Seekonk Library Study Approved

Voters at Monday’s town meeting approved $100,000 for a feasibility study for the Seekonk Public Library.

Other articles which were approved:

• Appropriate the sum of $55, 217.66 from the Ambulance Receipts account for the purchase of two LUCAS machines to assist with CPR for the Fire Department.
• To act on the report of the Community Preservation Committee on the Fiscal Year 2024 Community Preservation Budget and to appropriate from the Community Preservation Fund a sum of money to meet the administrative expenses and all other necessary and proper expenses of the CPC for Fiscal Year 2024. The FY 2024 Budgeted Reserve is $450, 928.
• Authorized the Board of Selectmen to dispose of surplus property or materials no longer needed by the town.
• Authorized the Board of Selectmen to appoint a Medeiros Farm Committee consisting of seven members for the purpose of overseeing the Medeiros Farm project Elm Street and Lincoln Street. The committee will operate under the direction of the BOS. Members will be representing the CPC, Historic Commission, Conservation Commission, Parks and Recreation Committee, and the Planning Board.

An article regarding the acquisition by gift, purchase, or eminent domain of six parcels of land at 34 Hammond Street, 0 Hammond Street, 291 Chestnut Street, 297 Chestnut Street, 303 Chestnut Street and 0 Chestnut Street containing 6.46 acres, and to appropriate and transfer $560,000 from the Community Preservation Budgeted Reserve Fund for the purchase of that property, was indefinitely postponed.