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CIAC debates raising capital‑project review threshold to $500,000
Summary
Town manager Andy Sheehan and Select Board member Lisa Kaye urged the Capital Improvement Advisory Committee to back a proposed bylaw change that would replace current $100,000/$200,000 thresholds with a single $500,000 threshold; committee members raised concerns about losing early input on multi‑phase projects.
The Capital Improvement Advisory Committee on Wednesday discussed a Select Board article that would amend the Town’s capital planning bylaw (Article 24, Chapter 11) to raise the project‑review threshold to $500,000.
The change, presented by Andy Sheehan, town manager, would replace the bylaw’s two current thresholds — $100,000 for single‑year projects and $200,000 for multi‑year projects — with a single $500,000 threshold, limiting the number of projects that must receive CIAC review.
“Sheehan said the $500,000 is not a magical number by any stretch,” adding that staff had considered $1 million but settled on $500,000 to reduce duplicative review and let the volunteer committee focus on larger, higher‑impact projects. He told the group that, under the proposed threshold, five projects that were on this year’s…
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