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<br />Article 4
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<br />To see if the town will appropriate the sum of $96,100,000 to fund implementation and construction of
<br />Phase 2 of the Town’s comprehensive nitrogen and wastewater management, treatment and disposal
<br />improvement plans, including expansion of the Water Resource Recovery Facility adjacent to the Town’s
<br />solid waste Transfer Station, sewer mains, pump stations, and related sewer collection system
<br />improvements; and costs relating to the acquisition of necessary easements and other interests in real
<br />property conveying the right to locate, relocate, erect, construct, reconstruct, install, operate, maintain,
<br />patrol, inspect, repair, replace, alter, change the location of, extend or remove, piping, lift stations, low-
<br />pressure sewers, generators, odor controls, electrical and other necessary equipment and apparatus;
<br />including all costs incidental or related thereto and including without limitation all costs thereof as defined
<br />in Section 1 of Chapter 29C of the General Laws (the “Project”; that to meet this appropriation the Treasurer
<br />with the approval of the Select Board is authorized to borrow such amount and issue bonds or notes therefor
<br />under Chapter 44 of the General Laws and/or Chapter 29C of the General Laws; and, further, that the
<br />Treasurer with the approval of the Select Board is authorized to borrow all or a portion of such amount
<br />from the Massachusetts Clean Water Trust (the “Trust”) and in connection therewith to enter into a
<br />financing agreement and/or security agreement with the Trust and otherwise to contract with the Trust and
<br />the Department of Environmental Protection (“DEP”) with respect to such loan and for any federal or state
<br />aid available for the project or for the financing thereof; and that the Select Board is authorized to enter
<br />into a project regulatory agreement with the DEP, to expend all funds available for the project and to take
<br />any other action necessary to carry out the project; provided that any grant, state of federal aid or other
<br />funds received for the Project shall be used to offset the total appropriation authorized herein; and provided,
<br />further, that this appropriation and debt authorization shall be contingent upon passage of a Proposition 2½
<br />debt exclusion ballot question pursuant to General Law Chapter 59, § 21C(k), or take any other action
<br />relating thereto.
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<br /> Submitted by the Select Board and the Sewer Commission
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<br />Explanation: This article would provide funding to implement and construct Phase 2 of the Town’s
<br />comprehensive wastewater management, treatment, and disposal improvement plan, including expansion
<br />of the Water Resource Recovery Facility located adjacent to the Town’s solid waste transfer station and
<br />related Phase 2 sewer collection system improvements to be connected to the existing wastewater treatment
<br />facility. This project is one of the initial essential steps in implementing the Town’s Watershed Nitrogen
<br />Management Plan/CWMP. This article requires a 2/3 vote.
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<br />This article will also require approval of a corresponding Proposition 2 ½ debt exclusion ballot question at
<br />the May 11, 2024 Annual Town Election.
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<br />The Sewer Commission voted to recommend Article 4 by a vote of 6-0
<br />The Select Board recommends approval of Article 4 by a vote of 5-0
<br />The Finance Committee recommends approval of Article 4 by a vote of 6-0
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<br />Motion made by Select Board Member Wyman-Colombo
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<br />Motion: I move that the Town vote to appropriate the sum of $96,100,000 to fund implementation
<br />and construction of Phase 2 of the Town’s comprehensive nitrogen and wastewater management,
<br />treatment and disposal improvement plans, including expansion of the Water Resource Recovery
<br />Facility adjacent to the Town’s solid waste Transfer Station, sewer mains, pump stations, and related
<br />sewer collection system improvements; and costs relating to the acquisition of necessary easements
<br />and other interests in real property conveying the right to locate, relocate, erect, construct,
<br />reconstruct, install, operate, maintain, patrol, inspect, repair, replace, alter, change the location of,
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