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Resident proposes lowering contracting notification threshold to $500,000 after Envision change‑order example
Summary
Citizen petitioner Rob Dangle urged the board to require written notification to the Select Board and Finance Committee for contracts and amendments above $500,000, citing the Envision project where initial contract plus change orders reached about $916,400 without required notice because the $1M threshold was not triggered.
A Needham resident presented a citizens petition seeking greater transparency around municipal contracting. Rob Dangle asked the Select Board to lower the official notification threshold from $1,000,000 to $500,000 and to require the Town Manager to send written notice to the Select Board and the Finance Committee whenever the town approves a contract above that amount or issues change orders/amendments that meet it.
Dangle used the town’s Envision…
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