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Needham housing oversight committee approves revised Select Board letter pending objections
Summary
After debate over unit counts and cost references, the Town of Needham Finance/Community Housing Oversight Committee voted Feb. 9 to send a revised annual report to the Select Board, with the revision to take effect unless a committee member objects by Feb. 12. The committee removed an explicit $20 million cost line and asked for unit-count charts and source citations.
Kathy Dowd, chair of the Town of Needham Finance/Community Housing Oversight Committee, said the committee voted Feb. 9 to send a revised annual housing report to the Select Board, pending no objection from committee members by Friday, Feb. 12.
The vote followed a lengthy review of redlined edits to the draft letter. Committee members debated whether to include explicit dollar amounts and project timelines in the public memo. ‘‘I’d rather not see a guess,’’ one member said, arguing that tentative dates and cost estimates can be read as fixed when recorded in the public record.…
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