Wrong Recording Filed: July 22 Select Board Transcript Is a Pandemic-Era Candidate Interview

_WRONG-2021 · Meeting of July 22, 2026

AYER — A transcript mismatch has blocked reporting on the July 22, 2026 Ayer Select Board meeting. The audio file submitted for that meeting is a pandemic-era Spring Town Elections Candidate Meet and Greet interview featuring then-candidate Scott Hood and host Janet Providakes, almost certainly recorded in spring 2021, and bearing no relation to the July 22 agenda. That agenda included three National Grid and Verizon utility public hearings on Winthrop Avenue, High Street, and Sandy Pond Road; a request for Select Board authorization of UDAG funds for the town's Emergency Assistance Fund; a DPW Director's report from Dan Van Schalkwyk covering four active construction change orders, including on the West Main Street Bridge Replacement and the Grove Pond Water Treatment Plant PFAS improvements; and an executive session on a real property matter involving the Sullivan Investment Trust on West Main Street.

None of those items appear in the submitted recording, and no board votes or actions can be reported from the record provided.

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Source: the _WRONG-2021 meeting of July 22, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.