Select Board sets positions for October special town meeting, withdraws two construction articles

At its Sept. 24 meeting the Needham Select Board reviewed and voted positions on items scheduled for the October special Town Meeting warrant and approved final administrative rules for the Senior and Veterans Property Tax Work-Off program.

The board took roll-call votes to recommend adoption of Articles 1–4, 7–9 and the amended Stormwater Bylaw (renumbered Article 11), and approved appropriation adjustments and PEG-TV funding adjustments that appear on the warrant. The board also approved the Needham Heights Banner Program and several administrative and budget items as printed on the warrant's fact sheets.

The board voted unanimously to remove (withdraw) two articles from the warrant: the Quiet Zone construction appropriation and the golf-course crossing culvert construction appropriation (former Articles 10 & 11), on the recommendation of staff and the Quiet Zone working group because MBTA coordination and capital approvals were not complete.

The board also adopted the final rules and procedures for the Senior and Veterans Property Tax Work-Off program (SB Admin 11) with minor clarifying language — including raising the allowed age for an approved representative to 18 — and authorized staff to implement the program.

Roll-call votes were held on each recommended warrant item; board members indicated unanimous support on the items they recommended. Staff noted additional grammatical and technical edits would be made before the warrant goes to print, but substantive changes will require an amendment at Town Meeting.