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Legal Notice
Town of Putnam
Planning Commission
The Town of Putnam Planning Commission will hold a meeting on August 27, 2012 at 7:00 P.M. at the Town Hall located at 126 Church Street, Putnam, CT. A public hearing will be held on the following:
Application # 2012-01: Jeff Meyer — Request for a one-lot re-subdivision for the construction of a single family residence. Property located at 476 River Road, Town Assessor’s Map 47, Lot 14. Zoned AG-2.
Gerard Cotnoir,
Chairman
Aug. 16, 2012
Aug. 23, 2012
Legal Notice
Town of Putnam
Zoning Commission
The Town of Putnam Zoning Commission held a meeting on August 15, 2012 at 7:00 P.M. at the Town Hall located at 126 Church Street, Putnam, CT. The following action was taken:
Docket # 2012-03: CrystalLynn Comeau — Request for a Special Permit according to Section 720 & 911 of the Town of Putnam Zoning Regulations to have horses in an existing barn and pasture. Property located at 328 Walnut Road, Town Assessor’s Map 026, Lot 131. Zoned R-40. APPROVED WITH CONDITIONS.
Patricia Hedenberg,
Chairman
Aug. 23, 2012
Legal Notice
Town of Putnam
TOWN OF PUTNAM
NOTICE OF SPECIAL TOWN MEETING AND
NOTICE OF ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING
AND REFERENDUM
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 29, 2012 at 7:30 p.m for the following purposes:
1a. To choose a moderator for said meeting
To receive communication from the Board of Finance and Board of Selectmen with respect to and to consider the following entitled resolution:
“RESOLUTION APPROPRIATING $7,500,000 FOR TOWN DRINKING WATER SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS CONSISTING SUBSTANTIALLY OF THE REPLACEMENT OR RELINING AND CLEANING OF WATER LINES INSTALLED APPROXIMATELY FROM 1940 AND EARLIER, AND AUTHORIZING THE ISSUE OF $7,500,000 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 1 of the call of the Special Town Meeting to be held on August 29, 2012, 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 September 5, 2012.
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 “RESOLUTION APPROPRIATING $7,500,000 FOR TOWN DRINKING WATER SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS CONSISTING SUBSTANTIALLY OF THE REPLACEMENT OR RELINING AND CLEANING OF WATER LINES INSTALLED APPROXIMATELY FROM 1940 AND EARLIER, AND AUTHORIZING THE ISSUE OF $7,500,000 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 $7,500,000 appropriation and bond issuance authorization for the Town of Putnam Water Pollution Control to Replace, or Clear and Reline, water lines installed from 1940 and earlier and make other improvements to the Town’s Drinking Water System, be approved? Yes/No”
The voting will be by voting machine, those desiring to vote for -the Resolution shall vote “YES”, and those desiring to vote against the Resolution shall vote “NO”. Absentee ballots will be made available in accordance with the law. [If applicable: 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 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 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 13th day of August, 2012.
TOWN OF PUTNAM
Richard C. Place, Mayor
Renee C. Lasko Alma D. Morey
Norman B. Seney Owen A. Tarr
John S. Smith Jr. Richard A. Loomis
Its Board of Selectmen
ATTEST:
Sara J. Seney, Town Clerk