The Lakeville Open Space Committee on July 3 finalized plans for an outreach mailing and related materials aimed at landowners and others interested in conservation options.

Committee members said a one-page outreach letter and state pamphlets on Chapter 61 and protecting land legacy will be made available in hard copy at the town hall and library and as a PDF online. The committee expects to mail to roughly 240–250 property owners after final formatting; members said the town has approved approximately $300 in the committee budget to cover printing, envelopes, labels and postage (committee members said about two-thirds of that sum is earmarked for postage).

The committee also confirmed plans for a live webinar in October with the Wildlands Trust to introduce land-protection strategies and for the committee to “piggyback” on an Oct. 4 DCR event in Middleborough focused on forest land management and tax incentives. The DCR forester for southeastern Massachusetts has offered to supply printed pamphlets at no shipping cost.

Members discussed mailing logistics, including reformatting assessor data into a mail-merge Excel file, splitting label work among volunteers if necessary, and verifying truncated names or addresses in assessor records. Committee members said they plan to finalize the mailing list and print labels in July or August and to do envelope stuffing in late summer or early fall.

No formal vote was recorded beyond expenditure approval already in the town budget; committee members said staff (Tracy) will help with mail-merge formatting and that members will divide verification and stuffing tasks if needed.