SECRET BALLOT ELECTION AND
TOWN MEETING WARRANT
Monday, March 5, 2018
And
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
To Laura Lowell, a resident in the Town of Newry, County of Oxford, State of Maine.
GREETINGS:
In the name of the State of Maine, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Newry in said County and State, qualified by law to vote in Town affairs, to meet at the Newry Town Office on Monday March 5, 2018 A.D.at eight o “clock in the morning to act upon Article 1 and by secret ballot on Article 2 as set out below, the polling hours therefore to be from eight o’clock in the morning until eight o’clock in the evening:
And, to notify and warn said inhabitants to meet at the Bear River Grange Hall in said Town of Newry, on Tuesday the sixth day of March, 2018 A.D. at six thirty o’clock in the evening to act on the following Articles 3through 41as set out below, to wit:
March 5, 2018
Article 1. To choose a Moderator by secret ballot to preside at said meeting.
Article 2. To choose a Selectman, Assessor and Overseer of the Poor by secret ballot
for a three year term.
March 6, 2018
Article 3. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for Administration and Salaries. Rec. $290,476
Article 4. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for Ambulance Service. Rec. $8,950
Article5. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for Assessors Expense. Rec.$9,000
Article6. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for Cemetery Maintenance. Rec. $21,000
Article7. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for Committees and Boards. Rec. $18,900
Article 8. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for Community Assistance. Rec. $40,239
2018 / 2019HEART & SOUL OF THE MAHOOSUCS / 5,000.00 / 5,000.00
AGE FRIENDLY COMMUNITIES / 500.00 / 500.00
THE EDDY SCHOOL / 1,000.00 / 1,000.00
AREA YOUTH FOOTBALL / 500.00 / 500.00
SAFE VOICES / 150.00 / 150.00
AMERICAN RED CROSS / 875.00 / 875.00
ANDROSCOGGIN HOME HEALTH / 700.00 / 310.00
BETHEL LIBRARY / 6,000.00 / 6,000.00
BETHEL CHAMBER / 500.00 / 500.00
COMMUNITY CONCEPTS / 700.00 / 700.00
FLAGS FOR SOLDIER'S GRAVES / 200.00 / 200.00
MAHOOSUC KIDS / 2,000.00 / 2,000.00
MAINE ADAPTIVE SPORTS & RECREATION / 1,000.00 / 1,000.00
MOUNTAIN EXPLORER / 10,000.00 / 10,000.00
BRYANT POND 4-H CAMP / 600.00 / 600.00
PROJECT GRADUATION / 500.00 / 500.00
REACH / 500.00 / 500.00
SENIOR PLUS / 250.00 / 500.00
TOWN GRADUATES / 500.00 / 500.00
TRI COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH / 500.00 / 500.00
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY / 1,000.00 / 1,000.00
WCBB-MPBN / 300.00 / 300.00
WESTERN MAINE TRANSPORTATION / 200.00 / 200.00
WINDY VALLEY SNOWMOBILE CLUB / 5,000.00 / 5,000.00
WESTERN MAINE VETERANS ADVISORY COMMITTEE / 175.00 / 175.00
HARVEST HILLS ANIMAL SHELTER / 329.00 / 329.00
LIFE FLIGHT / 1,000.00 / 1,000.00
PINE TREE 4-H / 100.00 / 100.00
CAMP SCHOLARSHIP NEWRY / 600.00 / 600.00
THIRD PARTY TOTALS / 40,079.00 / 40,239.00
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money received from the Cable Franchise Agreement to Western Maine Access Television Channel 11.
Rec. Pass
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to borrow or appropriate from unappropriated surplus the sum of not more than $2,000 to be used as they deem advisable to meet unanticipated expenses and emergencies that occur during calendar year 2018-19. Rec. Pass
Article 11. To seeif the Town will vote to use the overlay abatements on taxes. Rec. Pass
Article 12. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for Grange Hall Maintenance. Rec. $8,800
Article 13. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for Highwaysand Bridges. Rec. $188,500
Article 14. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for Capital Improvement (i.e. Road Paving & Veteran’s Monument). Rec $264,000
Article 15. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for the purpose of paying fees or charges required for membership in the Maine Municipal Association Property and Casualty Risk Pool and other Town insurance costs.
Rec. $71,833
Article 16. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for Debt Service. Rec. $180,013
Article 17. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate $500to pay fees for Newry kids participating in Recreation. . Rec. $500
Article 18. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for Operation and Maintenance of the MunicipalBuilding. Rec. $11,700
Article 19. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for Operation and Maintenance of the Fire Department. Rec. $69,900
Article 20. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for Sanitation to pay all fees and membership charges for Tri-Town Solid Waste. Rec. $148,200
Article 21. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for Street Lights. Rec. $1500
Article 22. Shall the Town authorize the Selectmen to carry forward unexpended balances as they deem necessary, all other unexpended balances to lapse to the fund balance. Rec. Pass
Article 23. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for Digitizing Town of Newry Tax Maps and Revising the Paper Maps. Rec. $2,105
Article 24. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for the Sunday River School House Account. Rec. $500
Article 25. To see what action the Town wishes to take regarding allowing the Selectmen to spend up to 10% of the Capital Improvement Account without seeking prior town approval. Rec. Pass
Article 26. To see if the Town will allow the Selectmen to sell or dispose of any Town property with a value of not more than $2,000,under such terms and conditions that they deem advisable. Rec. Pass
Article 27. To see if the Town will voteto establish the following Capital Reserve Accounts and fund them with undesignated reserve funds:
Town Buildings Reserve Fund: $50,000
Revaluation Reserve Fund: $50,000
Fire Department Equipment Fund: $100,000
Rec. Pass
Article 28. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for the Forest Fire Reserve Account. Rec. $5000
Article 29. Shall an ordinance entitled, “Town of Newry Moratorium Ordinance Regarding Retail Recreational Marijuana” be enacted? (A copy is available at the Town Office and Town Website.)
Rec. Pass
Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to enter into a third ten year Extension and Amendment (Third Renewal Term) to the AGREEMENTFOR A JOINT AMBULANCE SERVICE as previously amended.
(A copy of the original agreement with the first, second, and third extensions and amendments are available at the Town Office.) ` Rec Pass
Article 31. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money received from the registrations and fines of dogs to enforce the Animal Control Laws.
Rec. Pass
Article 32. To see if the Town will vote to charge interest on taxes not paid before a certain date and establish the date and rate of interest.Rec. Annual rate of 7.00% on taxes not paid before September 30th and March 31st (2 installment payments) Rec. Pass
Article 33. To see if the Town will vote to set the interest rate to be paid by the Town on abated taxes at 3% for the calendar year. Rec. Pass
Article 34. To see if the Town will vote to accept the North Newry Community Church and all assets as a gift from the Newry Community Church Board of Directors.
Rec. Pass
Article 35. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for the North Newry Community Church Operations.
Rec. $1000
Article 36. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to accept donations not to exceed $5000 on behalf of the Town.
Rec. Pass
Article 37. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Tax Collector or Treasurer to accept prepayments of taxes not yet committed pursuant to 36 MRSA 506.
Rec. Pass
Article 38. To see if the Town will vote to allow the Selectmen, on behalf of the Town, to sell and dispose of any real estate acquired by the Town for non-payment of taxes, for not less than the tax, costs and interest on the same and to execute and deliver Quit Claim Deeds for such property. Rec. Pass
Article 39. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen, on behalf of the Town to waive the foreclosure process for delinquent taxes of all quarter share properties in Newry.
Rec. Pass
Article40. To see if the Town will vote by written ballot to permanently increase the Property Tax Levy Limit of $1,265,858established for the Town of Newry by State Law in the event that the municipal budget approved under the preceding articles will result in a tax commitment that is greater than the Property Tax Levy Limit.
Rec. Pass
Article 41. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money received from the registrations of snowmobiles and Municipal Snowmobile Grants to the Windy Valleys Snowmobile Club for the purpose of maintaining the snowmobile trails.
Rec. Pass
Hereof, fail not, and have you then and there this warrant with your doings thereon.
The Registrar of Voters will be in session at the time and place of said meeting for the purpose of correcting the voting list.
Given under our hand at Newry, Maine this twenty-second day of February 2018 A.D.
Respectfully submitted,
Gary Wight
James Largess
Virgil Conkright
Selectmen of Newry