These are the warrant articles for the 3/10/14 special town meeting (STM) and the ballot question on whether to purchase the former Medfield State Hospital site.
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Norfolk, SS.
TOWN OF MEDFIELD
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
WARRANT FOR MARCH 10,2014
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
To the Constables of the Town of Medfield in said County, greetings:
In the name of the Commonwealth, you are directed to notify and warn the Inhabitants of the Town of Medfield, qualified to vote in elections and in Town affairs, to meet at the Amos Clark Kingsbury High School Gymnasium, located on South Street in said Medfield, on Monday the tenth day of March, A.D., 2014 at 7:30 o’clock P.M., then and there to act on the following articles:
Article 1. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money and determine in what manner said sum shall be raised and to authorize the Treasurer/Collector with the approval of the Board of Selectmen to borrow in accordance with the provisions of G.L. Chapter 44, Section 7, clause (3), or any other enabling statute, for the purposes of purchasing or otherwise acquiring a portion of the Medfield State Hospital property, so-called, and to authorize the Selectmen to enter into an agreement with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to accomplish said purchase, provided that said borrowing shall be contingent upon the passage of a debt exclusion override in accordance with the provisions of G.L. Chapter 59, Section 21 C, Paragraph (k) or any special enabling legislation governing such debt exclusion override, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
(Board of Selectmen)
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money and determine in what manner said sum shall be raised, for the purposes of maintaining and/or securing the land and building of the former Medfield State Hospital property, so-called, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
(Board of Selectmen)
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to petition the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for special legislation to authorize the purchase of all or a portion of land and buildings at the former Medfield State Hospital, shown on the Town of Medfield Board of Assessors’ Maps as Lot 001, Map 71 and Lot 004, Map 63, further shown as Parcels A and B on a Plan entitled Location of Land Parcels Medfield State Hospital Medfield, Massachusetts provided by The Massachusetts Division of Capital Asset Management (DCAM), legislation to include such terms, conditions, and language as the Board of Selectmen determines to be in the best interest of the Town of Medfield, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
(Board of Selectmen)
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting an attested copy thereof, in the usual place for posting warrants in said Medfield, fourteen days at least before the time of holding said Town Meeting.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon, unto the Town Clerk at the time and place ofthe Town Meeting aforesaid. Given unto our hands this __ _
day of February, Two-Thousand and Fourteen.
Mark L. Fisher, Chairman S/ ________________ _
Osler L. Peterson S/ ____________________ _
Richard P. DeSorgher S/ ________________ _
BOARD OF SELECTMEN
By virtue of this Warrant, I have notified and warned the Inhabitants of the Town of Medfield, qualified to vote in elections and at town meetings, by posting attested copies of the same at five
public places, fourteen days before the date of the town meeting, as within directed.
Constable: S/ _________ _
Date: February __ , 2014
A TRUE COPY ATTEST:
Carol A. Mayer, CMC, CMMC S/ ________ _
Town Clerk
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PROPOSITION 2 1/2 DEBT EXCLUSION QUESTION
Shall the Town of Medfield be allowed to exempt from the provIsions of proposition two and one-half, so called, the amounts required to pay for the. bond issued in order to purchase from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts all or a portion of the former Medfield State Hospital site and buildings thereon, identified on the Board of Assessors’ Maps as Lot 001, Map 71 and Lot 004, Map 63, further shown as Parcels A and B on a Plan entitled Location of Land Parcels Medfield State Hospital Medfield. Massachusetts provided by The Massachusetts Division of Capital Asset Management (DCAM), consisting of approximately 134 acres.
YES __ NO _
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