Ashburnham Select Board Meeting Podcast

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."]

The town administrator explains the $4,956,200 OPEB liability and the $311,506 account balance.

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.