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(WARRANT FOR SPECIAL TOWN MEETING - SI,v, WARRANT BOOK) 30 SPECIAL TOWN MEETING HELD MONDAY, JANtTARY 28, 1963 Meeting called to order by the Moderator, Charles E. Ferguson, at 8:03 P. M. There were 178 Town Meeting Members present. Invocation offered by Rev. Whitmore E. Beardsley. 8:04 P. M. James J. Carroll, Town Clerk, read the warrant for the meeting until further reading was waived by the Moderator at 8:04 P. M. James J. Carroll, Town Clerk, read the Constable's Return. 8:05 P. M. Article 1. Logan Clarke, Jr. presents Appropriation Committee Report which was voted to be accepted and placed on file. 8:05 P. M. Article 2. Presented by Austin W. Fisher, Jr. VOTED: That the Standing School Building Committee, appointed under the authority of the vote adopted under Article 37 of the Warrant for the 1957 Annual Town Meeting, be and hereby is authorized on behalf of the Town to enter into a contract or contracts for the con- struction and original equipping and furnishing of new secondary school buildings on land in the vicinity of the senior high school, additions to the senior high school building, and any alterations in the existing senior high school building required by the construction of such additions and by any connection of the new buildings to such existing buildings , and to supervise the work; and that the sum of $3,200,000.00 be appropriated therefor and that payment be provided by the issue of bonds or notes of the Town for the sum of $3,200,000.00; and that the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and he hereby is authorized to borrow the sum of $3,200,000.00 under the authority of Chapter 645 of the Acts of 1948, as amended, and to issue bonds or notes of the Town there- for, to be payable in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44 of the General Laws, as mended, within a period not exceeding twenty years. 8:07 P. 'M M. Slides were shown with various explanations. Logan Clarke, Jr. gives explanations of the town' s financial condition. Selectman, Alan G. Adams and Logan Clarke, Jr. of the Appropriation Committee state that both boards are unanimously in favor of this article. Remarks by Vincent A. McCrossen. Motion made by Mr. McCrossen that the article be placed on the ballot for the 1963 Annual Town Election. The Moderator states that the motion is not in order. 8:56 P. M. The Moderator states that this motion requires a two- thirds vote, and if the voice vote is not unanimous, a standing vote will have to be taken. Voice vote was not unanimous. 9:13 P. M. Standing vote taken as follows: In Favor - Tellers Opposed 29 Frederick E. Tucker 0 105 Ernest A. Giroux 1 40 Harold T. Handley 0 174 1 Carried 9:14 P. M.