Absentee Ballots Available

 For Master Plan Referendum

Absentee ballots are available in the town clerk’s office for the Tuesday, August 12, referendum on the Fairfield Hills master plan.

Any qualified person who meets any of the following criteria may vote by absentee ballot: active service in the Armed Forces; absence from the town during all the hours of voting; illness; physical disability; religious tenets that forbid secular activity on the day of the referendum, or duties as a referendum official at a polling place other than their own during all the hours of voting.

Absentee ballots are available during office hours, Monday through Friday, 8 am to 4:30 pm. The town clerk’s office also will have special voting hours on Saturday, August 9, from 9 am to noon, for the purpose of absentee ballot voting.

The referendum is on the question, “Shall the town of Newtown adopt and implement the master plan for Fairfield Hills campus, dated July 1, 2003, approved by the Legislative Council on June 18, 2003, and approved by the Board of Selectmen on July 7, 2003?”

The referendum will be on Tuesday, August 12, from 6 am to 8 pm, at the Middle School gymnasium on the proposed master plan for the Fairfield Hills campus.

Pursuant to Connecticut General Statutes Section 7-6, any person who is a registered voter in the town of Newtown or who is a US citizen who is assessed at least $1,000 for the real estate or motor vehicles on the 2002 Grand List for the town of Newtown, is qualified to vote at the referendum.

Copies of the master plan for Fairfield Hills are available for public inspection in the office of the town clerk and the office of the first selectman, both in Edmond Town Hall; at the C.H. Booth Library, and at www.newtownct.org.

Voters already approved the purchase of the former mental hospital from the state of Connecticut at a town meeting last year.

Anyone who has any questions should contact the town clerk at 270-4210.