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. 14
- Zoning Board of Appeals, 7 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 15
- 95 Lawrence Road Task Force (meeting canceled)
Monday, Oct. 18
- Herring River Restoration Project, Regulatory Oversight Group, 1 p.m.
- Dredging Task Force, 7 p.m.
Conversation Starters
Special Town Meeting Set for Dec. 4
The select board has chosen Dec. 4 as the date for a special town meeting to be held in the gym at Nauset Regional High School in Eastham. To ensure enough space for physical distancing, the whole gymnasium has been reserved.
Any town board, committee, or department may submit proposals, known as warrant articles, for select board approval to be put on the town meeting agenda. Citizens may also present a petitioned article to the select board to be put to a town meeting vote.
All requests for warrant articles are due before the select board meeting on Oct. 26. Contact Rebekah Eldridge at 508-349-0300, ext. 1100 for further information.
Petition to Lower Speed Limits
At its Sept. 28 meeting, the select board accepted a petitioned article for the Dec. 4 special town meeting that would allow the town to set speed limits on its roads without having to do traffic studies and apply for state approval.
Ruth Bishop, who lives on East Commercial Street, presented the petition, which was signed by 40 residents. It asks the town to adopt Mass. Statute 90 Section 17C, which was passed by the state legislature in 2016 and allows towns to set speed limits on local roads.
Bishop asked that the speed limits on East Commercial and Main streets be lowered to 25 miles per hour. The state-mandated speed limit on those streets is 30 miles per hour.
Select board chair Ryan Curley said that isolating two streets was too restrictive, so he requested the help of town counsel to come up with something that would apply more broadly to the town’s roadways.
The select board voted 4-0 to accept the petition (Helen Miranda Wilson was absent). They will draft a warrant article to be put to a vote at the upcoming special town meeting. Fifty-two other towns in the state have already adopted the law. —Tom Recchio
