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This podcast is dedicated to bringing its listeners the audio from the Ashburnham Board of Selectmen Meetings in Ashburnham, Massachusetts. These meetings are provided as a services by Ashburnham Westminster Community Access Television (AWCATV)
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A grounded look at Ashburnham's tax classification process, broadband planning, and routine Select Board work.
Ashburnham's December 4 meeting moves steadily from the fiscal year 2024 tax classification hearing into the practical work of local decision-making.
Ashburnham leaders review transfer station changes and back a digital equity plan focused on everyday public access.
Ashburnham's June 16 select board meeting keeps municipal change close to the ground. It opens with resident concern over the transfer station's new July 1 permitting process and the short timeline for getting permits, then moves into a digital equity plan centered on practical…
A grounded local-government review of redevelopment concerns, grant mechanics, bridge risk, and executive-session business.
The January 21, 2025 Ashburnham Select Board meeting follows local government through a set of practical choices. A resident presses for dialogue about the future of the old Naukake Hospital, also called the McLean Ambulatory Center, while the board moves through grant…
Memorial Day planning and long-range OPEB funding share the agenda in this Ashburnham board meeting.
Ashburnham's May 20, 2024 Board of Selectmen meeting brings routine civic ceremony and long-range finance into the same frame. The Pledge of Allegiance and Memorial Day plans give the session its public-calendar rhythm, while citizen comments, volunteer openings, and OPEB…
A focused Ashburnham budget meeting links stronger town finances to the practical line items and staffing choices behind them.
Ashburnham's March 10, 2025 Select Board meeting turns a routine budget review into a readable account of a town in stronger financial shape. Brian walks through gains across stabilization, OPEB, water retained earnings, and sewer retained earnings, giving the discussion a firm…
County government, translated into everyday Missoula life.
Ashburnham's Select Board heard Michael Saltzman's fiscal year 2024 tax classification presentation on December 4, 2023, with an estimated levy of $16,106,557 and a recommendation for no residential shift.
Ashburnham Select Board spent June 16, 2025 on a transfer-station rollout that now gives residents until August 1 to get permits after a July 1 start, with Code Red notices and signs already in place.
Residents asked the Ashburnham Select Board to help connect Marshall Dennis and Jennifer Bean so neighbors can speak with the buyer of the old Naukake Hospital, also called the McLean Ambulatory Center.
["On March 10, 2025, Ashburnham's Select Board meeting turned on Brian's budget update, including stabilization rising from $145,000 to $710,000 and free cash climbing from negative $90,000 in 2018 to $2,423,139 at the end of 2024.", "Brian walked the board through water, sewer, indirect costs, and enterprise-fund line items, saying water has \"no room for error,\" sewer is projected to clear roughly $60,000, and Blue Cross Blue Shield is tracking near 6.5 percent.", "The updated town budget moved IT down $400, police down $5,045, Monitech up $4,835, Ash West up $46,146, Veterans Services down $35,000, and the library down $9,172, leaving only $33 of excess levy capacity when capital is added.", "Molly and Jess then made the case for a new full-time youth services librarian, using peer-library rankings, circulation data, and service-gap examples to argue that Ashburnham trails comparable libraries in municipal income and FTE staff."]
Live recording of the Ashburnham Select Board meeting discussing local committees and public comments.
The Ashburnham Select Board holds a public meeting, discussing agenda items including a propane cannon update and citizen comments.
Recording of the Ashburnham Board of Selectmen meeting, including the Pledge of Allegiance and discussion of the Comcast franchise renewal process.
A recording of the Ashburnham Select Board meeting discussing the chief administrator's role and a playground project.
Ashburnham’s May 20, 2024 Select Board meeting covers the signed Gardner sewer agreement, a renewed animal control contract, and a detailed update on the town’s $4,956,200 OPEB liability.
Town Administrator Brian reported Route 101 South engineering costs of $548,900, with $239,422 paid and a $25,000 funding gap, plus a possible $60,000 to $100,000 more from MassDOT's new modification.