Politics & Government

Town Meeting Tables Culvert Study, Board of Selectmen Back to Drawing Board

Town Meeting rejected Article Four and took no action on Article Three, which both addressed the next steps for culverts for flood mitigation in town on Monday, November 4.

The plan to appropriate funds for the culvert under Skillings Athletic Field, surface grading to re-establish the floodway and the costs was shelved until the Selectmen meeting on Tuesday, October 29. The Board voted no action on this article in order to review the information regarding the culvert project.

Article four, which presented the option to appropriate or transfer from available funds of $30,000 to support an independent review of technical, legal and economic feasibility of restoring the living river west of Skillings Field.

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This article, which proposed funding an economic feasibility study to see if daylighting the river would be less expensive was ultimately shot down. 


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