Select Board approves warrant for Oct. 27 town meeting
Mendon Select Board approved a 21-article warrant for the October 27 special town meeting. The board voted unanimously to add $70,213 in new revenue and spending to the fiscal 2027 budget, covering library hours, senior-center police details and building maintenance.
Select Board · Meeting of October 7, 2026
Mendon Select Board approved a 21-article warrant for the October 27 special town meeting. The board voted unanimously to add $70,213 in new revenue and spending to the fiscal 2027 budget, covering library hours, senior-center police details and building maintenance. A separate article asks voters whether to make the elected town clerk position appointed; member Carl Hummel of the General Bylaw Review Committee said a related one-year employment bylaw was "passed in the heat of a moment" around 1999-2000.
The board also recommended raising the town's capital stabilization fund cap to $250,000 from $100,000, pending state legislative approval, and disclosed a $160,000 unpaid police-detail bill owed by a Route 16 utility subcontractor. Free cash was certified at $2.054 million.
In the full story:
- Conservation Commission–Building Department Workflow Dispute
- Financial Policies Draft
- State Election Warrant
- Special Town Meeting Warrant: Free Cash and Supplemental Budget
- Town Clerk: Elected to Appointed Position Question
- Other Warrant Articles
- Capital Stabilization Fund Cap Increase
- Town Administrator's Report: Grants and Police Detail Fund Deficit
- Who Was There
- Organizations And Documents Referenced
- The complete report: 2,932 words
Source: the Select Board meeting of October 7, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
Checked against the record: before publication this article was automatically compared with the meeting transcript.
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