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Selectmen-backed article would allow up to 30-year lease of Plaistow landfill for solar; amendment to require final contract on warrant fails
Summary
A warrant article authorizing the selectmen to lease the closed town landfill for a solar array passed to the ballot; an amendment to require the final negotiated lease to return to town meeting failed on the floor.
Plaistow — Voters at the Feb. 1 deliberative session voted to place a warrant article on the town ballot authorizing the Board of Selectmen to negotiate and execute a lease and related documents allowing a solar energy array on the closed Plaistow landfill (Parcel 32-032-000-00) for a period up to 30 years.
Select Board member Liz Costa, speaking for the town’s energy committee, said the article would allow the town to accept proposals from developers and perform initial due diligence. “We have been talking to a variety of vendors,” Costa said; the article authorizes the board to negotiate lease and power‑purchase terms and execute documents "on such terms as…
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