Warrant Advisory Committee 6-2-2020

To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $13,000.00 from Free Cash to FY2020 budget line item number 0100.0210.5240 (Police Department – Building Repair and Maintenance) for the purpose of replacing the water filtration and conditioning system for the Town’s police station, including any incidental and related costs; or to take any other action relative thereto. ON PETITION OF THE TOWN MANAGER

To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $6,600.00 from Free Cash to FY2020 budget line item number 0100.0210.5230 (Police Department – Equipment Repair and Maintenance) for the purpose of replacing certain radar units in patrol vehicles, including all incidental and related costs; or to take any other action relative thereto. ON PETITION OF THE TOWN MANAGER

To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $3,000.00 from Free Cash to FY2020 budget line item number 0100.0541.5240 (Council on Aging – Building Maintenance and Repair) for the purpose of funding a portion of the installation of new handicapped accessible restrooms at the Hilton Senior Center, including all incidental and related costs; or to take any other action relative thereto. ON PETITION OF THE TOWN MANAGER

To see if the Town will vote to transfer $12,499.00 from Free Cash to FY2020 budget line item number 0101.0292.5850 (Animal Control – Vehicles) for the purpose of funding one-half of the cost to purchase and equip a new Animal Control vehicle to be shared by the Town of Salisbury and the City of Amesbury, including all incidental and related costs; or to take any other action relative thereto. ON PETITION OF THE TOWN MANAGER

To see if the Town will vote to appropriate $174,333.99 from the PEG Access and Cable Related special revenue fund to support the provision of public, education and governmental access cable television services. This amount represents 100% of Comcast’s second and third quarter Franchise Fee payments to the Town for July 2019 – March 2020 per section 7.2 of the Town’s Cable TV Renewal License contract; or to take any other action relative thereto. ON PETITION OF THE TOWN MANAGER

To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $20,000.00 from Sewer Enterprise Fund Retained Earnings to the Other Post-Employment Benefits Trust Fund; or to take any other action relative thereto. ON PETITION OF THE TOWN MANAGER

To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $20,000.00 from Sewer Enterprise Fund Retained Earnings to the Compensated Absences Reserve Fund; or to take any other action relative thereto. ON PETITION OF THE TOWN MANAGER

To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $60,000.00 from Free Cash to FY2020 budget line item number 0100.0124.5279 (Central Services – Computer Hardware) for the purpose of purchasing new computer equipment and a new server for Town Hall, including all incidental and related costs; or to take any other action relative thereto. ON PETITION OF THE TOWN MANAGER

To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $120,000.00 from Water Enterprise Fund Retained Earnings to FY2020 budget line item number 7000.0450.5830 (Water Enterprise Fund – Capital Outlay – Infrastructure) for the purpose of replacing the water main that services Long Hill Cemetery; or to take any other action relative thereto. ON PETITION OF THE TOWN MANAGER

To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $80,000.00 from Sewer Enterprise Fund Retained Earnings to FY2020 Sewer Enterprise Fund budget line item number 7000.0440.5830 (Sewer Enterprise Fund – Infrastructure) for the purpose of replacing sewer manholes and upgrading the Town’s sewer line on Fowler Street; or to take any other action relative thereto. ON PETITION OF THE TOWN MANAGER

To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $5,000.00 from Free Cash to FY202 budget line item number 0100.0123.5306 (Town Manager – Special Events) for the purpose of providing upfront funding for the planning of Salisbury Days events for the Fall of 2020, including all incidental and related costs; or to take any other action relative thereto ON PETITION OF THE TOWN MANAGER

To take any other action that may be lawfully taken at this meeting. And you are hereby directed to serve this Warrant by posting attested copies in at least ten (10) public places in Town over two consecutive Sundays before the time of said meeting. Hereof fail not and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk at the time and place of said meeting. Given under our hands this ______ day of June, 2020.

To hear the report of the Warrant Advisory Committee and to raise and appropriate $29,585,000.00 to fund the FY2021 annual operating budget of the Town, which includes $13,560,207.00 to pay the Town’s anticipated share of the Triton Regional School District’s operating budget for FY2021, calculated in accordance with Mass. General Law Chapter 70, Section 6, and in accordance with the attached departmental breakdown of the budget; to appropriate $2,477,000.00 to fund the FY2021 Sewer Enterprise Fund budget; to appropriate $2,569,000.00 to fund the FY2021 Water Enterprise Fund budget; to transfer the sums of $418,794.00 from the FY2021 Sewer Enterprise Fund budget and $168,490.00 from the FY2021 Water Enterprise Fund budget to the General Fund; and to transfer the sums of $20,000.00 from the Municipal Waterways Improvement and Maintenance Fund and $54,025.00 from the Waterways Permit Fees Fund to the General Fund; or to take any other action relative thereto.

To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, to borrow the sum of $5,200,000.00 in accordance with General Laws Chapter 44, Section 7, or any other enabling authority, for the purpose of funding architectural, engineering, permitting and construction costs, including all incidental and related costs, for a new visitors center and public restroom facility on the Broadway Mall at Salisbury Beach and a public restroom facility at the Town parking lot located on the corner of Beach Road and Cable Avenue, such sum to be reduced by any grants received by the Town in support of the construction of these facilities and the proceeds from the sale of any surplus Town-owned properties as the Board of Selectmen deem advisable; and to authorize the Board of Selectmen to execute any instruments and take any other action necessary to effectuate the vote taken hereunder; and further, that any premium received by the Town upon the sale of any bonds or notes approved by this vote, less any such premium applied to the payment of the costs of issuance of such bonds or notes, may be applied to the payment of costs approved by this vote in accordance with G. L. c. 44, §20, thereby reducing the amount authorized to be borrowed to pay such costs by a like amount; or to take any other action relative thereto. ON PETITION OF THE TOWN MANAGER

To see if the Town will vote to amend the vote taken under Article 7 of the May 20, 2019 Annual Town Meeting, pursuant to Mass. General Laws Ch. 60, §15, as amended by Section 15 of Chapter 182 of the Acts of 2008, and reduce the charge for each written demand for unpaid motor vehicle excise taxes, which fee will be added to and collected as part of the tax, from $30.00 to $20.00; or to take any other action relative thereto. ON PETITION OF THE TOWN MANAGER

To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning Bylaws of the Town, Chapter 300, Article VII (Zoning Board of Appeals), §300-30 (Appointment; Terms of Office) by inserting the text shown in bold and deleting the text shown in strike-through, as follows: Within three months after the passage of this bylaw, t The Town Manager Board of Selectmen shall appoint a Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA), consisting of five members and two associate members, each to serve a term of five years. The first member shall be appointed for five years, the second for four years, the third for three years, the fourth for two years, and the fifth for one year. As terms expire, appointments shall be made on a five-year basis. Vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired term by the Town Manager Board of Selectmen. Associate members shall be appointed for five years. The ZBA shall, annually, elect a Chairman and a Clerk from its membership; or to take any other action relative thereto. ON PETITION OF THE TOWN MANAGER

To see if the Town will vote to transfer the care, custody and control of the parcel of land located at 5 Catherine Way, identified on Assessor’s Map 10 as Lot 34 and acquired by the Town by Foreclosure in a Tax Lien Case recorded with the Essex South District Registry of Deeds in Book 27031, Page 100, and the parcel of land located at Daniel Court, identified on Assessor’s Map 19 as lot 280 and acquired by the Town by Foreclosure in a Tax Lien Case recorded in Book 27302, Page 283, from the Tax Collector/Treasurer for tax title purposes to the Conservation Commission for conservation and passive recreation purposes in perpetuity, subject to the provisions of Article 97 of the Massachusetts Constitution; or to take any other action relative thereto. ON PETITION OF THE TOWN MANAGER

To see if the Town will vote to transfer the care, custody and control of the parcel of land located at 28 Old County Road, identified on Assessor’s Map 28 as Lot 26, and acquired by the Town by Foreclosure in a Tax Lien Case recorded with the Essex South District Registry of Deeds in Book 36850, Page 293, and the parcel of land located at 20 Old County Road, identified on Assessors Map 28 as Lot 28, and acquired by the Town by foreclosure in a Tax Lien Case recorded in Book 34690, Page 382, from the Tax Collector/Treasurer for tax title purposes to the Board of Selectmen for general municipal purposes and for the purpose of conveyance; and, further, to authorize the Board of Selectmen to convey all its right, title and interest in said parcels or portions thereof on such terms and conditions and for such consideration as the Selectmen shall deem appropriate; or to take any other action relative thereto. ON PETITION OF THE TOWN MANAGER

To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, transfer from available funds, and/or borrow the sum of $486,750.00 for the purpose of paying the engineering and permitting costs associated with a construction project designed to provide resiliency against flooding in the Ring’s Island neighborhood, including all incidental and related costs, and to authorize the Treasurer, with approval of the Board of Selectmen, to borrow said sum under the provisions of General Laws Chapter 44, Sections 7 or 8, or any other enabling authority, a portion of which sum may be reimbursed by the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs through its Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) grant program; to authorize the Board of Selectmen to file, on behalf of the Town of Salisbury, any and all applications deemed necessary for grants and/or reimbursements from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts under the MVP grant program; to authorize the Board of Selectmen to enter into all agreements and contracts and execute any and all instruments as may be necessary or convenient on behalf of the Town of Salisbury to effectuate said project; and further, that any premium received upon the sale of any bonds or notes approved by this vote, less any such premium applied to the payment of the costs of issuance of such bonds or notes, may be applied to the payment of costs approved by this vote in accordance with G.L. c. 44, §20, thereby reducing the amount authorized to be borrowed to pay such costs by a like amount; or to take any other action relative thereto. ON PETITION OF THE TOWN MANAGER