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Politics & Government

Board of Selectmen Meeting: Dec. 20

The Needham Board of Selectmen will meet on Tuesday, Dec. 20 at Town Hall. 

See the full agenda packet as a PDF below right. The agenda includes:

6:45 p.m. Informal meeting with citizens 

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7:00 p.m. Public Hearing: NSTAR Great Plain Avenue 

7:05 p.m. Town Manager 

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  • Final Approval of Tax Recapitulation Documents 
  • Final Approval of FY2013-2017 Capital Improvement Plan 
  • FY2013 Budget Consultation 

7:30 p.m. Board discussion 

  • Sale of Alcohol for Consumption off Premises 
  • Committee Reports 

8:00 p.m. Executive session for exception 3 and 6

APPOINTMENTS

1. Needham Cultural Council Walter McDonough (6/30/2014)

CONSENT AGENDA 

1. Accept the following donations made to the Needham Public Library for the period October 7, 2011- December 8, 2011: Nancy D’Amico donated a copy of the CD My Private Affair: A Live Jazz Recording ($15.00); Needham Author Barry Ahern gave the library a copy of his first novel, Birthright ($16.00); Melissa Silk gave the Children’s Room a large supply of children’s book jackets. They will be used for posters and craftwork (no price); Former Needham resident Sharon Slaton Howell sent the library a copy of her new book, Sitting on a Rock, Thinking ($20.00); Minuteman Press donated a supply of bookmarks and blocks of paper to the library ($25.00); Google donated a large number of red, one-sided metal book trucks to the Minuteman Library Network. Needham was able to obtain nine of them. ($2,250.00); Gail Hedges donated 9 books on health ($362.05); Bonnie & Ross Seider donated a copy of Shelter: Where Harvard Meets the Homeless, in honor of their son, the book’s author, Scott Seider, of whom they are very proud. ($18.00); The Friends of the Needham Library donated $28,500 for the purchase of databases, books, and audiovisual materials; Keith McClelland donated 10% of the selling price ($27.50) of a painting he sold that had been on display in the library.

2. Approve minutes of the Nov. 7, 2011, Nov. 29, 2011, Dec. 2, 2011 and Dec. 6, 2011 meetings.

3. Approve for calendar year 2012 requests for a license addendum to allow for the premises to have designated waiting areas for the service of alcoholic or wine and malt beverages only to those patrons who are waiting to dine (Section 3.1 of Needham Regulations for the Sale of Alcoholic Beverages).

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