Board of Selectmen FY 2010 Goals
The Littleton Board of Selectmen held a public hearing on Monday, August 10, 2009 at 7:30 PM in the Littleton Town Offices, Room 103, 37 Shattuck Street, Littleton, MA 01460 and then and there adopted the following goals for Fiscal Year 2010:
Economic Development
- Littleton Common Overlay District Study - three sub-areas (A - existing Common area; B - IBM west to Beaver Brook Road, including Cisco; C - From east of Common to Powers Road).
- Identify needs and develop plans for infrastructure improvements
- Commuter rail and related issues
- Encourage and explore economic development that is a net benefit to the Town.
Town Services
- Roadway Improvement Plan implementation
- Revisit the comprehensive facilities plan, including future use of former police station at 20 Foster Street, Whitcomb Avenue Highway Barn
- Implementing Town Government Study Committee recommendations, including Facilities Manager; and to review other organizational structure issues raised in the past.
- Consideration of consolidation of services; regionalization
Environmental
- Transfer Station/Recycling
- Spectacle Pond Aquifer protection
- Green Initiatives
- Aggressively pursue the preservation of farmland and open space
Information/Communication
- Improve lines of communication with other local boards and committees, state officials, televise more town board meetings, increase volunteer participation
- Improve lines of communication with the business community
- Continue system-wide adoption of the Code of Conduct and Ethics
Regulatory Issues
- Sign By-law
- Review and clarify nuisance by-law, junk and debris
- Crematory
Fiscal Management
- Completion of labor negotiations which do not require overrides, significant cuts in services, or layoffs.
- Support alternative funding activities for projects such as the Track
Exercise budget restraint; develop multi-year fiscal projections to guide strategies for budgeting and collective bargaining; increase the senior citizen property tax work-off program
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