Town Meeting Day 2 Updates

View the Motions File by clicking the PDF above updates.

Article 8 - Fiscal 2016 Operating Budget - (Motion to delay to Day 2 as first item passed Day 1) - Passed
Amendment proposed for Article 8 - Reduce the amount appropriated to Total General Government by $60,000 to $3,592,778 ($60,000 in budget for Assistant town manager position) - Passed (Total Operating Budget: $72,388,886.06 Passes)

Article 5 - Unpaid Bills from Previous Years - (Reconsidered Highway Dept $3,427.60, and Human Resources $1,620) Passed
Article 15 - Department of Public Works Facility (Proposed Plan would cost town $14,100,000, average taxpayer - $157/year) - Passed
Article 16 - Fire Truck Replacement ($680,000 Cost) - Passed
Article 17 - Purchase of Dump Truck ($240,000 Cost) - Passed
Article 18 - Purchase of a Water Utility Vehicle ($87,000 Cost) - Passed
Article 19 - Water Main Replacement - Cedar Street ($260,000 Cost) - Passed
Article 20 - Fruit Street Water Facility Engineering - Well Blending ($100,000 Cost) - Passed
Article 21 - Grove Street Water Tank Replacement - Engineering ($75,000 Cost) - Passed
Article 22 - Fruit Street Auxiliary Facility - Construction (No Action Recommended) - Passed
Article 23 - Joint Facility Technology ($200,000) - Passed
Article 24 - School Safety & Security ($200,000) - Passed
Article 25 - Joint Safety and Security Upgrades (No Action Recommended) - Failed (School Committee Amended $103,471 towards Security) - Passed
Article 26 - Fire Alarm Upgrades - Middle School ($170,000) - Passed
Article 27 - Roof Repairs - Hopkins and High Schools ($1,114,000) (Amended: Provided however that the board of selectmen and school committee be instructed to pursue all reasonable remedies legal and other remedies including insurance claims, to recover such costs) - Standing Vote: Passed 144-62
Article 28 - Resurfacing Basketball & Tennis Courts ($70,000) - Passed
Article 29 - Community Preservation Recommendations - (Amended Divided into 2 motions) - In Progress
(Motion 1: $123,268 for Open Space, $133,268 for community housing, $407,000 from community preservation fund) (Simple Majority Needed) - Passed(Motion 1: Part C Amended - Susan D. Gozzaldi changed to Degozzaldi, Open Space preservation commission changed to Hopkinton Area Land trust) - Passed
(Motion 1: Part D Amended - Open Space Preservation Commission changed to Hopkinton Area Land Trust) - Passed
(Motion 1: Amended to delete Part F, Part G, Part K) - Fails
(Motion 1: Amended to delete Item B ($135,000 from funds reserved for Active Passive Recreation to acquire parcel of land 3.839 acres, begins at granite street in Hopkinton, and 1.452 acres of land northwesterly side of Hayden Rowe) - Fails
(Motion 1: Amended to change section G: Wording Change to parking for athletic field(s) at legacy farms) - Passed

(Motion 2: (H) $500,000 from community preservation fund (2/3rds needed)

Motion 2 Will be Debated at the start of tomorrows Town Meeting.