(from the AFC Booklet on the Town Website link to the AFC recommendations for Fall 2010 Special Town meeting --webmaster)

SPECIAL TOWN MEETING – October 12, 2010

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Westborough, qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, to meet in the Westborough High School Auditorium and Gymnasium, 90 West Main Street, Westborough, Massachusetts on Tuesday the Twelfth day of October, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.

SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
INDEX OF ARTICLES AND
SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS

Article 1. FY2011 Debt Service Amendments – So vote (8-0-0)

Article 2. FY2011 Library Budget Transfer – So vote (8-0-0)

Article 3. South Street Water Line Increase in Debt Authorization – Amend action taken under Article 10B of 2010 Annual Town Meeting in its entirety to refect a total appropriation of $1,774,000 and to show transfers contributing $141,461.00 and authorizing a borrowing for the Water Enterprise Fund for the remaining $1,632,539.00. (7-1-0)

Article 4. DPW Facility Energy Improvements – Transfer $30,000 from General Fund Free Cash (7-0-1)

Article 5. Facilities Study – So vote (8-0-0)

Article 6. General Bylaw, Article 13 Amendment – So vote Part A and, for Part B, authorize Selectmen to petition Legislature for appropriate changes to Town Charter Sections 3-3(d) and 5-2(d) (8-0-0)

Article 7. Charter Amendment – So vote (8-0-0)

Article 8. Timing of Town Meeting Bylaw – Recommend to vote with amendment to indicate change will not be effective until 2012. (5-3-0)

Article 9. Town Meeting Quorum Bylaw – So vote. (6-2-0)

Article 10. Water Use Restrictions Bylaw – Pass over (8-0-0)

Article 11. Municipal Relief Act – So vote (8-0-0)

Article 12. Stretch Energy Code Bylaw – Defeat (6-2-0)

Article 13. Veterans Freedom Park Signage – Transfer $5,000 from General Fund Free Cash (7-1-0)

Article 14. Water Conduit Exemption Application – Engineering – Transfer $10,000 from Water Enterprise Fund Retained Earnings (8-0-0)

Article 15. Appropriate into Stabilization Fund – Raise and Appropriate $50,000. (6-2-0)

In this booklet, Advisory Finance Committee votes on recommendations are shown in the form, (a-b-c), where a is the number of votes in favor of the recommendation, b is the number of votes against the recommendations, and c is the number of abstentions or recusals from the vote.