Select Board votes: road closure, permit changes, appointments and personnel updates

At its April 23 meeting the Westborough Select Board approved several routine motions, from event permits to personnel and legal procedural actions.

Permits and events: The board approved a temporary road closure for Jasper Street (North Street to Benjamin Drive) on May 11 from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. to allow Nurse Farm to participate in the town’s Westboro Unplugs week event. The board also approved an amendment to Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church’s license to hold monthly bingo between 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Tuesdays.

Boards and personnel: The Veterans Advisory Board's membership cap was raised from 9 to 15 members to accommodate additional projects. The board approved amended job descriptions aligning the assistant town accountant and the grants-administrator/procurement-officer roles to report to the newly created town accountant. The board moved and approved the appointment of a registrar of voters for a term ending March 30, 2027 (the motion included an initial transcribed name and subsequent clarifications in discussion). The board also approved minutes for several recent meetings.

Legal procedure: The vice chair moved to enter executive session under Mass. Gen. Laws chapter 30A §21(a)(3) and §21(a)(7) to discuss strategy on multiple pending litigations and to approve executive-session minutes; the chair declared that open session would be detrimental and the board took a roll-call vote and proceeded into executive session.

Each item was moved, seconded and approved in the public session; the public transcript records the approvals but in many cases does not include a full roll-call tally for routine votes.