TOWN OF
WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN ELECTION
MAY 7, 2007
To either
of the constable of the Town of
GREETINGS:
In the name
of the
Back Entrance to Gymnasium
On Monday, the 7th day of May next, at 11 o’clock a.m. to bring in their votes to the Election Officers on one ballot as follows:
Two Members Board of Selectmen 3 years
One Member Board of Assessors 3 years
One Member Board of Health 3 years
One Moderator 1 year
One Member Light & Water Commission 3 years
One Member Cemetery Commission 3 years
One Member Sewer Commission 3 years
One Member Planning Board 1 year unexpired
One Member Narragansett Regional
School District Committee Templeton 3 years
One Member Narragansett Regional
School District Committee-Templeton 2 year unexpired
One Member Narragansett Regional
School District Committee-Phillipston 3 years
This institution is an equal opportunity provider and
employer. To file a complaint of
discrimination write
USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights,
And two questions as follows:
1. Shall the Town of Templeton be allowed to exempt from the provisions of proposition two and one-half, so-called, the amounts required to pay the Town’s allocable share of the bond issued by the Narragansett Regional School District for the purpose of paying costs of replacing roofs at the High School/Middle School Complex, including the payment of all other costs incidental and related thereto?
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2. Shall the Town of
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SUMMARY:
Sections 3 to 7 of Chapter 44B of the General Laws of Massachusetts, also known as the Community Preservation Act (“Act”), establishes a dedicated funding source to acquire, create and preserve open space and land for recreational use; acquire, preserve, rehabilitate and restore historic resources; acquire, create, preserve and support community housing; and to rehabilitate and restore open space, land for recreational use and community housing that is acquired or created in accordance with the Act. In Templeton, the Act will be funded, beginning in Fiscal Year 2008, by an additional surcharge of 3% on the annual tax levy on real property and by matching funds provided by the state. The following exemptions from such surcharge, permitted under Section 3(e) of said Act, will apply: (1) property owned and occupied as a domicile by a person who would qualify for low income housing or low or moderate income senior housing in the Town; (2) $100,000 of the value of each taxable parcel of residential real property. A taxpayer receiving a regular property tax abatement or exemption will also receive a pro rata reduction in surcharge.
A Community Preservation Committee must be created pursuant to by-law and will make recommendations on the use of the funds. Town Meeting must approve any such recommendation before funds can be expended. At least 10% of the funds for each fiscal year must be spent or reserved for later spending for each of the Act’s three purposes: (1) open space (but excluding land for recreational use); (2) historic resources; and (3) community housing. All expenditures pursuant to the Act will be subject to an annual audit.
The polls will open at 11:00 a.m. and close at 7:00 p.m.
And you are hereby directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof in each Precinct; namely, at the Post Office in Templeton, the Post Office in East Templeton, the Post Office in Baldwinville, at Cote’s Market in Otter River, and at the Town Office Buildings located at 4 Elm Street in Baldwinville and at 690 Patriots Road in Templeton, and by delivering a copy to each of the Precinct Clerks seven (7) days at least before the time of holding said meeting and by causing notice of the same to be published once in the Gardner News, a newspaper published in said County, in the City of Gardner.
Hereof, fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to each Precinct Clark seven (7) days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
Given under our hands this 20th day of April in the year AD 2007.
BOARD OF SELECTMEN
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Robert Columbus, Chairman Gregg Edwards, Vice Chairman
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John Henshaw, Clerk Gerald Skelton, Member
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Julie Farrell, Member
A True Copy Attest
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Constable of Templeton Date
OFFICER’S RETURN
This is to certify that I have served the within warrant by posting attested copies thereof in each Precinct; namely, at the Post Office in Templeton, the Post Office in East Templeton, the Post Office in Baldwinville, at Cote’s Market in Otter River, and at the Town Office Buildings located at 4 Elm Street, Baldwinville, and at 690 Patriots Road, Templeton, and by delivering a copy to each of the Precinct Clerks seven (7), days at least, before the time of holding said meeting and by causing notice of the same to be published once in the Gardner News, a newspaper in said County, in the City of Gardner.
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Constable of Templeton Date
A True Copy, ATTEST:
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Carol A. Harris
Town Clerk of Templeton