Concord, MA - 2006 Annual Town Meeting

2006 Annual Town Meeting

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5/3/2006

Concord ’s 2006 Annual Town Meeting began on Monday, April 24 and continued on Tuesday, April 25, Wednesday, April 26, Monday, May 1st and concluded on Tuesday, May 2nd. Here are the final results of all five sessions.

ARTICLE	DATE	SUBJECT	RESULT
1	4/24	Choose Town Officers	Passed
2	4/24	Hear Reports & Consent Calendar (See Below)	Passed by 2/3 Majority Vote
3	4/24	Meeting Procedure (Rule of the Meeting governing requirements on motions and amendments made under articles concerned with expenditures)	Passed
4	4/24	Secret Ballot Voting Procedure (minimum of 100 voters required). Proposed amendment to change “100 voters” to “10% of those present” failed to pass.	Passed
5	4/24	Ratify Personnel Board Classification Actions	Passed
6	4/24	Classification & Compensation Plan for Administrative/Clerical/Library and Laboring Employees (2.75% across-the-board increase to ranges)	Passed
7	4/24	Classification & Compensation Plan for Managerial and Professional Employees (2.75% across-the-board increase to ranges)	Passed
8	4/24	Town Budget ($27,056,091 with $213,051 of this amount contingent on Proposition 2½ override approval)	Passed
9	4/24	Public School Budget ($25,460,285, with $240,468 of this amount contingent on Proposition 2½ override approval)	Passed
10	4/24	Regional School Budgets: · Concord-Carlisle Regional High School Budget ($12,336,746, with $204,019 of this amount contingent on Proposition 2½ override approval) · Non-Binding Resolution to increase the CCHS budget by $2.00 for the benefit of Concord-Carlisle Adult and Community Education Program passed, with the understanding that the total appropriation will not be increased · Proposed amendment to decrease CCHS appropriation by $200,000 failed to pass · Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical School District Assessment ($502,317)	Passed
11	4/25	Annual Schools Operating Overview (by Petition)	Passed – 206 voting in favor, and 193 opposed
12	4/25	Free Cash Use ($500,000 to reduce the tax levy)	Passed
13	4/25	Unpaid Bills	No Motion
14	4/24	Property Tax Exemption	Passed under Article 2 Consent Calendar
15	4/25	Property Tax Deferral Interest Rate (reduce rate on accrued property taxes from 8% to 4% for eligible seniors)	Passed
16	4/25	Tax Relief Options	No Motion
17	4/25	Tax Relief for Senior Citizens (by Petition)	No Motion
18	4/25	Retirement Board, Local Option Acceptance, Ch. 157 of the Acts of 2005, Disability Retirement Benefits for Veterans	Passed

19	4/24	Light Plant Payment in Lieu of Taxes ($340,000)	Passed under Article 2 Consent Calendar
20	4/24	Light Plant Expenditures	Passed under Article 2 Consent Calendar
21	4/24	Road Repair Revolving Fund Expenditures (not to exceed $100,000)	Passed under Article 2 Consent Calendar
22	4/24	Solid Waste Disposal Fund Expenditures		Passed under Article 2 Consent Calendar
23	4/24	Sewer System Expenditures		Passed Under Article 2 Consent Calendar
24	4/24	Sewer Improvement Fund Expenditures		Passed Under Article 2 Consent Calendar
25	4/24	Water System Expenditures		Passed Under Article 2 Consent Calendar
26	4/25	2006 Road Program ($700,000)		Passed by 2/3 Majority Vote
27	4/25	Community Pool Enterprise Fund—FY2007 Budget Enactment (appropriate $2,218,210 from estimated revenues of the Pool Enterprise Fund)		Passed
28	4/25	Community Preservation Committee Expenditure Recommendations ($1,665,000 appropriation). Proposed amendment to eliminate allocation to Item C (Concord Housing Trust) was defeated, with 224 voting in favor of amendment and 261 opposed. Proposed amendments to reduce or eliminate allocation to Item J (Bruce Freeman Rail Trail) were also defeated.		Passed as recommended by CPA Committee
29	4/26	Warner’s Pond Dam Rehabilitation ($250,000 from borrowing)		Passed by 2/3 Majority Vote
30	4/26	Town House Sprinkler System ($116,000 from borrowing)		Passed by 2/3 Majority Vote
31	4/26	Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Lot Sales to Former Concord Residents		Passed
32	4/26	Burke Land Financing Plan—Sale of School Land on Strawberry Hill Road; Amendment #1 Passed, requiring the development of the Strawberry Hill Rd site to have a maximum of 20 units, with a minimum of 25% affordable (253 voting in favor; 168 opposed); Amendment #2 limiting the development of the site to 8 single-family units and preserving the ridge and wetlands failed to pass; Amendment #3 recommending a study committee, which would delay any sale until after the 2008 or 2009 Annual Town Meetings failed to pass		Passed by 2/3 Majority Vote as Amended (252 voting in favor; 97 opposed)
33	5/1	Easement at 11A Old Bedford Road for Concord Housing Trust		Passed by 2/3 Majority Vote
34	5/1	Zoning Bylaw Amendment—Define Affordable Housing		Passed by 2/3 Majority Vote
35	5/1	Zoning Bylaw Amendment—Require Affordable Housing in Combined Business/Residence Use Amendment to require 20% of units to be affordable passed (143 voting in favor and 125 opposed)		Passed by 2/3 Majority Vote, as amended
36	5/1	Zoning Bylaw Amendment—Require Affordable Housing in Combined Industrial/Business/Residence Use Amendment to require 20% of units to be affordable passed (158 voting in favor and 109 opposed)		Passed by 2/3 Majority Vote, as amended
37	5/1	Alcott School Conversion to Senior Citizens’ Housing (by Petition)		Failed to Pass
38	5/1	Zoning Bylaw Amendment—Land Between Old Stow Road and Pond Lane (by Petition)		Passed by 2/3 Majority Vote
39	5/1	Mill Dam Culvert Rehabilitation		Passed by 2/3 Majority Vote
40	5/1	Additional Debt Authorization for Air Conditioning at Thoreau School ($350,000 appropriation from borrowing—debt exclusion previously passed)		Passed by 2/3 Majority Vote
41	5/1	Concord Public Schools Renovations ($800,000 from borrowing)		Passed by 2/3 Majority Vote
42	4/26	Design Funds for New Willard School ($1,840,000 from borrowing; debt exclusion approved at March 28 ballot)		Passed by 2/3 Majority Vote
43	5/1	Willard School Renovations		No Motion
44	5/1	FY2006 Supplemental Appropriation Concord Public Schools		No Motion
45	5/1	Concord-Carlisle High School Building Improvements ($1,200,000 appropriation and approval of debt authorized by the Regional School Committee, subject to debt exclusion vote at June 2006 override election)		Passed
46	5/1	FY2006 Supplemental Assessment Concord-Carlisle Regional School District		No Motion
47	5/1	FY2006 Supplemental Appropriation form Land Fund		No Motion
48	5/1	Moratorium on Installation of Surveillance Cameras by Public School, Regional School, and Town Departments (by Petition)		Failed to Pass
49	5/1	Removal of Surveillance Cameras and Equipment at Concord-Carlisle Regional High School (by Petition)		Failed to Pass
50	5/2	Televising All Concord School Committee Meetings (by Petition)		No Motion
51	5/2	Walden Street Police/Fire Station Renovations Design ($200,000 from borrowing)		Passed by 2/3 Majority Vote
52	4/24	Fire Engine #8 Replacement ($420,000 from borrowing)		Passed Under Article 2 Consent Calendar
53	4/24	Hunt Gymnasium Roof Replacement ($75,000 from borrowing)		Passed Under Article 2 Consent Calendar
54	5/2	Cousins Field Improvements Design ($75,000 from borrowing)		Failed to Pass (106 voting in favor; 67 opposed—2/3 vote needed to pass)
55	5/2	Railroad Grade Crossing Improvements		No Motion
56	5/2	Railroad Crossing Improvements (by Petition); Substitute Motion to form a 5-year task force		Both Main Motion and Substitute Motion failed to Pass
57	5/2	Division of the Anne B. Chamberlin Park Trust Fund		No Motion
58	4/24	Debt Rescission		Passed Under Article 2 Consent Calendar
59	5/2	Neighborhood Conservation District Bylaw for Concord (by Petition); Amendment #1 requiring 2/3 of property owners in the proposed district to agree in writing to the NCD passed; Amendment #2 requiring a minimum of 7 houses in a NCD failed to pass		Main Motion as amended failed to pass (59 voting in favor; 205 opposed)
60	5/2	Neighborhood Conservation District Bylaw—Guidelines for the Revolutionary Ridge (by Petition)		No Motion
61	5/2	Designation of Virginia Road, Concord, MA as a Scenic Byway (by Petition)		No Motion
62	4/24	Rescission of Bicycle and Town Audit Bylaws		Passed Under Article 2 Consent Calendar
63	4/24	Amendments to Trash Pickup Bylaw and Regulation of Vehicles Bylaw		Passed Under Article 2 Consent Calendar
64	4/24	Amendments to Make Town Bylaws Conform to Non-Criminal Disposition of Violations Bylaw		Passed Under Article 2 Consent Calendar

Attendance: 392 registered voters on April 24th; 599 on April 25th; 888 on April 26th; 365 on May 1st; and 293 on 5/2. The unduplicated count was 1,297 voters (i.e., the # of different individuals who attended at least one session of this year’s Annual Town Meeting).

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