Monday, April 24, 2017

Annual Town Meeting 2010

Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) from the surplus funds of the operating account of the Municipal Lighting Plant as of December 31, 2009, for use by the Assessors to reduce the tax rate for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011, or to take any other action relative thereto. On a motion duly made and seconded the Town voted to appropriate the sum of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) from the surplus funds of the operating account of the Municipal Lighting Plant as of December 31, 2009, for use by the Assessors to reduce the tax rate for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011.
Passed Unanimously/May 11th @ 7:19  



Annual Town meeting 2011

Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) from the surplus funds of the operating account of the Municipal Lighting Plant as of December 31, 2010, for use by the Assessors to reduce the tax rate for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, or to take any other action relative thereto. On a motion duly made and seconded the Town voted to appropriate the sum of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) from the surplus funds of the operating account of the Municipal Lighting Plant as of December 31, 2010, for use by the Assessors to reduce the tax rate for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012. 
Passed Unanimously/May 10th @ 7:51


Annual Town meeting 2012

Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) from the surplus funds of the operating account of the Municipal Lighting Plant as of December 31, 2011, for use by the Assessors to reduce the tax rate for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2013, or to take any other action relative thereto. Submitted by the Board of Selectmen On a motion duly made and seconded the town voted to appropriate the sum of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) from the surplus funds of the operating account of the Municipal Lighting Plant as of December 31, 2011, for use by the Assessors to reduce the tax rate for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2013. Passed by 2/3 Vote/May 15th @ 8:08


Annual Town meeting of 2013

Article 13 To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money from the surplus funds of the operating account of the Municipal Lighting Plant as of December 31, 2012 for use by the Assessors to reduce the tax rate for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, or to take any other action relative thereto. Submitted by the Board of Selectmen On a motion duly made and seconded the town voted to accept the sum of One Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($150,000.00) from the Municipal Lighting Plant as of December 31, 2012, as a payment in lieu of taxes to the Town, and that said payment be used to offset FY 14 town expenses as part of “Town Balanced Budget”.
 Passed/May 14th @ 8:51

The Annual Town Meeting held in 2014, was the year that the light department began  "paying for" light charges of town buildings and street lights. So, I do not find where Dave Smart's comment about no PILOT payment while I served on the select board from about May 19, 2011 until about March 17, 2014 has any truth to it. The information is on Town Meeting record and annual Town reports.

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posted by Jeff Bennett


  

2 comments:

  1. Nice Job JEFFY the point and one you have proven all by yourself is the reason and I Quote "We don't want to give a pilot because the Board of Selectman can't run the town." With the missing 500k on your watch and with the money we give them who can trust it will be put to good use. Why waste it like we have over the years.
    Where is the 500k people would ask.We will do a road project instead.
    What we got was a light bill paid at their cost. That's it.
    Your boss at the time KENNY R. told dana at town meeting we wouldn't pay the light bill because the town didn't have it to pay them. Most town employees were put on furlough and sent home for 7+ weeks. As a Team player i volunteered to work at town hall and did what i could for the town.
    Many people asked me why go volunteer after they lay you off?
    It's still my town weather i work for it or not.
    I would have thought many more would step up to help but it seem the core of the people who care step up while others are content to watch.
    I thank all who helped even you jeff when we took a tarp up to cover the bad roof with Wil and his friend to keep the building from the disaster it would have been.

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  2. Almost forgot where is the road project they paid for?
    31,552.00
    Whats the E+D balance looking like?
    I would think the AC would have a handle on that and many other big money issues hitting us soon.

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