Panel OKs $500 for Garden, Defers Tire Event

Sustainability Commission · Meeting of May 20, 2026

GROTON — The Groton Sustainability Commission voted to fund pollinator garden upkeep and skip a second tire collection this year. Members unanimously authorized up to $500 for spring maintenance of the town's 3,000-square-foot pollinator garden and transferred $230 from an unallocated reserve to cover a shortfall after $273.13 was already spent on signage. The panel also agreed to forgo a second tire recycling event after collections fell to just 31 tires in November, down from 77 a year and a half earlier, rolling roughly $980 into fiscal 2027.

Separately, members weighed whether to bring the town's defeated specialized stretch energy code back to a fall 2027 Town Meeting, with one member noting "59" communities statewide have already adopted it. The energy manager shared with four towns has brought in $600,000 so far under a three-year contract.

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Source: the Sustainability Commission meeting of May 20, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.

Checked against the record: before publication this article was automatically compared with the meeting transcript.