Clarksburg Town Meeting Tonight
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The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at Clarksburg Elementary School. The annual meetings will no longer be held at Town Hall because of the downstairs meeting room being renovated into a new police station.
Also on the warrant is a proposal to restructure the stipends of elected and appointed officials. Article 5's purpose is to ensure the stipend are awarded equitably and based on the position's responsibility and meeting attendance.
The current system provides for no way to penalize absentee officials and the stipends themselves vary wildly.
Under the new system, the Selectmen chairman, for example, would receive a $400 stipend for the office and $720 based on two meetings per month for a total of $1,120. Those with "unexcused absences" would not receive the $30 per meeting stipend.
Its passage would add $435 to the general government budget.
Based on the passage of Article 5, the budget is up about 4.5 percent over this year. The major increase is in the insurance line item, up $23,218 over last year at $301,799. Also seeing a rise are the public works budget, up nearly $8,000 over this year, and the police budget, up just over $6,000 to increase police presence by six hours a week.
Also before voters is an appropriation of $155,630 for McCann Technical School and an appropriation from free cash to reduce the tax rate.
The town election was held on Tuesday at the Senior Center. There were no races on the ballot.
Running for office were Bryan Tanner for moderator, one year; Ernest Dix for tree warden, one year; Lily M. Kuzia for selectman, three years; Linda Hurlbut and Denise M. Chesbro for library trustees, three and one years, respectively; Joseph Bushika for War Memorial trustee, three years; Joseph Mondia, Board of Health, three years; Melissa McGovern-Wandrei, tax collector, three years; Marie Allard, treasurer, one year; Carol Jammalo, town clerk, two years; and David Sherman, Planning Board, five years;
Jeffrey Levanos ran a write-in campaign for the vacant three-year School Committee seat.
