A Boring Town Meeting?
Civic
Agenda
On Monday, the Finance Commission will hold a public hearing on the upcoming Annual Town Meeting warrant articles. If you've taken a look at the bright red flyer that was mailed to all residents, you will notice six articles have been withdrawn including the petition articles to rezone/vary the Lambert's property for selling beer and wine.
So what's left? Well, of course there is the budget and essentially that's the point of town meeting this year. Approve the budget so the Town can keep operating... Then, there are some planning board articles that apparently provided a bit of a mathematics comprehension challenge at the last hearing.
And there is the placeholder article for Westwood Station. I still have heard no new information on whether any progress is being made or if the I-Cubed funding is even still on the table. Since the Board of Selectmen are meeting in the Faculty room at the High School just prior to the FinCom hearing in the Little Theatre, it is possible the placeholder article could take on new life--just in time to be voted on by FinCom. Monday's hearing is the final public hearing related to Annual Town Meeting.
Comments
I-Cubed funding
I don't know why the warrant article for I-Cubed funding is just now being put on for town meeting and why it wasn't put on with the rest of the articles.
The only reason I can think of is the BOS wanted to keep this warrant article as low key as possible.
The BOS are going to ask the town to support 6 million dollar I-Cube funding for CC&F. CC&F is getting 55 million from the state and now wants the town to apply for 6 million. I don't know who is funding this project the state the town or CC&F. Does CC&F have funding of their own yet? All I know is they keep asking for more and more from the residents of Westwood. If CC&F is lucky enough for the state to put up 55 million then they should feel very lucky without pushing their luck and asking the residents to vote yes on 6 million. We have a new library to pay for and a potential for a very large override next year, the last thing we should be doing is to be risking 6 million for CC&F.
no new information
According to this Boston Globe story, it sounds like the intention is to ask residents to approve the $6 million of I-Cubed funding...but I don't have the text of the warrant article or any information as to what was decided Monday night.
Placeholder Article Discussion on April 26
the Westwood Station warrant article--still a placeholder for now--will be taken up by FinCom at their April 26 meeting (day before the annual town election). So there is nothing officially new yet.