Parks Panel Pushes Back on $28,000 Light Quote

Parks Commission · Meeting of October 19, 2026

Mendon's Parks Commission weighed a $28,000 holiday-lighting quote and early plans for a new recreation building. Members Steven P. Aubut and Joanne Lamothe discussed asking a vendor to price lighting just "the two sycamores" at Founders Park instead of the full $28,000 package, with the Select Board set to weigh in separately. The commission also reviewed a $7,100 base quote for a 40-by-80-foot outdoor ice rink and discussed a possible prefabricated recreation building funded partly from the commission's roughly $250,000 reserve, with debt service estimated near $30,000 a year.

Commissioners read the town's facility-use policy, which requires insurance for groups using fields "more than 25 total hours combined," while weighing a new adult soccer group's request for Grover Field. No formal votes were taken beyond a unanimous vote to adjourn.

In the full story:

• Call to Order and Attendance
• New Business: Memorial Benches
• Old Business: Programming Updates — Bus Trips and Outdoor Ice Rink
• Old Business: Capital Projects — Founders Park Holiday Lighting
• Old Business: Disc Golf / Putting Course and Eagle Scout Projects
• Old Business: Future Recreation Building Concept
• Facility Use: Admission-Charging Events and the January Youth Sports Meeting
• Facility Use: Classroom Storage Request
• Facility Use: New Requests
• Items Not Reasonably Anticipated: Regional Trail Projects
• Next Meeting and Adjournment
• Who Was There
• Organizations And Documents Referenced
• The complete report: 2,858 words

Source: the Parks Commission meeting of October 19, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.

Checked against the record: before publication this article was automatically compared with the meeting transcript.