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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - City Council - 03/05/2012 Southb on VERMONT AGENDA F.H.T. Middle School 500 Dorset Street SOUTH BURLINGTON, VERMONT TOWN MEETING SOUTH BURLINGTON CITY COUNCIL and SOUTH BURLINGTON SCHOOL BOARD Meeting Agenda 7:00 P.M. Monday, March 5, 2012 1. Reading of the Ballot Articles (Sandy Dooley, Council Chair). o Presentation of proposed City budget for FY 2013 and Town Meeting Day ballot items: Sandy Miller, City Manager and Bob Rusten, Deputy City Manager. Questions from the public. o Presentation of proposed School budget for FY 2013: David Young, Superintendent of Schools. Questions from the public. o Discussion on Advisory Ballot Article. 2. Adjourn. Respectfully Submitted: Sanford Miller, City Manager South Burlington City Council Meeting Participation Guidelines The City Council Chair is presenting these guidelines for public participation and attendance at City Council meetings in an effort to insure that everyone has a chance to be heard and meetings function as smoothly as possible. 1. Please raise your hand to be recognized to speak. The Chair will make every effort to recognize the public in the order in which hands are raised. 2. Once recognized by the Chair, please identify yourself to Council. 3. If the Council has suggested time limits,please respect them. Time limits will be used when they can aid in making sure everyone is heard and sufficient time is available for Council to conduct business items. 4. In order for City Councilors and other members of the audience to hear speakers'remarks,side conversations between audience members should be kept to an absolute minimum. The hallway outside the Community Room is available should people wish to chat more fully. 5. Please address the Chair. Please do not address other audience members or staff or presenters and please do not interrupt others when they are speaking. 6. Make every effort not to repeat the points made by others. 7. The Chair will make reasonable efforts to allow everyone who is interested in participating to speak once before speakers address the Council for a second time. 8. Council desires to be as open and informal as possible within the construct that the Council meeting is an opportunity for Councilors to discuss,debate and decide upon policy matters. Council meetings are not"town meetings". To this end, after the public has had the opportunity to make comments,the Chair may ask that discussion be among Councilors. WARNING CITY OF SOUTH BURLINGTON ANNUAL CITY MEETING MARCH 6, 2012 The legal voters of the City of South Burlington are hereby notified and warned to meet at their respective polling places at the Chamberlin School on White Street,the Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School on Dorset Street and the Orchard School on Baldwin Avenue on Tuesday, March 6, 2012, at 7 o'clock in the forenoon, at which time the polls will open until 7 o'clock in the evening, at which time the polls will close, to vote by Australian Ballot on the following Articles: ARTICLE I ELECTION OF OFFICERS To elect all City Officers required by law. ARTICLE II APPROVAL OF CITY BUDGET Shall the City adopt the City Council's proposed budget for FY 2013 totaling twenty-eight million, four hundred twenty-two thousand, seventy-nine dollars($28,422,079)of which it is estimated eleven million,two hundred ten thousand,four hundred eighty-three dollars($11,210,483)dollars will be raised by local property taxes? ARTICLE III PETITIONED ARTICLE—ADVISORY In light of the United States Supreme Court's Citizens United decision that equates money with speech and gives corporations rights constitutionally intended for natural persons,shall the city of South Burlington vote on March 6,2012 (town meeting date)to urge the Vermont Congressional Delegation and the U.S. Congress to propose a U.S. Constitutional amendment for the States' consideration which provides that money is not speech, and that corporations are not persons under the U.S. Constitution,that the General Assembly of the State of Vermont pass a similar resolution, and that the town send its resolution to Vermont State and Federal representatives within thirty days of passage of this measure? POLLING PLACES ARE THE CHAMBERLIN SCHOOL ON WHITE STREET, THE FREDERICK H. TUTTLE MIDDLE SCHOOL ON DORSET STREET AND THE ORCHARD SCHOOL ON BALDWIN AVENUE. VOTERS ARE TO GO TO THE POLLING PLACE IN THEIR RESPECTIVE DISTRICT. Dated at South Burlington,Vermont, this 25 day of January, 2012. elr,,opooley, C it Meaghan`Emery, 'ce Ch7 osa ne Gre . , Jerk James Knapp Paul Engels Received and Reco ded th. r to day of January,2012. Donna Kinville, City Clerk 40> 40 tab S®ut , . ,Nl .t 2, ,=.VERMONT AGENDA SOUTH BURLINGTON CITY COUNCIL FHT Middle School 500 Dorset Street SOUTH BURLINGTON, VERMONT Council Meeting 9:30 P.M. (approx. time,following Candidates' Forum) Monday, March 5, 2012 1) Consider entering executive session to discuss personnel, contract negotiations and litigation.. 2) #//# Sign Disbursements. 3) Other Business. 4) Adjourn. Respectfully Submitted: Sanford Miller, City Manager #/#l/ Attachments Sent Separately/Previously South Burlington City Council Meeting Participation Guidelines The City Council Chair is presenting these guidelines for public participation and attendance at City Council meetings in an effort to insure that everyone has a chance to be heard and meetings function as smoothly as possible. 1. Please raise your hand to be recognized to speak. The Chair will make every effort to recognize the public in the order in which hands are raised. 2. Once recognized by the Chair, please identify yourself to Council. 3. If the Council has suggested time limits, please respect them. Time limits will be used when they can aid in making sure everyone is heard and sufficient time is available for Council to conduct business items. 4. In order for City Councilors and other members of the audience to hear speakers' remarks, side conversations between audience members should be kept to an absolute minimum. The hallway outside the Community Room is available should people wish to chat more fully. 5. Please address the Chair. Please do not address other audience members or staff or presenters and please do not interrupt others when they are speaking. 6. Make every effort not to repeat the points made by others. 7. The Chair will make reasonable efforts to allow everyone who is interested in participating to speak once before speakers address the Council for a second time. 8. Council desires to be as open and informal as possible within the construct that the Council meeting is an opportunity for Councilors to discuss, debate and decide upon policy matters. Council meetings are not"town meetings". To this end, after the public has had the opportunity to make comments,the Chair may ask that discussion be among Councilors. CANDIDATES' FORUM Monday, March 5, 2012 - 8:00 p.m.* [*Time is approximate. Candidates' forum will begin immediately after the conclusion of Town Meeting] Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School (500 Dorset Street) Agenda 1. City Council Candidates - Moderator: Sandra Dooley, City Council Chair, 8:00 p.m. (est.) a. Candidates welcomed (Moderator). b. Opening statements (candidates—2 minutes each). c. Questions for the candidates (Moderator—candidates' responses one minute each). d. Questions from the public. e. Candidates' closing statements (one minute each). 2. School Board Candidates - Moderator: Winton Goodrich, Assistant Superintendent, 8:45 p.m. (est.) a. Candidates welcomed (Moderator). b. Opening statements (candidates—2 minutes each). c. Questions for the candidates (Moderator—candidates' responses one minute each). d. Questions from the public. e. Candidates' closing statements (one minute each). 3. Announcement of polling places (Moderator). 4. Adjourn. 9:30 p.m.