Town Meeting Update

The September 30th Town Meeting ended with only the zoning article unfinished. TM voted, by a landslide, to support the effort of the Recreation Commission to move forward with the grant application. The $900k project for the Wildwood site could bring a 56% reimbursement from the PARC grant.We will know our status November 15th. The Recreation Dept acknowledged that if the grant did not win approval, they would scale back the project.

The term limits article and the removal of stipends from elected officials did not pass. The hotel tax increase did move forward by a strong majority. 100% of this increase will go to our town could bring in up to $500 thousand in a full calendar year. I will make a strong suggestion that the extra money go into our stabilization account. The stabilization account is the town's rainy day funds and require a 2/3 majority vote at Town Meeting to spend the money.