APPROPRIATION / MISCELLANEOUS

To see if the Town will vote the following: Legal Defense – To appropriate a sum of money to replenish the Legal Defense Fund established under Article 13, Section 5 of Title 1 of the Town Bylaws, Indemnification of Medical Costs, to appropriate a sum of money in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 41, Section 100B of the General Laws, to indemnify certain retired Police Officers and Firefighters for all reasonable medical and surgical expenses which they incurred, determine how the money will be raised and expended; or take any action related thereto.

Inserted at the request of the Town Manager

VOTE: 17-0-2

COMMENT: This Article comes before Town Meeting each year. No money is being sought to replenish the Legal Defense Fund. Like prior years, the Town is indemnifying certain medical costs incurred by our police officers and firefighters who have retired with a disability.

The sum of $10,815.17 be and hereby is appropriated for the following purposes: 

A. Legal Defense - To appropriate a sum of money to replenish the Legal Defense Fund established under Article 13 of Title I of the Town By-Laws - $0 
B. Indemnification of Medical Costs – $10,815.17 
(To indemnify certain retired Police Officers and Firefighters for all reasonable medical and surgical expenses which they incurred during the previous calendar year that are the proximate result of the disability for which they were retired; and to defray the expenses of the Medical Panel required by law; provided, incurred expenses shall be considered for indemnification thereunder except only those such as are excess over covered benefits of any plan of Hospital, Surgical or other coverage which the retiree has or had available to him, either directly or through a member of his immediate family, which benefits shall be considered primary, and which must be disclosed by such plan, or by the physician, hospital or other medical personnel or facility with or without the consent of the retiree.) 

Said sums to be raised by general tax and expended under the direction of the Town Manager.