Results of Annual Harwich Town Meeting    May 5&6, 2003

Article 1  Accepted and adopted unanimously

Article 2  Accepted and adopted unanimously; Finance Committee Reported

Article 3  Accepted and adopted unanimously

Article 4  Indefinitely postponed

Article 5  Indefinitely postponed

Article 6  Indefinitely postponed

Article 7  Indefinitely postponed

Article 8  Indefinitely postponed

Article 9  Accepted and adopted after moving Library Director to M4

Article 10  $39,005,226 approved for 2003-04 budget

Article 11  Accepted and adopted

Article 12  $74,627.18  approved for Human Services

Article 13 $140,000 approved for interim and long term police station                             improvement

Article 14 $215,000 approved for intergrated police computer system

Article 15 $ 8,000 approved for project contemporary competiveness

Article 16 $ 22,478 approved medicade billing services for school                                     department

Article 17 Approved diburse state funds for aid to Harwich library

Article 18 $138,460 approved for purchase of new ambulance

Article 19 $ 78,000 postponed for purchse of new vehicles

Article 20 $ 52,804 approved for lease of various new equipment

Article 21 $25,000 approved for purchase of new deck for disposal area                    scale

Article 22 $ 322,663.16 approved for chapter 90 road maintenance

Article  23 Herring Run raceway replacement, approved


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Article 24 $170,000 for New Wells Source Exploration Phase 2, approved

Article 25 $6,000 Change senior exemption from $500 to $600, approved

Article 26 $9,840 Install well at Whitehouse Field, approved 

Article 27 $ 65,500 Fund building maintenance-schools, not approved

Article 28 $22,630 Defray expense s-chase and harwichport libraries,                             approved

Article 29 Establish betterment program for private ways, approved

Article 30 Adopt Pleasant Bay resource management plan update,                                 approved

Article 31 $1,125,000 Acquire land of Peter Copelas- Robbins Pond

Article 32 Rescind unused bonding authorization, approved

Article 33 Transfer Land for affordable housing, approved

Article 34 Transfer Land for affordable housing, not approved

Article 35 Propose to indefinately postpone tranfer land for affordable                           housing, approved  

Article 36 Transfer Land for affordable housing, approved 

Article 37  Propose to indefinately postpone tranfer land for affordable                           housing, approved

Article 38 Petition for legislation for exemption from parking fine                                   limitation, approved

Article 39 Accept road layouts, approved

Article 40 Lease of town owned properties, approved

Article 41 Accept provisions of Massachusetts general law relative to                             establishing an enterprise fund, not approved

Article 42 To indefinately postpone establishing enterprise fund, approved

Article 43 Amend zoning by law-sign regulations, approved

Article 44 Amend zoning by law-home occupation, approved

Article 45 Amend zoning by law-Six Ponds special district, approved

Article 46 Approve revised cemitery rules and regulations, not approved

Article 47 $5,000 Replenish Police and Fire Claims Trust Fund, approved

Artivle 48 $100 (per inductee) Create "Hall of Fame" for Harwich citizens,                   approved

Atricle 49 $12,000 Promote town of Harwich, approved

Article 50 $3,000 Defray expenses of Harwich Athletic Association,                                approved

Article 51 Adopt buy back provision for call firefighters, approved

Article 52 Compensating balance agreement, approved

Article 53 Liability Tidle/Non Tidle Rivers, approved

Article 54 Obtain supply of potasium iodine, approved

Article 55 $11,946.19 Congregate meal site for Harwich seniors, approved

Article 56 $4,595 Purchase and install a voice mail system at the                                     Community Center, approved

Article 57 $100,000 cap  Establish revolving Fund for Council on Aging,                         approved      

Article 58 Resolution to abolish corporate personhood, not approved

Article 59 Resolution to eliminate 600 million in tax brakes to                                         corporations, not approved

Article 60 Herring Fisheries update, approved

Article 61 To see the town will vote to raise from available funds a                                   sufficient sum of money to pay unpaid bills of prior years,                               approved

Article 62 To see if the town will vote to raise a sum of money to be added                     to the stabilization fund and to act fully thereon, approved

Article 63 $127,863.64 To see if the town will vote to transfer unused                               balances of articles in past years to surplus the revenue and to                       act fully there on, approved

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