You Missed: Condolences, Traffic Talk, Road Improvements

The met Tuesday night. Here's what you missed.

1. Chairman David Rossi sent the town's condolences to the family of former selectman and the board observed a moment of silence. Flynn had served as a selectman as well as a member of the Board of Health and the Sewer Commission. He died Wed., July 18, at the age of 76.

2. The board voted to set the charge for a Special Town Common Traffic Redesign Committee, whose purpose will be to "develop and propose reconfiguration of the traffic at and near the intersection of Worcester Street and Millbury Street, and parking patterns in front of 2-10 Grafton Common." The board is to be made up of seven members, including one representative of each the Board of Selectmen, the Historic District Commission, the Traffic Safety Committee and the DPW Advisory Committee as well as three members at large. The committee will be in effect as soon as membership can be secured, but no later than Sept. 1. Appointments will be for a one year term. 

3. Selectmen also voted to sign a $17,400 contract to allow Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc. in Worcester to do the engineering phase of improvements to Westboro Road.

4. The board voted to appoint Alison Wilson as a secretary/bookkeeper for the Council on Aging, Northborough Building Inspector William S. Farnsworth Jr. as an alternate inspector of buildings due to a conflict of interest, Town Administrator Timothy McInerney to the WRTA Advisory Board, and Pearl Litterer to the Grafton Cultural Council.

5. Additionally, selectmen voted to sign a $541,353 contract for hot mix asphalt paving with Murray Paving & Reclamation in Holliston. The contract will run from July 2012 through Dec. 2013. The company submitted the lowest bid.

The is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tues., Aug. 7.