Rescind the School Vote?

Rescind the School Vote?

Do you feel you were misled when you voted on the new elementary school project on November 9, 2015  at the Special Town Meeting?

Would you have cast your vote differently if you had known the town was $1,000,000 in the hole from FY 13? 

Would you have cast your vote differently if the projected cost of the project $1.74/$1,000 is doubled?

Would you have cast your vote differently if the debt for former school projects was rolled into the cost of the new school borrowing?

Are you questioning when the financial audits of the town will be completed? 

Are you concerned about the Town's lack of a bond rating?

Here is your chance to rescind that STM vote by printing out this form: 

Citizen Petition:

To see if the town will vote to rescind Article 1 of the November 9, 2015 Special Town Meeting:

ARTICLE 1 DEBT AUTHORIZATION: TEMPLETON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

To see if the Town will vote to appropriate, borrow or transfer from available funds, an amount of money to be expended under the direction of the Templeton Elementary School Building Committee for the purpose of paying the costs of designing, constructing, originally equipping and furnishing a new Templeton Elementary School located at 17 South Road, Templeton MA, including the payment of all costs incidental or related thereto (the “Project"), which school facility shall have an anticipated useful life as an educational facility for the instruction of school children of at least 50 years, and for which the Town, through Narragansett Regional School District may be eligible for a school construction grant from the Massachusetts School Building Authority ("MSBA"). The Town acknowledges that MSBA's grant program is a non-entitlement, discretionary program based on need, as determined by the MSBA, and any Project costs the Town incurs in excess of any grant approved by and received from the MSBA through the Narragansett Regional School District, shall be the sole responsibility of the Town. Any grant that the Town may receive through the Narragansett Regional School District, from the MSBA for the Project shall not exceed the lesser of (1) 62.84% of eligible, approved project costs, as determined by the MSBA, or (2) the total maximum grant amount determined by the MSBA.

We the undersigned registered voters of Templeton, do hereby petition the Select Board to include the above Article in the Warrant of the next Town Meeting.

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and gathering over 100 signatures by Monday September 26, 2016 and turning them into the Selectmen's office. Please be sure to gather signatures from registered voters in the Town of Templeton.

When turning the signatures in, be sure they are date stamped and obtain copies for your own records.

Here is a link to the citizen petition form