Middleboro’s Special Town Meeting is scheduled for Monday, October 3, 2011 at the high school. The 16 articles on the warrant include:

• Funding sick-leave buybacks
• Purchasing a special needs school bus
• Purchasing police cruisers
• Purchasing software, licenses and related materials for various Town departments
• Approve relevant and necessary expenses associated with new stormwater activities required by the EPA/DEP
• Purchasing/installing an emergency generator for the Lane Street Pumping Station for the Wastewater Department
• Approve relevant and necessary expenses associated with the design of the upgrade to the Wastewater Treatment Facility for the Wastewater Department
• Approve repairs to the force sewer main and appurtenances at or near the Route 44 bridge over Interstate Highway 495
• Vote to accept MGL Chapter 32B section 20 in order to establish an Other Post Employment Benefits Liability Trust Fund
• Vote on new pawnbroker license fee by-law
• Change dog license fees/by-law
• Accept the provisions of General Law Chapter 31 Section 58A which provides that no person shall be eligible to have his/her name certified for original civil service appointment to the position of police officer if such person has reached the age of thirty-two (qualifying military veterans may be up to age thirty-six)
• Accept Meadowbrooke Lane and Bon View Circle as Town ways

The full warrant can be found on www.middleborough.com. More information about the articles scheduled to be voted on can be found on EnterpriseNews.com.

Don’t think it’s important to show up at town meeting? Then I hope you like the decisions that 150 of your fellow residents make… put it on your calendar and then show up and make your voice heard!