Information for Meeting of Town Meeting
Tuesday December 11, 2018 6:30 PM EST

SPECIAL TOWN MEETING TOWN OF BARRE

The Town of Barre will hold the Special Town Meeting at the Ruggles Lane School Auditorium on Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at 6:30 in the evening.  The Town will act on the warrant as accepted by the Board of Selectmen.  The full text of the warrant will be available and posted in the bulletin boxes at Ruggles Lane School, at the 2 Exchange Street Town Hall, at 50 Main Street, South Barre, and on the bulletin boards of the Town Clerk, Henry Woods Building and the Barre Senior Center and online at www.townofbarre.com.

TOWN OF BARRE
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING WARRANT ARTICLES
December 11, 2018

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
WORCESTER, SS:                           

To one of the Constables in the Town of Barre, in the County of Worcester.

Greetings:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Barre, qualified to vote in town elections and town affairs to meet at the Ruggles Lane School Auditorium on

TUESDAY, THE ELEVENTH DAY OF DECEMBER 2018
AT 6:30 P.M.

then and there to act on the following articles: 

ARTICLE 1
FY 2018 REGIONAL ANIMAL CONTROL
To see if the Town will vote to transfer from available funds, a sum of money to pay for costs associated with Assessment from FY 2018 for Regional Animal Control in the amount of $2,464.73; or take any other action relative thereto.

ARTICLE 2
PUBLIC SAFETY BUILDERS RISK POLICY
To see if the Town will vote transfer from available funds, a sum of money to pay for costs associated with an invoice for Renaissance Alliance Insurance Services, LLC Inv. #204004 in the amount of $530.00 from FY 2018; or take any other action relative thereto.

ARTICLE 3
FIRE DEPARTMENT ENGINE 4 REPLACEMENT
To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or transfer from available funds, or authorize the Town Treasurer with the approval of the Select Board to borrow by the issuance of bonds or notes under the provisions of Massachusetts General Laws c. 44, § 7 the sums of $500,000 for the purchase of a new Fire Engine to replace Engine #4 or any other sum, said funds to be expended under the direction of the Select Board, and further that any premium received by the Town upon the sale of any bonds or notes approved by the vote, less any such premium applied to the payment of the costs of issuance of such bonds or notes, may be applied to the payment of costs approved by this vote in accordance with Massachusetts General Laws c. 44, § 20, thereby reducing the amount authorized to be borrowed to pay such costs by a like amount; or take any other action relative thereto.

ARTICLE 4
ASSESSORS VISION UPGRADE
To see if the Town will transfer from available funds a sum of money to purchase an upgrade for the Assessor’s Vision System; or take any other action relative thereto.

ARTICLE 5
POLICE DEPARTMENT TASERS
To see if the Town will transfer from available funds a sum of money to purchase of tasers for the Police Department; or take any other action relative thereto.

ARTICLE 6
AUTHORIZE SENIOR TRANSPORTATION CHANGE 
FROM WRTA TO MARTA
To see if the Town will petition the legislature to change the regional transportation authority covering the Town of Barre from Worcester Regional Transportation Authority to Montachusett Area Regional Transportation Authority; or take any other action relative thereto.


ARTICLE 7
AMEND ARTICLE 6  OF JUNE 19, 2018 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the PEG Access and Cable-Related Fund $50,000 to be expended during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019 under the direction of the Board of Selectmen for necessary and expedient cable-related purposes consistent with the license agreement, of which the sum of $50,000 shall be allocated from the available fund balance; or take any other action relative thereto.


ARTICLE 8
ACCEPT MGL C. 64N, S3 AND ADOPT A 3% LOCAL SALES TAX ON MARIJUANA PRODUCTS
To see if the Town will vote to adopt the provisions of MGL Chapter 64N, Section 3, as amended by section 13 of Chapter 55 of the Acts of 2017, to impose a local sales tax upon the sale or transfer of marijuana or marijuana products by a marijuana retailer operating within the Town to anyone other than a marijuana establishment at the rate of three percent (3%) of the total sales price received by the marijuana retailer as a consideration for the sale of marijuana or marijuana products; or take any other action relative thereto.

ARTICLE 9
MARIJUANA LICENSING BYLAW

To see if the Town will vote to amend the Code of the Town of Barre, by inserting a new Chapter, 160 Marijuana Establishment Licensing; or take any other action relative thereto

ARTICLE 10
AMEND SOLAR BYLAW
To see if the Town will vote to amend the Code of the Town of Barre, Zoning, Chapter 140 by amending section 140-10.1.1 Solar Energy Facilities Special Permit and Site Plan Review; or take any other action relative thereto

ARTICLE 11
MARIJUANA ESTABLISHMENTS ZONING BYLAW
To see if the Town will vote to amend the Code of the Town of Barre, Zoning, Chapter 140 by inserting a new section 140-11.2 Adult Marijuana and Marijuana Establishments; or take any other action relative thereto.

ARTICLE 12
EXTEND MORATORIUM ON RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA ESTABLISHMENTS
To see if the Town will vote to amend the Code of the Town of Barre, Zoning Chapter 140-11.1, Temporary Moratorium on Recreational Marijuana Establishments; or take any other action relative thereto.

ARTICLE 13
AMEND ARTICLE 34 OF JUNE 19, 2018 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
To see if the Town will vote to amend vote taken at the June 19, 2018 Annual Town Meeting, Article 34, by inserting, following the words “Provisional Certificate of Registration for a Registered Marijuana Dispensary”, the words “for in the Town of Barre”; or take any other action relative thereto.

ARTICLE 14
CITIZENS PETITION
PERMANENT BASKETBALL HOOP TO BE INSTALLED IN NORNAY PARK
To see if the Town will vote to have a permanent basketball hoop installed in the Nornay Park (South Barre) area so the children can have a safe place to play and practice “shots” at the hoop; or take any other action relative thereto.

You are directed to serve this Warrant by posting an attested copy thereof in the bulletin boards at Ruggles Lane School 105 Ruggles Lane, Barre Town Hall 2 Exchange Street, Town Clerk’s Office 40 West Street (Basement), Henry Woods Building 40 West Street 1st Floor, Woods Memorial Library 19 Pleasant Street, 50 Main Street South Barre, and Barre Senior Center 557 South Barre Road.
 
Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk at the time and place of said meeting as aforesaid. Given under our hands this 13th day of November, 2018 A.D. 

S/Matthew Urban
S/Charles Chase
Barre Board of Selectmen