Special Town Meeting

Warrant For Special Town Meeting
March 26, 2022 A.D.

County of Dukes County, ss.
To the Constables of the Town of Chilmark,            Greeting:

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to warn and notify the inhabitants of the Town of Chilmark, qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, to assemble at the Chilmark Community Center at 520 South Road in said Town of Chilmark on Saturday, the twenty-sixth day of March in the year Two thousand and Twenty-two AD at 1:00 o'clock in the afternoon, there and then to act on the Articles in this Warrant.

Article 1.  To see if the Town will vote to appropriate $ 1,200,000.00, to pay additional costs of constructing a replacement firehouse and constructing an ambulance building at 399 & 401 Middle Road, and for the payment of all other costs incidental and related thereto, which amount shall be expended for this purpose, or to take any other action relative thereto, and that to meet this appropriation, the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen is authorized to borrow said amount under and pursuant to M.G.L. c. 44, §7(1), or pursuant to any other enabling authority, and to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor.  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 M.G.L. c. 44, §20, thereby reducing the amount authorized to be borrowed to pay such costs by a like amount. 

You are hereby directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies in three public places in said Town of Chilmark at least fourteen days before the time of said meeting, and to publish said warrant in one newspaper having general circulation in the Town of Chilmark during the two weeks before said meeting.

Given under our hands this 24th day of February 2022 A.D.

Warren M. Doty                        William N. Rossi               James Malkin, Chairman
Chilmark Board of Selectmen

I have notified the inhabitants of the Town of Chilmark qualified to vote in town affairs by posting three attested copies of this warrant in three public places and by publishing said warrant in one newspaper having general circulation in said Town of Chilmark and made due return of this warrant at the time and place of said meeting.
Posted:                                                                                                                  By:  Marshall E. Carroll, III,    Constable