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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

TOWN OF BELLINGHAM

WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING

Norfolk, ss:

To either of the Constables of the Town of Bellingham, in the County of Norfolk;

GREETINGS:

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

HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM

in said Bellingham, on Wednesday, the twenty-eighth day of May 2008, at 7:30 p.m., then and there to act on the following articles:

ARTICLE 1. OPERATING EXPENSES AND SALARIES

To see what sums the Town will vote to raise and appropriate by taxation, by transfer from available funds and/or otherwise, for the following purposes, to include determining the expenses and salaries of the various elected and appointed Town Officials for the period commencing July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009; or act or do anything in relation thereto

Account # Account

114 Town Meeting Moderator

122 Board of Selectmen

123 Town Administrator

131 Finance Committee

132 Reserve Fund

135 Chief Financial Officer

137 Assessors

138 Treasurer

139 Town Collector

151 Town Counsel

152 Personnel Board

154 Management Information System

156 Tax Title Foreclosure

161 Town Clerk

162 Elections

163 Board of Registrars

171 Conservation Commission

172 Planning Board

173 Zoning Board of Appeals

182 Industrial Development Commission

183 Commission on Disability

189 Public Buildings Maintenance

190 OTJ Injury for Deductible

191 Worker’s Compensation Agent

192 Employee Sick Day Buy-Back

193 Property & Liability Insurance

194 Retirement Assessment

195 Medicare/Employer Share

196 Town Reports

197 Physical/Occupational Health

198 Insurance Deductible

199 Damage to Persons & Property

210 Police Department

220 Fire Department

251 Town Inspector

252 Sealer of Weights & Measures

253 Inspector of Plumbing & Gas

255 Electrical Inspector

292 Animal Control

294 Tree Warden

299 Auxiliary Police

300 School Department

302 Blackstone Valley Vocational Tech School

303 School Transportation

421 Highway Administration

422 Highway Construction/Maintenance

423 Snow and Ice Removal

424 Street Lighting

425 Highway Maintenance

426 Gas & Oil

433 Solid Waste

439 Sanitary Landfill

491 Cemetery Committee

510 Board of Health

541 Council on Aging

543 Veterans Services

549 Veterans Grave Agent

610 Library

630 Park & Recreation

650 Historical Commission

651 Arts Cultural Commission

660 Memorial Day/Veterans

710 Maturing Debt

715 Interest on Bonds

990 Workers Compensation Trust Fund

991 Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund

992 Group Insurance Claims Trust Fund

(By: Board of Selectmen)

ARTICLE 2. TRASH ENTERPRISE

To see what sums the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the Trash Enterprise for a period commencing July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009; or act or do anything in relation thereto.

(By: Board of Selectmen)

ARTICLE 3. WATER ENTERPRISE

To see what sums the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the Water Enterprise for a period commencing July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009; or act or do anything in relation thereto.

(By: Board of Selectmen)

ARTICLE 4. SEWER ENTERPRISE

To see what sums the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the Sewer Enterprise for a period commencing July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009; or act or do anything in relation thereto.

(By: Board of Selectmen)

ARTICLE 5. CONVEYANCES AND EASEMENTS

To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to accept and/or purchase conveyances or easements, sewers, water lines, retaining walls and streets, and to raise and appropriate a sum of money to carry out said purposes; or act or do anything in relation thereto.

(By: Board of Selectmen)

ARTICLE 6. PURCHASE OF SURPLUS EQUIPMENT

To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money and to authorize the D.P.W. Director, in conjunction with other Town Departments, to purchase surplus government equipment for the Town; or act or do anything in relation thereto.

(By: Board of Selectmen)

ARTICLE 7. TOWN PROPERTY AUCTION

To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen and their successors in office to sell at public auction any of the property which the Town may have acquired or may hereafter acquire through proceedings based upon non-payment of taxes or under proceedings for the sale of lands of low value, to impose upon the property so sold such restrictions, reservations or conditions as shall be deemed expedient, and to execute quitclaim deeds and other instruments thereto; or act or do anything in relation thereto.

(By: Board of Selectmen)

ARTICLE 8 HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION

To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to accept and enter into contracts for the expenditure of funds to be allotted by the State under authorization of Chapter 90 of the Massachusetts General Laws, (as pertaining to Highway Funds) for the construction, reconstruction, and improvement of Town roads, said funds to be borrowed in anticipation of State Revenue; and expended under the direction of the D.P.W. Director; or act or do anything in relation thereto.

(By: D.P.W. Director)

ARTICLE 9. AMEND ARTICLE 1.

To see if the Town will vote to amend Article 1 of the 2007 Annual Town Meeting by reducing, adding to, deleting, amending appropriations or transferring funds from various sources into items within Article 1; or act or do anything in relation thereto.

(By: Board of Selectmen)

ARTICLE 10. CAPITAL OUTLAY

To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money which shall not exceed 1.5 million dollars and to determine how such appropriation shall be raised, whether by transfer of available funds, by taxation, by borrowing or otherwise, and if by borrowing to authorize the issuance and sale of general obligation bonds or notes of the Town therefore for the purpose of financing the purchase, construction, reconstruction and/or engineering costs associated with various capital outlay items or improvements proposed by Town Departments, Boards or Committees; or act or do anything in relation thereto.

(By: Board of Selectmen)

ARTICLE 11. REVOLVING FUNDS

To see if the Town will vote to adopt provisions of Chapter 44, Section 53E-1/2, of the General Laws to allow the following:

To allow the Bellingham Public Library Trustees to create a special revolving fund from revenues received from overdue books and video fines and to authorize the use for purchasing books, videos, library materials, and to make payment to temporary or part-time employees and independent contractors, not to exceed $15,000.

To allow the Parks Commission to create a special revolving fund from revenue received from the Arcand Park swim program and to authorize the use for swim program expenses not to exceed $20,000.

3. To allow the D.P.W. to create a special revolving fund from revenues received from the sale of compost bins and to authorize for the purchase of additional bins, not to exceed $2,000.

4. To allow the D.P.W. to create a special revolving fund from the revenues received for services provided to open cemetery graves and to make payments for salaries and other related expenses not to exceed $7,500.

5. To allow the Board of Health to create a special revolving fund from the revenues received for services provided for food inspections and to authorize the use for salaries and other related expenses not to exceed $35,000.

6. To allow the Bellingham Historical Commission to create a special revolving fund (not to exceed $5,000) from revenues received from donations to the Historical Commission and to authorize said funds to be used for operating expenses.

To allow the Town Common Trustees to create a special revolving fund (not to exceed $25,000 yearly) from revenues received from the “Bank of America Lease” as well as revenues received from rental fees, said fund to be used for payment to temporary or part-time employees, for maintenance expenses and for the purchase of supplies or materials associated with the Town Common.

To allow the Board of Selectmen to create a Special Revolving Fund, not to exceed $35,000, from revenues received from a lease payment from Nextel or their successors and to authorize the use of these funds to pay monthly phone charges as well as monthly digital charges for mobile communications within the Police and Fire Department.

9. To allow the Commission on Disability to create a special revolving fund from revenues received from gifts, grants and fees and to authorize the use for purchasing equipment and supporting materials, and to make payment to temporary or part-time employees and independent contractors, not to exceed $10,000.

10. To allow the Bellingham Police Department to create a special revolving fund from revenues received from third party vendors hired by the Police Department, details with assigned vehicles for the detail; and to authorize the use of repair, replacement and/or for the purchase of equipment or vehicles for the Police Department, not to exceed $40,000.

11. To allow the Zoning Board of Appeals to create a special revolving fund from revenues received from Developers of Comprehensive Permits and to authorize the use to cover the cost of hiring outside consultants, not to exceed $30,000; or act or do anything in relation thereto.

(By:LibraryTrustees, Parks Commission, D.P.W., Board of Health; Historical Commission; Town Common Trustees; Board of Selectmen; Commission on

Disability; Police Department and

Zoning Board)

ARTICLE 12. PACKAGE STORE ALL ALCOHOL LICENSE

To see if the Town will vote to direct the Board of Selectmen to petition the Legislature to enact legislation granting the Board of Selectmen the authority to issue an additional Package Store All Alcohol License for William C. Roberts, 191 Mechanic Street, Unit 5.

Notwithstanding any General or special law or any rule or regulation to the contrary, the local alcohol licensing authority shall not approve the transfer of said license to any other location. Said license may be re-issued by the local alcohol licensing authority at the same location if an applicant for said license files with said authority a letter in writing from the Department of Revenue indicating that said license is in good standing with said Department and that any and all applicable taxes have been paid.

If the license granted under this section is cancelled, revoked or no longer in use, such license shall be returned physically, with all of the legal rights, privileges and restrictions pertaining thereto, to the local alcohol licensing authority. Notwithstanding Section 17 of Chapter 138 of the General Laws, or any other general or special law to the contrary, the local alcohol licensing authority may then grant the license to a new applicant at the same location and under the same conditions specified in the preceding paragraph; or act or do anything in relation thereto.

(By: Petition)

George Levine

11 River Street

Wellesley, MA 02481

781-237-6902

ARTICLE 13. PACKAGE STORE ALL ALCOHOL LICENSE

(By: Petition)

Antoine Khoury

Khoury Industries

5 Mechanic Street

Bellingham, MA 02019

508-966-3838

ARTICLE 14. PURCHASE OF LAND

To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purchase of two (2) parcels of land owned by Mary Caccavelli, surviving spouse of Frank P. Caccavelli located in the Charles River Grove section of said Town of Bellingham being Lots 305 and 306, all as described in a deed dated February 18, 1976 and recorded with Norfolk Registry of Deeds in Book 5213, Page 157; or act or do anything in relation thereto.

(By: Board of Selectmen)

ARTICLE 15. STREET ACCEPTANCE STONEHEDGE ROAD

To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Public Way a road, the easements appurtenant thereto, and Deed thereto, identified as Stonehedge Road being shown on a Plan entitled “The Woodlands Definitive Subdivision Plan of Land in Bellingham, Massachusetts for Pentad Realty Trust, Leo L. Mayewski Tr. Scale 1”=40’, July 28, 1987, David E. Beede EPLS Reading, Massachusetts duly recorded with Norfolk County Registry of Deeds in Plan Book 362 as Plan 1526 of 1987, and as more particularly described in a Deed on file at the office of the Town Clerk, and to authorize the Board of Selectmen to accept the Deed thereto; or act or do anything in relation thereto.

(By: Douglas R. & Doreen L. Porter

3 Stonehedge Road

Bellingham, MA 02019)

ARTICLE 16. LAUREL LANE AND EDWARD CIRCLE LAND ACQUISITION

To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to take by eminent domain the fee interest in the streets known as Laurel Lane and Edward Circle as per plan of land entitled “Edward Estates Definitive Subdivision, Bellingham, Mass., prepared for Fredap Realty Trust, 161 Mechanic Street, Bellingham, Mass., Frank J. Gallagher, P.E.”, which plan is recorded with Norfolk Deeds as Plan No. 605 of 1996 in Plan Book 442, and more specifically the roadways in the presence of land from Michael S. & Karen M. Bryant of 86 Laurel Land; Daniel & Patricia A. Giardino of 2 Edward Circle; Bryan M. & Kerry A. Pepin of 7 Edward Circle; Iva A. Iacoi of 1 Edward Circle; Alfred A. DaPrato of 94 Laurel Lane; Gary & Maureen Tutungian of 77 Laurel Lane; and Foresight Enterprises Corp., all of their fee interest in the streets known as Laurel Lane and Edward Circle; or act or do anything in relation thereto.

(By: Attorney Juster

Attorney Ambler – 966-1951)

ARTICLE 17. UNPAID BILLS

To see if the Town will vote to raise, appropriate or transfer a sum of money for the payment of certain unpaid bills; or act or do anything in relation thereto.

(By: Finance Committee)

And you are directed to serve this Warrant, by posting attested copies thereof in at least one public place in each precinct of said Town sixty days, at least, before the time and place of meeting as aforesaid.

Hereof, fail not and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of meeting as aforesaid.

Given under our hands this 17^th day of March in the year of our Lord, Two Thousand Eight

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Ann L. Odabashian, Chairwoman

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Richard J. Martinelli, Vice Chairman

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Ronald L. Picard

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Lloyd W. Goodnow, Jr.

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Dawn M. Davies

BOARD OF SELECTMEN

RETURN OF THE WARRANT

Norfolk, ss:

Pursuant to the within Warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Bellingham by posting attested copies of the same at Town Hall and in other Municipal buildings throughout Town, in accordance with Town By-laws.

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Date Constable of Bellingham