FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS BERKSHIRE COUNTY
GREETINGS: To one of the constables of Stockbridge, In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town, qualified to vote in Town affairs, to meet
Outside on the Grounds of the Stockbridge Town Hall Facilities
50 Main Street
Stockbridge, MA 01262
on Saturday, June 12, 2021 at 10:00 o’clock in the morning Eastern Daylight Time.
[Due to lifting of Covid restrictions, if it rains, meeting will be inside Town Offices.]
for the following purposes, to wit:
The Warrant
Editor’s note: This is a summary of the Warrant. We created an online flipbook, where you can read the entire warrant, all proposed bylaws, and review the budget summary. Please click on the underlined Article number to jump to that specific item within the Warrant. For a printable PDF of the entire Warrant (35 pages), click here.
ARTICLE 1. To choose all Town Officers necessary to be chosen at the Annual Town Meeting, other than those to be chosen by ballot
ARTICLE 2. To hear the report of any Town Officer or Committee, and to see if the Town will vote to accept all printed reports
ARTICLE 3. To see if the Town will vote to fix the salary and compensation of all elected officers of the Town
ARTICLE 4. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of $7,554,952
ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds a sum of $3,072,350 for the assessment of the Berkshire Hills Regional School District
ARTICLE 6. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds a sum of $85,865 toward the Berkshire Hills Regional School District’s capital cost of constructing the new school buildings
ARTICLE 7. Articles 7 – 22 are Community Preservation Committee grants. Click to read.
ARTICLE 23. $40,000 for consultants to PB
ARTICLE 24. $35,000 for water testing/Stockbridge Bowl
ARTICLE 25. $50,000 for funding the Other Post Retirement Benefit (OPEB) Trust
ARTICLE 26. $35,000 for Rest of the River
ARTICLE 27. $70,000 for tree monitoring and treatment within Ice Glen
ARTICLE 28. $8,000 for study done by Regional School District Planning Board
ARTICLE 29. $95,000 for maintenance & upgrades to Town’s tennis and basketball courts
ARTICLE 30. $15,000 for lighting consultants to upgrade town streetlights
ARTICLE 31. $135,000 for bridge and road projects/Larrywaug Bridge
ARTICLE 32. $20,000 for consultants to study/evaluate restoration of old cemetery stones
ARTICLE 33. $12,000 for an underground camera system
ARTICLE 34. $38,000 for Tuckerman Bridge water main engineering
ARTICLE 35. $3,690 for inspection and cleaning of the Quiet Knoll water storage tank
ARTICLE 36. $97,717 portion of debt service for Sewer System Expansion (last year)
ARTICLE 37. $96,918 portion of debt service for Sewer Expansion (this year)
ARTICLE 38. $600,000 to pay all costs of restoring the Chime Tower
ARTICLE 39. $145,000 to purchase Highway Department truck with plow and sander
ARTICLE 40. $720,000 to pay costs of replacing the Park Street Pump Station
ARTICLE 41. To create a Beachwood-Lenstock Maintenance District
ARTICLE 42. To authorize return of original historic documents to the Mohican Nation
ARTICLE 43. To withdraw as a member of the Berkshire County Mosquito Control Project
ARTICLE 44. To amend room occupancy excise to the rate of six percent
ARTICLE 45. To establish the Stockbridge Affordable Housing Trust Fund
ARTICLE 46. To strike (dog restraint) and amend (dog/kennel regulation)
ARTICLE 47. To create a Stockbridge Bowl Stewardship
ARTICLE 48. To address the regulation of Building Numbering for first responders
ARTICLE 49. To address Wildlife Feeding
ARTICLE 50. Establish Right to Farm Bylaw
ARTICLE 51. To amend the General Bylaws to address the regulation of Short-Term Rentals
ARTICLE 52. To amend Zoning Bylaws Principle Uses
ARTICLE 53. To amend the Zoning Bylaws re: Driveway and Common Driveway
ARTICLE 54. To amend the Zoning Bylaws re: Off-Street Parking Requirements
ARTICLE 55. To transact any other business that may legally come before this meeting
Editor’s note: For the first time Stockbridge will vote electronically — no cards held high and no Moderator’s counters — a secret ballot counted instantly.
