Acton Special Town Meeting: Three Articles Pass

ACTON, MA — Acton held it's second Special Town Meeting on Tuesday night. Three articles were on the warrant and a total of 1489 votes were cast.

The three warrant articles were focused on allocating funding for school projects and construction as well as construction of the new North Acton fire house. All three articles passed with a majority vote.

The results and ballot questions are below:

Question 1- Passed 1122 to 364

Shall the Town of Acton be allowed to exempt from the provisions of proposition two and one-half, so-called, the amounts required to pay the Town’s allocable share of the bond issued by the Acton-Boxborough Regional School District for the purpose of paying costs for the design and construction of a new CT Douglas/Paul Gates Elementary School and Carol Huebner Early Childhood Program into a single facility on the Gates School Site located at 75 Spruce St, Acton including the payment of all costs incidental or related thereto?

Question 2- Passed 1169 to 315

Shall the Town of Acton be allowed to exempt from the provisions of proposition two and one-half, so-called, the amounts required to pay for the bond issued in order to design, construct, equip and furnish a new fire station to be located at 66-68 Harris Street, including all costs incidental or related thereto?

Question 3- Passed 1041 to 418

Shall the Town of Acton be allowed to exempt from the provisions of proposition two and one-half, so-called, the amounts required to pay for the Town’s allocable share of the bonds issued by the Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical School District for the purpose of paying costs of designing, constructing and originally equipping a new district school as described in Article 10 on the April 2016 Annual Town Meeting Warrant?