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Town of Nantucket 2016 Annual Town Meeting Warrant with Finance Committee Motions
ARTICLE 16
(Acceptance of Massachusetts General Law: Sewer Betterment Assessments)
To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Massachusetts General Law
Chapter 83, Sections 15C and 15D to authorize the Town to collect interest on unpaid sewer
betterment assessments; and to apportion all future sewer assessments over a period not to
exceed thirty years; or to take any other action related thereto.
(Board of Selectmen)
FINANCE COMMITTEE MOTION: Moved that the provisions of Massachusetts General Law
Chapter 83, Sections 15C and 15D to authorize the Town to collect interest on unpaid sewer
betterment assessments; and to apportion all future sewer assessments over a period not to
exceed thirty years are hereby accepted.
ARTICLE 17
(Acceptance of Massachusetts General Law: Sewer Betterment Deferral)
To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Massachusetts General Laws
Chapter 80, Section 13B to permit low-income elderly homeowners eligible for an exemption
under clause 41A of Chapter 59, Section 5 of the General Laws to defer payment of any
betterment assessment or balance of any apportioned assessment, all as described more
particularly in said Section 13B; or to take any other action related thereto.
(Board of Selectmen)
FINANCE COMMITTEE MOTION: Moved that the provisions of Massachusetts General Laws
Chapter 80, Section 13B to permit low-income elderly homeowners eligible for an exemption
under clause 41A of Chapter 59, Section 5 of the General Laws to defer payment of any
betterment assessment or balance of any apportioned assessment, all as described more
particularly in said Section 13B are hereby accepted.
ARTICLE 18
(Appropriation: Sewer Project/Nantucket Harbor Shimmo; Plus Infill Parcels in Town Sewer
District)
To see what sums the Town will vote to appropriate, and also to raise, borrow pursuant
to any applicable statute or transfer from available funds, to be spent by the Town Manager
with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, to pay costs of professional services for design,
permitting, engineering, construction supervision, and other related professional services, for
the construction, installation and equipping of the extension of municipal sewer lines and
associated infrastructure from the Surfside Wastewater Treatment Facility to the areas
established in the Comprehensive Wastewater Management Plan Update adopted June 3,
2015 and described as “Nantucket Harbor Shimmo” (formerly titled “Monomoy”) and to the
area described as “Plus Parcels – Infill in Town Sewer District” including all payment of all costs
incidental and related thereto, and acquisition of any interests in land as may be necessary or
appropriate; and further to authorize said Board of Selectmen to acquire any such interests in
land by purchase, gift, and/or eminent domain; and to authorize the Board of Selectmen acting
as the Board of Sewer Commissioners to assess all or a portion of the project costs as
betterments; provided, however, that any borrowing authorized hereunder shall be contingent
on the passage of a Proposition 2 and ½ debt exclusion vote; or to take any other action
related thereto.
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Town of Nantucket 2016 Annual Town Meeting Warrant with Finance Committee Motions
(Board of Selectmen/Sewer Commissioners)
FINANCE COMMITTEE MOTION: Moved that the Town appropriate the sum of Forty-One
Million Dollars ($41,000,000), to be spent by the Town Manager with the approval of the Board
of Selectmen, to pay costs of professional services for design, permitting, engineering,
construction supervision, and other related professional services, for the construction,
installation and equipping of the extension of municipal sewer lines and associated
infrastructure from the Surfside Wastewater Treatment Facility to the areas established in the
Comprehensive Wastewater Management Plan Update adopted June 3, 2015 and described
as “Nantucket Harbor Shimmo” (formerly titled “Monomoy”) and to the area described as “Plus
Parcels – Infill in Town Sewer District,” and acquisition of any interests in land as may be
necessary or appropriate, including the payment of all other costs incidental and related
thereto; that to meet said appropriation the Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of
Selectmen, is hereby authorized to borrow the sum of Forty-One Million Dollars ($41,000,000)
pursuant to General Laws Chapter 44, Sections 7 or 8, Chapter 29C or any other enabling
authority, and to issue bonds and notes of the Town therefore; and further to authorize said
Board of Selectmen to acquire any such interests in land by purchase, gift, and/or eminent
domain necessary or appropriate to carry out the project; and that the Board of Selectmen,
acting as the Board of Sewer Commissioners, is authorized to assess 25% of project costs as
betterments on the owners of land to be served by the new sewers pursuant to the uniform unit
method authorized under General Laws Chapter 83, Section 15, and that 75% of project costs
shall be paid by the Town; provided, however, that any borrowing authorized hereunder shall
be contingent on the passage of a Proposition 2 and ½ debt exclusion vote.
Quantum of vote required for passage of the motion is 2/3
ARTICLE 19
(Bylaw Amendment: Board of Sewer Commissioners/Sewer District Map Changes)
To see if the Town will vote to amend Chapter 41 (Board of Sewer Commissioners),
section 41-3A (Town Sewer District) of the Code of the Town of Nantucket by adding the
following parcels located within the “Nantucket Harbor/Shimmo” and Plus Parcels – Infill in
Town Sewer District” sewer needs areas designated within the Comprehensive Wastewater
Management Plan adopted June 3, 2015 to the Town Sewer District:
Nantucket Harbor/Shimmo Needs Areas
Map Lot Number Street
54 175.1 19 Brewster Road
54 296 21 Brewster Road
54 175.2 23 Brewster Road
54 174 25 Brewster Road
54 173 27 Brewster Road
54 171 28 Brewster Road
54 293 29 Brewster Road
54 294 29½ Brewster Road