Special Town Meeting Fall 2007 Warrant Articles

When your sinuses are too messed up to breathe, post reference material instead of original thought...

Here's the draft list of warrant articles for Special Town Meeting Fall 2007. The deadlines for both citizen and committee and department articles passed Friday September 14 at noon, so nothing new should show up at Special Town Meeting Fall 2007 that isn't on this list. Obviously this list is still very much a draft in terms of descriptions, so don't bang anyone on the head with it!

November 5, 2007 Annual Town Meeting
List of Articles

FY 08 Budget Amendments
a. Health Insurance
b. Regional Lockup Assessment

Accept MGL Ch.59, Cl.5 Section 5B Property Tax Exemptions for Veterans Orgs

Capital – Marks Meadow Portable Classrooms – JCPC

Petition – Resolution - Fair Trade (Yuri Friman)

Transfer funds from Senior Trust to Friends of Senior Center 501c3

Spring Street Rezoning – Official Zoning Map & Zoning Bylaw [Planning Board Hearing opened September 5, continued to October 3]

College/South East Street Rezoning – Official Zoning Map [Planning Board Hearing Wednesday September 19]

Technical/Professional Offices – Zoning Bylaw [Planning Board Hearing Wednesday October 17]

Research & Industrial Uses – Zoning Bylaw [Planning Board Hearing Wednesday October 3]

R&D Overlay District – Zoning Bylaw & Official Zoning Map [Planning Board Hearing Wednesday October 3]

Accessory Light Manufacturing – Zoning Bylaw [Planning Board Hearing Wednesday October 3]

500-502 Sunderland Road – Official Zoning Map (Bergstrom) [Planning Board Hearing Wednesday October 17]

CPAC – Open Space Tietjen APR

CPAC – Open Space Cushman Brook Corridor Project (Self help Grant)

The TMCC sent the date for the warrant review meeting today: Thursday, October 25th at 7:00 p.m. at the Middle School auditorium.

Check out the Town website for updated information on Special Town Meeting Fall 2007.

Leverett House for Sale

One of my husband's UMass colleagues asked us to pass this along:
"I am selling my house in Leverett if you know of anyone looking to buy. It is a 3 bedroom/2 bath contemporary/huge beamed knotty pine ceilings/open floor plan - on a beautiful wooded lot with many perennial gardens and very peaceful. It is on Rte. 63 just 10 minutes to UMass and also on the bus line. Price: $349,900. This was my dream home and I will be sorry to give it up."

Listed with Jacqueline Zuzgo of The Jones Group

People do this every day?

Wow, now that the Amherst Bulletin says I have a blog, I guess people will expect me to post something regularly!

Thanks to Stephanie O for passing along this brilliant link at The Onion. I had to post the link as soon as I read the first sentence! Before you post any critical comments, folks, know that I was one of the main people working to save Amherst Town Meeting in 2003.