Meetings Ahead
Most meetings in Truro are remote. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join.
Thursday, March 2
- School Committee, 4:30 p.m.
- Charter Review Committee, 5 p.m.
Friday, March 3
- Open Space Committee, noon
- Local Comprehensive Plan Committee, 3 p.m.
Monday, March 6
- Conservation Commission, 5 p.m.
Tuesday, March 7
- Board of Health, 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 8
- Council on Aging, 9 a.m.
- Mill Pond public informational session, 5 p.m.
Conversation Starter
Mill Pond and the DPW
Dept. of Public Works Director Jarrod Cabral will explain two major town projects at a forum on March 8: the restoration of Mill Pond and a proposed new DPW facility.
“The forum will serve to hear citizen viewpoints and share a presentation by engineering consultants,” according to a press release.
The damaged Mill Pond Road culvert is currently restricting tidal flow from Pamet Harbor. Consultants at Fuss & O’Neill, working with the Woods Hole Group, have developed four possible solutions.
In a memo to the select board dated Feb. 2, Cabral wrote that his recommended option is “to permanently close the road and install a 95-foot breach with a 10-foot-wide inner channel.”
This option is controversial. Cynthia Conroy and 15 others have submitted a petition for the town meeting warrant urging the town to “send a nonbinding resolution to the select board that any repair or replacement of the Mill Pond Road culvert will not permanently close/abandon Mill Pond Road to vehicular traffic.”
Cabral will also discuss an updated analysis for the new DPW facility, which is now projected to cost $29.6 million, a 60-percent increase from the 2019 analysis.
The study, by engineers at Weston & Sampson, suggests three feasible sites for the facility: one at 340-344 Route 6, a second at 24 Town Hall Road, and the final and least costly option, in terms of site-specific construction, at the 70-acre Walsh property.
Consultants who worked on each project will be at the forum.
This Friday, Cabral will begin holding weekly open office hours in the lobby of the Community Center from 2 to 4 p.m. to answer questions about DPW projects, he said.
The March 8 meeting will take place at 5 p.m. in a hybrid format at the Truro Community Center (7 Standish Way) or virtually by a link that will be posted nearer to the event. —Sophie Mann-Shafir
