Select Board Renews SudburyTV Contract Through 2029

Select Board · Meeting of October 13, 2026

Sudbury's Select Board renewed SudburyTV's cable contract three years and opened a pointed debate over how specific the town's debt policy should be. The board voted 4-0 to extend Sudbury Access Corporation's contract to November 15, 2029, and accepted SAC's report showing 526 programs covered in fiscal year 2026, including 416 municipal meetings. Member Daniel Carty argued removing dollar thresholds and reporting requirements from draft debt, investment and capital-asset policies went too far, saying "we've never once pressure tested these financial policies," while Town Manager Andrew Sheehan and Finance Director Victor Garofalo said rigid figures erode with inflation.

The board also interviewed two Cultural Council applicants, Anne Devine and Sri Nikhitha Kasibhatta, without voting, and took straw polls favoring more flexible town meeting dates and possibly dropping the mandatory fall town meeting and annual town forum requirements. Town trust funds held $2,550,848.59 as of June 30, 2026.

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Source: the Select Board meeting of October 13, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.

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