Representative Town Meeting Notice
Public Hearing
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., on Tuesday, March 1, 2011, at 8 p.m. for the purposes listed below. If necessary, the meeting shall reconvene on Tuesday, March 15, 2011 to deal with any agenda items not disposed of at the adjournment of the March 1, 2011 meeting.
1. To take such action as the meeting may determine, upon the recommendation of the Conservation Director in accordance with Section 2-57(b) of the Town Code, to amend Section 2-55, Land Use Fees-Schedule, to the extent it relates to fees for land use applications reviewed by the Conservation Commission and the Conservation Department. (First reading. Full Schedule of Fees available in the Conservation Department).
2. To take such action as the meeting may determine, upon the recommendation of the Board of Finance and a request by the Public Works Director for an appropriation of $300,000 to the Capital and Nonrecurring Expenditure Fund (C&NEF) Account (Richmondville Ave Culvert Construction) for the construction phase of culvert replacement on Richmondville Avenue as described in the Willow Brook Stream Improvement Project.
3. To take such action as the meeting may determine, upon the recommendation of the Board of Finance and a request by the Finance Director for an appropriation of $1,200,000 to the General Fund Pension Budget Account (OPEB Plan Funding) for the cost of the Town of Westport’s planned contribution to the OPEB Trust Fund for the 2010-11 fiscal year.
4. To take such action as the meeting may determine, upon the request of the Finance Director, to authorize the issuance of refunding bonds in an amount not in excess of Thirty Million Dollars ($30,000,000) to be issued in calendar year 2011 for the purpose of refunding all or any portion of the general obligations bonds issued by the Town in the years 2004, 2006 and 2009.
5. To take such action as the meeting may determine, upon the recommendation of the Personnel Director, to amend Section 7.1A of both the Police Pension Plan and the Fire Pension Plan by adding the words “….but less than twenty (20)” in the fourth line of each of the Plans in order to provide that terminated Participants who had completed 10 but less than 20 years of credited service will be entitled to a pension at the earlier of (i) age 65, or (ii) after they would have completed 34 years of credited service if they had remained employed. (Full text available in the Personnel Office.)
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Hadley C. Rose, Moderator
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