2017.04.24 Town Council Agenda

Date: 
Monday, April 24, 2017 - 7:00pm
Agenda ItemSummary
Roll Call
Pledge of Allegiance
Item 1

Public Forum

Item 2 (Consent Agenda)
  • Order to approve the minutes of the March 13, 2017 Town Council Special Meeting.
  • Order to approve the minutes of the March 27, 2017 Town Council Meeting.

A public comment period will be included (3 minutes).

ACTION: Council action is anticipated.

Item 3

Report from Council Committees and liaisons regarding updates on assignments.

Item 4

Report from the Appointments Committee relative to filling various vacancies on Boards and Committees.

A public comment period will be included with this item (3 minutes).

ACTION: Council action is anticipated.

Item 5

Order to appoint election workers for the 2017 elections.

A public comment period will be included (3 minutes).

ACTION: Council action is anticipated.

Item 6

Order to authorize the Town Manager to execute a quit claim deed for Map R06, Lot 051 Block 006.

A public comment period will be included (3 minutes).

ACTION: Council action is anticipated.

Item 7

Public Hearing and Order relative to a new victualer license for Mark Nolt of North View Farm.

A public comment period will be included with this item (5 minutes).

ACTION: Council action is anticipated.

Item 8

Update from the Falmouth Memorial Library on the Next Chapter Capital Campaign.

Public comment period will not be included with this item.

ACTION: Council action is not anticipated.

Item 9

Public Hearing on a proposed amendment to the Zoning and Site Plan Review Ordinance to categorize the Falmouth Memorial Library as a municipal use.

A public comment period will be included with this item (5 minutes).

ACTION: Schedule order.

Item 10

Public Hearing on proposed amendments to the Code of Ordinances, Use of Parks & Public Grounds, to address pets in parks and public lands.

A public comment period will be included with this item (5 minutes).

ACTION: Schedule order.

Item 11

Introduction of an amendment to the Code of Ordinances, Chapter 19 to permit farm and animal husbandry related uses.

A public comment period will not be included with this item.

ACTION: Schedule public hearing.

Item 12

Discussion about an application to accept Cleaves Farm Road and Maple Street as public streets. 

A public comment period will not be included with this item.

ACTION: Council action is not anticipated.

Item 13

Order to approve the FY18 Municipal and School Department Budgets in accordance with the Town of Falmouth Charter, Article 5, Sec 502.

A public comment period will  be included (3 minutes per person).

ACTION: Council action is anticipated.

Item 14

Order to approve the FY18 Budget Capital Improvement Plan and Tax Increment Financing District Plan.  

A public comment period will be included with this item (3 minutes).

ACTION: Council action is anticipated.

Item 15

Order to approve the FY18 Sewer Department Enterprise Budget.

A public comment period will be included with this item (3 minutes).

ACTION: Council action is anticipated.

Item 16

Order to adopt new sewer service rates, effective beginning with the normal billing cycle occurring after July 1, 2017, to fund debt service for the Mill Creek Pump Station and Force Main Upgrade.

A public comment period will be included with this item (3 minutes).

ACTION: Council action is anticipated.

Item 17

Order to approve a supplemental appropriation from the Oceanview/Natural Gas TIF in the amount of $39,000 for transfer to the Tercentennial Special Revenue Fund.

A public comment period will be included with this item (3 minutes).

ACTION: Council action is anticipated.

Item 18

Order to schedule the Budget Validation Referendum's (BVR) statutory budget meeting to be held on Monday, May 15, 2017, as required by M.S.R.A.1485 & 1486.

A public comment period will be included with this item. (3 minutes per person)

ACTION: Council action is anticipated.

Item 19

Added by Council action: Order to authorize the Town Manager to apply for a FY2018 coastal communities grant and to authorize up to $25,000 as grant matching funds from the FY2017 Route 1 South TIF Fund.

Adjourn

The Town Council will meet on Monday, April 24, 2017, at 7:00 pm at Town Hall.

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