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, May 30
- Herring River Stakeholder Group, 3 p.m.
- Local Housing Partnership, 3 p.m.
- Maurice’s Planning Committee, 5 p.m.
Tuesday, June 4
- Select board, 6 p.m., Adult Community Center and online
Wednesday, June 5
- Conservation Commission, 4 p.m., Town Hall conference room and online
- Planning Board, 7 p.m., Adult Community Center and online
Conversation Starters
Filling the Finance Committee
Two longtime finance committee members are stepping down. Town Moderator Dan Silverman announced at the May 20 town meeting that Robert Wallace and Ira Wood had both asked not to be reappointed. Wallace has served on the committee since 2009, and Wood served from 1998 to 2003 and again from 2012 until this year.
“After 40 straight years in town government, I need a break,” Wood told Silverman in an email.
Silverman, who appoints the finance committee per the town charter, reappointed Fred Magee for a three-year term and appointed new member Judy Savage. Silverman told the Independent that he is working to fill the two remaining seats on the nine-member committee and looking for two alternate members.
Silverman also reappointed Nancy Winslow and Madeline Entel to three-year terms on the social and human services committee and Samuel Pickard for another term on the bylaw review committee.
Silverman also reappointed Robert Fitzgerald for three years as Wellfleet’s representative on the Cape Cod Regional Tech High School Committee.
Shuffling the Select Board
At its annual reorganization meeting, the select board voted unanimously on May 21 to make John Wolf the chair. Wolf replaces Barbara Carboni, who served as chair since last July when the board removed then-chair Ryan Curley. Wolf previously served as vice chair.
“It has been a difficult year, but we weathered it together as a board,” said Carboni. Wolf, Carboni said, “has demonstrated leadership on some of our toughest issues, and I would like to see him direct that leadership into leading the board.”
“I’m okay with it,” Wolf said.
The board made Michael DeVasto vice chair and newly elected Sheila Lyons is the clerk. —Sam Pollak
