ï <b>ARTICLE 1</b>, an annual article appointing non-elected officials, passed.

ï <b>ARTICLE 1</b>, an annual article appointing non-elected officials, passed.

ï <b>ARTICLE 2</b>, the reading of reports by town officers and town committees and the acceptance of the annual town report, passed. Debra Jewell of the Duxbury Youth Commission and John Carnuccio of the Bay Management Study Committee gave reports on their committees’ progress.

ï <b>ARTICLE 3</b> passed. Compensation for selectmen, the town meeting moderator, the assessors and the town clerk were set at the same amounts as last year. The total is $68,040; the town clerk’s salary is $58,000.

ï <b>ARTICLE 4</b>, the acceptance of state highway funding, known as Chapter 90 money, passed in the amount of $268,923.

ï <b>ARTICLE 5</b>, the fiscal year 2005 operating budget for the town and schools totaling more than $46.9 million, passed.

ï <b>ARTICLE 6</b>, the FY 2005 capital budget totaling $757,923, passed.

ï <b>ARTICLE 7</b>, the Duxbury Personnel Plan and Compensation Schedule used to give raises to 42 full-time, 16 part-time and 137 seasonal non-union, town employees, passed in the amount of $67,500.

ï <b>ARTICLE 8</b> for funding collective bargaining agreements from any of the nine unions was indefinitely postponed. There were no union contracts.

ï <b>ARTICLE 9</b> passed with a two-third majority in the amount of $200,000 for the annual lease of Duxbury Beach from its owner, the non-profit, Duxbury Beach Reservation, Inc.

ï <b>ARTICLE 10</b> passed.  This article establishes a revolving bus fund for the school department’s transportation fee.

ï <b>ARTICLE 11</b> passed. The income and assets limits for a senior citizen’s tax abatement were increased, making more Duxbury seniors eligible for a $1,000 real estate tax break.

ï <b>ARTICLE 12</b> failed. Voters rejected a citizen’s petition to adopt a state law instituting a senior tax relief program because Duxbury already has a similar program that has been working well since 1995. Selectmen, the Finance Committee, and the Council on Aging opposed this article.

ï<b> ARTICLE 13</b> to establish an affordable housing trust fund to hold money for use in creating low- or moderate-income housing in Duxbury passed.

ï<b> ARTICLE 14</b>, which amends the town’s zoning bylaws on inclusionary housing, passed. 

ï<b>ARTICLE 15</b> to establish an Economic Advisory Committee passed by a vote of 91-57.

ï <b>ARTICLE 16</b> to amend the zoning bylaw to add the new “Waterfront Scenic Area Overlay District, or WSA, passed after a second vote.  On the article’s first vote, citizens failed to get the two-thirds approval by a count of 131-90.

ï<b> ARTICLE 17</b> passed.  This article amends the zoning bylaws with language governing pier construction and reconstruction as well as shared piers.

ï<b> ARTICLE 18</b> to convey a tenth of an acre of property to resident Paul Mahoney passed by the required two-thirds majority approval.

ï<b> ARTICLE 19</b> was indefinitely postponed.  This article was a citizen’s petition seeking to have the town’s annual report published on a calendar year as opposed to the current practice of being published on a fiscal year.

ï<b> ARTICLE 20</b> to create a town study government committee was passed as amended to clarify language on its membership requirements.

ï <b>ARTICLE 21</b> passed with the required two-thirds approval.  This article asked voters to accept Lewis Farm Road as a public road.

ï<b> ARTICLE 22</b> passed with the required two-thirds approval.  This article asked voters to accept Butternut Drive as a public road.

ï<b> ARTICLE 23</b> passed with the required two-thirds approval.  This article asked voters to accept Brewer’s Lane as a public road.

ï<b> ARTICLE 24</b> to adopt an amended zoning map for the town passed with the required two-thirds majority approval.

ï<b> ARTICLE 25</b> to grant permission for the planning board to appoint two, non-elected associate members to sit on special permit hearings only was passed with the required two-thirds majority.

ï<b> ARTICLE 26</b> passed.  This article asked voters to add 67 streets to the town’s scenic roads list.

ï <b>ARTICLE 27</b> to allocate $5,000 for a new street map passed.

ï<b> ARTICLE 28</b> was indefinitely postponed.  This article proposed eliminating references to gravel in sections of the zoning bylaw that deal with parking regulations and site development standards.

ï<b> ARTICLE 29</b> passed.  This article will correct a minor change to the zoning bylaw, fixing a typographical error that lists the wrong section of the bylaw as a reference point.  The vote received the two-thirds majority approval by citizens.

ï<b> ARTICLE 30</b> to create an 11-member Local Housing Partnership passed.

ï<b> ARTICLE 31</b> passed. Ten percent of the Community Preservation Act tax surcharge, or  $186,500, will be allocated to accounts for each of its three purposes: affordable housing, open space and historical preservation.

ï<b> ARTICLE 32</b> passed. The town will spend  $13,800 in Community Preservation Act funds for a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) map.

ï<b> ARTICLE 33</b> was indefinitely postponed. It proposed a transfer of part of the Delano property off Old Cordwood Path from the town to the Water Department for a future well.

ï<b> ARTICLE 34</b>, a citizen’s petition for a resolution submitted by the “Citizens for Peaceful Solutions,” passed 59-26. See related story.

ï<b> ARTICLE 35</b> passed, appropriating $10,000 for the July 4th parade and ceremony. Retiring Fire Chief Bill Harriman will be the parade’s Grand Marshall.

ï<b> ARTICLE 36</b> passed. The Council on Aging revolving fund was reauthorized to hold up to $40,000.

ï <b>ARTICLE 37</b> was indefinitely postponed. It proposed to allow the harbormaster to use non-criminal procedures against people who violate the town’s beach rules and regulations.

ï<b> ARTICLE 38</b> passed, 58 to 33. Duxbury’s nuclear emergency plan will be changed to require that all school buses stationed in town be used exclusively for Duxbury residents during an emergency at the Pilgrim nuclear power station in Plymouth. See related story.

ï<b> ARTICLE 39</b> passed. Duxbury’s nuclear emergency plan will be changed to require that the reception center to which residents would evacuate during an emergency at Pilgrim be able to handle 100 percent of institutionalized people, such as students in school and the elderly in a nursing home, and 75 percent of the regular population. See related story.

ï<b> ARTICLE 40</b> was indefinitely postponed. It proposed to make it Duxbury’s policy to oppose Pilgrim’s re-licensing until the owners use the secured dry cask storage method of storing spent nuclear fuel.

ï <b>ARTICLE 41</b> failed 40 to 53. A citizen’s petition, it proposed to open up any review of changes to the nuclear emergency plan to include selectmen, the Nuclear Advisory Committee and the Duxbury Emergency Management Agency.

ï<b> ARTICLE 42</b> passed. Duxbury supported unifying its two legislative districts into one and directing its legislators to work to that end.

ï<b> ARTICLE 43</b> was indefinitely postponed. It was a routine article to pay any unpaid bills from the previous fiscal year.

ï<b> ARTICLE 44</b> was indefinitely postponed. It was an annual article to add money from the town’s free cash account to the stabilization fund.

ï<b> ARTICLE 45</b> passed. Voters directed the board of assessors to use $798,477 from free cash and $267,746 from the stabilization fund to reduce the tax levy.