Meetings Ahead
Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join.
Thursday, June 20
- Pamet Harbor Commission, 3 p.m., Town Hall
- Open Space Committee, 3:30 p.m.
- School Committee, 4:30 p.m., hybrid
Friday, June 21
- Board of Library Trustees, 3:30 p.m., Public Library
Monday, June 24
- Zoning Board of Appeals, 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, June 25
- Select Board, 5 p.m.
Wednesday, June 26
- Planning Board, 5 p.m.
Conversation Starter
On the Ballot
A special town election will take place on June 27. Voters will consider four financial measures on the ballot: repairing the HVAC system and roof at Truro Central School; funding the engineering of a new DPW facility; hiring a human resources coordinator; and replacing a failed culvert where the Pamet River crosses Mill Pond Road.
Only Question 3, which asks about a human resources coordinator, is associated with a specific dollar amount. Questions 1, 2, and 4 are all debt exclusions. Because interest rates are uncertain when debt exclusions are voted on, those don’t include amounts, select board chair Sue Areson said at the board’s June 11 meeting.
At that meeting, select board members agreed on approving the HVAC system funding. Stephanie Rein said some of the school’s rooms are so warm in winter that windows are opened. “There are dollar bills flying out the window,” Rein said. “And then, in other rooms, the children are freezing.”
They didn’t agree, however, on Question 2, authorizing borrowing related to DPW facility engineering on Town Hall Hill.
“I’m sure many people in the community think I am the skunk at the party, and I will continue in that role,” said vice chair Bob Weinstein, who is also the select board liaison to the building committee. “I cannot support this.”
“The only good that I think would come out of this is that the phase two environmental study would preclude Town Hall Hill as a viable site,” Weinstein said. He added that Town Counsel John Giorgio of KP Law advised that the no-vote on the location at May’s special town meeting did not preclude analysis of the 340 Route 6 site.
“I would respectfully disagree with Bob’s insistence to not vote for this, simply because we want to move forward with something,” said Areson. “Everyone keeps talking about the price tag going up and up and up.
“If we don’t have any money, we can’t move forward in any fashion,” Areson said. —Sophie Mann-Shafir
