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Members deliberate on 22-article warrant, finance $3.1M in capital projects and adopt changes to zoning bylaw
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.And on the second and third nights of the 2021 Swampscott Town Meeting, members finished up the town s business, debating and voting on 20 articles in a little under six hours.
Members passed Article 3, signing off on a $157,000 free-cash transfer to compensate local fire and police officers in exchange for their support in the town’s efforts to leave Massachusetts Civil Service.
Swampscott Finance Committee Chairman Tim Dorsey said Article 3 constituted the first of two articles to fund the collective-bargaining agreements - cumulatively worth $453,000.
Warrant claims 22 articles, proposes $72.2M for fiscal year 2022
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Swampscott Town Moderator Michael McClung will virtually gavel the 2021 Town Meeting to order over Zoom on Monday evening, May 17 at 7 p.m.
Elected Town Meeting representatives (of which Town Clerk Susan Duplin says there are 324) will meet on subsequent nights until they vote on the 22 articles outlined in the 2021, 56-page town warrant.
The Swampscott Board of Selectmen closed the warrant on Monday, May 3 - just two weeks before the big meeting convenes.
The warrant constitutes Town Meeting’s official agenda. Articles printed on the warrant represent agenda items, each to be voted on by a show of Town Meeting representatives’ votes over Zoom.
Town Administrator Sean Fitzgerald: The safety of our children is a paramount objective for this project
Leigh Blander / Special to The Swampscott Reporter
The town appears headed for a battle with the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Lynn on Forest Avenue, over a plan to take an easement from the church’s property for the proposed district-wide elementary school.
“The impact of the easement will be significant and have a major negative and lasting impact on the church’s ability to use its own property while growing and serving the community,” said Doreen Hodgkin, a 30-year member of the church and chair of its Stanley Task Force.
Swampscott opposition to new school building coalesces
Residents launch ballot-question committee, hire lawyer
Leigh Blander / Special to The Swampscott Reporter
A group of Swampscott residents has officially launched a Save Our Schools campaign against the town s proposed 900-student elementary school that voters will, at some point, weigh in on. The ballot-question committee is also hiring a lawyer for its fight.
“We’re for smaller schools for smaller children,” said Gail Brock, who chairs the Save Our Schools ballot committee. “We’re for sharing the traffic and congestion that occurs around the schools and for preserving the wetlands and endangered specials that live in the area.”