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} Town of Westford Annual Report For the Fiscal Year Ending June 30 2016 W E the Subfcribers, inhabitants of the town of having taken into ourferious confideration the ,precarious ftatc of the liberties of North-Amcrica, and more efpecially the prefent dirtrelTed condition ofthis intuitedprovince, cm- barralfed as it is byfeveraladts ofthe hritilh parliament, tending to the entirelubverlion ofournatural and charter rigjps ; among which Is the act for blocking up the harbourof Boflon : f^y,^_..... ^ ^£ .< , jr»«*y£ g^'p^'J-zy Vlvkc HE! y, S s J S - I < ; t;/7 - /^r/ ^ <tC ^•yV/<, y1/ , _ Pt~- (Sfafi, . Solemn League and Covenant 1774 . On theCover ACentennial- In 1916,an historic documentwas returned toWestford “Therehasrecentlycome intothepossessionofthetown libraryaveryvaluablepaper datingbackto 1774.. “The paper was called a Solemn League and Covenant. It has the original signatures of207 citizensofWestfordatthat time. Justbefore itwasdrawn up, GreatBritainhad passed the obnoxious Boston port bill, closing up the port of Boston and stopping business. “There is a bit ofa story about it. It was presented to Westford libraryby Miss Mary Alice Tenney ofRoxbury. It came to herwith other family papers and after showing it to the president ofthe Colonial Society in Boston she decided to return it to the town from which it originally came. Her ancestors were Fletchers and two ofthem were signersofthispaper.” The Westford Wardsman aspublishedin Turner’s Public Spirit AyerMassachusetts, May20, 1916 CoverphotooftheSolemnLeagueandCovenant byDanLacroix, WestfordColonialMinutemenand presidentofthe WestfordHistoricalSociety Town of Westford Massachusetts Annual Report For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016 Annual Town Meeting Saturday, March 25, 2017 Annual Town Election Tuesday, May 2, 2017 Citizen Activity Application Form Town ofWestford Good GovernmentStarts WithYou Ifyou are interested in serving on aTown committee, please fill outthis form and mail tothe TownManager, TownHall, 55 Main Street, Westford, MA 01886. This form may also be downloaded fromthe website at www.westfordma.gov. All committee vacancies will be filledbycitizens deemed most qualified to serve in aparticularcapacity. Date Name Address HomeTelephone Email AmountofTimeAvailable InterestinWhatTownCommittee PresentOccupation EducationBackground TownOfficesHeld OtherVolunteerPositions Remarks Memoriam In 03 KJ Jack Wrobel 1942 - 2016 Thirty Years ofTown Service After being on the Personnel Board for nine years beginning in 1983, Jack Wrobel was on the Board of Selectmen from 1992-2001. When Jack chose not to run for a fourth term, the Selectmen's reportinthe 2001AnnualTown Reportnoted, "Jack Wrobel retired from the Board of We Selectmen after nine years of service. will miss his creative approach to problem solving especially in preserving open space as his participation in the Drew Farm and Picking Farm preservation efforts amply demonstrate." Jack was a member of the Drew Development Committee from 1987-1994 and the Drew Negotiating Committee in 1996 which resulted in the town meeting approving an agricultural re- striction on the former Drew Farms on Boston Road. That same year, Jack joined the Picking/Gould Farm Negotiating Committee that brought the article to town meeting to conserve the property nowknown as Meadowbrook Farm. After a three year "retirement," Jack was elected to the Board ofTrustees ofthe J.V. Fletcher Library in 2004 andserved nineyears. Table of Contents Town Officers and Committees ElectedOfficials ..1 AppointedOfficials ..3 GeneralMeetingTimes forBoards and Committees 13 Elections AnnualTownElection: May3,2016 14 DemocraticPresidentialPrimary: March 1,2016 .... 16 RepublicanPresidential Primary: March 1, 2016 .... 18 Town Meetings SpecialTownMeeting: October 19, 2015 23 AnnualTownMeeting: April2,2016 26 Boards, Committees and Departments BoardofSelectmen ..51 TownManager ..53 12NorthMainStreetTaskForce ..57 AffordableHousingCommittee ..59 AffordableHousingTrustFund ..62 AnimalControl Department ..64 Assessors, Boardof ..65 BruceFreemanRailTrail ..67 BuildingDepartment ..70 Capital PlanningCommittee ..72 CemeteryCommission, Boardof ..73 CommunityPreservationCommittee ..75 ConservationCommission ..78 Constable ..81 CouncilonAging ..82 CulturalCouncil ..86 Disability, Commissionon ..89 EconomicDevelopmentCommittee ..92 EmergencyManagementAgency ..95 EngineeringDepartment ..97 FinanceCommittee ..99 FireDepartment 101 Health, Boardof 108 HighwayDepartment 117 Historical Commission 119 HousingAuthority 121 HumanResources 123 LibraryDepartment,J.V. Fletcher 125 LibraryTrustees,J.V. Fletcher 130 Table of Contents -continued NashobaValleyTechnical High School 136 NorthernMiddlesexCouncilofGovernments 140 Parkerville SchoolhouseCommittee 142 Parks andRecreation 144 PedestrianSafetyCommittee 148 PermanentTownBuildingCommittee 149 PlanningBoard 155 PoliceDepartment 158 PublicWorksInitiativeCommittee 163 RecordsandArchivesManagementCommittee 165 RecyclingCommission 167 ScholarshipandGrantCommittee 171 SealerofWeightsandMeasures 173 Selectmen, Boardof 51 Schools NashobaValleyTechnicalHigh School 136 WestfordPublic Schools 174 TaxCollector/Treasurer 204 TaxPossession SaleCommittee 210 T.R.E.A.D 212 Technology 213 TownAccountant 216 TownCenterTrafficandParkingCommittee 232 TownClerk 235 BylawReviewCommittee 240 TownForestCommittee 241 TownManager 53 Tree Warden 244 Veterans Services 245 WaterDepartment 249 ZoningBoardofAppeals 253 DirectoryofTownDepartments 255 Index 257 WestfordataGlance 259 Elected Officials as of June 30, 2016 BOARDOFHEALTH 3-yearterm TermExpires ZacACataldo 121 DepotSt 5/2017 HelenFu 15 ChatfieldCir 5/2018 M Susan Hanley 26 KirsiCir 5/2016 JillianLLokere 103 RussellsWay 5/2016 MichelePitoniak-Crawford 15 ShellyLn 5/2017 BOARD OFSELECTMEN 3-yearterm ScottHazelton 76NuttingRd 5/2019 MarkDKost 7 GrassyLn 5/2018 AndreaPeraner-Sweet 21 Kirsi Cir 5/2019 KellyJRoss 7 CarriageWay 5/2017 Donald Siriani 59 GranitevilleRd 5/2017 HOUSINGAUTHORITY 5-yearterm MurielTDrake 67TadmuckRd 5/2018 Carol S Engel 26Lowell Rd 5/2021 CorrineRyan 93 StonyBrookRd 5/2018 JVFLETCHERLIBRARYTRUSTEES 3-yearterm W Hajo Koester 65 ProvidenceRd 5/2017 RobertDPrice 18 StrattonHill Rd 5/2017 M Susan Flint 7 SwansonLn 5/2018 MarianneC Fleckner 23RAlmeriaCir 5/2018 Elizabeth SDiercks 56 DepotSt 5/2019 KathleenACanavan 3 MistyLn 5/2019 MODERATOR 3-yearterm EllenHarde 39Main St 5/2017 PLANNING BOARD 5-yearterm MichaelJGreen 11 HiddenValleyRd 5/2019 DennisJGalvin 90 Concord Rd 5/2020 KateHollister 25 VineBrookRd 5/2021 MatthewLewin 4 MistyLn 5/2017 DarrinHWizst 1 NoonanWay 5/2018 1 Elected Officials as of June 30, 2016 —Continued SCHOOLCOMMITTEE 3-yearterm TermExpires AveryAdam 87 ProvidenceRd 5/2018 ArthurF Benoit 26 CountryRd 5/2019 GeorgeTClay 7 Ward Hill Rd 5/2019 DavidAKeele 10Boston Rd 5/2017 BirgitEKohl 4 FrancesHill Rd 5/2017 TerenceJRyan 7Castle Rd 5/2018 ChristopherP Sanders 4KoalaBearLn 5/2018 2 Appointed Officials as of June 30, 2016 AFFORDABLE HOUSINGCOMMITTEE AppointedbyTownManager 2-yearterm TermExpires JoanCroteau 10 GrotonRd 6/30/2017 EdithFruscione 8 StarrCir 6/30/2017 KarenHudson 35 Carlisle Rd 6/30/2017 KristenRGrueter 85 ActonRd 6/30/2016 ChrisPude 8 BradleyLn 6/30/2018 JimSilva 98 ChamberlainRd 6/30/2016 DrewVemalia 10GrotonRd 6/30/2016 3-yearterm RobertFDowning 40NuttingRd 6/30/2018 AFFORDABLE HOUSINGTRUSTCOMMITTEE AppointedbyBoardofSelectmen 1-yearterm JohnParker 3 CobblerRd 6/30/2016 2-yearterm JosephP Diamond 7TrailsideWay 6/30/2016 RobertFDowning 40NuttingRd 6/30/2016 AndreaPeraner-Sweet 21 Kirsi Cir 6/30/2016 RobertJWaskiewicz 120GrotonRd 6/30/2016 AGRICULTURAL COMMISSION AppointedbyBoardofSelectmen 3-yearterm ElizabethAlmeida 41 WestSt 6/30/2017 DanielleBattle 8 ProvidenceRd 6/30/2017 ChristineBerthold 3 HyacinthDr 6/30/2017 KeithBohne 31 TadmuckRd 6/30/2017 KristinCambray 8 MillstoneHillRd 6/30/2017 SharonChew 12 RobinwoodCir 6/30/2017 PeterCox 82MainSt 6/30/2017 EllenJoseph 40FlaggRd 6/30/2017 KimberlyLiner 9TenneyRd 6/30/2017 Zoe Stapp 9ConnellDr 6/30/2017 BOARD OFASSESSORS AppointedbyTownManager Michael S Coravos 44BrandonCir 6/30/2017 DianeL Holmes 4PleasantSt 6/30/2019 TitusAPalmer 15 VoseRd 6/30/2018 BOARD OFCEMETERYCOMMISSIONERS AppointedbyTownManager 3-yearterm JonathanPAsh 13 Depot St 6/30/2018 RBradleyPotts 19RMainSt 6/30/2017 DanielProvost 27 Orchard St 6/30/2019 GeorgeP Rogers 60PleasantSt 6/30/2019 3