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Legal Notice -- Town of Putnam
NOTICE OF SPECIAL TOWN MEETING AUGUST 6. 2013
AND NOTICE OF ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING AND REFERENDUM VOTE ON AUGUST 20, 2013
Electors and persons qualified to vote in Town Meetings of the Town of Putnam, Connecticut, are hereby notified and warned that a Special Town Meeting of said Town will be held at the Putnam Middle School Auditorium in said Town, on August 06, 2013 at 7:00 p.m for the following purposes:
A. To choose a moderator for said meeting
B. To receive communication from the Board of Finance and Board of Selectmen with respect to and to consider the following entitled resolutions:
1. “RESOLUTION APPROPRIATING $2,090,000 FOR TOWN DRINKING WATER SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS (2013) AND AUTHORIZING THE ISSUE OF $2,090,000 BONDS OF THE TOWN TO MEET SAID APPROPRIATION AND PENDING THE ISSUANCE THEREOF THE MAKING OF TEMPORARY BORROWINGS FOR SUCH PURPOSE”
2. “RESOLUTION APPROPRIATING $4,000,000 FOR SEWER SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS (2013) AND AUTHORIZING THE ISSUE OF $4,000,000 BONDS OF THE TOWN TO MEET SAID APPROPRIATION AND PENDING THE ISSUANCE THEREOF THE MAKING OF TEMPORARY BORROWINGS FOR SUCH PURPOSE”
The Board of Selectmen voted, pursuant to Chapter VIII, Section 4(f) of the Town Charter that the vote on Item B1 and Item B2 of the call of the Special Town Meeting to be held on August 06, 2013, be removed from the call of such meeting and adjourned to be submitted to Electors and Citizens qualified to vote in such meeting to a referendum vote at Adjourned Town Meeting to be held on August 20, 2013.
As a result, the Special Town Meeting will be held only to consider and discuss the bond resolutions (Item B1 and Item B2) not to vote on them. The questions to be voted on at the referendum shall be stated as follows:
Question 1:
“Shall the resolution “RESOLUTION APPROPRIATING $2,090,000 FOR TOWN DRINKING WATER SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS (2013) AND AUTHORIZING THE ISSUE OF $2,090,000 BONDS OF THE TOWN TO MEET SAID APPROPRIATION AND PENDING THE ISSUANCE THEREOF THE MAKING OF TEMPORARY BORROWINGS FOR SUCH PURPOSE”, as approved by the Boards of Selectmen and Finance, be approved?” Yes/No”
The ballot label for said question shall read as follows:
“Shall the $2,090,000 appropriation and bond issuance authorization to improve the Town’s Drinking Water Quality by constructing a new water treatment system and building to reduce the amount of manganese in the drinking water, installing sentinel wells, abandoning an old well, and modifying a production well, be approved? Yes/No”
Question 2:
“Shall the resolution “RESOLUTION APPROPRIATING $4,000,000 FOR SEWER SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS (2013) AND AUTHORIZING THE ISSUE OF $4,000,000 BONDS OF THE TOWN TO MEET SAID APPROPRIATION AND PENDING THE ISSUANCE THEREOF THE MAKING OF TEMPORARY BORROWINGS FOR SUCH PURPOSE”, as approved by the Boards of Selectmen and Finance, be approved?” Yes/No”
The ballot label for said question shall read as follows:
“Shall the $4,000,000 appropriation and bond issuance authorization (expected to be financed by an estimated $1,030,000 Federal grant and $2,970,000 Town Bonds) to improve the Town’s sewage collection system, including the replacement and renovation of its ten pump stations and related wastewater transport mechanisms, be approved? Yes/No”
The voting will be by paper/electronic ballot. Those desiring to vote for the questions shall fill in the box in front of the question on the ballot at “YES”. Those desiring to vote against the questions shall fill in the box in front of the question on the ballot at “NO”. Absentee ballots will be made available in accordance with the law. Absentee ballots will be counted at the following central location: The Town of Putnam Town Hall, 126 Church Street, Putnam, CT.
The full text of the aforesaid resolutions is on file, open to public inspection, in the office of the Town Clerk. The vote on the aforesaid Resolution is taken under the authority of Chapter VIII, Section 4(f) of the Town Charter.
The polls will be open during the hours between 12:00 P.M. and 8:00 P.M. and electors shall cast their votes at their regular polling places.
Property owners who are not electors but are Qualified Voters pursuant to Section 7-6 of the Connecticut General Statutes, as amended, shall cast their votes at District One, the Blue Building in Murphy Park, Recreation Park Road, Putnam, CT.
In accordance with Section 7-6 of the General Statutes of Connecticut, as amended, persons eligible to vote at Town Meetings are (i) any person who is an elector of the Town of Putnam and (ii) any citizen eighteen years of age or more who, jointly or severally, is liable to the Town of Putnam for taxes assessed against him or her on an assessment of not less than One Thousand Dollars on the last completed grand list of the Town, or who would be so liable if not entitled to an exemption under subdivision (17), (19), (22), (25) or (26) of Section 12-81 of the General Statutes.
Such Town Meeting may consider and act upon any other business which may lawfully come before the meeting.
Dated at Putnam, Connecticut this 24th day of July 2013.
TOWN OF PUTNAM
Richard C. Place, Mayor
Alma D. Morey, Deputy Mayor
Renee C. Lasko
Norman B. Seney
Owen A. Tarr
John Smith Jr.
Richard A. Loomis
ITS BOARD OF SELECTMEN
ATTEST: Sara J. Seney, Town Clerk
July 31, 2013