Meetings Ahead
Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the agenda.
Thursday, Nov. 23 and Friday, Nov. 24
Town offices closed for Thanksgiving
Monday, Nov. 27
- Nauset Schools Regional Agreement Subcommittee, 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 28
- Board of Assessors, 9:30 a.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 29
- Finance Committee, 7 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 30
- Housing Authority, 10 a.m.
- Cape Cod Commission public hearing, 3 p.m.
Conversation Starter
Dredging Committee Overboard
The town is looking to fill 34 vacancies on 14 boards and committees, according to a news alert on the town website with the headline “We want you!” In September, the Independent reported that a quarter of existing positions on town boards are vacant — that number has stayed the same.
There are 24 voting positions that need to be filled on boards including the cable advisory committee, council on aging, cultural council, dredging task force, finance committee, natural resources advisory committee, recreation committee, and rights of public access committee.
During the select board’s Nov. 14 meeting, vice chair John Wolf announced that the chair of the dredging task force, Chris Allgeier, had resigned from the board shortly after member Curt Felix resigned.
Town Administrator Rich Waldo told the Independent on Nov. 17 that a third dredging task force member, Skip Annett, had submitted his resignation. The task force no longer has a quorum.
Felix and Allgeier had been working with the town on developing a mitigation plan to meet the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ permit requirement for dredging the harbor mooring field.
The select board turned down the task force’s plan after months of meetings that were often disrupted by raucous opposition to the mitigation. Waldo said that all three dredging task force members cited verbal attacks from members of the public as their reason for stepping down.
Applications for boards can be found on the town’s homepage and can be mailed to town hall or emailed to Rebekah Eldridge at [email protected]. —Sam Pollak
