1997-03-03-TE-Warrant-and-1997-03-24-ATM-Warrant

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DESCRIPTION: Approval of this article in every town would promote fairness among member communities --- each paying the exact same cost/pupil for students in the technical high school. Lack of approval would continue the process initiated under educational reform- different towns paying a different cost/pupil for the same education in the same school. The District states that while a town paying less might be tempted to continue the inequity, that action would not represent either dedication to a fair partnership or backing of the conditions of operation approved by voters when the region was formed. In the long run, inequity and win-lose management serve no one's interest. ARTICLE 45 BY-LAW AMENDMENT To see if the Town will vote to amend Section 6 of Article I of the General By-Laws (Non- Criminal Disposition)by making it applicable to the Board of Health Tobacco Control Regulations entitled, "Rules and Regulations Relative to the Restriction of Smoking, Sale, Vending and Distribution of Tobacco and Tobacco Products Within the Town of Lexington", with fine amounts as approved by the Board of Health on November 8, 1994 and as filed in the office of the Town Clerk, or take any other action relative thereto. (Inserted at the request of the Board of Health) DESCRIPTION: This article will enable the Board of Health to enforce its comprehensive tobacco control regulations through the use of non-criminal disposition at the fine amounts designated when the regulations were adopted. The Board is currently limited to the fine amounts set forth in the 1988 By-Law adopting the use of non-criminal disposition or to pursuing the fine amounts it designated through criminal complaint. The fine amounts are considered appropriate for each violation and in the instance of violation for the sale of tobacco products to minors, reflects a consistency with State law. To impose a lower penalty than that mandated by Massachusetts General Laws would be inappropriate. The use of non- criminal disposition would permit the Board of Health to enforce regulations more efficiently without committing large amounts of time to court proceedings and without burdening violators with criminal records. 30