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Westford voters keep pay-as-you-throw startup funding after heated debate
Summary
Town Meeting approved $1.165 million in supplemental appropriations, including $150,000 for pay-as-you-throw start-up costs, after residents and board members sharply debated equity and procurement concerns; an amendment to delete the $150,000 failed 268-130, and the underlying motion passed 296-106.
Town Meeting in Westford voted to approve a package of supplemental FY26 appropriations Friday that included $150,000 to cover start-up costs for a planned pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) hybrid trash program.
The $150,000 line item was the focus of the most contested exchange of the morning, with Dennis Galvin, a finance committee member, moving to delete the waste-disposal appropriation on the grounds that the 35-gallon cart model "is overly burdensome on larger families," and that pay-as-you-throw could prompt unlawful dumping. "That is going to accumulate over…
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