Tisbury voters will be asked to take action on town money matters when they gather for a special town meeting at 7 pm, Tuesday, Jan. 12, at the Tisbury School gymnasium. The nine-article warrant covers emergency vehicle repairs, money for waterway infrastructure improvements, and transferring and appropriating funds for various town departments.
“I think it will be a rather short meeting without too much conflict,” Tisbury selectman Melinda Loberg said Wednesday in a phone call. “There’s some transfers and reassignments of money. It’s a lot of administrative cleanup, I think.”
She said the primary objective is to come out with permission to do work on the town ambulance, “so that we can have two competent, running ambulances for the summer season.”
An article that proposed to substitute the current classification plan for regular full-time, managerial, and professional town employees with a comprehensive classification plan, prepared by the Collins Center for Public Management at the University of Massachusetts Boston, will not be up for consideration.
At the selectmen’s meeting Tuesday, town administrator Jay Grande said the plan is not yet ready for adoption, due to a number of steps that still need to be taken, and meetings with stakeholders that still need to be held. He said the “lengthy” process is about 85 percent complete, and the plan will be on the annual town meeting warrant in the spring.
Tuesday, selectmen voted to take no action on the article at the special town meeting.
Voters will be asked to approve three expenditures of Waterways Improvement funds, totaling $7,600 — $2,800 for inspection of the Lake Street Pier and preparation of specifications for necessary repairs, $2,000 for the design of a pump-out facility at the Lake Street Landing, and $2,800 for inspection of the Owen Park pier and preparation of plans and specifications for upgrades to the pier.
A $110,000 transfer from the unreserved fund balance for repairs to the town’s 2007 Ford E-450 ambulance will be up for a vote.
Voters will be asked to transfer $8,622 from various accounts to pay bills from multiple town departments.
Voters will also be asked to spend $61,138 to purchase two new two-wheel-drive regular pickup trucks for the department of public works.
Voters will be asked to spend $30,000 from the unreserved fund balance to seal and treat the lower floor of the Vineyard Haven Public Library.
