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ANNUAL TOWN MEETING MAY 11, 2015
ARTICLE 2
ADOPT RULES TO GOVERN TOWN MEETING
Article 2 To see if the town will vote to adopt certain procedures to govern the conduct of the
2015 Annual Town Meeting, or to take any other action related thereto.
Board of Selectmen
MOTION 1
MOVED: That this 2015 Annual Town Meeting shall meet on consecutive Monday and
Wednesday evenings (but not including Monday, May 25th ) in the Morse Auditorium, on the
grounds of the Canton High School until the business of this Annual Town Meeting has been
concluded, each such session to begin at 7:00 o'clock P.M. and to adjourn at 11:00 o'clock P.M.,
or as near that hour as may be feasible, according to the nature of the business pending at the
said hour.
FINANCE COMMITTEE VOTE:
DISCUSSION: The Finance Committee recommends adoption of this motion as it formalizes procedures
that have been followed by Town Meetings in the past.
APPROVED DISAPPROVEDSource page 2
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING MAY 11, 2015
MOTION 2
MOVED: That the following individuals be granted all of the rights and privileges of
participation in this Annual Town Meeting, except the right to vote, under any article of this
warrant which affects matters within their jurisdiction:
Christine Beard, Historic Preservationist, Tremont Preservation Associates
Richard Brandstatter, Director of Real Estate, The Napleton Group
Russell). Bousquet, PLS, Survey Manager, Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. (VHB)
Paul Brodmerkle, PE, Managing Partner, Site Design Professionals, LLC
Debra Bromfield, Director of Student Services
John Ciccotelli, Director of Public Health
John Connery, Fiscal Impact Specialist, Connery Associates
Charles Crealese, Principal, GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc.
Paul R. DeRensis, Town Counsel
Lisa Dickinson, Senior Vice President, UniBank Fiscal Advisory Services, Inc.
James Donovan, Town Engineer
Patrick Dunford, P.E., Project Manager, Vanasse Hangen, Brustlin (VHB)
Rob Festa, Project Manager, Group One Partners, Inc.
Lawrence Feldman, Principal, GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc.
William T. Friel, Town Administrator
Jeffrey Granatino, Superintendent of Schools
Ted Heilbron, Development Manager, Topgolf International, Inc.
Jennifer Henderson, Director for Curriculum, Instruction & Technology
Frank Holmes, Principal, Stantec Planning and Landscape Architecture
Tom Houston, Professional Services Corporation, PC
Scott C. Hutchinson, Vice President, Investment Properties/Hotel Group
Brian Joyce, State Senator
Louis Jutras, Information Systems Manager
Vinod K. Kalikiri, PE, PTOE, Project Manager, Vanasse Hangen Brustlin,Iinc. (VHB)
Mark Lague, Library Director
Karen Lawlor, Administrative Assistant, Canton Planning Board
Stephen Lynch, Representative in Congress
Richard A. Manley, Esq., Partner, Locke Lord LLP
Richard Mann, Esq., Richard Mann Law
Christie Lombard Martin, Esq., Partner, Locke Lord LLP
David M. McElroy, Sr. Vice President, CBRE/New England Capital Markets
Kimberly Mooers, Vice President, UniBank Fiscal Advisory Services, Inc.
Steven Moore, Assistant Supt. for Business & Personnel, Blue Hills Reg. Technical H.S.
James Murgia, Finance Director
Edward Napleton, Manager, Canton Holdings, LLC
Katherine Napleton, Officer, The Napleton Group
Barry Nectow, School Business Administrator
Howard Neff, Jr., Senior V.P. - Chief Investment Officer, Boston Mutual Life Ins. Co.
Cynthia O'Connell, Conservation Commission Agent
Kristen Phelps, Canton Community Preservation Committee Administrator
Bernard N. Plante, Project Manager, Melton Associates, LLC
James Quaglia, Superintendent-Director, Blue Hills Regional Technical H.S.
Helena Rafferty, Deputy Police Chief
Timothy Richard, Town Planner
Louis M. Ross, Esq., Deutsch Williams Brooks DeRensis & Holland, P.C.
Mark Roy, Executive Director, Canton Housing Authority
Darrin Santos, P.G., Environmental Engineer, GeoInsight, Inc.
Zach Shor, Vice President of Real Estate, Topgolf International, Inc.
Kenneth Staffier, P.E., Vanasse Hangen, Brustlin (VHB)
Brianne Susel, Fiscal Advisory Officer, UniBank Fiscal Advisory Services, Inc.
Steven Tierney, RLA, Associate, Stantec Planning and Landscape Architecture
Michael Trotta, Superintendent of Public Works
Diane Tynan, Director of Council on Aging
Harry Wheeler, AIA, Principal, Group One Partners, Inc.
FINANCE COMMITTEE VOTE:Source page 3
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING MAY 11, 2015
DISCUSSION: The Finance Committee recommends adoption of this motion as it allows key non-
resident officials and consultants to legally participate in the Town Meeting and it formalizes procedures
that have been followed by Town Meetings in the past.
APPROVED DISAPPROVED
MOTION 3
MOVED: That whenever during discussion under any article in this warrant during this
year's annual town meeting, irrespective of which session such discussion is reached during
the progress of the annual town meeting, a motion is made, the effect of which is to increase
the total amount to be appropriated beyond that which is recommended by the Finance
Committee or which changes the method of obtaining funds to meet that appropriation, the
moderator shall not accept such motion unless said motion also contains a corresponding
decrease in another appropriation as contained in an appropriation article on this specific
warrant or a corresponding transfer from any other available funding source or borrowing as
an alternative funding source, so that the total amount to be appropriated by the town, at this
town meeting, and to be expended thereafter, for all the appropriation articles contained in this
warrant, shall not in any event exceed the total dollar amount recommended by the Finance
Committee as set forth in the published Report of the Finance Committee Recommendations as
may be increased by any transfer from available funds provided, however that nothing in this
motion shall prevent an increase in appropriation funding contingent upon the passage of a
Proposition 21/2 override.
FINANCE COMMITTEE VOTE:
DISCUSSION: The Finance Committee recommends adoption of this motion as it formalizes procedures
that have been followed by Town Meeting in the past to insure that Town Meeting ends with the adoption
of a balanced budget.
APPROVED DISAPPROVED
MOTION 4
MOVED: That this Annual Town Meeting be adjourned to reconvene at this auditorium
upon the adjournment or dissolution of the Special Town Meeting within the Annual Town
Meeting of May 11, 2015.
FINANCE COMMITTEE VOTE:
DISCUSSION:
APPROVED DISAPPROVEDSource page 4
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING MAY 11, 2015
ARTICLE 8
PAY BILLS OF PRIOR FISCAL YEAR
Article 8 To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate, transfer from available funds or borrow
pursuant to any applicable statute a sum or sums of money to pay any unpaid bills of any prior fiscal year,
or to take any other action related thereto.
Board of Selectmen
MOVED: That the subject matter of Article 8 be indefinitely postponed.
FINANCE COMMITTEE VOTE:
DISCUSSION:
APPROVED DISAPPROVEDSource page 5
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING MAY 11, 2015
ARTICLE 10
TRANSFER UNEXPENDED PRIOR YEAR APPROPRIATIONS
Article 10 To see if the town will vote to transfer the unexpended balance of certain appropriations made
under various articles in the warrants applicable to prior town meetings, to new purposes and uses, or to
take any other action related thereto.
Board of Selectmen
MOVED: That Twenty Seven Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty One Dollars and Ninety Five
Cents ($27,751.95) be appropriated to be spent by the Library Director with the approval of the
Board of Selectmen for the purpose of renovations in the main level meeting/study rooms at
the Canton Public Library thereby increasing such appropriation already voted pursuant to
Article 13 Motion 2 of the 2012 Annual Town Meeting from Thirty Six Thousand Dollars
($36,000) to Sixty Three Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty One Dollars and Ninety Five Cents
($63,751.95) and to meet this appropriation the sum of Twenty Seven Thousand Seven
Hundred Fifty One Dollars and Ninety Five Cents ($27,751.95) be transferred from Fund #303.
FINANCE COMMITTEE VOTE:
DISCUSSION:
APPROVED DISAPPROVEDSource page 6
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING MAY 11, 2015
ARTICLE 14
APPROVAL OF FUNDING FOR THE ANNUAL 4TH OF JULY COMMUNITY CELEBRATION
Article 14 To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, borrow pursuant to any applicable
statute or transfer from available funds a sum of money to be expended by the Canton Recreation Director
for the purpose of funding the annual July 4 th community celebration in 2015, or to take any other action
related thereto with the intent these funds be available in FY15 in anticipation of July 4, 2015.
Board of Selectmen for the Canton Recreation Commission
MOVED: That the sum of Thirty Five Thousand Dollars ($35,000) be transferred from
Free Cash in the Treasury of the Town to be expended by the Canton Recreation Director for
the July 4th community celebration in 2015 with the intent that said funds shall be available in
FY15 in anticipation of July 4, 2015.
FINANCE COMMITTEE VOTE:
DISCUSSION:
APPROVED DISAPPROVEDSource page 7
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING MAY 11, 2015
ARTICLE 15
INSURANCE PROCEEDS
Article 15 To see whether the Town will vote to appropriate all sums over $20,000 recovered under the
terms of any insurance policy and any other insurance proceeds paid to the Town in connection with any
losses suffered by the Town, or to take any other action related thereto.
Board of Selectmen
MOVED: That the sum of Twenty Three Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety Nine Dollars
($23,999) be transferred from Insurance Reimbursement Fund #173 to Police Cash Capital
Cruiser Replacement ATM 2014 Article 11 Motion 2 (#12104-58705-A1550) in connection with
losses suffered by the Town from a patrol vehicle accident.
FINANCE COMMITTEE VOTE:
DISCUSSION:
APPROVED DISAPPROVEDSource page 8
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING MAY 11, 2015
ARTICLE 36
AMEND ADDITIONAL 43D PRIORITY DEVELOPMENT SITE(S)
Article 36 To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of c.43D, Sections 1 through 16, of the
General Laws and to designate the following parcel of land as a "Priority Development Site in the Town of
Canton for expedited municipal permitting within the meaning of G.L. Chapter 43D, and to approve the
filing of an application with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Interagency Permitting Board for
designation of such parcel as a Priority Development Site:
10 Campanelli Circle Map: 115 Parcel: 23
and that the Board of Selectmen be hereby authorized to implement the following within 120 days of the
acceptance of Chapter 43D with respect to the above mentioned Priority Development Site, or to take any
other action related thereto:
(a) appoint a single point of contact to serve as the primary municipal liaison for all issues relating to
Chapter 43D in connection with said Priority Development Site;
(b) amend rules and regulations, with the assistance of various permitting boards, on permit issuance to
conform with Chapter 43D with respect to the foregoing Priority Development Site;
(c) along with the Town's permitting boards, collect and ensure the availability of all governing statutes,
local bylaws, regulations, procedures and protocols pertaining to each permit;
(d) establish a procedure whereby the Board of Selectmen shall determine all permits, reviews and pre-
development review required for a Priority Development Site project, all required scoping sessions, public
comment periods and public hearings and all additional specific applications and supplemental Information
required for review, including when applicable, the identification of potential conflicts of jurisdiction or
substantive standards with abutting municipalities and a procedure for notifying the applicant; and
(e) establish a procedure, following notification of the required submissions for review as set forth in
clause (d) above, for determining if all the materials required for the review of the Priority Development
project have been completed.
Board of Selectmen for Economic Development Committee
MOVED: That the provisions of Chapter 43D, Sections 1 through 16, of the General Laws
be accepted and that the following parcel of land identified as 10 Campanelli Circle, Assessor's
Map 115, Parcel 23, be designated as a "Priority Development Site in the Town of Canton for
expedited municipal permitting within the meaning of G.L. Chapter 43D, and that the filing of
an application with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Interagency Permitting Board for
designation of such parcel as a Priority Development Site be approved and that the Board of
Selectmen be authorized to implement the following within 120 days of the acceptance of
Chapter 43D with respect to the above mentioned Priority Development Site:
(a) appoint a single point of contact to serve as the primary municipal liaison for all issues
relating to Chapter 43D in connection with said Priority Development Site;
(b) amend rules and regulations, with the assistance of various permitting boards, on permit
issuance to conform with Chapter 43D with respect to the foregoing Priority Development Site;
(c) along with the Town's permitting boards, collect and ensure the availability of all governing
statutes, local bylaws, regulations, procedures and protocols pertaining to each permit;
(d) establish a procedure whereby the Board of Selectmen shall determine all permits, reviews
and pre-development review required for a Priority Development Site project, all required
scoping sessions, public comment periods and public hearings and all additional specific
applications and supplemental information required for review, including when applicable, the
identification of potential conflicts of jurisdiction or substantive standards with abutting
municipalities and a procedure for notifying the applicant; andSource page 9
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING MAY 11, 2015
(e) establish a procedure, following notification of the required submissions for review as set
forth in clause (d) above, for determining if all the materials required for the review of the
Priority Development project have been completed.
FINANCE COMMITTEE VOTE:
DISCUSSION:
APPROVED DISAPPROVEDSource page 10
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING MAY 11, 2015
ARTICLE 39
VOTE TO APPROVE TITLE CHANGE FOR HUMAN RESOURCE ADMINISTRATOR
Article 39 To see if the Town will vote to amend the Town's Department of Human Resources Bylaw of
the Canton Personnel Bylaw, as adopted by the Town at the 2001 Annual Town Meeting on May 7, 2001,
Article 5, by deleting all references therein to the title of "Human Resources Administrator" and
substituting therefore the new title "Human Resources Director" or take any other action related thereto.
Board of Selectmen for Human Resources Administrator
MOVED: That the Department of Human Resources Bylaw of the Canton Personnel
Bylaw, as adopted by the Town at the 2001 Annual Town Meeting on May 7, 2001 be amended
by deleting all references therein to the title of "Human Resources Administrator" and
substituted with the new title of "Human Resources Director".
FINANCE COMMITTEE VOTE:
DISCUSSION:
APPROVED DISAPPROVED