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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Foxborough to Cancel March Special Town Meeting; Move Sewer Vote to May

Foxborough Town Manager Kevin Paicos told selectmen Tuesday that Norton and Mansfield won't be ready to move forward with the Intermunicipal Agreement (IMA) to form a Regional Sewer District until after their respective Annual Town Meetings.

Foxborough will have more time to prepare its pitch to voters to enter into an Intermunicipal Agreement (IMA) with Norton and Mansfield to form a Regional Sewer District, according to Foxborough Town Manager Kevin Paicos. "The towns of Mansfield and Norton have been working through their own planning issues [with the IMA], town finance plan issues and they let us know [Monday] night that they won’t be submitting their final plans to their voters until their Annual Town Meetings in the spring," Paicos said. "Therefore, the good news is we do not have to have this March 4 Special Town Meeting, which was predicated on the requirement by our partners to give them an answer by the end of February or in March." The news was well received by …

Dennis Naughton

9:44 am on Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Who should not pay for it is anyone who does not have access to a sewer hookup.   more ›

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Selectmen Set March 4 Special Town Meeting for Water and Sewer Vote

Foxborough will hold its second Special Town Meeting in three months on March 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of Foxborough High School to decide whether it will join a proposed Regional Sewer District with Mansfield and Norton.

Facing an important deadline, selectmen voted Tuesday to hold a Special Town Meeting on March 4 to decide whether Foxborough will enter into an Intermunicipal Agreement (IMA) with area towns to form a Regional Sewer District in Mansfield. The March 4 meeting has been tentatively set for 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of Foxborough High School and will focus on "two to three" warrant articles related to the IMA and proposed Regional Sewer District. Town Manager Kevin Paicos said selectmen may decide to include a warrant article to appropriate roughly $50,000 to design plans to convert the post office building into a town hall but the STM warrant would be short to focus on sewer. “We want to keep this warrant clean for the AdCom, who is going …

Janet Sroczynski

8:38 am on Friday, December 21, 2012

@Patch editors - where the article mentions Easton, perhaps you could broadcast the article to Easton residents and taxpayers too. Thanks.   more ›

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