The Combined Facilities Director (CFD) is responsible for the facility planning, renovation, construction, sustainability, maintenance, and repair of all Town-owned buildings including the K-8 school buildings.   Sandra Duran was hired to do that job in May 2022.  A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Town and Sudbury Public Schools (K-8) which has been in…

I am writing in response to Diana Warren's opinion piece of July 25, 2024 [link]. It was valuable by laying out the history of the Tercentenary Marker issue in Sudbury. I participated in two of the events and I have a different viewpoint. While I serve as Town Historian, I want to be very clear…

You may use this link to find the School Committee’s meeting packet where the Facilities Department Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) appears at the very end. The MOA was executed in January 2012 and is outdated as it does not reflect arrangements made subsequently related to personnel, salaries, and cost allocation that were mentioned at the…

[This opinion article was submitted by Matt Allen and signed by CJ Davis, David Merrill, Sarah Kelly and Jim Kelly] Dear Fellow Resident of Sudbury, We, the concerned residents of Pine Lakes, write expressing our concern and disapproval of the Sudbury Housing Authority’s (SHA) plan to demolish four single-family homes (21 Great Lake…

Earlier this week the SPS School Committee met to discuss dissolving their current agreement with the Town of Sudbury for a shared facilities department. The following is a letter that we sent to the Committee strongly encouraging a vote in their upcoming meeting to continue the arrangement and ensure Sandra Duran remains our joint facilities director.…

The Select Board meeting of July 30 was out of the ordinary. When Chair Jennifer Roberts called for Reports from the Select Board, Mr. Carty started out (timestamp 5:40) by saying he was not giving a report, but “In lieu of comment tonight I want to read a statement.”   He then read a…

“Every time we go by these (Tercentenary) signs…our heart hurts, and we think about what happened to us. So, are these signs, OK? Absolutely not. Should these signs be revamped? Absolutely not. They are false history. They are a grim reminder of the assimilation and colonization that was set forth in laws (against Indigenous people).…

The Select Board has adopted a positive practice of liaising with many town committees.  To liaise is to communicate for the purpose of establishing and maintaining mutual understanding.  It is to act as a neutral conduit of information; neither to influence nor to express positions on behalf of the Select Board that have not been…

On Tuesday, July 16, the Select Board took the unprecedented step of refusing, 3-2, to reappoint a full member of the Zoning Board of Appeals to another term. Member Russo led the charge against the entire ZBA, and in particular Jon Gossels.  Mr. Gossels has served 24 years on the ZBA, more than any other…