Select Board sends Special Town Meeting petition results to Beacon Hill

SUDBURY — June 2, 2026 — Sudbury Select Board forwards three Special Town Meeting petitions to Beacon Hill, backs Haskell accessibility grant. The board voted 5-0 on June 2 to send transmittal letters on the May 20 articles — a bottle bill update, an audit of the Massachusetts Legislature, and a Sudbury recall procedure — to Sen. Jamie Eldridge and Rep. Carmine Gentile, attaching the board's prior 1-4 opposition statement to the Article 3 letter that town meeting passed 474-394. Members also voted 5-0 to release a May 30 KP Law memo confirming the town is not compelled to forward citizen petitions. Combined Facility Director Sandra Duran won board support for a $250,000 Massachusetts Office on Disability grant application, due June 12, to supplement the $500,000 town meeting appropriated in 2025 for Haskell Field accessible pathways, a pavilion and a multi-sport court. Town Manager Andy Sheehan announced June 15 conflict-of-interest training following the Energy and Sustainability Committee's $450 expenditure on warrant-article yard signs. Member Charles Russo urged a bylaw amendment expanding the special-town-meeting notice window, calling the LSRHS gym logistics the "root cause" of May 20's delays.