Mendon Town Meeting voted to convert the town clerk from an elected to an appointed position, sending the change to a spring ballot question. Town Clerk Ellen Agro made the motion, arguing the role now requires "skills, credentials, and performance rather than campaign popularity."
The Mendon Conservation Commission discussed a future bylaw letting the building inspector withhold permits pending wetlands review, amid an ongoing search for a conservation agent.
Mendon's Select Board sent $80,616 in surplus new-growth revenue to the stabilization fund ahead of a Special Town Meeting.
Mendon Planning Board unanimously approved a special permit for an auto repair shop at 149 Uxbridge Road, waiving site plan review.
Mendon's Finance Committee recommended a $50,000 study of a three-building municipal project estimated at $12 million to $13 million.
Mendon Library trustees discussed a café fundraiser and sketched a new reserve-fund policy. A board liaison identified as James reported Serenity Cafe is open to fundraising events for the library's renovation fund, with a roughly 20 percent sales-share target.
Mendon's Council on Aging adopted new eligibility rules for the town's oldest-resident recognition and absorbed the departures of two longtime board members.
The Mendon Board of Health reviewed a draft noise bylaw ahead of an October 27 Special Town Meeting vote and approved a septic upgrade on Ashkins Drive.
Mendon's Conservation Commission voted unanimously to issue an enforcement order over an illegally expanded wetland-turned-pond, closed a separate forest-clearing violation, and learned its conservation agent is departing for a shared post with Douglas and Sutton.
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.
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