Select Board — March 16, 2026

My concern is a little bit more narrow about the town's material, video, et cetera, talk about issuing one cart per household without a fee and talked about fees potentially for excess trash. So if that's what our intention is, I want to see the bylaw reflect that intention. — Unidentified speaker · Expressing concern about trash bylaw amendment not matching public communications ▶ 42:54

I will throw in a comment that was made to me recently which is that trash removal is never free. It's merely the whether or not it is an additional fee based service. We do cover it obviously through the tax levy as we do all municipal services. — Unidentified speaker · Discussing the concept of 'free' trash collection in bylaw language ▶ 46:16

I'm very pleased with 19A. I think it's one of the most important policies we've put together as a select board in terms of moving forward with the high school. — Unidentified speaker · Commenting on capital stabilization fund appropriation for high school debt service ▶ 30:03

We are not meeting again until the night town meeting commences. So if we take a lot of, you know, wait and see or leaning positions, we will. We will not be providing our information in advance as town meeting members are trying to look to us for some guidance. — Unidentified speaker · Encouraging board members to take definitive positions on warrant articles ▶ 1:00:04

I would like to defer to the selection made by the professionals, by the planning, the engineering, public safety professionals — Unidentified speaker · Explaining opposition to citizen petition for speed bumps on Walnut Street in favor of staff recommendations ▶ 1:15:30

I support their request, especially since I also take a look at many other communities that have deployed these kinds of verticals, speed controls, to manage traffic effectively — Unidentified speaker · Supporting citizen petition for speed bumps despite staff opposition ▶ 1:17:50

I'm a little concerned about the long term needs of someone who's on a temporary program — Unidentified speaker · Questioning the rental assistance program's six-month limit and lack of case management ▶ 1:55:53

This gives them the temporary relief to get them caught up, to make sure that they are going to be able to get caught up with their rental — Unidentified speaker · Explaining the rationale behind temporary rental assistance as stabilization rather than permanent solution ▶ 1:55:53

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Once somebody gets to the point of eviction proceedings starting, it's almost an irrecoverable kind of process at that point. — Unidentified speaker · Supporting the housing assistance pilot program as preventive measure ▶ 2:12:47

I thought we had already decided to do this, so I'm glad we are deciding to do this or will. I think this will be more work for us, but I think it's important work for us to do. — Unidentified speaker · Expressing strong support for committee reappointment process reform ▶ 2:31:52

I very much look forward to this. I do think that there may be an opportunity to work with committee chairs to help develop a system whereby people who are interested in joining committees... increasing that expectation level — Unidentified speaker · Supporting enhanced committee application and evaluation processes ▶ 2:35:46

You don't want to exclude people who have shown interest in the town over many years and have real expertise on these committees. — Speaker D (Mr. Pressman) · Public comment opposing term limits and expressing concern about excluding experienced committee members ▶ 2:43:34