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Board of Selectmen approves routine items, grant, license transfers and authorizes solar PILOT
Summary
The Norwood Board of Selectmen voted unanimously on a range of routine and substantive items at its Aug. 12 meeting, approving warrants and minutes, a pedestrian-safety grant, a liquor-license manager change, and authorizing the general manager to sign a landfill-solar PILOT agreement that will deliver $481,008 to the town over 25 years.
The Norwood Board of Selectmen voted unanimously on a series of routine and substantive items at its Aug. 12 meeting in a temporary meeting room at Norwood Memorial Town Hall.
The board approved warrant signatures and the meeting minutes for June 24 and July 8 by voice vote. It approved the consent agenda in bulk, including one-day liquor permits and park-use and banner requests. The board approved a grant to install a rapid rectangular flashing beacon at the Dean Street–Richmond Road/Prescott School crosswalk; the motion to approve was adopted by voice vote.
In licensing business the board approved a change of ownership/manager filing for the Courtyard by Marriott (300 Ridge Road), adding David Ransom as manager of record; the transfer was approved following a public hearing and a state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission recommendation. The board also approved an ownership-name change for Kelly’s Filling Station (item 4.2) by unanimous voice vote.
The board authorized the general manager to sign a 25-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) agreement with Tangent Development LLC for a landfill-solar project, a deal the materials show will yield $481,008 to the town over 25 years. The board voted to accept a donated parcel at 55 Saint Paul Avenue into the town’s custody for conservation and recreation purposes and authorized related ministerial actions. The board approved a Verizon pole relocation/petition placed before the board with no dissent.
Other finance and administrative actions approved included: adopting the planning calendar (which schedules a Nov. 13 special town meeting), authorizing the MWRA no-interest water bond repayment motion, approving an advance-of-funds form for the water improvement program pending a future borrowing, and approving the electric fund year-end closeout recommended by the CFO. The board also approved a short-term lease extension for 190 Central Street.
One motion was explicitly tabled: a pending decision on the curbside food-composting pilot was tabled “until after our public hearings” by a motion of Selectman Closco (seconded by Selectman Saad); that motion carried by voice vote. The compost program itself was extensively discussed during the meeting; that discussion and the working group’s recommendation to transition to a discounted private-pay model were not adopted at this meeting.
Votes at a glance (selected items): - Warrant signatures: approved (voice vote). - Meeting minutes (June 24, July 8): approved (voice vote). - Consent agenda (one-day liquor permits, park/banners, cemetery deeds): approved (voice vote). - Dean Street rapid rectangular flashing beacon (grant): approved (voice vote). - Kelly/Shill ownership name change (item 4.2): approved (voice vote). - Courtyard by Marriott change of manager/transfer (David Ransom): approved after public hearing (voice vote). - Table curbside compost item until after public hearings: motion to table carried (voice vote). - Verizon pole/petition: approved (voice vote). - Tangent Development PILOT authorization (authorize general manager to sign): approved (voice vote). - Accept donation of 55 Saint Paul Ave to Conservation Commission: approved (voice vote). - Appointments and reappointments (Conservation Commission, Community Preservation Committee): approved (voice votes). - Planning calendar / schedule Nov. 13 special town meeting: approved (voice vote). - MWRA no-interest loan for water main cleaning/lining (10-year repayment): approved (voice vote). - Advance-of-funds/borrowing paperwork for water improvement program: approved for signature (voice vote). - Electric fund year-end closeout transfer per CFO recommendation: approved (voice vote). - Lease extension for 190 Central Street: approved (voice vote).
No roll-call tallies were recorded in the meeting transcript; the board conducted most decisions by motion and voice vote and recorded them as unanimous in the audio record shown.
The board paused action on several items pending follow-up work, including additional communications tied to the compost pilot and confirming audit/borrowing timing for water projects.
