Belmont Town Meeting Resumes Tonight

Tonight, Monday, May 6, Belmont's annual Town Meeting will resume for its third night of reviewing and voting on articles on the gathering's warrant.

The meeting will be held at the Belmont High School's auditorium at 7 p.m.

The approximately 300 members will hear and hopefully vote on a diverse number of articles including the zoning for medical marijuana dispensaries which wish to open in Belmont and the creation of a stormwater management account, which is a federal mandate on the town.

The order of Monday's meeting will be:

• Article 25: a senior tax-abatement program.

• Article 30: a new zoning by-law on interim controls on medical marijuana in town.

• Article 31: another new zoning by-law to help preserve religious and municipal buildings in town.

• Article 27: a small easement at the Oakley housing development on Belmont Street.

• Article 22: Criminal history background checks for door-to-door sales, cab drivers, ice cream truck vendors and a few other folks.

• Article 24: The creation of a new enterprise fund for a storm management system. 

• Article 23: With the fund must come a new town by-law on storm management.

• Articles 3 to 8: The annual financial authorizations such as the salaries for elected officials, revolving funds and fiscal transfers.

• Article 20: Electronic voting at Town Meeting.

• Articles 9-12: More fiscal house keeping including authorizing the payment of approximately $250,000 into the Other Post Employment (OPEB) stabilization fund. 

If Town Meeting reaches the final group of articles, the group will next meeting for a Special Town Meeting on May 29.

The town's budgets will be taken up on June 3 and 5.