2012 Town Meeting - Night Five

We started the night with the capital budget.  After some discussion about several of the specific items, we passed the budget.

We then recessed the annual town meeting and opened a special town meeting to address several items that relate to this year's budgets and policies.  We started by accepting the reports to the special town meeting.  We approved reallocating the medical insurance savings from the change to GIC to cover collective bargaining agreements. We appropriated funds to cover the costs of emergency repairs to Minuteman Tech, the Community Safety Building, and energy efficiency improvements in town buildings.  We voted down creating a separate fund to gather funds from energy rebates.  We spent the rest of the evening discussing a new trash policy linked to the proposed waste disposal contract being negotiated by the town.  The articles calls for removing garbage from the curb after 9:00pm if it isn't picked up.  This will take a lot more time, as I believe it will become a discussion more about the trash policy than the actual article.