Politics & Government
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