The special Town Meeting scheduled for June 19 will use about $9,000 from town coffers.
"They (selectmen) will come to us half an hour before Town Meeting and ask to make a reserve fund transfer," Finance Commission Chairman Jim Connors said last week.
The cost covers a night of staffing and the setting up of chairs and speakers in the high school gymnasium, said Town Administrator Mike Jaillet. Jaillet said Westwood will have additional costs to cover mailings and other preparations for Town Meeting.
Nine articles appear on the warrant for special Town Meeting. After pulling all but one of their articles, selectmen left an article authorizing them to seek money to improve existing playing fields or convert the fields to turf.
The remaining eight articles are resident petitions, most of which tie to the 4.5-million-square-foot, mixed-use Westwood Station development.
Four articles relate to the zoning district for which Westwood Station is proposed and would limit the height of buildings to four stories, with the exception of seven stories for hotels; keep individual retail stores at no more than 25,000 square feet; and cap the number of residential units at 500.
Another article proposes to construct an 8-foot high noise and safety barrier between Westwood Station and the adjacent Whitewood Road neighborhood.
Two articles call for the town to implement solutions for traffic problems on Canton Street, Everett Street and Forbes Road, though a steering committee has been formed since the filing of the article.
The remaining article would prevent selectmen from allowing a ramp and road to Westwood Station from being built on the so-called White parcel, a piece of land within project boundaries that is adjacent to the Whitewood neighborhood. Articles that would have authorized the selectmen to allow the road and ramp have been pulled to allow the neighborhood and developer more time for negotiations.
Both the Finance Commission and Economic Development Advisory Board have voted against all nine articles with recommendations of indefinite postponement.
Daily News staff writer Greg Duggan can be reached at 781-433-8355 or gduggan@cnc.com.
