Compromise amendment splitting the difference goes down to defeat after debate.
The third time was, in fact, the charm for Belmont Town Clerk Ellen Cushman on the final night of Belmont's 2012 Town Meeting. On a night where more than a third of Belmont representatives went missing, the town's legislative body approved a 25 percent increase to Cushman's salary after defeating an amendment to lower the salary stated in the Town Meeting warrant by the narrowest of margins, 97-94, on a standing count. Cushman will now earn $78,216, up from her current salary of $62,400. The Warrant Committee, the Town Meeting's financial watchdog and which set the salary at $60,000 in 2010, recommended in April Cushman be paid $66,000 in fiscal 2013. Yet the Committee withdrew its recommendation before last night's vote in favor of the …
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Demolition bylaw, Town Clerk's pay articles could result in lively debate.
It will be financially-heavy Town Meeting after the Belmont Board of Selectmen voted to accept the Warrant for the annual Town Meeting last night, Wednesday, April 4. Articles on the coming year's budget and funds for a series of items will likely be put aside until the May segment of Town Meeting when financial articles are traditionally debated, according to Elizabeth Allison, chairwoman of the Warrant Committee which reviewed the 19 articles that will be brought before Belmont's legislative body. But it won't simply be parliamentary procedures on the first night of Town Meeting, set for 7 p.m. on Monday, April 23 at Belmont High School as the town will debate a new demolition delay bylaw. And the reps just might revisit the temporary …
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95 Washington St, Belmont, MA
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Belmont Town Hall
455 Concord Ave, Belmont, MA
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Belmont High School
221 Concord Ave, Belmont, MA
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