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Special Town Meeting

Event Date: 
Thursday, June 23, 2022 - 7:00pm

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

BERKSHIRE, SS.

To One of the Constables of the Town of Lenox: 

GREETING:

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Lenox qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet in the

Lenox Memorial Middle High School, located at 197 East Street

in said Lenox, on Thursday, June 23, 2022

at 7:00 o’clock p.m., then and there to act upon the following:

 

 

ARTICLE 1.               To see if the Town will vote to waive the reading of the warrant and return of service thereof and to authorize the moderator, pursuant to MGL Chapter 39, Section 15, to declare a 2/3rds vote on voice votes if he deems it so; or take any other action in relation thereto.

 

ARTICLE 2.               To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or otherwise provide, the sum of $469,095.44, or any other sum, for replacement of a wastewater main on Church Street, including the payment of all costs incidental and related thereto; and, further, to provide for said appropriations, to transfer the following sums and, further, in accordance with Chapter 44, Section 20 of the General Laws, the unencumbered balance of $469,095.44 for sewer system improvements appropriated and borrowed under Article 16 of the May 5, 2016 Annual Town Meeting warrant, which balance is no longer needed to complete the project for which it was initially borrowed; or take any other action in relation thereto.

 

APPROVED BY BOARD OF SELECTMEN

APPROVED BY FINANCE COMMITTEE

 

ARTICLE 3.               To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $150,000 to the School Department for the following projects:

 

Security Infrastructure at Lenox Memorial Middle High School                 

Playground Improvements at Morris Elementary School                             

Carpeting and Tile at Morris Elementary School

Plumbing Evaluation and Repair at Lenox Memorial Middle High School                                                 

And, further, to provide for said appropriation, transfer the sum of $150,000 from Free Cash, so called, as certified on July 1, 2021; or take any other action in relation thereto.

 

APPROVED BY BOARD OF SELECTMEN

APPROVED BY FINANCE COMMITTEE

 

ARTICLE 4.               To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $800,000 to the Permanent Building Committee for roof repair, chimney repair, fire suppression, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, heating, ventilation and cooling systems construction at the Lenox Library, including the payment of all costs incidental and related thereto; to determine whether this amount should be raised by borrowing or otherwise; or take any other action in relation thereto.

 

APPROVED BY BOARD OF SELECTMEN

APPROVED BY FINANCE COMMITTEE

 

ARTICLE 5.               To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $500,000 to the Town Manager for paving town streets, including the payment of all costs incidental and related thereto; and, further, to provide for said appropriation, transfer the sum of $500,000 from Free Cash, so called, as certified on July 1, 2021; or take any other action in relation thereto.

 

APPROVED BY BOARD OF SELECTMEN

APPROVED BY FINANCE COMMITTEE

 

ARTICLE 6.               To see if the Town will vote to amend the Town Bylaws by modifying Section 7 of Chapter XIII (“MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS”) to make the Building Commissioner the enforcement agent for said section, which relates to the accumulation of junk on residential property; or take any other action in relation thereto.

 

APPROVED BY BOARD OF SELECTMEN

 

 

And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting an attested copy of the warrant therefore in three public places in the Town not less than fourteen days before the meeting.

 

Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk or the Selectmen, at the time and place of said meeting.

 

Given under our hand the 8th day of June in the year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-Two.         

                                                                                    Signed

 

A true copy, ATTEST:                                            _________________________________________

                                                                                                                                               

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Constable of Lenox.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            _________________________________________

                                                                                                                                               

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                                                                                    Selectmen of Lenox