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2026-10-26 - Select Board and Housing Authority Joint Meeting

Summary

Built from the posted agenda only; no minutes or video recorded yet.

  • Select Board meets jointly with the Housing Authority to interview three candidates; also police staffing and surplus cruisers, Bancroft Street sidewalks, free cash and stabilization, and Town Manager items including setting the November 9 tax classification hearing, the FY2028 budget schedule and the state DLS audit report.

Agenda

Monday, October 26, 2026, 6:30-8:30 PM.

Items as listed on the posted agenda (read in full 2026-10-23):

  • Joint meeting with the Housing Authority to interview three candidates for an open seat. See Housing Authority Candidate Interviews.
  • Police staffing presentation and surplus cruisers.
  • Public Works: sidewalks on Bancroft Street (with Joanna Paquin): see Sidewalk and Crosswalk Connectivity.
  • Accounting update on free cash and stabilization: see Town Finance Oversight.
  • Recreation request to apply for and accept a Cultural Council grant for a spring/summer 2027 theater program.
  • Surplus declaration for the 2015 and 2017 Ford Explorer cruisers; drainlayers license for R.A. Powell Construction Corp. (Lunenburg); revised Select Board agenda policy; Senior Tax Work-Off Program; small commercial property tax exemption; minutes of October 13.
  • Candidate interviews for the Housing Authority seat: Bob Tatro, Richard E. Herron Sr. and James Hargrove.
  • Town Manager items (Dori Vecchio): setting the tax classification hearing for Monday, November 9 (Tax Classification Hearing); the FY2028 budget schedule; the state Division of Local Services (DLS) audit report (Town Finance Oversight).

Board members: Anne Cavanaugh (chair), Todd Kirrane, Steve Chambers, Sara Rufli, Daniel Carpenter.

Source: town Agenda Center (retrieved 2026-10-23), which also lists a separate Housing Authority agenda for this date at 6:30 PM (https://www.auburnma.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10262026-2630), which is the same joint meeting. No amendments or cancellations were seen.

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