Dighton Water District voters weigh $300,000 for capital fund, $50,000 for service lines Nov. 10
The warrant also asks for $50,000 for retirees' health benefits, $25,000 for an audit and $20,000 for police details, and shifts about $43,600 left over from earlier votes into this year's budget.
DIGHTON Updated 6:13 p.m. Nov. 4, 2026.
Dighton Water District voters decide Tuesday, Nov. 10, whether to move $300,000 of free cash into the district's capital improvement fund and spend more on service lines, according to the special meeting warrant.
The meeting is at 7 p.m. in the Dighton Elementary School cafeteria. Only residents of the district who are registered and qualified to vote in district affairs can vote, the warrant says. Its voters held their annual district meeting May 28.
The warrant, dated Oct. 13 and signed by the commissioners, lists 13 articles.
The two largest requests
Article 2 would transfer $300,000 from free cash, money left unspent from past years, to the district's Capital Improvement Stabilization fund, a savings account for future work on the system. Article 13 would transfer another $50,000 from free cash for what the warrant calls "LCRI Service Line Improvements." The warrant does not say which streets or lines the money would cover.
Article 3 asks for $50,000 for the district's Other Post-Employment Benefits Liability Trust Fund, which the warrant says was set up "to cover the unfunded actuarial liability for retirees' health care and life insurance benefits." Article 11 asks for $25,000 for an independent audit of the district's fiscal 2026 financial statements, and Article 12 asks for $20,000 to refill the police detail line in the budget. Those three would be raised or taken from available funds.
Old balances moved to this year
Three pairs of articles would close out money left from earlier votes and move it into this year's operating lines:
- Articles 4 and 5: $21,605.95 left from the Cedar 1 replacement approved at a Sept. 21, 2023, special district meeting, moved to the water meter service line.
- Articles 6 and 7: $12,170 left from a new dump body for a truck approved at the May 28, 2026, annual district meeting, moved to building maintenance and supplies.
- Articles 8 and 9: $9,810.40 left from a loader approved at the same May 28 meeting, moved to vehicle repair and maintenance.
Those balances total $43,586.35, by our count. The five new requests in Articles 2, 3, 11, 12 and 13 add up to $445,000, with at least $350,000 of it from free cash.
The posted warrant skips from Article 9 to Article 11; there is no Article 10. Article 14 covers any other business that may lawfully come before the meeting.
Where the money comes from
Articles 2 and 13 name free cash as the source. Articles 3, 11 and 12 are written to raise and appropriate the money or transfer it from available funds, and the warrant does not say which the commissioners intend. It gives no estimate of any effect on water rates.
How to take part
District voters can attend in person; the warrant lists no remote option. Copies of the warrant were posted at district headquarters, Dighton Town Hall and the North Dighton and South Dighton post offices, and it is on the town's Agenda Center under Water District.
Dighton voters also meet Monday, Nov. 9, for a special town meeting. Our story on that warrant covers its articles.
Label: Reported by us, from the town's posted records.
Notes
Every fact about the Nov. 10 meeting comes from the Dighton Water District's special meeting warrant, which the town posted on its Agenda Center. We read it on Nov. 4 and added the sums ourselves. The warrant is a scan; we read each figure from the page image. We checked each date and weekday against a calendar.
Corrections
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Sources (1)
- Dighton Water District special meeting warrant, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026 (dated Oct. 13, 2026; stamped received by the Dighton town clerk Nov. 2, 2026, 11:58 a.m.)Dighton Water District. Time, place, who may vote, Articles 1 to 9 and 11 to 14, sums, the earlier meetings the balances come from, where the warrant was posted. Read Nov. 4, 2026.