North Reading Town Meeting Recap: What Passed, What Didn't

A handful of North Reading voters headed to North Reading High School Monday, June 1 for the town’s 2015 Annual Town Meeting.

Of North Reading’s 10,618 registered voters, just 167 were in attendance for the meeting; that’s just 1.5 percent of the voting population.

Below is a recap of the action taken during that meeting. Here’s the 2015 Annual Town Meeting Warrant.

For more details about dollar figures and specifics of the items passed in a single motion, see the recap on the Town of North Reading website.

Article 1: FY 2015 Budget Amendment -- Passed over

Article 2: Fund FY 2015 Snow and Ice Deficit -- Passed unanimously

Article 3: FY 2015 Appropriate Funds to Capital Improvement Stabilization Fund -- Passed unanimously

Article 4: FY 2015 Transfer Funds to Water Stabilization Fund -- Passed unanimously

Article 5: FY 2015 Appropriate Money to Stabilization Fund -- Passed over

Article 6: FY 2015 Appropriate Funds for Overlay Deficit -- Passed over

Article 7: Select Town Officers -- Passed unanimously

Article 8: Hear and Act on Reports of Town Officers and Comitteess -- Passed unanimously

Article 9: Authorize Director of Public Works to Accept Easements -- Passed unanimously

Article 10: Authroize Treasurer to Enter into Compensating Balance Agreements -- Passed unanimously

Article 11: Authorize Chapter 90 Highway Construction Funds -- Passed unanimously

Article 12: Prior Year Bills -- Passed unanimously

Article 13: FY 2016 Operation Budget

• First Motion: Excluding Debt Service and Solid Waste -- Passed unanimously
• Second Motion: Debt Service and Solid Waste -- Passed unanimously

Article 14: Re-appropriate Borrowing Proceeds (DPW Truck) -- Passed unanimously

Article 15: Re-appropriate Martin’s Pond Flood Mitigation Bond Proceeds -- Passed unanimously

Article 16: Capital Expenditures (Voted under one motion) -- Passed unanimously

Article 17: Fund Martin’s Pond Milfiol Treatment -- Passed unanimously

Article 18: Fund Retirement Obligations -- Passed unanimously

Article 19: Transfer Funds to Solid Waste Stabilization Fund -- Passed unanimously

Article 20: Transfer Funds to Other Post Employment Benefits Liability Trust Fund -- Passed unanimously

Article 21: Fund Route 28 Corridor Study -- Pass over

Article 22: Amend Code - GBL - Chapter 152 (Junk Vehicles and Other Waste Materials) -- Pass by voice vote

Article 23: Amend Code - GBL - Chapter 158-9 (Snow Removal on Streets and Sidewalks) -- Passed unanimously

Article 24: Amend Code - GBL - Chapter 198 (Youth Services Committee) -- Passed unanimously

Article 25: Amend Code -GBL - Chapter 104, Article 2 (Fingerprinting of Applicants) -- Passed unanimously

Articles 26-34: Revolving Fund re-authorization voted under one motion -- Passed unanimously

Article 35: Street Acceptance - Middle/High School Driveway -- Passed unanimously

Article 36: Citizens’ Petition (Seth Pasakarnis and others) - Rezone Parcels on Pluff Avenue and Fairway Road (Amended) -- Carried by 2/3 counted vote