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Town of Nantucket
OFFICE OF THE
TOWN & COUNTY
CLERK
16 Broad Street
NANTUCKET, MASSACHUSETTS 02554-3590
Catherine Flanagan Stover, MMC, CMMC
Town & County Clerk
(508) 228-7216
FAX (508) 325-5313
Home: (508) 228-7841
Email: cstover@nantucket-ma.gov
townclerk@nantucket-ma.gov
WEBSITE: http://www.nantucket-ma.gov
2014 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING 2014
The following is a summary of the articles called and discussed, and the vote taken by
the 2014 Annual Town Meeting held at the Nantucket High School, Mary P. Walker
Auditorium, 10 Surfside Road, on April 5, 2014. Nantucket High School Senior James
Roggeveen was the official Time Keeper. James has been a loyal and dedicated worker at
all our Annual and Special Town Meetings throughout his entire high school career. We
are inordinately proud of him, and we rejoice in his Early Acceptance to the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In recognition, James was presented with two
gift certificates. (THANK YOU, JAMES!)
Saturday, April 5, 2014 – Meeting called to order at 9:06 AM. At the close of Voter
Registration, there were 8494 voters. There were 349 registered voters when the meeting
was called to order. There were 370 voters present at the first counted vote. Ultimately,
478 registered voters were in attendance.
The following “Pot of Uncalled Articles” was voted unanimously in accordance with the
motions recommended by the Finance Committee or, in the absence of a Finance
Committee motion, then in accordance with the motions as recommended by the
Planning Board, as printed in the Finance Committee Report, with technical amendments
brought forward during the course of the meeting:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 35,
36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65,
66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 78, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 92, 93, 94, 95, 98, 99, 100, 102,104, 105, 106,
and 107.
At 4:07 PM, Moderator Alger recognized Rick Atherton, Chair of the Board of Selectmen,
who moved to dissolve the 2014 Annual Town Meeting. The motion was seconded, and
adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote. Winners of the Glamorous Door Prizes were: Jeanne
Miller and Laura McCloskey – Chocolate Cake Certificates, and Victoria Goss – Nantucket
Organizing Tote.
Article 1: Receipt of Reports (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
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Article 2: Appropriation: Unpaid Bills (Not Called) Adopted with Technical Amendment
by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 3: Appropriation: Prior Year Articles (Not Called) Not Adopted by Unanimous
Voice Vote
Article 4: Revolving Accounts: Annual Authorization (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous
Voice Vote
Article 5: Appropriation: Reserve Fund (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 6: FY 2014 General Fund Budget Transfers (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous
Voice Vote
Article 7: Personnel Compensation Plans for FY 2015 (Not Called) Adopted by
Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 8: Appropriation: FY 2015 General Fund Operating Budget (Not Called) Adopted
by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 9: Appropriation: Health and Human Services (Not Called) Adopted by
Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 10: Appropriation: General Fund Capital Expenditures (Called) Adopted with
Technical Amendment by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 11: Appropriation: Enterprise Funds Operation (Not Called) Adopted by
Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 12: Appropriation: Enterprise Funds Capital Expenditures (Not Called) Adopted
with Technical Amendment by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 13: Enterprise Funds: Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Transfers (Not Called) Adopted
by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 14: Appropriation: Waterways Improvement Fund (Not Called) Adopted with
Technical Amendment by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 15: Authorization: Airport Aviation Fuel Revolving Fund for Fiscal Year 2014 (Not
Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 16: Appropriation: Ambulance Fund (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice
Vote
Article 17: Appropriation: County Assessment (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice
Vote
Article 18: Appropriation: Finalizing Fiscal Year 2015 County Budget (Not Called) Moved
to Take No Action by Unanimous Voice Vote
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Article 19: Rescind Unused Borrowing Authority (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous
Voice Vote
Article 20: Appropriation: Ferry Embarkation Fee (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous
Voice Vote
Article 21: Appropriation: Other Post-Employment Benefits Trust Fund (Not Called)
Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 22: Appropriation: Collective Bargaining Agreement/Fire (Not Called) Moved to
Take No Action by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 23: Appropriation: Collective Bargaining Agreement/Airport Union (Not Called)
Moved to Take No Action by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 24: Appropriation: Collective Bargaining Agreement/Our Island Home (Not Called)
Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 25: Appropriation: Collective Bargaining Agreement/Public Works (Not Called)
Moved to Take No Action by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 26: Appropriation: Collective Bargaining Agreement/Laborer’s Union (Not Called)
Moved to Take No Action by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 27: Appropriation: Collective Bargaining Agreement/Police (Not Called) Moved to
Take No Action by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 28: Appropriation: Collective Bargaining Agreement/Wannacomet Water (Not
Called) Moved to Take No Action by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 29: Community Preservation Committee: Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Transfers (Not
Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 30: Appropriation: FY 2015 Community Preservation Fund (Called) Adopted by
Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 31: Appropriation: Siasconset Fire Station (Not Called) Moved to Take No Action
by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 32: Sewer User Fee Schedule (Not Called) Not Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 33: Local Room Tax Dedication Request (Called) Adopted by Majority Voice Vote
Article 34: Egan Properties Acquisition (Called) Not Adopted by Handcount Vote: YES -
187; NO – 183 Motion failed because 2/3 (= 246.64 ) was not met for appropriation of
funds.
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Article 35: Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Flood Hazard Overlay District (Not Called)
Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 36: Zoning Map Change: LC to R5 Brant Point Area (Not Called) Adopted by
Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 37: Zoning Map Change: RC and LC to CN – Brant Point Area (Not Called) Adopted
with Technical Amendment by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 38: Zoning Map Change: RC and LC to CDT – Commercial, N. Water, S. Beach,
Sea and Washington Streets, Harbor View Way and Steamboat Wharf (Not Called)
Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 39: Zoning Map Change: LC and RC to R1 – Brant Point Area (Not Called)
Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 40: Zoning Map Change: RC to ROH – Fayette, Meader, Union and Washington
Streets (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 41: Zoning Map Change: R-1 to ROH – Coffin, Fayette, Francis, Meader, Union
and Washington Streets (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 42: Zoning Map Change: RC to CN – Milestone and Old South Roads (Not Called)
Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 43: Zoning Bylaw Change: R-10 to CN – Hooper Farm and Fairgrounds Road and
Sparks Avenue (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 44: Zoning Map Change: Town R-10 to CTEC (Not Called) Moved to Take No
Action by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 45: Zoning Map Change: RC-2 and R-20 to CN – Goldfinch Drive, Greglen Avenue,
Lovers Lane, Davkim Lane, Nancy Ann Lane, and Old South Road (Not Called) Adopted
by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 46: Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Old South Commercial Overlay District (Not
Called) Moved to Take No Action by Unanimous Voice Vote
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Article 47: Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Old South Commercial Overlay District (Called)
Voted To Take No Action by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 48: Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Cap on Retail Major Commercial Developments
(Called) Motion to Postpone Indefinitely was Not Adopted by Handcount Vote YES – 155;
NO – 214. Motion to Take No Action was Adopted by Majority Voice Vote
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Article 49: Zoning Map Change: RC-2 and R-20 to CTEC – Nancy Ann Lane, Greglen
Avenue, and Davkim Lane (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 50: Zoning Map Change: R-20 to R-10 – Greglen Avenue (Not Called) Adopted by
Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 51: Zoning Map Change: R-20 and RC-2 to R-5 – Old South Road (Not Called)
Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 52: Zoning Map Change: LUG-2 to R-40 – Vicinity of South Shore Road (Not
Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 53: Zoning Map Change: LUG-2 to LUG-1 – Vicinity of Miacomet and South Shore
Road (Not Called) Moved to Take No Action by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 54: Zoning Map and Town and Country Overlay District Changes: LUG-2, R-10
and CTEC to LUG-3 and Town to Country – Miacomet Green Belt (Not Called) Adopted
by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 55: Zoning Map Change: RC, ROH, R-1, R-10 and R-20 to R-40 – Town Overlay
District Open Spaces (Not Called) Adopted by Majority Voice Vote
Article 56: Zoning Map Change: VR to VN – 1 Polpis Road (Not Called) Adopted by
Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 57: Zoning Map Change: R-20 to LUG-1 and LUG-2 to LUG-3 Dukes Road,
Crooked, Hawthorne, and Burnt Swamp Lanes, and Millbrook Road (Not Called) Adopted
by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 58: Zoning Map Change: LUG-3 to SR-20 and/or LUG-1 – Sankaty Road (Not
Called) Moved to Take No Action by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 59: Zoning Map Change: SR-20 to LUG-3 – Baxter Road (Not Called) Moved to
Take No Action by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 60: Zoning Map Change: SR-20, R-20, LUG-1 and LUG-2 to LUG-3 – Country
Overlay District Open Space (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 61: Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Public Wellhead Recharge District (Not Called)
Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote)
Article 62: Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Parking, Driveways, Screening, Off-Street Loading
(Not Called) Adopted with Technical Amendment by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 63: Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Secondary Lots (Not Called) Adopted by
Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 64: Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Pre-existing nonconforming uses, structures,
and lots (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
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Article 65: Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Pre-existing nonconforming uses, structures, and
lots (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 66: Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Definitions/Apartment (Not Called) Adopted with
Technical Amendment by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 67: Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Use Chart (Not Called) Adopted with Technical
Amendment by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 68: Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Miscellaneous Technical Amendments(Called, Call
Withdrawn) Adopted with Technical Amendment by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 69: Bylaw Amendment: Board of Sewer Commissioners/Town Sewer District Map
Changes for Parcels Not Subject to Zoning Map Changes (Not Called) Adopted with
Technical Amendment by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 70: Bylaw Amendment: Board of Sewer Commissioners/Town Sewer (Not Called)
Adopted with Technical Amendment by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 71: Bylaw Amendment: Board of Sewer Commissioners/Town Sewer District Map
Changes – South Pasture Lane (Not Called) Not Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 72: Bylaw Amendment: Board of Sewer Commissioners/Town Sewer District Map
Changes – Tashama Lane (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 73: Bylaw Amendment: Board of Sewer Commissioners/Town Sewer District Map
Changes ( Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 74: Bylaw Amendment: Parking (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 75: Bylaw Amendment: Parking (Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 76: Bylaw Amendment: Removal of Animal Litter (Not Called) Adopted by
Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 77: Request for Town Meeting Warrant Articles to be Presented in “Common
Conversational English” (Called) Not Adopted by Majority Voice Vote
Article 78: Bicycle Path Advisory Committee (Not Called) Not Adopted by Unanimous
Voice Vote
Article 79: Nantucket Affordable Housing Trust Fund (Called) Adopted by Majority
Voice Vote
Article 80: Charter Amendment: Town Manager (Called) Not Adopted by Majority Voice
Vote
Article 81: Charter Amendment: Board of Selectmen (Called, Call Withdrawn) Not
Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
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Article 82: Home Rule Petition: Airport Fuel Revolving Fund (Not Called) Adopted by
Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 83: Home Rule Petition: Nantucket Mosquito Control Project (Not Called)
Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 84: Home Rule Petition: Community Preservation Committee (Not Called)
Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 85: Home Rule Petition: Conveyance of Property by the County/Smooth
Hummocks – Moorlands Management District (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice
Vote
Article 86: Home Rule Petition: Conveyance of Miscellaneous Land to the Nantucket
Islands Land Bank (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 87: Home Rule Petition: Amendment to the Historic District Commission Special
Act (Called) Adopted by Handcount Vote: YES – 147; NO - 94
Article 88: Home Rule Petition: Amendment of Historic District Commission (Called)
Not Adopted by Majority Voice Vote
Article 89: Home Rule Petition: Amendment of Historic District Commission Act (Called,
Call Withdrawn) Not Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 90: Home Rule Petition: Relative to Retirement Benefits for Nantucket Town and
County Employees (Called) Adopted as Amended by Spery by Handcount Vote: YES –
139; NO - 85
Article 91: Home Rule Petition: Funeral Directors, Embalmers, Funeral Homes, and
Crematories (Called) Adopted by Majority Voice Vote
Article 92: Home Rule Petition: Conveyance of Land from County to Town (Called, Call
Withdrawn) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 93: Real Estate Conveyance: Portions of Baxter Road (Not Called) Moved to
Take No Action by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 94: Real Estate Acquisition: Unnamed Way off Baxter Road (Not Called) Moved to
Take No Action by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 95: Real Estate Disposition: Unnamed Way Off Baxter Road (Not Called) Moved to
Take No Action by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 96: Real Estate Acquisition: “Paper” Streets in Brant Point, Cisco, Cliff, Dionis,
Madaket, Quidnet, Surfside, Tom Nevers and Town Areas and Owner Unknown parcel in
Surfside (Called) Adopted With Technical Amendment by Unanimous Voice Vote
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Article 97: Real Estate Disposition: “Paper” Streets in Brant Point, Cisco, Cliff, Dionis,
Madaket, Squam, Surfside, Tom Nevers and Town Areas (Called) Adopted with Technical
Amendment by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 98: Real Estate Acquisition: “Paper” Proprietors Roads in Cisco, Dionis, Eel Point,
Madaket, Pocomo and Warren’s Landing/Madaket Areas (Not Called) Adopted with
Technical Amendment by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 99: Real Estate Disposition: “Paper” Proprietors Roads in Cisco, Dionis, Eel
Point, Madaket, Pocomo and Warren’s Landing/Madaket Areas (Not Called) Adopted with
Technical Amendment by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 100: Public Ways: Coffin, Fayette, Meader and Francis Streets (Not Called)
Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 101: Real Estate Disposition: Ticcoma Way (Called) Adopted as Amended by
Bennett-Witte by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 102: Real Estate Conveyance: Miscellaneous Town Land to the Nantucket Islands
Land Bank (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 103: Appropriation: Acquisition of Land in Madaket (Called) Moved to Take No
Action by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 104: Real Estate Acquisition: Lot 24, Okorwaw Avenue (Not Called) Adopted by
Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 105: Real Estate Conveyance: 142 Surfside Road (Not Called) Adopted by
Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 106: Appropriation: Stabilization Fund (Not Called) Adopted with Technical
Amendment by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 107: Appropriation: Free Cash (Not Called) Moved to Take No Action by
Unanimous Voice Vote
At 4:07 PM, Moderator Alger recognized Rick Atherton, Chair of the Board of Selectmen,
who moved to dissolve the 2014 Annual Town Meeting. The motion was seconded, and
adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote. Jeanne Miller, Laura MacClusky, and Victoria Goss
won the Glamorous Door Prizes.