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Votes at a glance: Select Board approves minutes, appointments, licenses and home-rule petition
Summary
At its June 18 meeting the Select Board approved prior meeting minutes, annual board appointments, reappointments/appointments to boards and commissions, two outdoor-dining licenses, a special-event permit, and voted to submit a home rule petition to the General Court.
The Wrentham Select Board recorded several formal roll-call votes on June 18. Key outcomes:
- Approval of minutes: May 21 minutes (passed 4–0 with Chair Joe Bach recorded as abstaining); June 3 minutes (passed 5–0).
- Annual appointments: Routine reappointments for boards, committees and commissions per the packet list were approved (roll-call approval reported as unanimous where recorded).
- Zoning Board of Appeals appointments: The board appointed Bill Burns as a full ZBA member (term to June 30, 2028) and Joe Cameron and Jean Lightbody as associate members (terms to June 30, 2029); roll call vote passed 5–0.
- Licenses and permits: The board approved amended outdoor-dining licenses for COA City Express (48 South St.) and the Gaffle Public House (36 South St.) and granted a special-event permit for Circ Entertainment at Wrentham Village Premium Outlets (July 11–14) with conditions; votes were unanimous.
- Home rule petition: The board voted to submit and sign a home rule petition adopted at Town Meeting (Article 23) and authorized the use of electronic signatures; vote recorded as unanimous.
Votes were taken by roll call and recorded in the meeting minutes.
Why it matters: These items finalize routine administrative matters, restore appointed board capacity, authorize near-term business operations and events, and send a home rule petition to the state for consideration.
