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LEGAL WARNING: Region #4 Public District Meeting Wednesday, 9/6, 7pm at JWMS

Posted on: August 17, 2023 - 9:00am
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WARNING
DISTRICT MEETING - PUBLIC HEARING REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 4
TOWNS OF CHESTER, DEEP RIVER AND ESSEX WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The electors and citizens qualified to vote in town meetings of the Towns of Chester, Deep River and Essex (the “Member Towns”) are hereby warned that a District Meeting of Regional School District No. 4 (the “District”) will be held on Wednesday, September 6, 2023 at 7:00 P.M. at the John Winthrop Middle School Library, located at 1 Winthrop Road, Deep River, CT 06417, for the purpose of conducting a public hearing on the following recommendation of the District Board of Education:

1.    That a supplemental appropriation of $622,947 be appropriated for the John Winthrop Middle School Security Project (the “Project”). The supplemental appropriation is in addition to the
$952,053 appropriation which was approved at a referendum held on November 2, 2021. The appropriation may be expended for design, construction, renovation and installation costs, engineering and professional fees, costs related to complying with Town building codes, materials, equipment, an elevator, purchase costs, legal fees, financing costs, interest expense on temporary borrowings, and other costs related to the Project. The appropriation shall include any federal, state or other grants-in-aid received for the Project. The John Winthrop Middle School Security Project Building Committee (the “Building Committee”), established by the District Board of Education as the building committee for the Project, shall be authorized to determine the scope and particulars of the Project, and may reduce or modify the scope of the Project as desirable, and the entire appropriation may be spent on the Project as so reduced or modified. The District anticipates receiving grants from the State of Connecticut for a portion of the eligible costs of the Project to defray in part the appropriation.

2.    That $622,947 of bonds, notes or temporary notes of the District be authorized to finance the supplemental appropriation. The authorization of $622,947 of bonds, notes or temporary notes of the District to finance the Project is in addition to the $952,053 authorization which was approved at a referendum held on November 2, 2021. The amount of the bonds authorized shall be reduced by the amount of any grants received by the District for the Project.

3.    That the Chair of the District Board of Education and the District Treasurer, be authorized to make representations and enter into written agreements for the benefit of holders of the bonds or notes to provide secondary market disclosure information.

4.    That the Building Committee be authorized to contract with architects, engineers, contractors and others in the name and on behalf of the District with respect to the Project, to approve design and construction expenditures for the Project, and to exercise such others powers as are necessary or appropriate to complete the Project.

5.    That the authorization of the issuance of bonds, notes or temporary notes shall be submitted to referendum vote by the electors and citizens qualified to vote in town meetings of the Member Towns of the District.


Dated at Deep River, Connecticut this 3rd day of August, 2023.