Marion - Voters at Monday’s Annual Town Meeting will be asked to decide a $15.8 million operating and maintenance budget for fiscal year 2010, 38 warrant articles, and one question seeking $60,000 for a street sweeping vehicle.
The Annual Town Meeting will begin at 6:45 p.m., Monday, May 18 in the auditorium of Sippican School, 16 Spring St. A one article Special Town Meeting will convene at 7 p.m., Tuesday, May 19, at the school to ask voters for $100,000 to supplement the town Department of Public Works for snow and ice removal during last winter.
Voters will be asked to raise, appropriate or transfer $1,680,029 to operate the water enterprise fund, and another $2,206,528 to operate the sewer enterprise fund. Both figures represent salaries, expenses, reserve funds, and debt, and indirect costs. In both cases, money would be raises department receipts and retained earnings from each fund.
Town Meeting will be asked for $184,000 to purchase a new street sweeper for the Marion Department of Public Works. To pay for it, the town is recommending $24,00 be transferred, and if voters approve, $160,000 capital outlay expenditure exclusion.
“It’s just really old and being held together by wire,” Marion Town Administrator Paul Dawson said of the town’s current street sweeper. “It doesn’t work well and sometimes I think it spreads more dirt than it actually takes in.”
Voters will be asked to reaffirm their decision on the override at the May 22 ballot box.
Two articles seek to make improvements to the town’s water distribution system. Article 7 seeks $2,600,000 for the design, permitting, construction, and related costs for water distribution improvements. The town would like to install new water mains from Pleasant Street to the gates at the end of Converse Road.
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