CPC Closes Out Pond Cleanup Fund Account

Community Preservation Commission · Meeting of June 2, 2026

Mendon's Community Preservation Commission weighed spending $7,000 to clear title on a tax-delinquent trail parcel. Chair Anne Maysar said the 10-acre Pleasant Street property, last tied to an owner named Silas Taft, owes roughly $160,000 in back taxes and could link Meadowbrook Woods, a town forest parcel and an existing easement into one trail if the town can resolve ownership. No vote was taken; members planned a site walk before revisiting the item.

The commission did vote 5-0 by roll call to close an Inman Pond phragmites-removal account, shifting its remaining $15.66 balance to the general fund, and approved its April and May minutes unanimously. Members separately discussed grouping routine Community Preservation Act warrant articles into a Town Meeting "consent calendar," after acknowledging a recent warrant failed to clearly label a budget override: "That will never happen again," one member said.

In the full story:

• Roll Call, Vacancies and ConCom Reappointments
• Approval of April and May Minutes
• Closing the Inman Pond Phragmites Account
• 32 Pleasant Street: A Decades-Old Tax Title and a Trail Connection
• Annual Town Meeting Process: Warrant Errors and a Possible Consent Calendar
• Other Updates
• Adjournment
• Who Was There
• Organizations And Documents Referenced
• The complete report: 1,949 words

Source: the Community Preservation Commission meeting of June 2, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.

Checked against the record: before publication this article was automatically compared with the meeting transcript. It was corrected where it differed.