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At a glance: Freetown board approves routine contracts, awards and transfers
Summary
At the meeting the board approved multiple routine items including IT service agreements for police and fire, a $10,530 change order for COA parking lot work, a $228,000 insurance binder for FY27, several procurement awards for fences and road resurfacing, and interdepartmental transfers including a $100,000 water/sewer transfer.
FREETOWN — The Board of Selectmen passed a package of routine but consequential items at its meeting, approving contracts, change orders, procurement awards and several interdepartmental transfers.
Key approvals included:
• Sper Technologies agreements for Police and Fire Department IT services (separate contracts);
• A $10,530 change order for JH Landscape Construction, Inc. to complete additional work at the Council on Aging parking lot;
• Award and agreement for the elementary school fence project to GA Fence after earlier low bidders were found nonresponsive; the board rescinded the prior award and approved the third responsive bidder;
• Award and agreement for millings and resurfacing projects on Simmons Street and portions of Dana Lee Drive and West Cudworth A to Pucket Hot Mix Asphalt Inc. (approx. $94,700 for the responsive low bid);
• Approval of an FY27 insurance binder with USI (annual cost cited as roughly $228,000) with adjusted building replacement values and a $1 million cyber limit; and
• Interdepartmental transfers, including an $8,000 transfer from EMA supplies to overtime, a $35 internal treasury transfer, and a $100,000 transfer from water purchasing to sewer purchasing to cover unexpected sewer costs.
The board also approved an amended town treasurer contract (removing the employee’s home address and replacing it with an 'on file' contact reference), signed a lump‑sum holiday payout agreement with an employee, and reappointed a truck driver after prior recruitment challenges.
Most items were presented as routine or procedural and passed by voice vote. Where procurement irregularities occurred (addendum not acknowledged by bidders), the board followed procurement rules by rescinding and re‑awarding to the next responsive bidder.
