Public Notice: Special Town Meeting, Thursday, September 5

Posted 8/29/24

NOTICE OF

SPECIAL TOWN MEETING –September 5, 2024

TOWN OF VOLUNTOWN

 

This public meeting is being held in person and will be livestreamed on the town YouTube channel which is: Town of Voluntown, CT-Government,https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXdF6kZQMhDVNetgjDX2MAQ. Eligible residents and electors must be present in person to participate and vote.

The Board of Selectmen of the Town of Voluntown, Connecticut hereby warns and gives notice that a Special Town Meeting of the Town will be held at the Voluntown Elementary School 195 Main Street, Voluntown, Connecticut on Thursday, September 5, 2024 at 7:00PM to act on the following items:

  1. To consider and act on the following Resolution:

(a)        BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE TOWN OF VOLUNTOWN shall appropriate $50,000.00 from the Unassigned Fund to the Downtown Revitalization fund for the Main Street and Beach Pond Road Sidewalk Project.

  1. To consider and act on the following Resolution:

(a) BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE TOWN OF VOLUNTOWN shall appropriate $60,000.00 from the Unassigned Fund to the Downtown Revitalization fund for the Village Center Pedestrian Network Enhancement project.

  1. To consider and act on the following Resolution:

(a) BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE TOWN OF VOLUNTOWN shall accept a 15,086 square foot section of DEP TRAIL 1 from the State of Connecticut for highway purposes.

  1. To consider and act on the following Resolution:

(a) BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE TOWN OF VOLUNTOWN, contingent upon the passage of item 3 above, shall convey a 437 square foot section of former DEP TRAIL 1 to Josephine McGuire and Paul M. McGuire.

  1. To consider and act on the following Resolution:

(a) BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE TOWN OF VOLUNTOWN, contingent upon the passage of items 3 and 4 above, shall acquire a 437 square foot parcel of land from Josephine McGuire and Paul M. McGuire to be added to the right of way of the former DEP TRAIL 1 for highway purposes.

Copies of the resolution listed above are available at the office of the Town Clerk and on the Town of Voluntown website www.voluntown.gov.

Signed and dated this 27th day August 2024 at Voluntown, CT.

Tracey L. Hanson                    Robert J. Thevenet                 Mark G. Oulton

First Selectman                       Selectman                                Selectman