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Council committees approve personnel appointments, finance transfers and several licenses
Summary
The Personnel and Finance committees approved three reappointments/appointments to cemetery and library boards, voted transfers totaling multi‑hundreds of thousands for school and fire accounts, granted a liability waiver for a park event, and renewed two taxi licenses.
WOBURN — Committee sessions on March 25 moved several routine but consequential items across personnel, finance and ordinance committees.
Personnel Committee actions: the panel approved sending the appointment of Edmund F. McGrath to the Woburn Board of Cemetery Commissioners out as "ought to pass" after Mayor Concannon introduced the nominee and McGrath discussed his background as a longtime Woburn educator and previous cemetery commission service. The committee also approved reappointments for Megan Manning to the Woburn Public Library Board of Trustees and for John Sawyer to the Board of Cemetery Commissioners.
Finance Committee actions: the committee approved an intra‑budget transfer of $255,000 from the mayor salary adjustment account to Woburn Memorial High School teacher salaries to account for a recently settled custodian contract. It also approved a $2,253,000 transfer from the fire BLS ambulance account to multiple fire department accounts (regular salary, overtime, apparatus maintenance and buybacks) to settle year‑end allocations. The transfer was explained by the auditors and the fire chief as a routine settling of accounts and passed by voice vote.
Other approvals: the board approved a waiver of umbrella liability insurance for a New England Orienteering event at Horn Pond after organizers described the course and risk profile. The committee also renewed taxi/cab licenses for WoburnCab Company (100 Ashburton Avenue) and Harmony Transportation Incorporated (8 Con Street) after confirming registrations, insurance and inspections were in order.
Votes: All listed motions were recorded as approved by voice vote in committee. Where motions lacked an explicit mover or seconder in the transcript, the committees recorded the ayes and declared motions carried.
Next administrative steps: clerks and finance staff will process appointment paperwork and execute the approved journal entries to reallocate funds; licensing staff will update renewal records and insurance waivers.
