Town of Mattapoisett, MA -

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Mattapoisett qualified to vote in Elections and Town Affairs to meet at the Old Rochester Regional High School Auditorium, on Monday, the twenty-second day of October next at seven o'clock in the evening, then and there to act on the following Articles:

ARTICLE 1: SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET APPROPRIATION: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, transfer, or take from available funds a sum to be determined by the Town, such amount to be added to the Fiscal Year 2008 appropriation as voted by the annual town meeting of May 14, 2007 for administrative salaries and wages of various Town Departments, for the purpose of funding the collective bargaining agreement between the Town of Mattapoisett and, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 93, AFL-CIO on behalf of administrative and clerical employees, or take any other action relative thereto.

ARTICLE 2: SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET APPROPRIATION: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, transfer, or take from available funds a sum to be determined by the Town, such amount to be added to the Fiscal Year 2008 appropriation as voted by the annual town meeting of May 14, 2007 for Police Salaries and wages, for the purpose of funding the collective bargaining agreement between the Town of Mattapoisett and New England Police Benevolent Association, AFL-CIO, Local 63, and related salaries and wages or take any other action relative thereto.

ARTICLE 3: SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET APPROPRIATION: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, transfer, or take from available funds a sum to be determined by the Town, such amount to be added to the Fiscal Year 2008 appropriation as voted by the annual town meeting of May 14, 2007, for the purpose of funding the collective bargaining agreement between the Town of Mattapoisett and American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 93, AFL-CIO on behalf of public works employees, or take any other action relative thereto.

ARTICLE 4: PERSONNEL BY-LAW REVISION: To see if the Town will vote to amend the Personnel By-Law of the Town of Mattapoisett, Section 12. Classification Plan by designating the Council on Aging Director at Grade 17 (from Grade 15); and by revising section 13, Compensation Schedule, by increasing the amounts shown in the FY 2007 by three percent (3%), such revised schedule to be the Compensation Schedule for FY 2008, or take any other action relative thereto.

ARTICLE 5: SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET APPROPRIATION: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, transfer, or take from available funds a sum to be determined by the Town, such amount to be added to the Fiscal Year 2008 appropriation as voted by the annual town meeting of May 14, 2007, for salaries and wages of contract employees, Personnel By-law employees, and other employees or take any other action relative thereto.

ARTICLE 6: ELECTED OFFICERS' COMPENSATION: To see if the town will vote to fix the salaries of the following elected officers of the town for Fiscal Year 2008 as follows:

ARTICLE 7: SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET APPROPRIATION: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, transfer, or take from available funds a sum to be determined by the Town, for the purpose of funding legal expenses arising from litigation, including legal bills of a prior fiscal year, or take any other action relative thereto.

ARTICLE 8: GASOLINE SPILL CLEANUP: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, transfer, or take from available funds the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) for the purpose of continuing cleanup of the Police Station site gasoline spill, or take any other action relative thereto.

ARTICLE 9: PAVING REPAIRS: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, transfer or take from available funds the sum of ninety-eight thousand four hundred dollars ($98,400.00) for the purpose of making paving repairs to Route 6 necessitated by installation of sewer main and lateral lines, or take any other action relative thereto.

ARTICLE 10: VETERANS’ WAR MEMORIAL PARK: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, transfer, or take from available funds the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500.00) for costs associated with landscaping and utilities relocation for the Veterans’ War Memorial Park adjacent to the Mattapoisett Free Public Library, or take any other action relative thereto.

ARTICLE 11: WHARF ENGINEERING AND PERMITTING: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, transfer or take from available funds the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) for the purpose of covering costs associated with engineering and permitting for the repair and maintenance of Town wharves, or take any other action relative thereto.

ARTICLE 12: PUMP OUT FACILITY: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, transfer or take from available funds the sum of seventeen thousand dollars ($17,000.00) for the purpose of covering costs associated with the repair, maintenance, and improvement of the pump out facility, or take any other action relative thereto.

ARTICLE 13: REPAIRS TO SHIPYARD PARK, VETERANS PARK, BARSTOW WHARF: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, transfer or take from available funds the sum of $7,000.00 for the purpose of funding repairs to the Shipyard Park flagpole, restrooms at Veterans Park, and electric lighting at Barstow Wharf, or take any other action relative thereto.

ARTICLE 14: MULTI-PURPOSE VEHICLE – HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT: To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $156,000.00 for the purpose of replacing aging and obsolete vehicles and equipment in the Highway Department, the money to be provided by borrowing, taxation, transfer from available funds, or take any other action relating thereto. Funds for this appropriation to be provided from the Capital Stabilization Fund.

ARTICLE 15: FIRE DEPARTMENT VEHICLE: To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $29,000.00 for the purpose of replacing an aging and obsolete vehicle in the Fire Department, the money to be provided by borrowing, taxation, transfer from available funds, or take any other action relating thereto. Funds for this appropriation to be provided from the Capital Stabilization Fund.

ARTICLE 16: CARE OF SHADE TREES – SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, transfer, or take from available funds the amount of four thousand dollars ($4,000.00), such amount to be added to the Fiscal Year 2008 appropriation as voted by the annual town meeting of May 14, 2007, for the purpose of restoring the amount appropriated for care of shade trees to the level normally appropriated for this purpose, or take any other action relating thereto.

ARTICLE 17: PRIOR YEAR BILLS: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, transfer, or take from available funds the amount of seven thousand five hundred fifty-four dollars ($7,554.00), for the purpose of paying bills of a prior year, or take any other action relating thereto.

ARTICLE 18: OHS COMMISSIONING: (This article includes amounts from prior year bills) To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, transfer, or take from available funds the amount of seventeen thousand six hundred fifty-five dollars ($17,655.00), such amount to be added to the commissioning article approved by Annual Town Meeting, May 2005, for the purpose of completing repairs and commissioning of Old Hammondtown School HVAC, or take any other action relating thereto.

ARTICLE 19: ASSESSORS REVALUATION EXPENSE: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, transfer, or take from available funds the amount of sixty thousand dollars ($60,000.00), such amount to be added to Article 16, approved by Annual Town Meeting, May 2001, for the purpose of paying costs associated with future revaluation expenses, or take any other action relating thereto. Funds for this appropriation to be provided from release of surplus Overlay Reserve funds from Fiscal Years 2004 and 2005.

ARTICLE 20: REVISE THE TOWN SEAL: To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to pursue development of a revised Mattapoisett Town Seal that more appropriately reflects the heritage, history, and character of the Town of Mattapoisett, such design to be presented to Town Meeting for final approval and adoption, or take any other action relating thereto.

ARTICLE 21: PRESERVE THE TOWN SEAL: To see if the Town will vote and approve the present Mattapoisett Town Seal and Symbol of 1901 to be Mattapoisett’s official, legal, historical and permanent seal for as long as Mattapoisett is incorporated as a town in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States of America.

You are hereby notified to serve this Warrant by posting up attested copies thereof at the several places designated in the Town By-Laws, namely the Mattapoisett Post Office and the Mattapoisett Town Hall, and Mattapoisett Public Library fourteen (14) days at least before the day appointed for said meeting.

, duly elected constable, hereby certify that I have this date posted attested copies of this Special Town Meeting Warrant at the several places designated in the Town By-Laws, namely the Town Hall and the Mattapoisett Post Office on the day of ___________, 2007.