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At-a-glance: Select Board votes, postponements and appointments from March 24 meeting
Summary
Key formal actions: board postponed a shellfish lease, approved placement of ballot questions (including the petition), recommended the library warrant article (3–2), approved several warrant article recommendations and made routine committee appointments and minutes approvals.
The Yarmouth Select Board took several formal actions during the March 24 meeting. Highlights:
- Postponed consideration of a five‑year shellfish aquaculture lease application to a future meeting pending state review (postponement motion passed; one abstention). - Voted to place separate Dennis‑Yarmouth and Cape Tech override ballot questions (eliminated combined alternate 4–1) and to include the petitioned nonbinding advisory question (4–1). - Recommended Article 15 (library construction) by a 3–2 board vote after committee presentation. - Approved a series of warrant article recommendations for municipal and capital items and approved multiple routine appointments (board of appeals alternate; community economic development committee; recycling & solid waste advisory committee) and minutes for March 4, March 18 and April 1.
The board also scheduled follow-up items: invite the Board of Health to present on the nicotine‑free generation proposal and coordinate with Dennis and MassDOT on bridge/detour planning. Detailed ballots, warrant order and explanatory language will be finalized with the Town Clerk and Town Counsel before printing.
