My colleagues voted at our meeting of the Board of Selectmen last night to constitute the advisory committee I suggested, made up of former Medfield selectmen, to act as an ad hoc group of advisors to the town administration. Now we just need a good name for the advisors.
My thinking was that as selectmen we learn so much that is specific to how to run a town, that it seemed a shame to not seek to make use of the expertise that we have around town in our former selectmen. Living in town currently we have, that I can recall are
- Ed Beard,
- Richard DeSorgher,
- Harry Pritoni,
- Paul Rhuda, and
- John Harney
I believe that they have all agreed to serve. Mr. Judge was also a selectman in some town on the Cape, and may have the same knowledge base.
Mike Sullivan wants to ask them to look at whether to have the town lease out the last/third lot at the town’s 30 acres on Ice House Road. There is an individual who wants to lease it build a Four Kicks sort of indoor sports facility. The town could lease it as we did to the Kingsbury Club.
I thought the advisors might weigh in on such disparate issues as
- the Medfield State Hospital purchase,
- the affordable housing solutions,
- building town buildings, and
- what to do about budget increases.
Let me know if you have a good name for either these advisors and/or for the committee that we just constituted last night to examine the purchase of the site of the former Medfield State Hospital. Mike and I have been looking for a good acronym for the Medfield State Hospital committee. <ike did not like my suggestion of State Hospital Use/Purchase Study (SHUPS) committee.
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