TA Blog: 2010-04-12 BOS
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Below is the TA's summary of what transpired at the Board of Selectmen's meeting of April 12, 2010. Questions or comments? Contact the Town Administrator. Official meeting minutes will be posted when approved by the Board. |
April 12, 2010 Board of Selectmen Meeting Summary
1. Track and Field Feasibility Study – Joint meeting with Permanent Municipal Building Committee, School Committee, Park and Recreation Commission, Finance Committee, Community Preservation Committee, and Littleton Track Organization. The joint meeting was held to try to reach a consensus about the location of the track project-- as we prepare for the May 3, 2010 Annual Town Meeting, where an additional $35,000 is being sought to continue the design and development of a track and/or multi-purpose field facility. The School Committee and LTO support Site 1 – the existing track location. LTO supports Option 1, Existing Track Parcel - Track Only ($628,651)The PMBC supports Option 2A, the football field parcel between the Russell Street & Middle Schools with synthetic turf. ($2,097,821). FinCom does not support funds for ATM Article 9 unless funded by a debt/capital exclusion.
- The Board of Selectmen unanimously voted to support Site 1, Existing Track Parcel, and to recommend May 3, 2010 Annual Town Meeting Article 9, Track Design and Development, in the amount of $35,000 to be transferred from Free Cash.
2A. Library Trustees: Fund Raising - The Board of Selectmen voted, pursuant to MGL C.44,§53A, to establish a special gift fund account the proceeds of which shall be used without further appropriation by the Library Trustees for a planning study for a new library.
2B. Proclamations for Retiring Library Director Marnie Oakes - The Board of Selectmen expressed its thanks to retiring Library Director Marnie Oakes for her fifteen years of dedicated service to the Town of Littleton and the Reuben Hoar Library.
3. May 3, 2010 Annual & Special Town Meeting - The Selectmen reviewed the Finance Committee’s recommendations on financial articles in the May 3, 2010 Annual and Special Town Meeting warrants. For the STM-3 Cobb property, FinCom is considering making its recommendation contingent upon receipt of grant funding towards the purchase. For STM-6 Sewer study, FinCom wishes to specify that the funding source is from the unemployment expense line in the FY 2010 194 Employee/Retiree Benefits budget. For ATM-4 FY 2011 Operating Budget, FinCom wishes to move and second the motion made at town meeting. For ATM-8 Capital, FinCom still wishes to add the four projects not included by the Selectmen [this would be outside the scope of the article as printed, however]. For ATM-9, FinCom does not support the track design and development without a debt/capital exclusion [it is too late to add that requirement, since the deadline for inserting ballot questions for the May 8, 2010 election was April 6, 2010.]
4. Collective Bargaining - Highway Union - The Board of Selectmen voted to ratify a one-year contract with AFSCME Council 93, Local 1703 (Littleton Highway Union), for the period July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010 at 0%.
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