Special Town Meeting

 

            The electors and those persons eligible to vote in town meetings of the Town of Thomaston, Connecticut, are hereby WARNED AND NOTIFIED that a Special Town Meeting will be held in in the Lena Morton Art Gallery, Town Hall, 158 Main Street, Thomaston, Connecticut, on Wednesday, February 11, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. for the following purposes: 

 

ITEM 1. As recommended by the Board of Selectmen and Board of Finance, to consider and act on a Resolution:

 

(a)           To appropriate $5,410,000 for various improvements, repairs, modifications, replacements and upgrades to, and equipment for, the Town’s wastewater treatment facility, including, but not limited to, improvements and upgrades to flow meters, pumps, UV disinfection system, sequencing batch reactor (SBR) controls, and sludge building; 

 

(b)           To finance said appropriation by issuing the Town’s bonds, notes, temporary notes, loans, interim funding obligations and/or project loan obligations in an amount not to exceed $5,410,000;

 

(c)           To authorize the First Selectman and Treasurer to issue the bonds, notes, temporary notes, loans, interim funding obligations and/or project loan obligations;

 

(d)          To take actions under applicable Internal Revenue Service regulations to allow the Town to issue the bonds, notes, temporary notes or loans on a tax-exempt basis; and

 

(e)           To authorize the First Selectman to execute agreements for the project; and to authorize other Town boards and officials to take all other actions necessary to complete the project and issue the bonds, notes, temporary notes, loans, interim funding obligations and/or project loan obligations to finance the appropriation.

 

ITEM 2. As recommended by the Board of Finance, to consider and act on an appropriation of $170,500 from Fund Balance to pay Tighe & Bond for engineering of the Elm Street improvement project, and to authorize the First Selectman and Board of Selectmen to take all actions and execute all documents necessary or convenient for that purpose.

 

ITEM 3. Pursuant to Chapter 154, “Fees”, of the Code of the Town of Thomaston, and as recommended by the Planning and Zoning Commission and the Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Commission, to consider and act on proposed amendments to the Planning and Zoning Fee Schedule and the Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Fee Schedule, and to authorize those Commissions to take administrative actions necessary or convenient to implement the revised fee schedules. 

 

ITEM 4. To consider and act on a proposed SOLID WASTE ORDINANCE, amending Chapter 235, “Solid Waste”, of the Code of the Town of Thomaston.

 

ITEM 5. To consider and act on a proposed ORDINANCE permitting a TAX EXEMPTION FOR CERTAIN DISABLED VETERANS AND THEIR SURVIVING SPOUSES, amending Chapter 247, “Taxation”, of the Code of the Town of Thomaston.

 

ITEM 6. To consider and act on a proposed ordinance authorizing the Economic Development Commission to elect a Vice-Chairperson of that Commission, amending Chapter 10, “Boards, Commissions, and Committees”, Article XI, “Economic Development Commission”, of the Code of the Town of Thomaston.

 

ITEM 7. To consider and act on a proposed Municipal Acceptable Recyclables Materials Services Agreement between Murphy Road Recycling, LLC, and the Town of Thomaston, and to authorize the First Selectman and Board of Selectmen to take all actions and execute all documents necessary or convenient for that Agreement.

 

 

Copies of the full text of the Resolutions are on file and available for inspection at the Office of the Town Clerk. 

 

 

Dated at Thomaston, Connecticut this 3rd day of February, 2026.

 

                                                                                    

 

BOARD OF SELECTMEN               

 

                                                            

                                                                                    ______________________________
                                                                                     Richard Sileo

First Selectman

 

 

                                                                                    ______________________________
                                                                                     Michael Burr

Selectman

 

 

                                                                                    ______________________________
                                                                                     Beth Campbell

Selectman