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Packet Addendum

RTM Meeting
August 7, 2012
REVISED to add Item # 2
REPRESENTATIVE TOWN MEETING NOTICE

All Representative Town Meeting members and inhabitants of the Town of Westport are hereby notified that a meeting of the town meeting members will be held at Town Hall, 110 Myrtle Ave., on Tuesday, August 7, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. for the following purposes:

1. To take such action as the meeting may determine, upon the recommendation of the First Selectman, to reappoint John Shuck & Joseph Strickland to the Public Site & Building Commission for a four year term ending June 2016.

2. To take such action as the meeting may determine, upon the recommendation of the First Selectman, to appoint Jennifer Johnson as a director of the Westport Transit District for a four year term ending April 2016 and to appoint Eugene Cederbaum as a director of the Westport Transit District to fill a vacancy for a term ending April 2014.

3. To take such action as the meeting may determine, to approve the submission of an application by the Town of Westport to the Connecticut Office of Policy & Management for a grant of up to $500,000 from the Main Street Investment Fund for enhancement of the downtown area, including street scapes and sidewalk improvements, and to authorize the First Selectman to execute the application and to administer the project.

4. To take such action as the meeting may determine, upon the recommendation of the Board of Finance and a request by the Parks & Recreation Director, to approve an appropriation of $32,199.59 to the 2011-12 fiscal year budget, to the Maintenance Water Account due to account under budgeted.

5. To take such action as the meeting may determine, upon the recommendation of the Board of Finance and a request by the Finance Director, to approve an appropriation of $158,320 to the 2011-12 fiscal year budget for the Department of Public Works contract settlement.

6. To take such action as the meeting may determine, upon the recommendation of the Board of Finance and a request by the Finance Director, to approve an appropriation of $166,625 to the 2012-13 fiscal year budget for the Department of Public Works contract settlement.

7. To take such action as the meeting may determine, upon the recommendation of the Board of Selectmen and in accordance with the Policy for Gifts to the Town, to approve the acceptance of a monetary gift in excess of $3,000,000 from The Friends of the Levitt Pavilion, Inc. to be deposited in a capital account for the construction of a new Levitt Pavilion.

8. To take such action as the meeting may determine, upon the recommendation of the Board of Finance and, a request by the Executive Director of the Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts to approve an appropriation of $6,700,000 (with bond and note authorization) to the Capital Account for the construction of a new Levitt Pavilion. The Town of Westport’s portion will be $1,100,000.

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Hadley C. Rose, Moderator


This is to certify that I mailed a copy of the above notice, properly prepaid, to each Representative Town Meeting member on Tuesday, July 31, 2012, and that I caused a copy of said notice to be published in the Westport News in its edition of Wednesday, August 1, 2012.
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Patricia H. Strauss, Town Clerk