And, with that, the Town Meeting warrant for April 25 is set.

The Board of Selectmen quickly moved through their meeting Tuesday night, in order to decide how to advise the town on each article for the Town Meeting. Providing input was the Finance Committee, which took its vote separately. The Selectmen also closed the Special Town Meeting Warrant during the meeting.

The Board of Selectmen motioned to create a Dog Park Study Committee which will report back to the Town Meeting, not the board. The board said that creating a dog park in Minot Forest is illegal, and requires the committee to either provide a report or a warrant article suggesting the creation of a dog park in another location.

According to Teitelbaum and affirmed by Town Council Richard Bowen, since Minot Forest was rededicated in 1993 during Town Meeting for passive recreation purposes, having a dog park would be an illegal, active use of the land.

Two out of three citizens petitions to be included in the Town Meeting were motioned unfavorably by the Board of Selectmen during the meeting. These included the mobile home park by-laws article, and the creation of a separate district for sewer uses.

The proposed mobile home park bylaw, which places rent restrictions on mobile home parks, will need legislative approval before it can be adopted, but it is a move that the petitioner must make.

The creation of a separate district for sewer use, was deemed a “wasteful article” by Teitelbaum.

“It appears to be some kind of private vendetta against the Selectmen that's causing this,” he said.

Selectmen decided to hold off on voting on the following articles: the capital plan, the town budget, amending the towns wetland bylaw, the reorganization of town departments, and water pollution control facility enterprise fund.

The Westfield fence and field improvements article, which will grant $24,000 from the Community Preservation Committee to fund purchase and installation of fencing, was moved to Special Town Meeting Warrant and is now included as Article 12 on the warrant.

The Finance Committee decided to hold off on voting on the Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School budget (which stands at $3,068,911 for Fiscal Year 2017) to be added to the warrant, because representatives haven't yet approached the committee with a presentation. Wareham Emergency Medical Services also has not presented its $1,511,527 budget to the Finance Committee, and the committee held off on that vote, too.

Though the Board of Selectmen voted favorably for the First Congregational Church historic window preservation and a $60,000 grant from the Community Preservation Commission for the project, the Finance Committee voted narrowly 3-2, with one abstention, for the project at their last meeting and voiced their concerns about it.

“The windows are not in any special artistic excellence. They're not going to attract any people from outside of town to see this,” said committee member Thomas Worthen. “I suggest that if we're going to do it, that they raise their $100,000 first before the town commits to $60,000.”

The historical window preservation is article twelve on the Town Warrant. Articles 13 and 14 proved to be confusing and problematic during the meeting as well. Article 13 proposes a 6-month lease of the Onset Historical Bathhouse Rehabilitation for the Buzzards Bay Coalition, and article 14 opens a lease for the bathhouse for at least 99 years.

Article 13 allows the Buzzards Bay Coalition to receive $215,000 from the Community Preservation Committee, if voted upon during Town Meeting, in order to restore the bathhouse. This could only be done if a lease is drafted, granting Buzzards Bay Coalition the proper standing to receive the grant.

Article 14 opens a 99-year lease for the bathhouse, which must go out as a request for proposals, and could be bought by the highest bidder after the six-month lease of the Buzzards Bay Coalition.

Though both articles were motioned favorably by both the Board of Selectmen and the Finance Committee, the distinctions and connections between both articles were made during the meeting for the public's sake.

“The $215,000 is going towards the Onset Bathhouse, so those monies would be put in town-owned building of the Onset Bathhouse. Buzzards Bay could not take that and spend it on anything else, only on that building,” said Derek Sullivan for clarification.