Resolution: Charging for Useful Life Road Reductions
WHEREAS: The Town makes large expenditures to keep its streets and roadways in as
good a condition as possible so as to make same safe for vehicular and pedestrian traffic; and
WHEREAS: Utilities often make cuts in these streets and roadways in order to install
and repair existing utility infrastructure; and
WHEREAS: It is common knowledge that when such cuts are made the useful life of
the Town’s streets are severely reduced necessitating repair and reconstruction of same; and
WHEREAS: The Supreme Judicial Court has foreclosed to the Commonwealth’s
municipalities the possibility of charging utilities for this reduction in useful life.
IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, that the 2007 Arlington Annual Town Meeting requests its state legislative delegation to support House Bill No. 3676, which would supercede the Supreme Judicial Court decision and permit such charges to be made.
A true copy of the vote on the Resolution
offered at the 2007 Annual Town Meeting
of the Town of Arlington by Judith Ann Phelps,
Town Meeting Member, Pr. 16, at the session
held on May 9, 2007.
ATTEST:
Town Clerk
Resolution: funding of other post-retirement benefits
WHEREAS: The local property tax is barely adequate to meet the current obligations of the operating budget of the Town of Arlington,
WHEREAS: It is not possible for the Town of Arlington to generate or capture adequate revenue to fund Other Post-Retirement Benefits,
IT IS RESOLVED: by the 2007 Arlington Town Meeting that Other Post-Employment Benefits obligations should be funded by a revenue mechanism such as a dedicated rider on the state income tax, so that it will be possible to fully fund these future obligations, without increasing the burden on the local property tax; and
IT IS RESOLVED: that the Town of Arlington will follow the recommendations of the Town OPEB Committee as voted by the 2007 Town Meeting to set aside funds for the OPEB obligations.
A true copy of the vote on the Resolution
offered at the 2007 Annual Town Meeting
of the Town of Arlington by Andrew S. Fischer,
Town Meeting Member, Pr. 6, at the session
held on May 21, 2007.
ATTEST:
Town Clerk
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