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Selectmen and capital outlay members spar over timing, sharing of bridge reports in Blackstone capital plan
Summary
A town resident and Capital Outlay member said a July PAR bridge report should have been added earlier to the capital plan; Selectmen said the plan is a living document and emphasized vetting and context before public posting. The board agreed to improve information sharing and use ClearGov to centralize capital requests.
A disagreement over when engineering documents are shared with committees and the public surfaced at the Blackstone Selectmen meeting on Sept. 10.
Jeff Silverstein, a town resident and member of the capital outlay group, told the board he was surprised the July PAR bridge report "was not forwarded to me" after it became a public document and said the capital outlay committee is the charter-designated body to develop and…
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