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6 1 (WARRANT FOR SPECIAL TOWN MEETING - See Warrant Book) 0 SPECIAL TOWN MEETING HELD JANUARY 11, 1971 The meeting was called to order by the Moderator, Lincoln P. Cole, Jr. at 8 :07 P. M. in the Cary Memorial Hall . There were 189 Town Meeting Members present. The Invocation was offered by Rev. Harold T. Handley of the Church of aur Redeemer. 8 :08 P. M. Robert Cataldo, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, asked that the meeting pause for a moment of silence in memory for Robert A. Bittenbender, Town Meeting Member from Precinct Three, who passed away in December 1970. 8 :09 P. M. Town Clerk, Mary R. McDonough, read the warrant for the meeting until further reading was waived. 8 :10 P. M. The Town Clerk read the Constable's Return of the Warrant. 8 :10 P. M. Article 1. Edward E. Furash moves that the report of the Appro- priation Committee be accepted and placed on file. Carried Unanimously 8 :10 P. M. Carl Blake moves that the report of the Capital Expenditures Committee be accepted and placed on file. Carried Unanimously 8 :10 P. M. Article 2. Presented by Thomas G. Taylor. MOTION: That the Permanent Building Committee, appointed under the authority of the vote adopted under Article 73 of the Warrant for the 1967 Annual Town Meeting, be and hereby is authorized on behalf of the Town to enter into a contract or contracts for the construction and original equipping and furnishing of a new junior high school on the parcel of land situated on and off Marrett Road that was acquired for school, playground and other public purposes in 1965, and to supervise the work; and that the sum of $4 ,300,000.00 be appropriated and that payment be provided by the issue of bonds or notes of the Town for the sum of $4 ,300,000.00; and that the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and he hereby is authorized to borrow the sum of $4 ,300,000.00 under the authority of Chapter 645 of the Acts of 1948 , as amended, and to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor, to be payable in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44 of the General Laws, as amended, within a period not exceeding twenty years from their dates. 8 :12 P. M. Robert H. Farwell, Chairman of the School Committee, states that his committee is in favor of this article. 8 :28 P. M. Edward E. Furash, Chairman of the Appropriation Committee, states that his committee favors this proposal. 8 :31 P. M. Louis A. Zehner, Town Treasurer, shows charts of payments and explains the effect on the tax rate. 8 :53 P. M. Robert Cataldo, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, states that his board unanimously recommend passage of this article. 8 :55 P. M. Diane Lund speaks for the League of Women Voters in favor of this article. 8 :58 P. M.