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Annual Town Meeting / Annual Town Election
The 2020 Annual Town Meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 6:00 PM at the Cohasset Music Circus. The Annual Town Election will be held Saturday, June 27, 2020.
Below please find information about the Annual Town Warrant Articles.
Annual Town Meeting & Election Information
Article 1: Annual Town Report
Article 2: Reports of Committees - No Reports will be presented at this meeting
Article 3: PEG Access and Cable Related Fund Acceptance - Acceptance of Chapter 44, Section 53F3/4 of the Massachusetts General Laws will allow the Town to account for and appropriate cable related funds in accordance with this new law. The Town receives funding from Comcast and Verizon per cable agreements and is subsequently transferred to Cohasset 143TV to operate Cohasset’s local cable access operation. In prior years municipalities would receive these funds into a special revenue fund and subsequently transfer them to their local cable access provider without appropriation. The Department of Revenue (DOR) changed the way they wanted municipalities to account for these funds essentially for transparency purposes. The DOR recommends the Town accepts this section of law to account for PEG Access and Cable Related Funds.
Article 4: Operating Budget
Article 5: Unpaid Bills from Previous Years - No Unpaid bills will be presented - This Article funds the payment of prior year bills. The Town does not have any unpaid bills at this time and expects this article will be indefinitely postponed.
Article 6: Supplemental Appropriation for Fiscal 2020 -
|
Action |
Amount |
From |
To |
|
Supplemental
Appropriation: Transfer PEG
Access Funds to Cohasset
143TV |
$203,126.75 |
PEG Access and Cable Related Fund |
Cohasset 143TV |
|
Supplemental Appropriation: Sewer Department |
$170,000.00 |
Sewer Retained Earnings |
Sewer Department |
There
are two supplemental appropriation requests for Fiscal 2020 as follows:
The first appropriation, in the amount of $203,126.75 relates to the acceptance of Chapter 44, Section 53F3/4 of the Massachusetts General Laws noted in Article 3. Accepting Article 3 changed the way we account for and transfer funds received from Comcast and Verizon cable agreements to Cohasset 143TV. Approval of this appropriation will allow the Town to transfer all the Fiscal Year 2020 cable related receipts received to Cohasset 143TV. Going forward, there will be an article in every Annual and Special Town Meeting warrant requesting the transfer of cable funds received as of the date of each meeting.
The
second appropriation is in the Sewer Operating Budget in the amount of $170,000
to cover the cost of multiple flow diversions to the Town of Hull as a result
of the November public health emergency (membrane failure) and the delayed
shipping/install of the membranes due to COVID 19. Sewer retained earnings is the funding source
for this article.
Article 7: Stabilization Appropriation for Fiscal 2020 -
|
Amount |
Source
of Funds |
Fund |
|
$1,996,060 |
General Revenue |
Capital Stabilization |
|
$165,000 |
Free Cash |
OPEB Trust Fund |
|
$62,000 |
Sewer Revenue |
Sewer Capital Stabilization |
This
Article requests funding for the Town’s various stabilization/special funds to
comply with the Town’s financial policies.
Please refer to appendices in the Fiscal Year 2021 budget book for the
Town’s financial policies. The current
balances, proposed contributions and projected balances in these funds are as
follows:
