WARNING FOR TOWN MEETING
PLAINFIELD, VERMONT
MAY 22, 2024
5:30 PM

The legal voters of the Town of Plainfield are hereby notified and warned to meet at Plainfield Town Hall Opera House, 18 High Street, on Wednesday the 22nd day of May 2024 at five-thirty in the evening to transact the following business.

Art. 1 Was voted on by Australian Ballot on March 5, 2024

Art. 1 To elect all necessary officers for the ensuing year: Town Clerk, Treasurer, Selectboard, Lister, Auditor, Collector of Delinquent Taxes, Cemetery Commissioner and School Director.

Art. 2 To hear reports of Town Officers and act on the same.

Art 3 Shall the Town vote to raise, appropriate and expend the sum of $6,833.06 for the support of Rural Community Transportation Inc. to provide services to residents of the Town of Plainfield?

Art. 4 Shall the Town of Plainfield appropriate the sum of $1,499.94 as its share of the 2024 year cost of commuter bus service along Route 2 with service into Montpelier? This appropriation funds a portion of the total cost of the service which will also be supported by appropriations from other towns, State and Federal funds, and passenger fares.

Art. 5 Shall the Town voters authorize the expenditures for the following not-for-profit service agencies as recommended by the appointed Social Concerns Committee?
Capstone Community Action $ 500.00
Central VT Adult Basic Education $ 400.00
Central Vermont Council on Aging $ 1,300.00
Central Vermont Home Health and Hospice $ 3,100.00
Circle $ 525.00
Elevate Youth Services $ 550.00
Family Center of Washington County $ 500.00
Friends of the Winooski River $ 300.00
Good Beginnings $ 400.00
Good Samaritan Haven $ 1,000.00
Onion River Food Shelf $ 1,000.00
Our House $ 100.00
Twin Valley Senior Center $ 4,000.00
Twinfield Together Mentoring Program $ 250.00
Vermont Center for Independent Living $ 175.00
Vermont Family Network $ 150.00
Washington County Diversion $ 400.00
Total $ 14,650.00

Art .6 Shall the Town voters authorize an appropriation of $50,000 to the Cutler Memorial Library to pay for the librarian, a library assistant, and the purchase of materials and services, including those to make the library accessible to the community?

Art. 7 Shall the Town approve $282,865.00 for the operation of the Water Department for the period of July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025 to be paid for by the rate payers of the system?

Art. 8 Shall the Town approve $397.670.00 for the operation of the Wastewater Department for the period of July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025 to be paid for by the rate payers of the system?

Art. 9 Shall the Town approve $1,489,936.86 to pay for administrative operations, Fire and Rescue Department, and Highway Department of the Town of Plainfield for the period of July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025?

Art.10 Shall the Town of Plainfield authorize the Selectboard to apply any surplus from the current fiscal year to reduce taxes in the next fiscal year?

Art.11 Shall the Town vote to accept the provisions of public statutes relating to the collection of taxes by the Town Treasurer, (VSA 32 Section 4791) and vote to collect municipal taxes thirty days from mailing and not prior to August 21, 2024 and collect school taxes on November 13, 2024 and February 12, 2025, collecting half of the total school taxes on each of those dates?

Art.12 Shall the town of Plainfield, empowered by 17 V.S.A. § 2651f, authorize the Selectboard to appoint Plainfield's Town Treasurer in lieu of being elected by the town's registered voters?

Art.13 Shall the town of Plainfield, empowered by 17 V.S.A. § 2651e, authorize the Selectboard to appoint Plainfield's Town Town Clerk in lieu of being elected by the town's registered voters?

Art.14 Shall the town of Plainfield elect two additional members with two year terms to the Selectboard, bringing the total number to five?

Art.15 To transact any other non-binding business that may properly come before the meeting.

Jim Volz, Chair
Tim Davis
Patti Jamele
Plainfield Select Board
Dated at Plainfield, Vermont
April 11, 2024
Received for recording April 11, 2024
Attest: Bram Towbin, Town Clerk