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Sudbury voters will consider nine warrant articles at a special town meeting Monday, Dec. 1, at 7 p.m. at the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School auditorium.
Two articles covering funding for replacement and repair of the roof systems at Haynes and Nixon elementary schools were the original reason for the special town meeting. Town departments have added six additional warrant articles, and there is also a citizens’ petition article. The warrant is available the Town website, and copies will be mailed to every household.
The Haynes and Nixon roof replacement and repair projects will also require a vote at a special town election Tuesday, Dec. 16, regardless of the outcome of the town meeting vote. The Town has posted an information sheet on these two projects.
The Town has filed three articles seeking authorization to proceed with installing solar energy generating facilities in the parking lots at Curtis Middle School, the Sudbury Police Station, and Haskell Field.
Two Town-sponsored articles, Article 6 and 7, are to update the Town’s rules on holders of licenses to sell alcoholic beverages.
According to the Town Manager report in the warrant, Article 6 would authorize the Town “to accept the provisions of Massachusetts General Law Chapter 138, Section 12D, enacted in 2025, which allows holders of on-premises wine and malt beverage licenses to exchange their license for an on-premises all-alcohol license. The upgraded license is non-transferable and reverts to a wine and malt license once surrendered.
Acceptance of this statute would not increase the total number of licenses allocated to Sudbury but would offer local businesses greater flexibility while maintaining state compliance.”
According to the Town Manager report in the warrant, Article 7 would authorize the Town “to accept the provisions of Massachusetts General Law Chapter 138, Section 33B, which permits on-premises license holders to sell alcoholic beverages beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Sundays and certain holidays that fall on a Sunday, with approval from the Local Licensing Authority. Although the Select Board approved this change in 2010, it was never formally accepted by Town Meeting. Adoption of this article will officially bring Sudbury’s licensing regulations into compliance with the law and current practice.”
The final Town article would increase the demand fee charged to taxpayers who do not pay their real estate, personal property, or motor vehicle excise taxes by the due date and who are issued a formal written demand notice from $10 to $20.
The citizens’ petition article seeks to create a fund for designing and constructing sidewalks by allocating 1% of real estate taxes over the next 10 years to such a fund.