Town of carlisle for the year ending

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ANNUAL TOWN MEETING – MAY 9, 2011

THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

Middlesex, ss.

To either of the Constables of the Town of Carlisle in the County of Middlesex:

GREETINGS

IN THE NAME OF the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town, qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, to meet at the Corey Building at 150 Church Street in said Carlisle on Monday, the Ninth of May next, at seven o’clock in the evening, and thereafter continuing from day to day until completed, then and there to act on the following articles:

CONSENT AGENDA

In an effort to streamline Town Meeting and therefore make it more inviting to voters, the Board of Selectmen has decided to continue with the concept of the Consent Agenda. This agenda speeds the passage of articles which the Selectmen feel, in consultation with the Moderator and Finance Committee should generate no controversy and can be properly voted without debate. The purpose of the Consent Agenda is to allow motions under these articles to be acted upon as one unit and to be passed without debate.

THE TOWN WILL BE ASKED TO APPROVE THE USE OF A CONSENT AGENDA UNDER ARTICLE 1.
Should the Town approve the use of a CONSENT AGENDA the Selectmen have voted to recommend that the following articles be acted upon on the Consent Agenda (Articles 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9). The articles to be taken up on the Consent Agenda are indicated by a double asterisk (**).
At the call of the Consent Agenda, the Moderator will call out the numbers of the Articles, one by one. If one or more voters object to any particular Article being included in the Consent Agenda, they should say the word “Hold” in a loud voice when the number is called. The Article will then be removed automatically from the Consent Agenda and restored to its original place in the Warrant, to be debated and voted upon in the usual manner. After the calling of the individual items in the Consent Agenda, the Moderator will ask that all items remaining be passed AS A UNIT by the voters.
Please carefully review the list of articles proposed in the printed Warrant Book that is mailed to each home. If you have any questions about the consent articles or procedure, please call the Town Administrator at 978-371-6688 before Town Meeting.
ARTICLE 1 – Consent Agenda: To see if the Town will vote to adopt certain procedures to govern the conduct of the 2011 Annual Town Meeting, or take any other action related thereto. (BOARD OF SELECTMEN)
ARTICLE 2** - Town Reports: To hear and act upon the reports of Town Officers, Boards, Committees, Commissioners, and Trustees, or take any other action related thereto. (BOARD OF SELECTMEN)
ARTICLE 3 - Salaries of Elected Officials **: To see if the Town will vote to fix the salaries of the elected officers of the town as provided by Chapter 41, Section 108 of the General Laws, as amended, for the Fiscal Year 2012, beginning July 1, 2011, or take any other action related thereto. (BOARD OF SELECTMEN/FINANCE COMMITTEE)

		Voted FY’10		Voted FY’11			Recommended FY’12
Moderator		$50			$50		$50
Town Clerk		$52,588			$53,640		$54,713
Assessors -	Chairman	$100			$100		$100
	Second Member	$100			$100		$100
	Third Member	$100			$100		$100

Finance Committee Recommendation: The Finance Committee recommends approval of Article 3.
ARTICLE 4 – Revaluation **: To see what sums of money the Town will raise and appropriate, transfer from available funds, or borrow pursuant to any applicable statute to be spent by the Board of Assessors for the purpose of professional services in connection with revaluation of real estate and personal property in the Town, or take any other action related thereto. (BOARD OF SELECTMEN)

Finance Committee Recommendation: The Finance Committee recommends approval of Article 4 for $15,000 to be spent by the Board of Assessors for professional services connected with revaluation. The intent of this article is to plan for and budget a portion of the cost for the revaluation that must be done every three years by the Assessors, in each of the years leading up to the revaluation.
ARTICLE 5 – Actuarial Valuation of Post-Employment Benefits**: To see what sums of money the Town will raise and appropriate, transfer from available funds, or borrow pursuant to any applicable statute to be spent by the Board of Selectmen for the purpose of professional services in connection with GASB 45 actuarial valuation of post employment benefits for the Town, or take any other action related thereto. (BOARD OF SELECTMEN)

Finance Committee Recommendation: The Finance Committee recommends approval of Article 5 for $4,000 to be spent by the Board of Selectmen for professional services connected with the Actuarial Valuation. The intent of this article is to plan for and budget a portion of the cost for the actuarial valuation that must be done every two years by the Treasurer.
ARTICLE 6 - Department Revolving Funds Authorization **: To see what revolving funds the Town may authorize or reauthorize pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 44, Section 53E ½ for the Fiscal Year 2012, beginning July 1, 2011, or take any other action related thereto. (BOARD OF SELECTMEN)

Finance Committee Recommendation: The Finance Committee recommends approval of Article 6 that authorizes the existence of the following revolving special revenue funds: School buses, Board of Health, Hazardous Wastes, Trails Committee, Conservation Wetlands, Conservation Foss Farm, Conservation Building Maintenance, Historical Commission, Youth Commission, Building Department, and Council on Aging. All of these Funds receive their revenues from user fees and grant awards, which are spent to provide services as determined in each of the fund’s charter.

Revenue	Revenue	Authority to	Use of Fund	Spending
Funds	Source	Spend		Limit
School	User Fees	School	To provide transportation for 7^th and 8^th grade students	$60,000
Buses	Collected by	Committee
	School
Board of	Board of Health	Board of	Specific expert engineering and consulting services	$50,000
Health	Fees	Health	to review septic and well installations and repairs,
Inspections			sanitary inspections and other appropriate
			reimbursable expenses.
Hazardous	Transfer Station	Board of	Collection and disposal of household hazardous	$40,000
Wastes	User Fees &	Selectmen	waste.
	Grants Received
Trails	Sale of Trails in	Board of	Building, maintaining and enhancing recreation trails.	$5,000
Committee	Carlisle Book	Selectmen
Conservation	Fees from	Conservation	Specific expert engineering and consulting services	$30,000
Wetlands	Carlisle Wetland	Commission	to review Wetland Bylaw filings and other
	Protection Bylaw		appropriate reimbursable expenses.
Conservation	User	Conservation	Activities and maintenance associated with	$2,500
Foss Farm	Fees	Commission	Foss Farm.
Conservation	Fees	Conservation	Maintenance and repairs associated with the	$30,000
Building	and/or Rent	Commission	Buildings located on Conservation Commission
Maintenance			Lands
Historical	Fees	Historical	Reasonable expenses related to filings/applications.	$3,000
Commission		Commission
Youth	Event	Board of	To provide for dances and other events sponsored	$10,000
Commission	Admission Fees	Selectmen	by the Youth Commission.
Building	User	Board of	To cover inspectional services and administrative expenses.	$75,000
Inspector	Fees	Selectmen
Council on	User	Council on	To provide for events	$10,000
Aging	Fees	Aging	sponsored by the Council on Aging

ARTICLE 7 – Real Estate Tax Exemption **: To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Assessors, pursuant to G.L. Chapter 59, Section 5 (clause 41C), to grant an additional real estate tax exemption of up to one hundred (100%) percent of the amount permitted by this statute, or take any other action related thereto. (BOARD OF SELECTMEN/BOARD OF ASSESSORS)

Finance Committee Recommendation: The Finance Committee recommends approval of Article 7.
ARTICLE 8 - Fiscal Year 2012 Reserve for Debt Services – MSBA Transfer **: To see what sums the Town will vote to transfer from Reserve for Debt Services – MSBA to be applied to the payment of principal on Debt Service or take any other action related thereto. (BOARD OF SELECTMEN/FINANCE COMMITTEE)

Finance Committee Recommendation: The Finance Committee recommends approval of a transfer of $46,807 from Reserve for Debt Services – MSBA to be applied to the payment of principal and interest on Debt Service Article 8.
ARTICLE 9 - FY 2012 Chapter 90 Authorization **: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, transfer from available funds or borrow pursuant to any applicable statute a sum of money to be used for reconstruction and improvements of Public Ways as provided for under the provisions of Chapter 90 of the Massachusetts General Laws, or take any other action related thereto. (BOARD OF SELECTMEN)

Finance Committee Recommendation: The Finance Committee recommends approval of Article 9 to fund road reconstruction and improvement of public ways. Under the General Laws, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will reimburse the Town for these monies.
ARTICLE 10 – Fiscal Year 2011 Budget Transfers: To see what sums the Town will vote to transfer into various line items of the Fiscal Year 2011 operating budget from other line items of said budget or from other available funds, or take any other action related thereto. (BOARD OF SELECTMEN)

Finance Committee Recommendation: The Finance Committee will make its recommendation at Town Meeting.
ARTICLE 11 - Operating Budget: To see what sums of money the Town will raise and appropriate, transfer from available funds, or borrow pursuant to any applicable statute, to fund the various departments, boards, commissions, and operating expenses of the town for the Fiscal Year 2012, beginning July 1, 2011, or take any other action related thereto. (BOARD OF SELECTMEN/FINANCE COMMITTEE)

Finance Committee Recommendation: The Finance Committee recommends approval of

Article 11, in the total amount of $23,585,065 as further detailed below subject to approval of $222,852 in free cash transfer under Article 22.
Article 11

					ARTICLES 11&22			ARTICLES 8 & 20
					FY 2012			FY 2012
			FY 2011		Levy Limit			Transfers
			Budget		Budget			Budget
General Government			977,359		1,002,227			1,002,227
Protection of Persons & Property			1,872,035		1,945,746			1,945,746
Board of Health			72,440		73,889			73,889
Public Works			1,035,921		1,067,233			1,067,233
Public Assistance			119,879		139,194			139,194
Education			15,508,679		15,744,393			15,744,393
Library			511,586		524,980			524,980
Recreation			112,635		119,897			119,897
Insurance & Benefits			1,316,000		1,316,000			1,316,000
Unclassified			151,632		151,645			151,645
Retirement & Tax Title			594,740		660,453			660,453
Long Term Debt			910,653		839,408			901,160
Total			23,183,559		23,585,065			23,646,817