In addition to voting NO on Article 6 and the other five parts of the red ink budget (Articles 7, 8, 10, 11 and 12), you can save $17 miillion by helping cancel a terriblly conceived Annex project by voting YES on Article 27.

There are several Affordable Housing articles in the Zoning articles 28, 29 and 30 which have been said to be confusing and inconsistent; a NO vote will force a set of clairifications.

Article 31 has important financial ramifications. Vote YES to require that the Finance Committee get the Town Manager's (and, hopefully, School Commitee's proposal) at the same time as the Selectmen so the Finance Committee can advise the Selectmen as well as the Town Meeting. The sooner the Finance Commitee gets these documents the more they can get to understand globally what's going on. For example, the Finance Committee rightly rejected Article 6 this year but had mixed votes on the other parts of the six-part budget, principally because they did not get the big picture early enough.

Vote YES on 31. If it may influence you, the Town Manager and Selectmen Whitcomb are for NO, but Chairman Summers, Selectmen Sussman and Berstrom and Selectwoman Seldin say vote YES.

With all the overspending that's been going on, the sewer project (Article 14) doesn't come at a good time. If Article 6 passes, the property tax levy is going to rise $770,000 or $80 for the $600,000 home.. If Article 27 doesn't get voted down and the Annex goes forward, add another$140. And if the first $60 million of sewer bonds gets approved and sold, add another $222.

An Article 14 YES vote tells the town to go see if it can get federal stimulus in some meaningful amount. During the summer and fall as the facts become known, there can be a drive to get all the facts on the table for a special town meeting in December (which 200 taxpayers can call) on wastewater pros and cons. There's been a flurry of articles in the past few days about how the state is going to force all Cape towns to really get going on nitrate reduction, but these were driven by the well know agitator the Conservative Law Foundation, whose press releases are dutifuly reprinted by the Cape Cod Times. There was a chuckle in one report: It said reducing nitrates could cost millions of dollars. Or was it tens of millions of dollar?. Of course, it's hundreds of millions of dollars. To get the needed favorable vote there has to be a YES at Town Meeting on the 11th and a YES vote in the secret ballot at the Election on the 14th.