2008 Annual Nantucket Town Meeting
At the 2008 Annual Nantucket Town Meeting, 601 people were in attendance on the first night and 358 voters were present the 2nd night at at Nantucket High School's Mary P. Walker Auditorium. Take a look at what got passed, what didn't, and what was up for discussion over the course of two nights at this year's important meeting.
All Uncalled Articles: It was moved that the following articles be
voted as recommended and/or amended by the Finance Committee or as
recommended and/or amended by the Planning Board, as printed in the
Finance Committee Report, with technical amendments brought forward
during the course of the meeting:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8A, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21,
22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 43, 45, 46, 47,
48, 52, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 72,
74, 76, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93,
94, 99, 100, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112,
113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, and 126
Article 1: Receipt of Reports (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 2: Appropriation: Unpaid Bills (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 3: Appropriation: Prior Year Articles (Not Called) Not Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 4: Revolving Accounts: Annual Authorization (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 5: Appropriation: Reserve Fund (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 6: FY 2008 Budget Transfers (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 7: Personnel Compensation Plans for FY 2009 (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 8: Appropriation: FY 2009 Operating Budget (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 8A: Appropriation: Other Post Employment Benefits (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 9: Appropriation: Health and Human Services (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 10: Appropriation: General Fund Capital Expenditures (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 11: Appropriation: Public Safety Facility (Called) Adopted by Declared 2/3 Majority Voice Vote
Article 12: Appropriation: Enterprise Funds Operation (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 13: Appropriation: Enterprise Funds Capital Expenditures (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote.
Article 14: Enterprise Funds: Fiscal Year 2008 Budget Transfers (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 15: Appropriation: County Assessment (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 16: Appropriation: Finalizing Fiscal Year 2009 County Budget (Not Called) Not Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 17: Rescind Unused Borrowing Authority (Not Called) Not Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 18: Appropriation: Ferry Embarkation Fee (Not Called) Not Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 19: Appropriation: Collective Bargaining Agreement/Our Island Home (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 20: Appropriation: Collective Bargaining Agreement/Airport
Union (Called) Adopted by Handcount Vote: YES – 308, NO - 185
Article 21: Appropriation: Collective Bargaining Agreement/Public Works Union (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 22: Appropriation: Collective Bargaining Agreement/Laborer’s Union (Not Called) Not Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 23: Appropriation: Collective Bargaining Agreement/Police Union (Not Called) Not Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 24: Appropriation: Collective Bargaining Agreement/Deputy Chief
Union (Not Called) Not Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 25: Appropriation: Collective Bargaining Agreement/Fire Union (Not Called) Not Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 26: Appropriation: Community Preservation Committee/Beaugrand (Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 27: Appropriation: Sports Complex/Theroux (Called) Adopted by Declared 2/3 Majority Voice Vote
Article 28: Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Commercial Uses (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 29: Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Intensity Regulations Reorg and New Districts (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 30: Zoning Map Change: Commercial Industrial (Called) Adopted by Declared 2/3 Majority Voice Vote
Article 31: Zoning Map Change: Technical Correction - Airport (Called) Not Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote.
Article 32: Zoning Map Change: Hatch Circle and Raceway Drive (Not Called) Adopted by Majority Voice Vote
Article 33: Zoning Map Change: Raceway Drive (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 34: Zoning Map Change: Clara Drive (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote.
Article 35: Zoning Map Change: Somerset Road (Called) Adopted by Handcount Vote: YES – 172; NO – 58 (2/3 = 153)
Article 36: Zoning Map Change: Madaket Area Open Space (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote.
Article 37: Zoning Map Change: Mid-Island Green Belt (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 38: Zoning Map Change: Weweeder Pond Open Space (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 39: Zoning Map Change: Southwestern Town/Country Border -Miacomet (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote.
Article 40: Zoning Map Change: Surfside Road and Vesper Lane (Called) Adopted by Declared 2/3 Majority Voice Vote.
Article 41: Zoning Map Change: Surfside Road & Miacomet Road
(Called, Call Withdrawn) Not Adopted as Amended Planning Board by
Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 42: Zoning Map Change: Raceway Drive & Clara Drive (Called) Not Adopted by Majority Voice Vote
Article 43: Zoning Map Change: Clara Drive & Todd Circle (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 44: Zoning Map Change: LUG 2 to CTEC – 67 & 69 Surfside
Road (Called) Adopted as amended by Collier by Handcount Vote: YES –
230; NO – 59 2/3 = 191
Article 45: Zoning Map Change: Miller Lane (Not Called) Not Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 46: Zoning Map Change: Rezoning – Kelley Road (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 47: Zoning Map Change: Kelley Road/Myers (Called, Call Withdrawn) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 48: Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Multi-Family Overlay District (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 49: Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Establishment of Harbor Overlay
{HOD} Zoning District (Called) Adopted by Declared 2/3 Majority Voice
Vote
Article 50: Zoning Map Change: Harbor Overlay District – Vicinity of
Nantucket Harbor (Called) Adopted as Amended by Cohen by Declared 2/3
Majority Voice Vote
Article 51: Zoning Map Change: Harbor Overlay District – Vicinity of
Madaket Harbor (Called) Adopted by Declared 2/3 Majority Voice Vote
Article 52 Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Island Perimeter Restrictions (Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 53 Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Island Perimeter Restrictions/ Asadoorian (Called) Not Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 54: Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Disaster Rebuild (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 55: Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Dormitory Housing Overlay
District (Called, Call Withdrawn) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 56: Alteration of Neighborhood Employee Housing Overlay
District Map (Called, Call Withdrawn) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 57: Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Definition Change for Affordable Housing (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 58: Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Major Residential Development Special Permit (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 59: Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Major Residential Development Special Permit (Not Called) Adopted by Majority Voice Vote
Article 60: Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Mixed Income Residential
Development {MIRD} Special Permit (Not Called) Not Adopted by
Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 61: Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Open Air Markets/Coffin (Called, Call Withdrawn) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 62: Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Definition of Transfer Station (Called, Call Withdrawn) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 63: Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Definition of Structure (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 64: Zoning Bylaw Amendment: RCDT (Called) Adopted by Declared 2/3 Majority Voice Vote
Article 65: Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Wind Energy Conversion Systems
[WECS] Technical Correction (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice
Vote
Article 66: Bylaw Amendment: Peddlers, Solicitors, and Transient Vendors (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 67: Bylaw Amendment: Management of Coastal Properties Owned by
the Town of Nantucket/Stover (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice
Vote
Article 68: Charter Amendment: Management of Coastal Properties Owned
by the Town of Nantucket/Stover (Not Called) Not Adopted by Unanimous
Voice Vote
Article 69: Bylaw Amendment: Animals/ West (Not Called) Not Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 70: Bylaw Amendment: Signs, Satellite Dishes, Rooflines/Benz
(Called) Adopted as amended by Roggeveen by Majority Voice Vote
Article 71: Bylaw Amendment: Parking/Lydon (Called) Defeated by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 72: Bylaw Amendment: Streets and Sidewalks/Sanders (Not Called) Not Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 73: Bylaw Amendment: Street Numbers, Regulating/Spriggs (Called) Adopted by Majority Voice Vote
Article 74: Bylaw Amendment: Motorized Passenger Devices/Peroni (Not Called) Not Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote.
Article 75: Bylaw Amendment: Wharves and Waterways (Called) Adopted by Majority Voice Vote
Article 76: Bylaw Amendment: Board of Sewer Commissioners/McGowan
(Called, Call Withdrawn) Not Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 77: Bylaw Amendment: Board of Sewer Commissioners/Nicholson (Not Called) Not Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 78: Bylaw Amendment: Board of Sewer Commissioners/Capozza (Called) Not Adopted by Majority Voice Vote
Article 79: Bylaw Amendment: Board of Sewer Commissioners/Glidden (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 80: Charter Amendment: Town Administration/Barnes (Called, Call Withdrawn) Not Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 81: Home Rule Petition: Other Post-Employment Benefits (Not Called) Not Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 82: Home Rule Petition: Community Housing Bank (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 83: Home Rule Petition: Sewer Act (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 84: Home Rule Petition: 1975 Roads (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 85: Home Rule Petition: County Real Estate Conveyance (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 86: Home Rule Petition: Nantucket Islands Land Bank (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 87: Home Rule Petition: 7 Miacomet Road (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 88: Acceptance of MGL/Military Pay (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 89: Acceptance of MGL/Meeting Attendance (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 90: Acceptance of MGL: Chapter 43D/Downtown (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 91: Acceptance of MGL: Chapter 43D/2 Fairgrounds Road (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 92: Acceptance of MGL: Chapter 43D/Bunker Road Area (Called, Call Withdrawn) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 93: Pier Slips Residency Requirement/Balling (Not Called) Not Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 94: Cobblestone Requirement/Stover (Not Called) Not Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 95: Renewable Energy/Timmermann (Called) Not Adopted by Majority Voice Vote
Article 96: Nantucket Historical Commission Registration/Timmermann (Called) Not Adopted by Majority Voice Vote
Article 97: Separate Board of Health/Barnes (Called) Not Adopted by Majority Voice Vote
Article 98: Planning Board Terms/Barnes (Called) Not Adopted by Handcount Vote YES – 87, NO - 94
Article 99: Agricultural Commission/Coffin (Called, Call Withdrawn) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 100: Cemetery Naming/Clarkson (Not Called) Not Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 101: Solar Energy/Alence (Called) Not Adopted by Handcount Vote: YES – 77; NO - 92
Article 102: VFW Lease Extension/Anderson (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 103: Conservation Restriction/VFW (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 104: 58A Orange Street Lease Authorization (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 105: Real Estate Acquisition: Miller Lane (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 106: Real Estate Conveyance: Miller Lane (Not Called) Not Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 107: Real Estate Acquisition: Surfside [Woodbine Street, etc.] (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 108: Real Estate Conveyance: Surfside [Woodbine Street, etc.] (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 109: Real Estate Acquisition: Surfside (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 110: Real Estate Conveyance: Surfside (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 111: Real Estate Acquisition: Surfside Parking Lot (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 112: Real Estate Acquisition: Old South Road Sewer Easements (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 113: Real Estate Disposition: 7 Miacomet Road (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 114: Real Estate Acquisition: Madaket Parcels (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 115: Real Estate Conveyance: Madaket Parcels (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 116: Real Estate Conveyance: Madaket Parcels (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 117: Real Estate Acquisition: Dionis (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 118: Real Estate Conveyance: Dionis (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 119: Real Estate Acquisition: Hummock Pond (Called, Call Withdrawn) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 120: Real Estate Conveyance: Hummock Pond (Called, Call Withdrawn) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 121: Real Estate Conveyance: Fair Street (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 122: Real Estate Conveyance: South Pasture (Called, Call Withdrawn) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 123: Real Estate Acquisition: 80 Miacomet Ave. (Called, Call Withdrawn) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 124: Real Estate Conveyance: 80 Miacomet Ave. (Called, Call Withdrawn) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 125: Appropriation: Stabilization Fund (Not Called) Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
Article 126: Appropriation: Free Cash (Not Called) Not Adopted by Unanimous Voice Vote
All Uncalled Articles: It was moved that the following articles be
voted as recommended and/or amended by the Finance Committee or as
recommended and/or amended by the Planning Board, as printed in the
Finance Committee Report, with technical amendments brought forward
during the course of the meeting:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8A, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21,
22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 43, 45, 46, 47,
48, 52, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 72,
74, 76, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93,
94, 99, 100, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112,
113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, and 126
This information is courtesy of the Nantucket Town Clerk, Catherine Flanagan Stover.
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