Legal Notice
TOWN OF POMFRET 
 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
MAY 17, 2016
The legal voters and citizens qualified to vote in Town Meeting of the Town of Pomfret are hereby warned to meet at the Pomfret Community School Cafeteria, 20 Pomfret Street, Pomfret, Connecticut on Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 7:00 P.M. to act upon the following articles:
Article 1: To choose a Moderator for said meeting.
Article 2: To see if the Town will consider and act upon the following resolution:  “Resolved” that the Board of Selectmen is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into an agreement with the Commissioner of Transportation and the Office of Policy and Management, State of Connecticut, for the expenditure of all Highway funds under the provisions of Chapter 240 and the expenditure of all Local Capital Improvement Funds under the provisions of Chapter 7-536, CT General Statutes, for fiscal year beginning July 1, 2016.
Article 3: To see if the Town will consider and adopt the Five-Year Local Capital Improvement Plan for fiscal year 2016–2017 as proposed by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 4: To hear and act upon the report of the Selectmen, Town Treasurer, Treasurer of the Local School Fund, and Board of Education, as published by the Board of Finance, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015.
Article 5: To see if the Town will accept the following cemetery funds for perpetual care: Abington Cemetery Association:  Gordon Mayo, Sr. & Sherry A. Mayo, 1 Grave #446, deTallyrand Annex, $100.00; Helen M. Welch, 2 Graves #441 & #442, deTallyrand Annex, $200.00; Nancy Bird, 2 Graves #474 & 475, East Annex, $200.00; Charles & Sharon Palcic, 1 Grave #443, deTallyrand Annex, $100.00; Al Paine, Jr., 2 Graves #444 & #445, deTallyrand Annex, $200.00; and Pomfret Cemetery Corporation:  James H. Gagnon, Yard Three (3), Lot 78 (Seventy-Eight), $100.00; Alton J. Semmelrock, Yard Three (3), Lot 79 (Seventy-Nine), $100.00.
Article 6: To see if the Town will approve a revision to Town Ordinance for ‘Regulating Purchases and Sales for the Town of Pomfret’ as amended at a Special Town Meeting held on September 17, 2003. Said revision to modify item one of Ordinance to ‘All contracts for goods or capital purchases reasonable estimated to cost $25,000 or more shall require the submission by invitation to bid…’ as allowed by Public Act 13-71; modify item two of Ordinance to ‘All contracts for goods or capital purchases reasonable estimated to cost between $2,500 and $25,000 shall be awarded based upon three or more quotes….’; and modify item eight of Ordinance to ‘Sale of used equipment which has a reasonabley estimated value of $5,000 or more shall be advertised….’  Copies of said Ordinance is available at the Office of the Pomfret Town Clerk. 
Article 7: To see if the Town will adopt a total appropriation in the amount of $12,377,413 for the 2016-2017 fiscal year budget with $2,520,162 of said amount to be the General Government Appropriation and $9,857,251 of said amount to be the Board of Education Appropriation, the same to be funded by estimated revenues as recommended by the Board of Finance.
Article 8: To do any other business proper to come before said meeting. 
 
Dated at Pomfret, Connecticut, this 11th day of May, 2016
Craig W. Baldwin
Barry T. Jessurun
Donna L. Smith
Its Board of Selectmen
 
Attest:  Cheryl A. Grist, Town Clerk
May 11, 2016
 
Legal Notice
Town of Pomfret
Invitation to Bid
Sealed bids for the lease of town-owned agricultural parcels will be received by the Town of Pomfret at the Office of the First Selectman, Pomfret Town Hall, Five Haven Road, Pomfret Center, CT  06259 until 1:00 PM, Local Prevailing Time, on Thursday, June 30, 2016.  Bidders are invited to submit bids for one or both of the two available parcels.
The terms of said leases will commence in the Spring of 2017 and expire in the Fall of 2021.  Descriptions of properties for lease, bid specifications, and proposal packages are available at the Pomfret Town Hall, First Selectmen’s Office, Five Haven Road, Pomfret Center, CT  06259 and are available on-line at www.pomfretct.gov/departments/first-selectman's-office
No Bidder may withdraw his/her bid for a period of forty-five (45) days after the actual date of the Bid opening.  The Town of Pomfret reserves the right to waive all formalities or to reject any or all Bids.
Dated at Pomfret, Connecticut
This 11th day of May, 2016
Craig W. Baldwin,
First Selectman
 
May 11, 2016
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