All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the agenda.
Thursday, Oct. 21
- Local Housing Partnership, 4 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 26
- Select Board, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 27
- Board of Health, 5:30 p.m.
Conversation Starters
Town Meeting Quorum Reduced
The select board and Town Moderator Dan Silverman have chosen to reduce the quorum to 100 people for the special town meeting on Dec. 4. Normally, 6 percent of the town’s registered voters must be present for a town meeting to take place. With 2,998 voters, the quorum would have been 179 voters.
The meeting will be held in the gym at Eastham’s Nauset Regional High School, which is four times the size of the Wellfleet Elementary School gym, where town meetings usually take place, to allow for physical distancing.
Given the circumstances, it’s important to ensure we can get the business done, Silverman said during the Oct. 12 select board meeting.
Finding a New Administrator
The select board appointed interim Town Administrator Charles Sumner and Fire Chief Richard Pauley to the town administrator search committee. The new committee needs three more members.
More appointments are on the agenda for the Oct. 26 board meeting. Applications for the search committee were due in to the select board by Tuesday, Oct.19.
Since he has worked and lived in the community for over eight years, served briefly as the town administrator, and supervises one of the town’s largest departments, Chief Pauley told the board he could be helpful in the search process.
Sumner has been town administrator in Brewster, served as interim administrator in Provincetown and now Wellfleet, and has been on a number of search committees, including the one that found Provincetown Town Manager Alex Morse.
“I know some of the critical components that are necessary to do the job,” Sumner said. “I appreciate the confidence that the board has provided for hiring me as interim, and I want to give back a little bit.” —Michaela Chesin
