FY2020 Annual Town Meeting Warrant followed by Article 6 Detail
Town of Tolland
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTSHampden: SS.
To the Constable of the Town of Tolland in the County of Hampden,
GREETING:
IN THE NAME OF The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Tolland, who are qualified to vote in town affairs to meet in the PUBLIC SAFETY COMPLEX, 206 West Granville Road, Tolland, on the 13th Day of May, 2019 at 7:00PM, for the following purposes:
Article l To see if the Town will vote to accept the reports of the Town Officers.
Article 2 To see if the Town will vote to hear the report of the Southwick-Tolland-Granville
Regional School.
Article 3 To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $513,733.00 for the Southwick-Tolland-Granville Regional School District assessment for Fiscal Year 2020 commencing July 1, 2019 and ending on June 30, 2020, or take any other action thereon.
Requested by the Southwick-Tolland-Granville Regional School District
Article 4 To see if the Town of Tolland will vote not to disapprove certain additional debt authorized by the Southwick-Tolland-Granville Regional School Committee under a vote dated April 2, 2019, which reads as follows:
“Voted: approve the authorization to incur debt by the issuance and sale of bonds or notes up to the amount of $596,000 for the purchase of all items specified in the STGRSD FY2020 Capital Improvement Plan, as follows:
School Transportation Vehicles | $170,000.00 |
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Technology | $35,000.00 |
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Building Improvements | $110,000.00 |
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Powder Mill School Playground and Site Improvements | $228,500.00 |
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Grounds Equipment | $30,000.00 |
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Grounds Improvements | $22,500.00 |
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Requested by the Southwick-Tolland-Granville Regional School District
Article 5 To see if the town will vote, pursuant to Chapter 41, section 108 of the General Laws, to fix
the compensation of the Building Inspector at $1,545.00.
Board of Selectmen: Recommends
Finance Committee: Recommends
Article 6 To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be needed to defray the expense of the Town for the 2020 Fiscal Year as set forth in the following line items:
Board of Selectmen: Recommends
Finance Committee: Recommends
Article 7 To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $82,000.00 for the purpose of
Paving the Public Safety Complex parking lot, or any other action relative thereto
Board of Selectmen: Recommends
Finance Committee: Recommends
Article 8 To see if the town will appropriate from Free Cash the sum of $14,154.73 to be used for the Fiscal 2019 Winter Roads deficit, or take any other action relative thereto
Board of Selectmen: Recommends
Finance Committee: Recommends
Article 9 To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to operate the trash
enterprise fund or take any other action thereon:
Voted: That the following sums be appropriated for the trash enterprise.
Salaries $ 7,388.07
Expenses $23,000.00
Total $30,388.07
And that $30,388.07 be raised as follows:
Department receipts $24,000.00
Retained earnings $ 6,388.07
Board of Selectmen: Recommends
Finance Committee: Recommends
Article 10 To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $106,667.39 to fund the
bond payments due in fiscal year 2020 for the following previously approved debt items:
Public Safety Complex and DPW $106,667.39
Anticipation of bond payments $ 15,000.00
Board of Selectmen: Recommends
Finance Committee: Recommends
Article 11 To see if the Town will vote to appropriate $110,000.00 for the purchase of a new
excavator, and to authorize the Treasurer, pursuant to Chapter 44, Section (9), of the
General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as any other enabling
authority, to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor, provided that no sums shall be
borrowed or expended for this purpose unless the Town shall be voted to exclude the
amounts necessary to repay any borrowing hereby from the limitations of Section 21C of the
General Laws of Massachusetts (also known as Proposition 2 ½). Or take any other action
in relation thereto
Board of Selectmen: Recommends
Finance Committee: Recommends
Article 12 To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $36,650.00 to fund the
bond payments due in fiscal year 2020 for the new excavator contingent upon the approval of Article 11
Board of Selectmen: Recommends
Finance Committee: Recommends
Article 13 To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and transfer from Free Cash the sum of
$100,000.00 to fund the Capital Equipment Stabilization Fund for Fiscal Year 2020.
Board of Selectmen: Recommends
Finance Committee: Recommends
Article 14 To see if the Town will vote to appropriate $554,894.00 for the purchase of a new
Fire Truck, and to meet this appropriation, transfer from Capital Stabilization the sum of
$300,000.00, or any other amount and to borrow the sum of $354,894.00 or any other
amount, and further, to authorize the Treasurer, pursuant to Chapter 44, Section (9), of the
General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as any other enabling
authority, to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor, provided that no sums shall be
borrowed or expended for this purpose unless the Town shall be voted to exclude the
amounts necessary to repay any borrowing hereby from the limitations of Section 21C of
the General Laws of Massachusetts (also know as Proposition 2 ½). Or take any other
action in relation thereto
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Board of Selectmen: Recommends
Finance Committee: Recommends
Article 15 To see if the town will vote to accept any monies appropriated by the Massachusetts
Department of Transportation for Chapter 90 use. These funds to be used for
maintenance and reconstruction of town roads and to fund the appropriation by
transferring said amounts from available funds with any unspent funds to carry over from
year to year until spent by the town. These sums will be reimbursed to the town by the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts in accordance with Chapter 90 of the Massachusetts
General Laws.
Board of Selectmen: Recommends
Finance Committee: Recommends
Article 16 To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to apply for and accept
any and all grants including grants from the Federal Government or the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for which said grants are authorized or take any other action relative thereon.
Board of Selectmen: Recommends
Finance Committee: Recommends
Article 17 To see if the Town will vote to hear the report of the Broadband Committee.
Article 18 To transact any other business that may legally come before said meeting.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant, by posting up attested copies thereon at FOUR PUBLIC PLACES in said Town SEVEN (7) DAYS at least before the time of holding said meeting.
HEREOF FAIL NOT, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of meeting, as aforesaid.
Given under our hands this sixth (6) day of May in the year of our Lord two thousand nineteen.
FY2019 | FY2020 | ||||||
| GENERAL GOVERNMENT |
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1 | Legal Counsel | $ 6,500.00 | $ 6,500.00 | ||||
2 | Reserve Fund | $ 6,000.00 | $ 6,000.00 | ||||
3 | Moderator | $ 62.48 | $ 64.36 | ||||
4 | Selectmen's Salaries | ||||||
Chairman | $ 3,000.00 | $ 3,090.00 | |||||
Member | $ 3,000.00 | $ 3,090.00 | |||||
Member | $ 3,000.00 | $ 3,090.00 | |||||
5 | Selectmen's Expense | $ 2,500.00 | $ 2,500.00 | ||||
6 | Adminstrative Assistant | $ 22.14 | $ 36,840.96 | $ 22.80 | $ 38,085.12 | ||
7 | Grant Writing | $ 4,000.00 | |||||
8 | Town Clerk Salary | $ 12,919.40 | $ 13,306.98 | ||||
9 | Town Clerk Assistant | $ 12.50 | $ 2,600.00 | $ 2,600.00 | |||
10 | Town Clerk Expense | $ 2,400.00 | $ 2,550.00 | ||||
11 | Assessor's Salaries | ||||||
Chairman | $ 1,945.30 | $ 2,003.66 | |||||
Member | $ 1,721.26 | $ 2,003.66 | |||||
Member | $ 1,721.26 | $ 2,003.66 | |||||
12 | Assessor's Clerk | $ 22.14 | $ 27,630.72 | $ 22.80 | $ 28,819.20 | ||
13 | Assistant Assessor's Clerk | $ 1,000.00 | $ 1,000.00 | ||||
14 | Assessor's Expense | $ 7,360.00 | $ 9,295.00 | ||||
Revaluation | $ 500.00 | $ 1,000.00 | |||||
15 | Conservation Commission Expense | $ 500.00 | $ 500.00 | ||||
16 | Conservation Commission Salary | ||||||
Member | $ 520.20 | $ 530.60 | |||||
Member | $ 520.20 | $ 530.60 | |||||
Member | $ 520.20 | $ 530.60 | |||||
17 | Finance Committee Salaries | ||||||
Chairman | $ 185.28 | $ 190.84 | |||||
Secretary | $ 154.04 | $ 158.68 | |||||
Member | $ 122.80 | $ 126.50 | |||||
Member | $ 122.80 | $ 126.50 | |||||
Member | $ 122.80 | $ 126.50 | |||||
18 | Finance Committee Expense | $ 300.00 | $ 300.00 | ||||
19 | Office Supplies | $ 3,500.00 | $ 3,500.00 | ||||
20 | Tax Collector Salary | $ 9,394.32 | $ 9,676.16 | ||||
21 | Tax Collector Expense | $ 5,586.10 | $ 5,868.00 | ||||
22 | Tax Title (Collector) | $ 1,000.00 | $ 1,000.00 | ||||
23 | Treasurer Salary | $ 9,394.32 | $ 9,676.16 | ||||
24 | Treasurer Expense | $ 13,537.60 | $ 13,959.00 | ||||
25 | Tax Title (Treasurer) | $ 5,000.00 | $ 5,000.00 | ||||
26 | Accounting Officer | $ 9,394.32 | $ 9,676.15 | ||||
27 | Audit | $ 14,000.00 | |||||
28 | Board of Appeals Expense | $ 100.00 | $ 100.00 | ||||
29 | Meetings & Election Expense | $ 8,150.00 | $ 5,450.00 | ||||
30 | Registrar of Voter Salary | $ 62.48 | $ 64.36 | ||||
31 | Planning Board Salaries | ||||||
Chairman | $ 897.26 | $ 924.18 | |||||
Secretary | $ 539.66 | $ 555.86 | |||||
Member | $ 308.06 | $ 317.30 | |||||
Member | $ 308.06 | $ 317.30 | |||||
Member | $ 308.06 | $ 317.30 | |||||
32 | Planning Board Expense | $ 250.00 | $ 250.00 | ||||
TOTAL | $ 191,499.94 | $ 214,774.23 | |||||
| DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS |
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33 | Superintendent | $ 58,032.00 | $ 59,772.96 | ||||
34 | Working Foreman | $ 23.70 | $ 49,296.00 | $ 24.41 | $ 51,165.46 | ||
35 | Equip Operator/Mechanic | $ 22.64 | $ 47,091.20 | $ 21.12 | $ 44,267.52 | ||
36 | Overtime | $ 3,000.00 | $ 3,000.00 | ||||
37 | Part Time Staff | $ 15.00 | $ 3,495.00 | $ 3,495.00 | |||
38 | Constructions/Maintenance | $ 136,800.00 | $ 111,800.00 | ||||
39 | Road Repair | $ 100,000.00 | $ 100,000.00 | ||||
40 | Snow & Ice Control | $ 70,000.00 | $ 70,000.00 | ||||
41 | Winter Overtime Salary | $ 8,700.00 | $ 8,700.00 | ||||
42 | Custodian | $ 16.48 | $ 6,855.91 | $ 16.97 | $ 7,061.35 | ||
43 | Fuel (gasoline & Diesel) | $ 30,000.00 | $ 30,000.00 | ||||
44 | Utilities | $ 50,000.00 | $ 50,000.00 | ||||
45 | Buildings and Grounds | $ 21,508.27 | $ 34,615.00 | ||||
TOTAL | $ 584,778.38 | $ 573,877.29 | |||||
| PUBLIC SAFETY |
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46 | Emergency Management Expense | $ 2,000.00 | $ 1,000.00 | ||||
47 | Fire Chief Salary | $ 11,842.24 | $ 12,197.52 | ||||
48 | Fire Department Expense | $ 32,475.00 | $ 38,023.00 | ||||
49 | Police Department Salaries | ||||||
Chief | $ 11,842.24 | $ 12,197.52 | |||||
$ 22,237.47 | $ 22,904.60 | ||||||
Sargent | $ 18.46 | $ 19.01 | |||||
Officer's | $ 17.50 | $ 18.03 | |||||
Resource Officer | $ 19.01 | $ 4,106.16 | |||||
50 | Police Department Training | $ 5,162.16 | $ 2,202.80 | ||||
51 | Police Department Expense | $ 16,130.16 | $ 12,017.82 | ||||
52 | Animal Control Salary | $ 1,500.00 | $ 1,545.00 | ||||
53 | Animal Control Expense | $ 500.00 | $ 800.00 | ||||
TOTAL | $ 103,689.27 | $ 106,994.42 | |||||
| HEALTH AND SANITATION |
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54 | Porchlight Visting Nurse Assoc. | $ 1,135.58 | $ 1,135.58 | ||||
55 | Animal Inspector Salary | $ 269.28 | $ 277.36 | ||||
56 | Animal Inspector Expense | $ 50.00 | $ 50.00 | ||||
57 | E911 Communications | $ 8,297.85 | $ 8,546.78 | ||||
58 | Veterans Service Admin | $ 8,206.99 | $ 8,423.47 | ||||
59 | Veterans Benefits | $ 1.00 | $ 1.00 | ||||
60 | Health Agent Salary | $ 16.16 | $ 1,616.22 | $ 16.64 | $ 1,664.48 | ||
61 | Board of Health Expense | $ 50.00 | $ 50.00 | ||||
TOTAL | $ 19,626.92 | $ 20,148.67 | |||||
| UNCLASSIFIED EXPENSES |
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62 | Cemeteries | $ 17,545.00 | $ 15,110.00 | ||||
63 | Hampden County Retirement | $ 80,192.00 | $ 83,218.00 | ||||
64 | Unemployment Compensation | $ 3,500.00 | $ 3,500.00 | ||||
65 | Town Insurance and Bonds | $ 40,000.00 | $ 40,000.00 | ||||
66 | Workers Compensation Insurance | $ 8,450.35 | $ 8,500.00 | ||||
67 | Health Insurance | $ 53,400.90 | $ 40,308.41 | ||||
68 | Medicare Insurance | $ 6,500.00 | $ 6,500.00 | ||||
69 | Library Salaries | ||||||
70 | Librarian | $ 22.14 | $ 12,619.80 | $ 22.80 | $ 12,996.00 | ||
71 | Library Staff | $ 14.28 | $ 2,998.80 | $ 14.71 | $ 3,089.10 | ||
72 | Library Expense | $ 5,014.00 | $ 5,546.00 | ||||
73 | Interest on Short Term Debt | $ 4,500.00 | $ 4,500.00 | ||||
74 | Recreation | $ 2,500.00 | $ 2,500.00 | ||||
75 | Furniture and Equipment | $ 2,500.00 | $ 2,500.00 | ||||
76 | Historical Commission Expense | $ 200.00 | $ 100.00 | ||||
77 | Council on Aging | $ 3,000.00 | $ 3,000.00 | ||||
78 | Technical Support & Computer Expense | $ 21,081.03 | $ 21,068.08 | ||||
79 | Town Common | $ 1.00 | $ 1.00 | ||||
80 | Flowers and Gifts | $ 150.00 | $ 150.00 | ||||
81 | Town Record Restoration | $ 1.00 | $ 1.00 | ||||
82 | Pioneer Valley Planning Commission | $ 78.27 | $ 80.22 | ||||
83 | Broadband Expenses | $ 2,500.00 | $ 2,500.00 | ||||
TOTAL | $ 266,732.15 | $ 255,167.81 | |||||
TOTAL OF ARTICLE 6 | $1,166,326.66 | $ 1,170,962.42 | |||||
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$ 450,552.00 | |||||||
$ 168,489.39 | |||||||
$ 1,872,003.81 | |||||||