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The Sudbury Select Board and the Finance Committee are in the middle of their processes of voting their positions of support or opposition to Town Meeting articles. They’ve taken votes on most of the articles, but several highly anticipated votes will have to wait for their next meeting or longer.
Here’s the status on the noteworthy votes so far:
Select Board
- All of their votes so far have been in support of the articles.
- They voted to support all of the Community Preservation Committee articles except one that has yet to get a vote: the CPC article providing $450K to the Sudbury Housing Authority for their duplex project. The votes were unanimous except for the Hosmer House Envelope and HVAC article, which garnered a ‘no’ vote from Vice Chair Dan Carty.
- They have not taken a position on the three citizen petitions on the warrant. That includes one that would cut the Community Preservation Act surcharge in half. According to Town Manager Andy Sheehan, the petitioner has not agreed to present the petition to the Select Board.
- They have not voted on the additional funds for the Atkinson Pool renovation, as the Town is still developing more information.
- They have not voted on the opt-in stretch energy code article.
- Watch their votes and discussion at 3:42:00
Finance Committee
- They have taken almost all of their votes. However, the Finance Committee doesn’t vote on every article, and may opt not to take a position on certain articles they have discussed.
- They’re waiting for more information on the Atkinson Pool article, the opt-in stretch energy code article, and the pool enterprise fund adjustment article.
- They opposed the pension stabilization fund and the accrued leave fund.
- They opposed the Capital Planning article that would raised the threshold for Capital Improvement Advisory Committee review of capital projects to $500,000.
- They opposed the Community Preservation Committee article to fund the second sport court, pavilion and landscape study at the Fairbank Community Center/Haskell Field. (The Select Board supported that article unanimously)
- While they ultimately supported the SPS article for ELA curriculum implementation, it was a 6-3 vote.
- They have not taken a position on the citizen petitions.
- Watch their votes and deliberations in their last two meetings. (March 24, March 17)
