WARNING
FOR THE 2006 ANNUAL NEWFANE TOWN MEETING AND
ANNUAL NEWFANE SCHOOL DISTRICT MEETING
NEWFANE UNION HALL
MARCH 7, 2006
The legal voters of the Town of Newfane, Vermont and the Town School
District of Newfane, Vermont, are hereby notified and warned that,
pursuant to Title 17 VSA, Section 2655, they are to meet at the Union
Hall, in the Village of Newfane, Vermont on Tuesday, March 7, 2006
at 9:00 a.m. to act upon the following Articles, to wit:
ARTICLE 1: To elect all Newfane Town Officers and Newfane Town School
District Officers as required by law for the ensuing year. (Voting
on this article to be by Australian Ballot from 9:00 a.m. until 7:00
p.m.)
TOWN
Constable 1 year term
Delinquent Tax Collector 1 year term
Grand Juror 1 year term
Lister 3 year term
Lister 1 year term
Moderator - Town 1 year term
Selectman 3 year term
Selectman TWO 1 year terms
Town Agent 1 year term
Town Clerk 1 year term
Town/School Treasurer 1 year term
Trustees Moore Free Library
Building Fund FIVE 1 year terms
SCHOOL
Moderator 1 year term
School Director 3 year term
School Director TWO 1 year terms
LELAND & GRAY
Newfane Representative 3 year term
Newfane Representative 1 year term
ARTICLE 2: To see if the voters of the Town and the Town School District
will accept the annual report of the Auditor and other Town Officers.
ARTICLE 3: To see what salaries and expenses the Town and the Town
School District will vote to pay its Officers for the ensuing year.
Town Clerk - $12.49/hour, not to exceed 40 hours per week
Town Treasurer - $12.49/hour, not to exceed 40 hours per week Listers
- $10.00 / hour
Other Elected or Appointed Officers - $7.25/ hour
School Treasurer - $12.49/hour
Mileage reimbursement at 34 cents per mile
ARTICLE 4: To see if the voters of the Town and the Town School District
will vote to authorize the Selectmen and the School District to borrow
money in anticipation of taxes and in anticipation of Federal &
State Monies to be allocated to the Town and the Town School District.
ARTICLE 5: To see if the voters of the Town will pay taxes for the
ensuing fiscal year on a quarterly basis, due on the 15th of August,
October, January and April; and that the charge for interest be at
the maximum legal rate of 1% per month for the first three months
and 1.5% per month for each month thereafter until paid.
ARTICLE 6: To see if the voters of the Town School District will
authorize operational fund expenses in the amount of $1,582,195 for
the coming year.
ARTICLE 7: To transact any other business that may legally come before
the Town School District.
ARTICLE 8: To see if the voters of the Town will authorize the Board
of Selectmen to sell or otherwise convey property acquired through
tax sale proceedings.
ARTICLE 9: Shall the voters of the Town of Newfane instruct our State
Representatives and Senators to oppose:
? any use of the State Education Fund for purposes that are outside
the law's original intent to Amake payments to school districts and
supervisory unions for the support of education@;
? the shifting of existing State General Fund expense obligations
to the Education Fund; and
? the reduction of any existing State General Fund revenue support
to the Education Fund?
ARTICLE 10: To see if the voters of the Town will vote to raise and
appropriate the sum of $750 (Seven-hundred fifty dollars) for Connecticut
River Transit, Inc.
ARTICLE 11: To see if the voters of the Town will vote to raise and
appropriate the sum of $420 (Four- hundred twenty dollars) for West
River Watershed Alliance.
ARTICLE 12: To see if the voters of the Town will vote to raise and
appropriate the sum of $1,000 (One-thousand dollars) for Williamsville
School Preservation Society.
ARTICLE 13: To see if the voters of the Town will vote to raise $3,760
by taxation for the Visiting Nurse Alliance of Vermont & New Hampshire
(VNA of Southeastern Vermont and the Southern Vermont Home Health
Agency). [In the budget]
ARTICLE 14: To see if the voters of the Town will vote to raise $2,700
by taxation for Early Education Services. [In the budget]
ARTICLE 15: To see if the voters of the Town will vote to raise $2,604
by taxation for the Valley Health Council. [In the budget]
ARTICLE 16: To see if the voters of the Town will vote to raise $2,500
by taxation for Grace Cottage Foundation, which supports the services
of the Otis Health Care Center, including Grace Cottage Hospital and
Emergency Room, Grace Cottage Family Health Services, and Heins Home
Community Care Home. [In the budget]
ARTICLE 17: To see if the voters of the Town will vote to raise and
appropriate the sum of $15,000 to help defray the cost of the Village
of Newfane Sidewalk project on West Street (TH#1).
ARTICLE 18: To see if the voters will vote to exempt from taxation
all real property of the Incorporated Village of Newfane Union Hall
building and land property (3 acre ?) for a period of five years pursuant
to 32 VSA ' 3840.
ARTICLE 19: To see if the voters of the Town will vote to exempt
from taxation all real property of the South Newfane Community Association
building and land (2 acre ?) for a period of five years pursuant to
32 VSA ' 3840.
ARTICLE 20: To see if the voters of the Town will vote to exempt
from taxation all real property for the NewBrook Volunteer Fire Association
building and land (1.6 acres ?) for a period of five years pursuant
to 32 VSA ' 3840.
ARTICLE 21: To see if the voters of the Town will vote to exempt
from taxation all real property for the South Newfane/Williamsville
Fire Station and land (3 acre ?) for a period of five years pursuant
to 32 VSA ' 3840.
ARTICLE 22: To see if the voters of the Town will vote to exempt
from taxation all real property of the Valley Lions Club property
(12.9 acres ?) for a period of five years pursuant to 32 VSA ' 3832(7).
ARTICLE 23: To see if the voters of the Town will vote to exempt
from taxation all real property of the Williamsville School Preservation
Society (2 acre ?) for a period of five years pursuant to 32 VSA '
3832(6).
ARTICLE 24: To see if the voters of the Town will vote to approve
the expenditure from the Town Reappraisal Fund for town wide update
of values for the real property in Newfane to be completed by May
1, 2007 for an amount not to exceed $50,000.
ARTICLE 25: To see if the voters of the Town will vote to raise by
taxes the amount of $75,000 to be added to the Capital Reserve Fund
to be used for future Capital needs.
ARTICLE 26: To see if the voters of the Town will vote to authorize
capital fund expenditures in the amount of $357,142 as proposed in
the Capital needs plan for Fiscal Year 2007, with
$146,642 to be used from the capital reserve funds.
ARTICLE 27: To see if the voters of the Town will vote to authorize
the Selectmen to borrow up to $148,500 for Capital needs.
ARTICLE 28: To see if the voters of the Town will authorize Town and
Highway operational expenditures in the amount of $980,658 for the
coming year.
ARTICLE 29: We the voters of Newfane would like Town Meeting, March
2006, to consider the following resolution:
Whereas George W. Bush has:
1. Misled the nation about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction;
2. Misled the nation about ties between Iraq and Al Quaeda;
3. Used these falsehoods to lead our nation into war unsupported by
international law;
4. Not told the truth about American policy with respect to the use
of torture; and
5. Has directed the government to engage in domestic spying, in direct
contravention of U.S. law.
Therefore, the voters of the town of Newfane ask that our representative
to the U.S. House of Representatives file articles of impeachment
to remove him from office.
ARTICLE 30: To transact any other business that may legally come
before the Town.
BOARD OF SELECTMEN SCHOOL DIRECTORS
Hendrik W. van Loon, Chairman Johanna Gardner, Co-Chairperson
Priscilla M. Cotton Robert Gunther-Mohr, Co-Chairperson
Daniel DeWalt Mikell Lasch
Patricia Halloran Lyssa Singleton
Gary M. Katz James Urbaska
Town of Newfane, Vermont Town of Newfane, Vermont
February 1, 2006 February 3, 2006