TOWN OF TEMPLETON

WARRANT FOR SPECIAL ELECTION

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

 

 

WORCESTER, ss.

 

            To either of the Constables in the Town of Templeton, in said County.

 

GREETINGS:

 

            In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the Inhabitants of the precincts of the Town of Templeton, County of Worcester, qualified to vote in Town Elections to meet in their respective precincts at the places designated and appointed by the Selectmen, to wit:

 

Narragansett Regional Middle School

Back Entrance to Gymnasium

460 Baldwinville Road

Baldwinville, MA  01436

 

            On Monday, the 10th day of September next, at 11 o’clock a.m. to bring in their votes to the Election Officers on one ballot as follows:

           

            Five questions as follows in the following form:

 

  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?

 

                              YES___________                 NO___________

 

 

 

  1. Shall the Town of Templeton be allowed to assess an additional Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000.00) in real estate and personal property taxes for the purpose of funding drainage improvements and the reconstruction of various Town roads for the fiscal year beginning July first two thousand seven?

 

                               YES__________                   NO___________

 

 

  1. Shall the Town of Templeton be allowed to assess an additional Sixty-One Thousand, Four Hundred Dollars ($61,400.00) in real estate and personal property taxes for the purposes of purchasing and equipping one new command vehicle for the Fire Department and one new Meals-on-Wheels vehicle for the Council on Aging for the fiscal year beginning July first two thousand seven?

 

                                YES__________                   NO____________

 

 

 

  1. Shall the Town of Templeton be allowed to assess an additional One Hundred Forty Thousand Dollars ($140,000.00) in real estate and personal property taxes for the purpose of purchasing and equipping a six-wheel dump truck for the Highway Department for the fiscal year beginning July first two thousand seven?

 

                                 YES__________                  NO____________

 

 

  1. Shall the Town of Templeton be allowed to assess an additional One Hundred Seven Thousand Dollars ($107,000.00) in real estate and personal property taxes for the purposes of installing a new roof at the Templeton Center School and for carpet replacement at the East Templeton Elementary School for the fiscal year beginning July first two thousand seven?

 

                                  YES__________                     NO___________

 

 

 

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, 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 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 Clerk seven (7) days at least before the time of holding said meeting. 

 

            Given under our hands this 27th day of August in the year 2007. 

 

 

 

 

 

BOARD OF SELECTMEN

 

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Gerald Skelton, Chairman

 

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Gregg Edwards, Vice Chairman

 

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John Henshaw, Clerk

 

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Julie Farrell, Member

 

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Patrick E. Dunlavey, Member