Fourth Night of Town Meeting Tonight

Belmont's annual Town Meeting will resume for its fourth, and likely "final" night at 7 p.m. in Belmont High School's auditorium.

The final night, that is, of Session A, which includes all non-budgetary articles presented to the 2013 Town Meeting.

The approximately 300 Town Meeting members will hear and hopefully vote on two major articles; a storm water management by-law and a senior tax abatement.

The order of Wednesday's meeting will be:

• Article 24: A new enterprise fund for a new storm water management system is expected to be dismissed.

• Article 23: The creation of a by-law that will create a storm water management plan. This is essentially a federal government dictate that towns establish and pay for updated water standards and pollution controls. There is an amendment from Robert McGaw that will exempt gardening from the plan. 

• Article 25: Raise the Senior Tax Abatement from $750 to $1,000 for residents greater than 60 years old who volunteer their services to the town. 

After tonight, the Town Meeting will next meet for a Special Town Meeting on May 29 where the members will discuss and vote on non-budgetary articles including a residential snow removal by-law and a resident's amendment that would place a moratorium on building two or more unit residences on the site of single-family homes.

The town's budgets as well as the Demolition Delay by-law proposal will be taken up on June 3 and 5.