Can anyone point out anywhere on either of these documents where it limits the borrowing to only two years? This is why there needs to be questions and answers at town meeting, but people need to show up know and understand what is being asked and ask for explanation. This is why there needs to be more than two residents showing up for a pre town meeting.
Below are the facts and they will be used to justify whatever action is taken, you voted for them, you now deal with them.
What you voted for that is on the record or "on paper"
ARTICLE 2 DEBT AUTHORIZATION: POLICE STATION UPGRADE To see if the Town of Templeton will vote to appropriate, borrow or transfer from available funds, a sum of money to be expended under direction of the Selectmen to pay costs of designing, constructing and equipping a 4,000 square foot addition to and remodeling of the Templeton Police Station, located at 33 South Road, and for the payment of all other costs incidental and related thereto; or 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 Nine Hundred Seventy-Five Thousand Dollars ($975,000) to pay costs of designing, constructing and equipping a 4,000 square foot addition to and remodeling of the Templeton Police Station, located at 33 South Road, and for the payment of all other costs incidental and related thereto; said sum to be expended under the direction of the Selectmen; and to meet this appropriation the Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, is authorized to borrow said sum under M.G.L. 44, Section 7, or pursuant to any other enabling authority; provided, however, that no sum shall be borrowed or expended hereunder unless the Town shall have voted to exempt the amounts required for the payment of interest and principal on said borrowing from the limitations on taxes by M.G.L. 59, Section 21C (also known as Proposition 2 ½).
Passed Unanimously/November 9th @ 8:33
I see no mention of any time limit here, I see no mention of two years! You actually have to read and understand what you are voting on, it does not matter what you heard or what was said by whom, it is what is on paper, on the record that counts. That is what will be seen by bond counsel.
from special town election December 2015:
Question 2. 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 for the bonds issued in order to pay costs of
designing, constructing, and equipping a 4,000 square foot addition to and
remodeling of the Templeton Police Station, located at 33 South Road,
Templeton, Massachusetts, including the payment of all costs incidental or
related thereto?
YES___________ NO____________
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TOWN OF TEMPLETON
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SPECIAL TOWN
ELECTION
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December 8, 2015
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#
Eligible Voters
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4,796
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Total
Votes Cast
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1,405
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Percent
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29.3%
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QUES.
1 - New Elementary School
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A
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B
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C
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TOTAL
|
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Yes
|
314
|
290
|
202
|
806
|
|
No
|
270
|
164
|
163
|
597
|
|
Blanks
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
2
|
|
TOTAL
|
585
|
454
|
366
|
1,405
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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QUES.
2 - Addition to Police Station
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|
|
|
|
|
Yes
|
396
|
313
|
249
|
958
|
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No
|
187
|
139
|
116
|
442
|
|
Blanks
|
2
|
2
|
1
|
5
|
|
TOTAL
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585
|
454
|
366
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1,405
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