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Salaries, Contracts, Playgrounds, Turbines: 45 Falmouth Annual Town Meeting Warrant Articles, Nov. 12, 2013

What's on the annual town meeting warrant for Falmouth? Here are all 45 articles voters will decide on Tuesday evening.


1 Reports of Committees and Town Officers 
2 Unpaid bills from a prior year 
3 Amend Chapter 654 of the Acts of 1978, Falmouth Historic District Commission 
4 Amend Chapter 654 of the Acts of 1978, Falmouth Historic District Commission 
5 Fund AFSCME Local 136 contract 
6 Fund Firefighters Local 1397 contract 
7 Fund Police Federation contract 
8 Fund Superior Officers' Association contract 
9 Fund Lieutenants, NEPBA Local 165 contract 
10 Amend Salary Administration Plan-Police Dispatcher 
11 Amend Salary Administration Plan-New grade 3A 
12 Amend the Town’s Position Classification Plan-Fire and Police 
13 Amend the Town’s Position Classification Plan Community Development Planner 
14 Amend the Town’s Position Classification Plan –Police Captain 
15 Amend the Town’s Position Classification Plan - Seasonal Compensation Schedule. 
16 Fund Capital Improvements 
17 Fund Energy Management Services Contract 
18 Fund Replacement of the Falmouth Inner harbor pump-out station and equipment 
19 Fund Voting booths 
20 Fund Removal of dangerous materials from Menauhant and Davisville Road Beach 
21 Fund Staffing for bathhouse house before Memorial Day mailing of beach sticker applications 
22 Petition - Reporting all current Overrides, Capital Exclusions, and Debt Exclusions 
23 Petition Capital/Audit oversight committee 
24 Petition- Public Question/comment period 
25 Petition-Amend Demolition Bylaw 
26 Petition-Prohibit trucks on Woods Hole Road 
27 Petition -Establish a mitigation fund 
28 Petition- Operate municipal wind turbines full time 
29 Petition- Study installation and removal of overhead utility wires in Velocity 
30 Fund Non-Criminal Code enforcement expenses 
31 CPC-Preservation of the structure at 20 Academy Lane
32 CPC-Ecological restoration and access improvements to Little Pond 
33 CPC East Falmouth Elementary School Playground renovation 
34 CPC Sandwich Road Field Complex Improvements 
35 CPC New Skate Park Facility 
36 CPC Wetlands Path and Observation Platform at Teaticket Park 
37 CPC Purchase Beach Parking Lot Gates 
38 CPC All-Purpose Athletic Field 
39 CPC Rehabilitate the Morse Pond School Playground 
40 CPC fund the Falmouth Housing Stabilization Program 
41 Flow Neutral By-law for Sewer Service Areas By-Law (Old Silver Beach) 
42 Petition State Legislature Sewer Service Area Betterment Assessments 
43 Petition State Legislature Exempt eco-toilet installations from associated betterments 
44 Amend preservation restriction preserving the “great rock” 
45 Accept Roads

For details on each of the warrant articles, including town officials' recommendations, please see http://www.falmouthmass.us/clerk/atm111213.pdf

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