The Board of Selectmen will meet on Monday, July 9, 2012 in Town Building. In a departure from the customary schedule, the meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. After reviewing the agenda for the viewing public, Town Clerk Lois Toombs will administer the oath of service to new Firefighter/Paramedic Kyle McLaughlin. At 7:00 p.m., the Board will recess and reconvene in executive session in the School Committee Room in a joint session of the School Committee, Finance Committee, Personnel Board, and Board of Selectmen to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining negotiations with all town and school labor units with contracts expiring June 30, 2013.
At approximately 7:50 p.m., the Board will review the status of discussions involving residents of Oak Hill and Meadow View Road neighborhoods, NStar officials and town staff and state officials regarding the tree removal and vegetation management program in the easement and right-of-way involving electric transmission lines from Framingham, through Wayland and into Sudbury. Company officials have pledged to negotiate mitigation measures with individual property owners following the completion of the tree removal program and to protect wellheads, safeguard against erosion, and to use approved herbicides next year. NStar officials will appear to discuss concerns about potential future impacts such as erosion, wellhead and wetlands protection, and individual mitigation pledges, as well as the possibility of work beneath other transmission lines in Wayland.
Later, Selectmen will consider a request from the Wastewater Management District Commission to establish a temporary study committee to review cost estimates for a potential supplemental groundwater discharge area adjacent to Town Building.
After considering the consent calendar and reviewing correspondence, the Board will then hear the report of the Town Administrator, including updates on summer meeting agenda topics and overview of jurisdictional issues between committees and staff on policy and operational matters, before offering their own reports and concerns.
The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Selectmen's Meeting Room.
Fred Turkington
Town Administrator
