TOWN OF BARRINGTON, RHODE ISLAND
RESULTS
FINANCIAL TOWN MEETING
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2022 AT 7:00PM
BARRINGTON HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM 220 Lincoln Avenue
(Overflow in Cafeteria and Classrooms - With all comments, questions and voting in Auditorium.)
1. Call to order and announcement of quorum. Began the meeting at 7:00pm with a quorum of 113.
2. Pledge of Allegiance.
3. Reading of the call. Motion to dispense = passed
4. Message from the Committee on Appropriations.
5. Resolution of the Financial Town Meeting to Create a Capital Reserve Account for the Town Hall Well.
Voice vote = passed
6. Resolution of the Financial Town Meeting to Create and Assigned Fund Balance for the Town Council Contingency.
Voice vote = passed
7. Resolution of the Financial Town Meeting to Create an Assigned Fund Balance for the Department of Public Works Winter Maintenance. Voice vote = passed
8. Resolution of the Financial Town Meeting to Create an Assigned Fund Balance for the Debt Stabilization Fund.
Voice vote = passed
9. Resolution of the Financial Town Meeting regarding the Application of Unspent Proceeds of General Obligation School Bonds and the Appropriation of Funds Budgeted for Debt Service. Voice vote = passed
10. Resolution to Amend Restrictions on the Town’s Purchase of Property located at 25 Watson Avenue (Assessor’s Plat 7, Lot 4, f/k/a as the Carmelite Monastery (the “Property”)) Imposed by the 2021 Financial Town Meeting, to Allow the Town to Request and Accept Proposals for Redeveloping the Property, to Include the Option to Physically Modify, Renovate, Expand, or Partially or Fully Demolish, any of the Buildings on the Property. Voice vote = FAILED – The voters said No.
11. Resolution authorizing issuance of emergency notes to fund emergency appropriations. Voice vote = passed
12. Resolution authorizing issuance of tax anticipation notes Voice vote = passed
13. Report of the Committee-on-Appropriations Voice vote = passed: $87,518,273.00
14. I, John Stafford of 4 Strawberry Drive, move to increase the Committee on Appropriations proposed School Operating Budget by $416,977. This amount represents the difference between the School Operating Budget proposed and endorsed 5-0 by the School Committee and the School Operating Budget passed 3-2 by the Committee on Appropriations. Voice Vote = passed.
15. I, William Frazier Bell of 55 Alfred Drown Road, move to increase the Committee on Appropriations proposed School Operating Budget by $118,994. This amount represents the salary and benefits for an additional eighth-grade math teacher as listed in the School Operating Budget approved by the School Committee and removed by the Committee on Appropriations. Funding this position will help to alleviate teacher burden and prepare eighth graders for the rigors of high school mathematics. Above motion amount larger and passed.
16. I, Thomas A. Rimoshytus of 1 Howard Street, would like to add this amount of money to increase the Police Department budget by $47,774.00 and the employee benefits budget by $31,193.00. This would total $78,967.00 at the Barrington Financial Town Meeting on May 25, 2022. This would allow the Barrington Police Department to fund a new employee for the entire fiscal year, since the position is half funded in the budget. This would allow the department to promote a lieutenant to properly overlook the new body camera systems and replace him with a new officer. There is no current line # listed at this time. Voice Vote = passed.
17. I, Charles Van Sluyter reside at 1 Adelaide Avenue and am the Interim President of the Friends of the Library. I am writing on behalf of the Friends to request that the $6,000.00 that was deleted by the COA from the Barrington Public Library’s capital budget be restored. The funds are needed to complete air conditioning in the remaining workspace of the library. The space is used daily by Friends volunteers to prepare thousands of donated books for sale to fund the library’s programs and services that others might not be possible. The failure to air condition this remaining space was simply an unfortunate oversight in the Peck Center Renovation planning process. Voice Vote = passed.
18. Resolution adopting the report of the Committee-on-Appropriations. Voice vote = passed: $87,518,273.00; Sewer Enterprise Fund $4,217,750.00.
19. Any other business affecting appropriations.
20. Resolution ordering the assessment and collection of a tax. Not less than $69,134,581.00 nor more than $70,003,617.00.
21. Resolution establishing tax rates. $19.65 per $1000.00. Motor vehicle tax rate state law: $20.00 per $1000.00.
22. Resolution electing a Committee-on-Appropriations. Steve Primiano and William “Bill” DeWitt.
23. Dissolution: 11:20pm