A total of 36 warrant articles (13 of which will be considered as a group on the consent calendar) will be presented to residents for votes at the Annual Town Meeting on Saturday, March 24. The full warrant is online here. Articles include:
- Customary financial articles
- The town budget (including the Lincoln School and Lincoln-Sudbury High School budgets)
- Capital expenditures, including a new fire engine
- Funds for routine maintenance of town facilities
- Appropriations to a retiree health insurance trust fund, and to a debt stabilization fund
- A variety of other smaller appropriations
- Campus building projects — Lincoln School and community center
- Bylaw proposals
- Mary’s Way proposed zoning overlay (allowing planning for the Oriole Landing mixed-income housing development to move forward)
- Historic District expansion to include modernist homes (voluntary on the part of homeowners)
- Site plan sunset provision
- Green initiatives
- Vote to initiate the “electricity aggregation” process
- Citizens’ petitions
- A ban on the retail use of plastic bags
- A ban on the retail sale of individual plastic water bottles
- An alternative ban on the retail sale of individual plastic water bottles that bans the use of such bottles on town property
- A resolution to support tighter regulation of natural gas leaks
- A resolution to designate Lincoln as a “safe and welcoming” town; and
The Board of Selectmen is meeting with residents who submitted citizen’s petitions. They voted last week to endorse retail bans on plastic water bottles and grocery bags while removing from the warrant a petition asking for reimbursements for residents’ legal fees.
On Monday, March 5, the board will meet with Mothers Out Front, the proponents of the gas leak resolution, and on Monday, March 19, the board will meet with the proponents of the “safe and welcoming town” resolution.
