Select Board approves pole project, tables comment policy vote

Select Board · Meeting of March 12, 2026

Warren risks losing $300,000 in Chapter 90 road aid over a highway paperwork lapse. Town Administrator Jim Ferrell told the Select Board Thursday that MassDOT engineer Chris Bouchard confirmed nothing further has been approved on the elected highway surveyor's pending reimbursements, some outstanding for months. "This is why we shouldn't have elected officials running departments," one board member said.

The town's roughly $275,000 in free cash is expected to be largely absorbed by a $120,000 snow and ice deficit. Separately, Hardwick's Judy Korczyk pitched a nine-town partnership with UMass under the federal Rural Health Transformation Program, a $50 billion national grant with $162 million awarded to Massachusetts, at no cost to towns for five years. The board also approved $637,483.90 in warrants, National Grid pole work on Reed Street, and tabled new public comment rules and website accessibility spending to March 26.

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Source: the Select Board meeting of March 12, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.