Legal Notice

Town of Putnam

NOTICE OF SPECIAL TOWN MEETING SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

AND

REFERENDUM VOTE 

ON SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

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 Daniel S. Rovero Selectmen’s Chambers, Putnam Town Hall, 126 Church Street, Putnam, Connecticut, on Tuesday, September 6, 2016, at 7:30 P.M. for the following purposes:

To receive communication from the Board of Finance and Board of Selectmen with respect to, and to consider the following titled resolution:

1. “RESOLUTION AMENDING A 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”

(The purpose of the amendment is to increase the appropriation and  bond  issuance  authorization  for  the  new  Water  Treatment Plant from $2.09 million to $5.04 million, and to ratify, confirm and adopt all prior authorizations and bond resolutions in connection with the Project.)

The Board of Selectmen voted, pursuant to Chapter VIII, Section 4(f) of the Town

Charter that the vote on Item 1 of the call of the Special Town Meeting to be held on September

6, 2016, 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 Tuesday, September 13, 2016.

As a result, the Special Town Meeting will be held only to consider and discuss the bond resolution (Item 1) not to vote on it.   The question to be voted on at the referendum shall be stated as follows:

Question 1:

“Shall the resolution entitled “RESOLUTION AMENDING A 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 increase to the appropriation and bond issuance authorization for the construction of a new drinking water treatment plant to include manganese and iron treatment capability, from $2,090,000 to $5,040,000, as approved by the Boards of Finance and Selectmen, be approved?  Yes/No”

The voting will be by paper/electronic ballot. Those desiring to vote for the question shall fill in the box in front of the question on the ballot at “YES.” Those desiring to vote against the question 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: Putnam Town Hall.

The full text of the aforesaid resolution 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 Noon and 8:00 P.M. and electors shall cast their votes at District 1, Murphy Building, 61 Keech Street, Putnam, Connecticut; District 2, Public Works Garage, 151 Fox Road, Putnam, Connecticut.

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, Murphy Building, 61 Keech Street, Putnam, Connecticut.

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 15th day of August, 2016

 

TOWN OF PUTNAM

ITS BOARD OF SELECTMEN

 

Anthony P. Falzarano, Mayor

Alma Morey

J. Scott Pempek 

Owen A. Tarr

Roy Simmons

Renee C. Lasko

Douglas Cutler Jr.

 

ATTEST:

Sara Seney, 

Town Clerk

 

Aug. 31, 2016