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Following defeat - by a mere six votes- at Fall Town Meeting of a proposal to offset the tax rate by returning money to the taxpayers from the town’s $1.2M in Free Cash, Town Manager Mark Haddad wants to use $200,000 of these funds to pay down the deficit in OPEB (Other Post-Employment Benefits)...
As the Fall Town Meeting-approved Municipal Audit moves forward with interviews with four companies that responded to the Request for Proposal (RFP), Selectmen have been working toward appointing an Audit Committee to help oversee the consultants work and to plan for implementation of the findings...
The primary purpose of the October 27 Planning Board meeting was to hear, collect and understand abutter comments, concerns and criticisms of Indian Hill Music’s Site Plan. Planning Board Chairman Russell Burke said a primary part of the Planning Board’s review process is to understand resident...
Voters at Fall Town Meeting approved transfer of $45,000 from the Historic Preservation Reserve of the Community Preservation Act for the repair of the foundation at Williams Barn. One of the few remaining 1840s barns left in Groton, the historic structure suffered a collapse at the northern...
Selectmen approved a permit to remove up to 80,000 cubic yards of excess excavation material from the Music Center at Indian Hill site at 122 Old Ayer Road, contingent on the Planning Board’s approval of the site plan.  This large volume of material is being generated mostly ‘due to extremely deep...
The State House of Representatives has approved and sent to the Senate a bill (Town Treasurers, Collectors and Assessors-H 1832) that would authorize a city or town, acting through its board of selectmen, city council or mayor with the approval of the city council, to enter an employment contract...
Town Manager Mark Haddad reported to Selectmen that the town had received four bids for the Municipal Operational Audit that was approved by voters at Fall Town Meeting. The four included: Community Paradigm Associates, Plymouth; Novak Consulting Group, Cincinnati, OH; Matrix Consulting Group,...
Following direction of the Fall Town Meeting voters to establish a joint committee composed of some members of the Prescott School Committee and the Council on Aging Feasibility Committee to address the evaluations of a site for the Groton Senior Center, Town Manager Mark Haddad provided the Board...
Following the recommendation of the Finance Committee, Selectmen appointed long-time, former Groton Dunstable Regional School Committee member Jon Sjøberg to fill a vacancy on that Committee. Sjøberg told the board that he wants to drive good communications between the town and the schools so that...
  Groton Council on Aging asked voters for an additional $20,000 to study the possibility of building an access road behind Prescott School and to determine if the historic Main Street school would meet the needs of the Senior Center based on their criteria. Voters at Spring Town Meeting already...

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