Lunenburg Select Board Approves Eagle Scout Shed, Weighs Early Special Town Meeting for School Aid

Select Board · Meeting of July 21, 2026

Lunenburg Select Board backs Eagle Scout shed project and moves toward early special town meeting for $350,000 in school aid. The board voted unanimously Monday to allow Eagle Scout candidate Thomas Carey to build a 10-by-12-foot sand-and-salt storage shed at the DPW yard at a materials cost of no more than $1,900, with DPW Director Bill Bernard confirming the site and saying the expense could be absorbed in his budget. In a joint session, the board voted 4-0 to appoint Richard Howard, a 39-year accounting professional and former Finance Committee vice chair, to the Trust Fund Commission through May 2027; Trust Fund Commission Chairman John Bowen used the occasion to call for corrections to the July 7 meeting record and to identify gaps in the town's volunteer application process, noting the online form does not list the Trust Fund Commission, the Planning Board, or the School Committee as selectable boards.

The board's lengthiest discussion covered a School Committee request to appropriate $350,000 in additional FY27 state aid — part of $471,121 in unappropriated cherry sheet receipts produced by the July 9 state budget — to fund two reading specialists and a full-time high school principal; a citizen's petition for a special town meeting was verified by the town clerk July 20, and the board will meet July 27 after the chair consults town counsel to set a meeting date.

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Source: the Select Board meeting of July 21, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.