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Board discusses a community events gifts-and-grants account and nonprofit police rates to ease event costs
Summary
Select Board members agreed to create a draft plan for a new community events gifts-and-grants account to help offset costs (like police details) for town-sponsored events and to investigate a nonprofit police-detail rate; staff will draft a policy and application process.
The Lakeville Select Board discussed creating a new "community event gifts and grants" account Dec. 2 to help fund town-sponsored events and offset costs such as police details, rather than drawing from the existing gifts-and-grants account historically used for employee appreciation.
The chair explained the proposed account would be available to town committees and commissions that sponsor events; donations could be earmarked or given to the general events bucket, and funds would be distributed through an annual application process so support is spread across multiple events. Members proposed a validated-event checklist to determine eligibility and noted concerns about how the fund would be advertised and administered.
Board members also asked staff to explore whether the police department can offer a nonprofit or discounted detail rate; one member noted such a rate previously existed but had been removed in contract negotiations. The board asked staff to draft the account's policy language, an application process and eligibility criteria for review at a future meeting.
