1. Call to order and announcement of quorum.

2. Pledge of Allegiance.

3. Reading of the call.

4. Message from the Committee on Appropriations.

5. Resolution of the Financial Town Meeting to Create a Capital Reserve Account for the Department of Public Works for Exterior Painting.

6. Resolution of the Financial Town Meeting

Appropriating $3,500,000 to Fund the Acquisition and Preservation of the Former Carmelite Monastery and the Financing thereof through the Issuance of General Obligation Bonds and/or Notes in an Amount not to Exceed $3,500,000.

7. Resolution authorizing issuance of emergency notes to fund emergency appropriations

8. Resolution authorizing issuance of tax anticipation notes

9. Report of the Committee-on-Appropriations

10. We, Michael Carroll, 24 3rd Street, Jacob N.S. Brier, 21 Western Avenue, Annelise Conway, 51 Bluff Road and Carl P. Kustell, 266 New Meadow Road motion that at the Financial Town Meeting the voters of Barrington create a capital reserve fund, with an allocation of $500,000 in this year’s budget for the creation and preservation of affordable housing in the community, and that those funds be dedicated to the creation of and/or capture of affordable housing units using a method or methods proposed by the Housing Board of Trustees and approved by the Barrington Town Council. Such methods may include, but are not limited to, a down payment assistance program and/or the purchase, deed restriction, and resale of properties in Barrington.

11. I, Jacob Brier, 21 Western Avenue motion to add $250,000 to the Land Acquisition fund, to be used to purchase the Carmelite Monastery, on Watson Avenue. The funds represent the maximum annual cost to finance the sale price, to be negotiated by the Council or an agent thereof.

12. I, M. Anne Chapin a Barrington registered voter and resident of 26 Roberta Drive in Barrington, am requesting that you add to your 21-22 Financial Budget line item “Municipal Capital Requests” under Parks & Trail Improvement, funding for Bocci & Croquet Courts. Per your regulations 20% is the maximum amount allowed. So, I am applying for $7000.

13. Resolution adopting the report of the Committee-on-Appropriations.

14. Any other business affecting appropriations.

15. Resolution ordering the assessment and collection of a tax.

16. Resolution establishing tax rates.

17. Resolution electing a Committee-on-Appropriations.

18. Dissolution

All items on this agenda are subject to action.

This order of business is prepared by the Town Clerk in accordance with the vote of the Financial Town Meeting on July 18, 2020.

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