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Date: 6/7/2023
RUSSELL — Residents attending Russell’s Annual Town Meeting on June 12 at 7 p.m. in Town Hall will vote on the school budget and a series of transfers from free cash for ongoing projects in the town, all of which are recommended for approval by the Finance Committee.
Residents will vote to raise and appropriate $2,341,984 for Russell’s statutory assessment to the Gateway schools budget; and to raise and appropriate $192,659 and transfer from free cash $290,000 for vocational school tuition.
Free cash transfers include $10,000 to remove trees on West Main Street and replant new trees; $5,000 to replace the bathroom roof at Strathmore Park; and $200,000 for a new highway plow.
Residents are also being asked to approve a transfer from free cash of $45,000 for the construction of a police garage at the former Russell Elementary School, where the Russell-Montgomery Police are headquartered. The remaining $93,000 cost of the project will come from the $200,000 Community Compact grant that the department received in May 2022 when the two towns regionalized.
The town will also vote to appropriate $151,000 for the Russell Water and Sewer Asset Management project, $90,600 of which will be reimbursed by the MassDEP and Clean Water Trust in two payments at 50% and 100% of completion. The balance of the project will consist of in-kind services provided by the town valued at $42,000, and a cash contribution from town funds of $18,000.
Town Hall is at 65 Main St., Russell.