Groton Council on Aging Board of Directors
Meeting Held @ Groton Council on Aging
163 West Main Street
West Groton, MA 01450


Agenda
Monday, April 10, 2017
@ 2:00pm

The sole agenda item for this meeting is for the COA Board of Directors to consider support for Articles #9 and #10 on the Spring Town Meeting Warrant.



ARTICLE 9: ACQUIRE LAND ON FARMERS ROW FOR A NEW SENIOR CENTER
To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to acquire from the Lawrence Homestead Trust by gift, purchase, or eminent domain, for general municipal purposes, including, without limitation, for use as a new Senior Center, all or a portion of the following parcels of land located on Farmer’s Row, shown on Assessors’ Map 108 as Parcel 1, Assessors’ Map 108 as Parcel 1.2, and Assessors’ Map 108 as Parcel 1.3, described in deeds recorded with the Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds in Book 25424, Page 109, said parcels containing 8.4 acres, more or less, in the aggregate, and to raise and appropriate, transfer from available funds, or borrow, or any combination of the foregoing, a sum or sums of money, to be expended by the Town Manager, for such acquisition and costs related thereto, and further to authorize the Board of Selectmen to enter into all agreements and execute on behalf of the Town any and all instruments as may be necessary or convenient to effectuate the purpose of this article, provided, however, that no funds may be expended hereunder for this purpose unless and until the Town approves a Proposition 2½ Debt Exclusion Override pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 59, Section 21C, Clause (k), or to take any other
action relative thereto.


ARTICLE 10: SENIOR CENTER LOCATION AND DESIGN
To see if the Town will vote to approve the location of a new Senior Center as recommended by the Town Meeting Senior Center Committee and the Council on Aging’s Feasibility Oversight Committee, and to raise and appropriate, transfer from available funds, and/or borrow a sum or sums of money, to be expended by the Town Manager in Fiscal Year 2017, for the purpose of hiring an architect and/or engineer, pursuant to the Designer Selection Guidelines adopted by the Board of Selectmen in December, 2010, for the design, or design and construction bidding, of a new Senior Center, and all costs associated and related thereto, provided, however, that no funds may be expended hereunder for this purpose unless and until the Town approves a Proposition 2½ Debt Exclusion Override pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 59, Section 21C, Clause (k), or to take any other action relative thereto.

Note: The agenda shall include a listing of topics that the chair reasonably anticipates will be discussed at the meeting.
Meeting posted 04-04-2017 4:02pm npierce

The listing of topics that the Chair reasonably anticipates will be discussed at the meeting is not intended as a guarantee of the topics that will have been discussed. Not all topics listed may in fact be discussed, and other topics not listed may also be brought up for discussion to the extent permitted by law.