear Reports & Portions of Consent Calendar (See Below)
|
Passed Unanimously
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3
|
4/26
|
Meeting Procedure (Rule of the Meeting governing requirements on motions and amendments made under articles concerned with expenditures)
|
Passed
|
4
|
4/26
|
Secret Ballot Voting Procedure (minimum of 100 voters required)
|
Passed
|
5
|
4/26
|
Ratify Personnel Board Classification Actions
|
Passed
|
6
|
4/26
|
Classification & Compensation Plan for Administrative/Clerical/Library and Laboring Employees (2% across-the-board increase to ranges)
|
Passed
|
7
|
4/26
|
Classification & Compensation Plan for Managerial and Professional Employees (2% across-the-board increase to ranges)
|
Passed
|
8
|
4/26
|
Personnel Bylaw Amendment – Bereavement Leave
|
Passed Under Article 2 Consent Calendar
|
ARTICLE
|
DATE
|
SUBJECT
|
RESULT
|
9
|
4/26
|
Town Budget ($23,537,888, with $474,000 of this amount contingent on Proposition 2½ override approval on June 8)
|
Passed
|
10
|
4/26
|
Public School Budget ($23,049,709, with $875,709 of this amount contingent on Proposition 2½ override approval on June 8)
|
Passed (Motion to amend the amount to an appropriation of $23,396,808 and an override amount of $1,222,808 (increase of $347,099) was defeated on a vote of 488 in favor and 539 opposed)
|
11
|
4/26
|
Regional School Budgets:
Concord-Carlisle Regional High School Budget ($10,747,515, with $508,451 of this amount contingent on Proposition 2½ override approval on June 8) Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical School District Assessment ($369,890) |
Both Passed (Motion to amend the amount for CCHS to an appropriation of $10,918,682 and an override amount of $679,618 (increase of $171,167) was defeated on a vote of 354 in favor and 562 opposed)
|
12
|
4/27
|
FY04 Supplemental Appropriation – Town ($146,500 transfer from other Town Government accounts)
|
Passed
|
13
|
4/27
|
FY04 Supplemental Appropriation – Concord Public Schools ($120,000 from Free Cash)
|
Passed
|
14
|
4/27
|
FY04 Supplemental Appropriation – Concord-Carlisle Regional School District ($142,980 from Free Cash)
|
Passed
|
ARTICLE
|
DATE
|
SUBJECT
|
RESULT
|
15
|
4/27
|
Free Cash Use ($459,000 to reduce the tax levy for FY05)
|
Passed
|
16
|
4/27
|
Unpaid Bills
|
No Motion Made
|
17
|
4/26
|
Property Tax Exemption
|
Passed under Article 2 Consent Calendar
|
18
|
4/27
|
Light Plant Payment in Lieu of Taxes ($340,000)
|
Passed
|
19
|
4/26
|
Light Plant Expenditures
|
Passed under Article 2
Consent Calendar
|
20
|
4/26
|
Road Repair Revolving Fund Expenditures
|
Passed under Article 2 Consent Calendar
|
21
|
4/26
|
Solid Waste Disposal Fund Expenditures
|
Passed under Article 2 Consent Calendar
|
ARTICLE
|
DATE
|
SUBJECT
|
RESULT
|
22
|
4/26
|
Sewer System Expenditures
|
Passed Under Article 2 Consent Calendar
|
23
|
4/26
|
Sewer Improvement Fund Expenditures
|
Passed Under Article 2 Consent Calendar
|
24
|
4/26
|
Water System Expenditures
|
Passed Under Article 2 Consent Calendar
|
25
|
4/27
|
2004 Road Program ($650,000 appropriation from borrowing)
|
Passed unanimously
|
26
|
4/27
|
Public School Building Renovations ($500,000 appropriation from borrowing)
|
Passed by 2/3 majority
|
27
|
4/28
|
New Thoreau School ($16,800,000 appropriation from borrowing, contingent on a debt exclusion vote on June 8)
|
Passed by 2/3 majority
|
28
|
4/27
|
Concord-Carlisle High School Improvements ($535,000)
|
Passed, subject to Proposition 2½ debt exclusion approval on June 8)
|
29
|
4/27
|
Zoning Bylaw Amendment—Personal Wireless Communications Facility – two motions 29A (amendment to Section 7.8.2) and 29B (amendment to Wireless Communication Facility Overlay District map)
|
Both Motions passed by 2/3 majority
|
30
|
4/27
|
Town Meeting Posting Bylaw
|
Passed
|
31
|
4/27
|
Long-Term Lease Agreement for Wireless Facilities
|
Passed by 2/3 majority
|
32
|
4/27
|
Authorization Long-Term Agricultural Leases
|
Passed
|
ARTICLE
|
DATE
|
SUBJECT
|
RESULT
|
33
|
4/27
|
1586 Main Street – Transfer of Property to Albert Lawrence as settlement for ongoing litigation
|
Passed by 2/3 majority
|
34
|
4/27
|
Authorization for Light Plant to Provide Telecommunications Services
|
Passed by 2/3 majority
|
35
|
4/26
|
Adopt Provisions for Agreements for Mutual Police Aid Programs
|
Passed Under Article 2 Consent Calendar
|
36
|
4/28
|
Renovation of Police/Fire Station ($1,850,000 appropriation from borrowing)
|
Passed by 2/3 majority
|
37
|
4/28
|
Community Preservation Act (1½% surcharge on the annual real property tax levy, with exemptions for the first $100,000 of the value of each taxable parcel, and for property owned and occupied by any person who qualifies for low-income housing)
|
Passed, subject to approval on the ballot at the November 2004 general election
|
38
|
4/28
|
Community Preservation Committee
|
Passed
|
39
|
5/3
|
Property Tax Relief for Older Citizens of Concord (An Act to provide for additional senior property tax exemption—subject to approval of the State Legislature)
|
Passed
|
ARTICLE
|
DATE
|
SUBJECT
|
RESULT
|
40
|
5/3
|
Request for Appropriation from Land Fund
|
No Motion Made
|
41
|
5/3
|
An Act Establishing The Concord Housing Development Corporation (subject to approval of the State Legislature)
|
Passed
|
42
|
5/3
|
Home Rule Petition—Authorization to Establish a Post-Retirement Group Health Insurance Trust Fund (subject to approval of the State Legislature)
|
Passed
|
43
|
4/26
|
Acceptance of Statute Regarding Retirement Service Credit for Call Firefighters and Reserve/Intermittent Police Officers
|
Passed Under Article 2 Consent Calendar
|
44
|
5/3
|
Accept Local Option Statute—Group Insurance for Military Personnel
|
Passed
|
45
|
5/3
|
Accept Local Option—Make Up Pay for Armed Forces Reservists/National Guards who are Called to Active Duty
|
No Motion Made
|
46
|
5/3
|
Resolution to Protect the Civil Liberties of Concordians (Patriot Act)
|
Passed
|
47
|
5/3
|
Zoning Bylaw Amendment—Neighborhood Conservation Districts
|
No Motion Made
|
ARTICLE
|
DATE
|
SUBJECT
|
RESULT
|
48
|
5/3
|
Construction of Sewer System Extensions—note changes (contingent on debt exclusion approval on June 8)
|
Passed by 2/3 majority; amendment to change funding allocation also passed, with 284 voting in favor and 232 opposed (50% from betterment; 38% from general fund taxation; and 12% from sewer user fees)
|
49
|
4/26
|
Amendment to Non-Criminal Disposition Bylaw – Sealer of Weights and Measures
|
Passed Under Article 2 Consent Calendar
|
50
|
5/3
|
Septic Betterment Loan Program
|
Passed Unanimously
|
51
|
5/3
|
Water Distribution System Improvements
|
No Motion Made
|
52
|
5/3
|
Water Supply System Improvements
|
Passed by 2/3 majority
|
53
|
5/3
|
Warner’s Pond Dam Engineering and Design
|
Passed by 2/3 majority
|
54
|
4/26
|
Street Acceptance – Quail Run Drive
|
Passed Under Article 2 Consent Calendar
|
55
|
4/26
|
Modification of Street Acceptance – Baker Avenue
|
Passed Under Article 2 Consent Calendar
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