Special Town Meetings

Special Town Meeting June 11, 2008 OK's $1,100,000 for transfer into the Town's post employment benefits trust fund;  $586,585 for expenses associated with the design and renovation of the Weston High School Auditorium - by voice vote.

Special Town Meeting set for Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 7:30p.m. in the Weston Middle School Cafeteria.  Special Board of Selectmen's Meeting Tuesday, May 27, 2008 also names Moderator. 

QUESTION:  DOES THIS SPECIAL TOWN MEETING FALL UNDER SECTION 2.4(d) OF THE WESTON CHARTER?  WE THINK SO...

Special Town Meeting approves easement for CL&P - April 5, 2007, 7:15pm in the Town Hall Meeting Room necessary because wording of previous Special Town Meeting did not meet CL&P's latest legal standards (?) - that was the explanation given when we asked the question why this meeting was necessary.

Selectmen conducted a pre-Town Meeting Public Hearing;
YES to High School Roof and Auditorium Repair
A quick Town Meeting, well attended in the Weston High School Cafeteria gives a unanimous vote of "YES" with no voices raised to say "NO" although there was a question or two from some doubters during discussion;  Moderator called the question after five (5) speakers including First Selectman Woody Bliss.


WARNING!!!
Special Town Meeting  January 17, 2007 at 7pm, Town Hall Meeting Room - to re-allocate moneys within three parts of Referendum of Nov. 15, 2001.
Special Town Meeting divided the question into three parts.  First part approved.  Second part changed to special fund for school projects (instead of putting the $$ - if any - into the General Fund or specifying it for Booster Barn and bleachers - this proposed change a close voice vote);  third part approved.

Both items pass in brief Special Town Meeting, it is reported.

On road acceptances...from Jan. 13, 2005 Weston FORUM:

We were out of Town, so our vote couldn't be counted (and it would have been "yes"), but we taped the Special Town Meeting on January 20th to see whether "one vote" made a difference...it did!  THANK YOU, TOWN TV CHANNEL 79 - we taped it (the power of knowing how to set the VCR) and watched it upon our return Monday, January 24.

(YES) 44 - (NO) 43
The meeting was shifted from the Town Hall Meeting Room to Library Community Room when Moderator Richard Troxell determined that an accurate count would not be possible at the smaller room at Town Hall (there were people standing because the seating capacity had been exceeded).  Once Town Meeting reconvened in the Weston Library across the parking lot, the Board of Selectmen made their pitch for approval ("yes").  A total of six people spoke to First Selectman Bliss' motion as modified, a vote was taken (voice and standing count) on that motion and only then did it occur to anyone to ask for a secret ballot.

A vote to "reconsider" was made, (if successful by 2/3 majority, under reconsideration, the secret ballot request would be allowed).  The motion "to reconsider" failed by virtue of not getting a 2/3 vote (not close).  The meeting was adjourned.



If memory serves, this meeting was adjourned to the Middle School Cafeteria because so many people showed up to vote "no" on item #2...
RESULTS:  Nature Education Center at Lachat gets "YES" from Town Meeting;  Easement at Revson goes down ("NO")...
Special Town Meeting of Thursday, June 17, 2004 :  background on the first of the two items in the "call" here...

ITEM TWO relates to School Project:  twin-trunk oak tree would stay if Item #2 carried - but it didn't and so Town Meeting said, in effect, "TIMBER!"  The map below is dated June 2, 2004 ("Option C-1") - please remember that this is in no way an official source of information!



On enlarging the School Complex area...