Wrentham
Voter Guide
Fall Town Meeting
Monday, October 21, 2024
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About the
Wrentham Voter Guide
Local elections, those elections that matter most in their direct effects on our day-to-day lives, give voters a voice in determining which local officials’ decisions affect our schools, roads, public safety, and local businesses. Your votes in local elections and annual and special town meetings let your voice be heard.
The Wrentham Voter Guide (WVG) is designed to help you, as a voter, to feel more confident when voting in our town election and in planning to attend our Annual and Fall Town Meetings (June and November, respectively). As with your voting in local elections, your attendance at town meetings puts you, the voter, in the driver’s seat. Please reach out to wrenthamvoterguide@gmail.com if you have questions.
Annual Town Meeting
Wrentham's Fall Town Meeting will be held on Monday, October 21, 2024 at the King Philip Regional High School Auditorium, 201 Franklin Street.
Meeting start time is 7:00 pm.
For planning purposes:
This year's June Annual Town Meeting ran for 1 hour and 20 minutes. Last year's Fall Town Meeting ran for 3 hours and 56 minutes.
Voter Registration
A voter registration will take place on Friday, October 11th for the fall Town Meeting on Monday, October 21, 2024. The registration will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Fiske Public Library located at 110 Randall Road. Any Wrentham resident who is not registered or will become 16 years of age on or before October 21, 2024 may pre-register/register to vote. Please call the Town Clerk’s office at 508-384-5415 with questions.
Accommodations
Anyone in need of special accommodations for the Town Meeting, please contact the Office of the Select Board at 508-384-5400 by October 14, 2024 in order that reasonable accommodations may be made.
Town Warrant
Thank you to the Board of Selectmen for permitting us to post the Fall Town Meeting's Town Warrant on the Wrentham Voter Guide. Formatting on this page is true to the original document.
You can see the original Town Warrant *pdf on the Town's website.
Warrant for the Fall Town Meeting October 21, 2024
Town of Wrentham
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norfolk
To the Constables of the Town of Wrentham in the County of Norfolk;
Greetings:
You are hereby required in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to notify and warn qualified voters of said Town of Wrentham to assemble at the King Philip Regional High School, 201 Franklin Street, Wrentham, MA at 7:00 PM on Monday, October 21, 2024 then and there to act on the following articles:
Article 1: Volunteer of the Year
For the Board of Selectmen to recognize the Town of Wrentham's 2024 Volunteer(s) of the Year, or take any other action relative thereto. (Board of Selectmen)
Article 2: Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Amendments
To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, appropriate by transfer from available funds in the treasury, or appropriate by transfer from funds previously appropriated to other accounts, a sum of money to supplement the current Fiscal Year 2025 operating budgets, or take any other action relative thereto. (Finance Committee)
Article 3: Prior Year Bills
To see what action the Town will take with regard to unpaid bills outstanding, or overdrafts from prior year(s), to vote to raise and appropriate, to appropriate by transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury, or appropriate by transfer from funds previously appropriated to other accounts, a sum of money for the same, or take any other action relative thereto. (Finance Committee)
Article 4: Capital Budget
To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, appropriate by transfer from available funds in the treasury, appropriate by borrowing, or appropriate by transfer from funds previously appropriated to other accounts, a sum of money to fund capital items, or take any other action relative thereto. (Finance Committee)
Article 5: Establishment of Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Station Revolving Account
To see if the Town will vote to amend Chapter 18-7, paragraph E of the authorized Revolving Funds, of the Wrentham Town Code by adding one revolving fund to the table as follows:
Article 6: Ground Penetrating Radar
To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $15,000 from the Historical Reserve account of the Community Preservation Fund, for the purpose of purchasing a ground penetrating radar to identify historical unmarked burial areas in Wrentham Cemeteries. Funds appropriated must be used by December 31, 2026 or will be returned to their source, and no longer be available for expenditure on this project; or take any other action related thereto. (Community Preservation Committee)
Article 7: Rochambeau Encampment Signage
To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $3,500 from the Historical Reserve account of the Community Preservation Fund, for the purpose of installing signage marking the site of the Rochambeau encampment on the grounds of the King Philip Regional High School. Funds appropriated must be used by December 31, 2026 or will be returned to their source, and no longer be available for expenditure on this project; or take any other action related thereto. (Community Preservation Committee)
Article 8: Conservation and Recreation Land Acquisition Fund
To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $200,000 from the Open Space and Recreation Reserve account and/or the Budgeted Reserve account of the Community Preservation Fund, for the purpose of further funding the Conservation and Recreation Land Acquisition Fund that was established in 2022. Acquisitions must adhere to CPA land acquisition rules at the time of the acquisition, and a conservation restriction will need to be put in place for the acquired land. Funds appropriated must be used by December 31, 2036 or will be returned to their source, and no longer be available for expenditure on this project; or take any other action related thereto. (Community Preservation Committee)
Article 9: Phase II - Mirror Lake Core & Sediment Study
To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $208,250 from the Budgeted Reserve account and/or the Undesignated Fund Balance of the Community Preservation Fund, for the purpose of funding a Phase II core and sediment study of Mirror Lake to determine the feasibility of future dredging activities to preserve this open space. Funds appropriated must be used by December 31, 2026 or will be returned to their source, and no longer be available for expenditure on this project; or take any other action related thereto. (Community Preservation Committee)
Article 10: Annual Town Report Cataloguing
To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $33,750 from the Historical Reserve account of the Community Preservation Fund, for the purpose of preserving and cataloguing Town Annual Reports. Funds appropriated must be used by December 31, 2026 or will be returned to their source, and no longer be available for expenditure on this project; or take any other action related thereto. (Community Preservation Committee)
Article 11: Old Fiske Museum Facility Assessment
To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $8,000 from the Historical Reserve account of the Community Preservation Fund, for the purpose of conducting a facility assessment of the Old Fiske Library. Funds appropriated must be used by December 31, 2026 or will be returned to their source, and no longer be available for expenditure on this project; or take any other action related thereto. (Community Preservation Committee)