TOWN OF TEMPLETON

WARRANT FOR SPECIAL TOWN ELECTION

NOVEMBER 17, 2003

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

WORCESTER, ss.

To either of the Constables of the Town of Templeton, in said County.

GREETINGS:

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the Inhabitants of the several precincts of the Town of Templeton, County of Worcester, qualified to vote in Town Elections to meet in their respective precincts at the places designated and appointed by the Selectmen, to wit:

Narragansett Regional Middle School

Back Entrance to Art Room

460 Baldwinville Road

Baldwinville, MA

On Monday, the 17th of November next, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. to bring in their votes to the Election Officers on one ballot as follows:

One Member Board of Selectmen……………..unexpired term until May 2005

ONE BALLOT QUESTION AS FOLLOWS:

1.  Debt Exclusion for Sewer Department

Shall the Town of Templeton be allowed to exempt from the provisions of Proposition 2-1/2, so-called, the amounts required to borrow to upgrade the town’s publicly owned Wastewater Treatment Facility as required by the Department of Environmental Protection Administrative Consent Order. The cost of the debt exclusion for this project would be six million dollars ($6,000,000), with 25% of the project costs paid through sewer betterments and 75% paid through tax levy.

The Polls will open at 11:00 a.m. and be closed at 7:00p.m.

And you are hereby direct to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof in each Precinct; namely, at the Post Office in Templeton, the Post Office in East Templeton, the Post Office in Baldwinville, and at Cote’s Market in Otter River, and the Town Office Building at 4 Elm Street, Baldwinville, MA and by delivering a copy to each of the Precinct Clerks seven (7) days at least before the time of holding said meeting and by causing notice of the same to be published once in the Gardner News, a newspaper published in said County in the City of Gardner.

Hereof, fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to each Precinct Clerk seven (7) days at least before the time of holding said meeting.

Given under our hands this 14th day of October 2003

BOARD OF SELECTMEN

Thomas Martin, Chairman

Randy L. Brown, Vice Chairman

Patrick E. Dunlavey, Clerk

Neil A. Cullen, Member

A True Copy, ATTEST:

James D. Alie

Constable of Templeton

OFFICER’S RETURN

WORCESTER, ss. October 31, 2003

This is to certify that I have served the within warrant by posting attested copies thereof in each Precinct, namely, at the Post Office in Templeton, the Post Office in East Templeton, the Post Office in Baldwinville, Town Office Building at 4 Elm Street, Baldwinville, and at Cote’s Market in Otter River, seven (7) days at least before the time of holding said meeting and by causing notice of the same to be published once in the Gardner News, a newspaper published in said County in the City of Gardner, and by delivering a copy to each of the Precinct Clerks seven (7) days at least before the time of holding said meeting.

James D. Alie

Constable of Templeton

A True Copy, ATTEST:

Carol A. Harris

Town Clerk of Templeton

TOWN OF TEMPLETON

SPECIAL TOWN ELECTION

AGGREGATE RETURNS

NOVEMBER 17, 2003

PRECINCT A B TOTAL

BOARD OF SELECTMEN

unexpired until May 20053 Yrs.

Edward F. Hearns 86 57 143

William Launier 32 47 79

Bernard Mancini 33 39 72

Paul Quattrociocchi, Jr. 224 180 404

Write-Ins 0 0 0

Blanks 10 11 21

TOTAL 385 334 719

Question 1 Shall the Town of Templeton be allowed to exempt from the provisions of Proposition 2 ½, so-called, the amounts required to borrow to upgrade the Town’s publicly owned Wastewater Treatment Facility as required by the Department of Environmental Protection Administrative Consent Order. The cost of the debt exclusion for this project would be Six Million Dollars ($6,000,000), with 25% of the project costs paid through sewer betterments and 75% paid through tax levy.

Precinct A B Total

YES 180 202 382

NO 202 126 328

BLANKS 3 6 9

TOTALS 385 334 719