Members deliberate on 22-article warrant, finance $3.1M in capital projects and adopt changes to zoning bylaw
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.And on the second and third nights of the 2021 Swampscott Town Meeting, members finished up the town s business, debating and voting on 20 articles in a little under six hours.
Members passed Article 3, signing off on a $157,000 free-cash transfer to compensate local fire and police officers in exchange for their support in the town’s efforts to leave Massachusetts Civil Service.
Swampscott Finance Committee Chairman Tim Dorsey said Article 3 constituted the first of two articles to fund the collective-bargaining agreements - cumulatively worth $453,000.
Warrant claims 22 articles, proposes $72.2M for fiscal year 2022
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Swampscott Town Moderator Michael McClung will virtually gavel the 2021 Town Meeting to order over Zoom on Monday evening, May 17 at 7 p.m.
Elected Town Meeting representatives (of which Town Clerk Susan Duplin says there are 324) will meet on subsequent nights until they vote on the 22 articles outlined in the 2021, 56-page town warrant.
The Swampscott Board of Selectmen closed the warrant on Monday, May 3 - just two weeks before the big meeting convenes.
The warrant constitutes Town Meeting’s official agenda. Articles printed on the warrant represent agenda items, each to be voted on by a show of Town Meeting representatives’ votes over Zoom.
The Swampscott Reporter s top 10 stories of 2020
Most read articles are an eclectic mix in a year like no other
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From ‘Vinnie the turkey grinding traffic to a halt in Vinnin Square to the town’s initial Black Lives Matter protest, the Swampscott Reporter’s most-read stories are a wide-ranging bunch.
They were written in a year like no other, so without further adieu, find the newspaper’s most-read stories in 2020 in a countdown from 10 to one below.
The children combated isolation and social-distancing drawing pictures with chalk on the Orchard Circle sidewalks and asphalt.