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Needham finance committee backs bylaw change to expand contract-notification for larger town contracts
Summary
After questions about change-order burdens, the Finance Committee voted to recommend a citizens'petition (Article 42) that would lower the written-notice threshold and add the finance committee to notifications for contracts and qualifying change orders over $500,000.
The Needham Finance Committee voted to recommend Article 42, a citizens'petition that would lower the town's written-notification threshold for contracts and require written notice to additional recipients — including the finance committee — for contracts and amendments between $500,000 and $1,000,000.
The petitioner said the change is meant to increase transparency, not to alter who has authority to sign contracts. "All this is doing is changing the amount that requires a written notice, and it adds the fin comm in," the petitioner said during a presentation. He…
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