On Tuesday the Select Board took a final vote to ratify their prior vote on tax classification. This is when the Select Board, with the help of the Board of Assessors and the Assessor's department, gets to "determine the percentage of local tax levy which will be borne by each class of real and personal…
Users groups will begin moving into the Fairbank Community Center next week. The building is going to close on the December 11 and remain closed until early in the new year. On Wednesday, the Permanent Building Committee met to get an update, and the Owner's Project Manager shared some recent pictures of the building: …
The preliminary FY25 budget for Lincoln-Sudbury was presented on Tuesday night at the L-S School Committee meeting. (0:05:45) There were no big surprises. The guidance they received was slightly higher than their request, though they're being cautious with their initial request because of rising health insurance costs, and to mitigate a "fiscal cliff" went debt…
Act One: All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players
In December of 2022, the SPS School Committee was gearing up to pursue an override for FY24. Come January of 2023, the SPS School Committee was in a joint meeting with the Sudbury Select Board insisting that they had asked…
In May of 2022 a Citizen Petition passed at Sudbury’s Annual Town Meeting after much debate. The petition called for the Town to hire a Sustainability Director, declare a climate emergency, and begin long-term planning for sustainability, among other action items.
Prior to the 2022 Annual Town Meeting, the Select Board requested a legal…
Sudbury is known for its green space, its history and its schools, among many other wonderful things. One thing the town isn't known for is wireless coverage. Online community forums are frequently peppered with requests for recommendations on cell carriers, and there's never a clear winner in the comments. So what exactly is going on…
On Wednesday, the Rail Trails Advisory Committee (RTAC) met after recently completing a walk of the proposed route of Phase 3 of the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail. That's the section that runs from the intersection with the Mass Central Rail Trail at Union Road and Station Road and continues south to the Framingham border. …
On Tuesday the Select Board discussed the Sewataro financials, as they received the contractually-required annual reporting from the camp operator recently. The full report is on page 10 of the Select Board packet.
Per the latest version of the contract, the camp operator pays $200,000 each year in rent, which is up this year from $120,000 in…
On Monday the Sudbury Public Schools School Committee met, and MCAS results were back on the agenda. You can watch the presentation at 1:20:00, but the slides were also included in the packet for the meeting.
A big focus in the presentation was a comparison to 2019 results. Apparently something happened in 2020 that may have…
The State passed legislation commonly referred to as "MBTA Communities" back in 2021. The specifics of that legislation are not exactly common knowledge, and that's likely because zoning legislation is insufferably boring quite technical and requires a good deal of context to understand exactly what the impact will be in the real-world. Here's the best we can…