RTM Meeting

May 6, 7 & 8, 2024

REPRESENTATIVE TOWN MEETING NOTICE 

All Representative Town Meeting members and inhabitants of the Town of Westport are hereby notified that a meeting of the Representative Town Meeting members will be held at Town Hall, 110 Myrtle Ave. in the auditorium on Monday, May 6, Tuesday May 7; and, if necessary, Wednesday May 8, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. for the purposes listed below. If necessary, the meeting shall reconvene on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 to deal with any agenda items not disposed of at the adjournment of the May 6, 7, or 8, 2024 meeting(s). 

1. To take such action as the meeting may determine, upon the estimate and recommendation of the Board of Finance, to adopt a budget for the Town of Westport for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and to make such specific appropriations as appear advisable. 

2.  To take such action as the meeting may determine, upon the recommendation of the Board of Finance, to adopt a budget for the Town Railroad Parking Fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and to make such specific appropriations as appear advisable. 

3.  To take such action as the meeting may determine, upon the recommendation of the Board of Finance, to adopt a budget for the Town Sewer Fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and to make such specific appropriations as appear advisable. 

4.  To take such action as the meeting may determine, upon the recommendation of the Board of Finance, to adopt a budget for the Wakeman Town Farm Fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and to make such specific appropriations as appear advisable.

5.  To take such action as the meeting may determine, to require that property taxes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, shall be due and payable in four quarterly installments, and to designate the dates of the first days of July, October, January, and April as the dates upon which such installments shall be due and payable, and that all taxes in an amount of $100 or less shall be due and payable in a single installment on the first day of July.

6.  To take such action as the meeting may determine to require that the motor vehicle tax shall be due and payable in a single installment. 

7. To take such action as the meeting may determine, upon the recommendation of the Board of Selectwomen and in accordance with Section 2 (C) of the Policy for Gifts to the Town, to approve the acceptance of a donation in the amount of $30,000 from an anonymous donor for deposit to the Police Department K-9 Unit. 

8. To take such action as the meeting may determine, upon the recommendation of the Board of Finance and a request by the Director of Public Works, to approve an appropriation of $440,000 from the Sewer Reserve Fund for the Replacement of 2 Maintenance Lifts Located at Pump Station #10 (Greens Farms Rd) and Pump Station #11 (Compo Road South). 

9. To take such action as the meeting may determine, upon the recommendation of the Board of Finance and a request by the Director of Public Works, to approve an appropriation of $121,000 along with bond and note authorization to the Municipal Improvement Fund for the Final Design and Construction Documents for Cross Highway culvert over Deadman Brook.

10. To take such action as the meeting may determine, upon the recommendation of the Board of Finance and a request by the Director of Public Works, to approve an appropriation of $630,000 from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Fund for design and permitting of the redevelopment of Jesup Green and the Imperial Lot. 

11. To take such action as the meeting may determine, upon the petition request of at least 20 Westport electors, to require that a Committee be appointed to review the DPIC plans for both Parker Harding and Jesup Green, the scope of the work and the associated costs; and to consider the merits and costs associated with feasible alternatives to what is being proposed by the DPIC, including a parking deck at the Baldwin lot; and to report its findings to the entire membership for such action as may be appropriate.

             Jeffrey Wieser, Moderator