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2003 Annual Town Meeting-Adjourned Session of April 14,2003, cont....
<br /> Charles Horning reported the Capital Expenditures Committee unanimously supports the
<br /> substitute motion.
<br /> Deborah Brown reported a majority of the Appropriation Committee supports the
<br /> substitute motion.
<br /> Dawn McKenna reported the Board of Selectmen unanimously opposes the substitute
<br /> motion.
<br /> Members questioned Mrs. Shaw and Mr. McConnell on the funding need for fencing and
<br /> priorities of the skate committee, proposed amendment restriction on fund usage, and
<br /> oversight over the area.
<br /> 9:32 p.m.. Selectman Leo McSweeney moved the following amendment to the
<br /> substitute motion:
<br /> AMENDED SUBSTITUTE MOTION: That $30,000 be appropriated from
<br /> the Recreation Enterprise Fund for the Skate Park, said funds to be used by the
<br /> Town for the installation of safety fencing, and that if money is left over it can be
<br /> used for landscaping and events.
<br /> Sheldon Spector reported the Appropriation Committee, on a vote of 7-2, supports the
<br /> amended substitute motion.
<br /> Charles Hornig reported the majority of the Capital Expenditures Committee
<br /> recommends defeat of the amended substitute motion.
<br /> Dawn McKenna reported the Board of Selectmen's unanimous support of the amended
<br /> substitute motion.
<br /> 9:37 p.m. After members spoke in support and in opposition to the amended substitute
<br /> motion, David Burns, pr.5, moved the question on the amendment to the amendment and
<br /> the amendment. MOTION ADOPTED.
<br /> 9:39 p.m. Vote on the amendment to the amendment, MOTION ADOPTED.
<br /> 9:40 p.m. Vote on the amendment as amended, MOTION ADOPTED.
<br /> 9:40 p.m. Charles Hornig reported the Capital Expenditures Committee unanimously
<br /> opposes the Motion as amended.
<br /> Sheldon Spector reported the Appropriation Committee, on vote of 8-1,
<br /> supports the Motion as amended.
<br /> Dawn McKenna reported the unanimous support of the Board of Selectmen
<br /> for the Motion as amended.
<br /> Anthony Close reported the unanimous support of the School Committee.
<br /> Questions ensued on usage of enterprise funding and insurance expenses.
<br /> 9:53 p.m. Vote on motion as amended, MOTION ADOPTED.
<br /> ARTICLE 4: OPERATING BUDGET
<br /> 9:54 p.m. Loren Wood, pr. 3, moved the following amendment:
<br /> AMENDMENT: I move that Article 4, OPERATING BUDGET, Motion of
<br /> March 24, 2003, as subsequently amended, be amended in Expense line items
<br /> 2410, 3000, 3600, 4100, 4200, 5100, 6000, 7100, 7200, 7300, 8110, 8120, 8130,
<br /> 8200, 8310, 8320, 8330, 8400, 8500, and 8600, by reducing their fundings to
<br /> 97.187% of their existing fundings, and in line item 1100 by the same percentage
<br /> applied to $10,853,486, and that line item 2230 Debt Service Temporary
<br /> Borrowing be amended by increasing its funding by the amount of said
<br /> reductions. And that the amount of each said line item's appropriation that is
<br /> contingent upon the approval of an override question appearing on the ballot for
<br /> the Spring 2003 special election be reduced in the same manner, and that the
<br /> amended appropriation for line item 2230 be contingent upon approval of said
<br /> override in the amount of the sum of the above mentioned contingency
<br /> reductions.
<br /> 9:57 p.m. Deborah Brown reported the Appropriation Committee's unanimous
<br /> opposition.
<br /> Leo McSweeney reported the Board of Selectmen's unanimous opposition.
<br /> Tony Close reported the School Committee's unanimous opposition.
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