The Wrentham Board of Selectmen will be meeting Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.
The following is a list of local public meetings this week: WRENTHAM-Tuesday, Feb. 19, Board of Selectmen, 6:30 p.m.,Wednesday, Feb. 20: Planning Board, 7 p.m. NORFOLK-Tuesday, Feb. 19, Historical Commission, 7 p.m. Board of Assessors, 7 p.m. PLAINVILLE-The town election has been moved to April 30, the same day as the special US Sentate priminary.
During the Special Town Meeting, Wrentham Board of Selectmen Chairman Joe Botaish delivered the board's update on the town.
In the Board of Selectmen's update to the town, Chairman Joe Botaish was confident that the town can maintain services and quality of life, but warned that the town needs to start saving now and cannot depend on State Aid. As of the end of the 2012 fiscal year, the town has $1,375,174 in free cash in the General Fund along with $480,519 in the Water Enterprise Fund. The good news is that last winter the town stayed within it’s appropriation for snow and ice of $150,000 for the first time in a decade but Botaish did note that a repeat was unlikely and the town should not plan on that happening again. The chairman also encouraged the town to continue saving some of its free cash in the Capital Equipment Stabilization Fund as well as the …
