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201 Special Town Meeting -2- August 4, 1971 Article 6 Ctd: / ACTION: Motion duly made and seconded the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $6,000.00. A vote. ARTICLE 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or take from available funds the sum of $6,500.00 for repair and remodeling of the Old Avant Homestead, or take any other action thereon.' ,ACTION: Motion made and seconded article•be amended to read: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the stun of .86,500.00.for repair and remodeling of the Old Avant Homestead, and to appoint Mr. Frank Homeyer in an advisory capacity, or take any other action thereon. So voted. ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or take from available funds the sum of $20,000.00 for the purchase of a front-end loader equipped with special puncture proof tires to be used in the Sanitary Landfill at the Town Disposal Area. ACTION: Motion duly made and seconded to table Article 8. A unanimous . vote. ARTICLE 9. To see if the Tom will vote to raise and appropriate or take from available funds the sum of $6,500.00 to cover the cost of hiring a front-end loader 9perator at the Town Disposal Area. ACTION: Motion duly made and seconded to table article. A unanimous. vote. ARTICLE 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or take from available funds the sum of $15,400.00 to be used in the Sani- tary Landfill at the Town Disposal Area by contract for nine months. ACTION: Motion duly made and seconded article be amended to read: ' To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of P15,400.00 to be used in the Sanitary Landfill at the Town Disposal Area by negotiated contract for nine months. A unanimous vote. ARTICLE 11. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or take from available funds the sum of seven thousand dollars $67,000.00) to build a baseball field behind the Town Hall, of take any other action thereon. ACTION: Motion duly made and seconded to raise and appropriate the sum of $67,000.00. A unanimous vote. ARTICLE 12. To see if the Town will vote to cr.6ate.a..Council.6nLAging and:!toradopt.the following by-law int'accordance with the provision of C Chapter 40 Section 8B of the General Laws: Section 1. The Board of Selectman shall appoint a Council on Aging for the purpose of co- ordinating or carrying out programs designed to meet the problems of the aging in cooperation with programs of the Commission on Aging established under Chapter 6, Section 73 of the General Laws. Section 2. The Board of Selectman shall appoint the Council on Aging consisting of seven (7) members. Upon acceptance of this by-law, the Board shall appoint three (3) members for three (3) years, two (2) members for two (2) years and two (2) members for one (1) year term. 'Members can be re -appointed for concurrent terms. The members of the Council shall serve without pay. Section 3. whenever a vacancy shall occur in the membership of the Council, by reason of death, resignation, inability to act or for any other reason, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the Select- man for the remainder of the term. Section 4. The Council' -on Aging at its first annual meeting and there- after, annually in April of each year, shall elect from its membership a President, 1st Vice President, 2nd Vice President, Secretary and , Treasurer. Each officer shall hold office until the next annual election. 7n the event a vacancy occurs in any of the offices above, the Council: shall hold a'special meeting for the purpose of electing one of its members to fill such vacancy. I %