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, April 6
- Shellfish Advisory Committee, 2 p.m., Town Hall
- School Committee, 4:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 8
- Recreation Dept. Spring Has Sprung Celebration, 9:30 a.m., Truro Vineyards
Monday, April 10
- School Committee Policy Subcommittee, 10 a.m.
- Local Comprehensive Planning Committee, 3:30 p.m., Truro Central School Media Center
- Bike and Walkways Committee, 6 p.m.
Tuesday, April 11
- Select Board, 5 p.m.
Wednesday, April 12
- Council on Aging, 11 a.m.
- Charter Review Committee, 5 p.m.
- Planning Board, 6 p.m.
Conversation Starters
On the Warrant
The warrant for this year’s town meeting, which will take place on April 25, was posted on April 4. It contains 42 articles.
Four of them, Articles 11 through 14, call for Proposition 2½ overrides. Article 11, identified as the select board’s first priority, would expand the town’s emergency medical services by transferring $601,122 to the fire & rescue dept. budget to fund four additional firefighter-paramedics and one fire & EMS administrator — partly to prepare for the closing of the Lower Cape Ambulance Association, although that transition now appears to be years instead of months away.
Articles 12 and 13 are select board adaptations of two citizen petitions. The first, a community sustainability proposal, would designate $703,050 to the child-care voucher program, a preschool program, and child care outside of school hours. Article 13 would transfer $120,150 for the establishment of a full-time housing coordinator position.
The final override would provide $107,017 to the police dept. for a school resource officer. The finance committee voted against the override while the select board was narrowly in favor.
Articles 16 through 27 would grant over $1 million in Community Preservation Act funding to housing and historic preservation projects. This includes $750,000 to the Affordable Housing Trust and a $100,000 contribution to the community housing under construction at 3 Jerome Smith Way in Provincetown.
Articles 34 and 35 were requested by the planning board and propose zoning bylaw amendments. One changes the definition of “street.” The second, which would allow duplexes to be constructed by right, will be withdrawn and brought to a future town meeting.
A special town meeting will be held in the fall, according to the select board, to focus on the Walsh property and the local comprehensive plan. —Sophie Mann-Shafir
