Funds for replacement of the West Dock and carway at Menemsha, emergency response funds from the July 12 fire, money for the Tea Lane Farm project and a bathroom addition at the Chilmark School will come before Chilmark voters at a special town meeting Monday night.
Ten articles are on the warrant; the meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Chilmark Community Center. Moderator Everett H. Poole will preside over the special session.
After a summer-long discussion and cost analysis following the July 12 fire that destroyed the Coast Guard boathouse and surrounding pier in the heart of Menemsha, Chilmark selectmen will ask voters to approve borrowing $1.5 million to replace the West Dock car-way. The town hopes to receive at least $50,000 in insurance claims and bonds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to offset costs. Selectmen hope to have the new pier built by Memorial Day next year. This week selectmen voted to place a one-question special ballot before voters at the Nov. 2 general election to exempt the $1.5 million borrowing issue from the provisions of Proposition 2 1/2, the state tax cap.
On Monday night voters also will be asked to appropriate $27,000 to cover what was spent for emergency response to the fire, including removing cars from the filled dock, and engineering a design for the new dock. A third article relating to costs associated with the fire asks for $200,000 to cover the cost of installing the new concrete floating docks, a job completed this week. Yesterday selectman and board chairman Warren Doty said the town has received reimbursement of $130,000 from insurance monies toward that work.
Voters will be asked to spend $300,000 at Tea Lane Farm, a property off Middle Road that is jointly owned by the town and the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank. If voters approve, $85,000 will be taken from the town historical preservation reserve fund, $75,000 from the town Community Preservation Act fund, $90,000 from available funds, and $50,000 from the general stabilization fund.
Voters will be asked to approve $10,000 to cover debt service on the Middle Line Road affordable housing project, and $25,000 to build a new bathroom in the preschool room of the Chilmark School. The school project calls for $5,000 to come from the Friends of the Chilmark Preschool, and $2,500 from the Chilmark town affairs council.
Other warrant requests include:
• $5,000 to build a boardwalk at Lucy Vincent beach;
• $3,421 to cover the town’s share of a Tri-Town Ambulance budget shortfall;
• $512 for a past bill from Araujo Brothers.
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