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Votes at a glance: Needham Select Board meeting, Oct. 14, 2025
Summary
A compact list of formal motions and votes taken by the Needham Select Board on Oct. 14, 2025, including approvals of a proclamation, utility petition, traffic regulation, consent appointments, and the Stephen Palmer memorandum of agreement and related warrant positions.
The following formal motions and votes were recorded during the Select Board’s Oct. 14 meeting.
1) National First Responders Day proclamation - Motion: Adopt proclamation designating Oct. 28, 2025 as National First Responders Day. - Vote: Unanimous approval (Recorded votes: Ivy — yes; Mary Anne Cooley — yes; Josh — yes; Kevin — yes; Chair — yes.)
2) Eversource grant-of-location (235 Brookline Street) - Motion: Approve and sign Eversource petition to install approximately 36 feet of conduit in Brookline Street to serve 235 Brookline Street. - Vote: Unanimous approval (Heidi Fraley — yes; Mary Anne Cooley — yes; Josh — yes; Kevin — yes; Chair — yes.)
3) Notice of Traffic Regulation SS251014 (stop signs) - Motion: Approve and sign traffic regulation placing stop signs at nine intersections (listed in full in DPW packet). - Vote: Unanimous approval (Heidi Fraley — yes; Mary Anne Cooley — yes; Josh — yes; Kevin — yes; Chair — yes.)
4) Consent agenda — appointments - Motion: Approve consent-agenda appointments (consent agenda as submitted to board). - Vote: Unanimous approval (Heidi Fraley — yes; Mary Anne Cooley — yes; Josh — yes; Kevin — yes; Chair — yes.)
5) Stephen Palmer memorandum of agreement - Motion: Approve and sign memorandum of agreement with Stephen Palmer Associates L.P. - Vote: Approved 4–1 (Heidi Fraley — yes; Mary Anne Cooley — yes; Josh — no; Kevin — yes; Chair — yes.)
6) Select Board positions on special-town-meeting warrant articles (Oct. 20, 2025) - Motion: Support Article 5 (appropriation related to Stephen Palmer). - Vote: Approved 4–1 (Heidi Fraley — yes; Mary Anne Cooley — yes; Josh — no; Kevin — yes; Chair — yes.) - Motion: Support Article 6 (FY26 operating budget amendment; contains funding for Article 5 if necessary). - Vote: Unanimous approval (Heidi Fraley — yes; Mary Anne Cooley — yes; Josh — yes; Kevin — yes; Chair — yes.)
Other items: the Select Board discussed release of executive-session minutes and deferred any action pending town-counsel guidance; DPW presented a speed-cushion pilot plan for Harris Avenue (pilot funded by Transportation Safety Committee), and the Select Board directed staff to proceed with public engagement and to return with pilot evaluation data.
