Boxborough Select Board closes FY2026 warrant, recommends 28-plus articles in marathon session

BOXBOROUGH -- February 24, 2025, Boxborough Select Board closes FY2026 annual town meeting warrant and recommends more than 28 articles in a session that ran past 10 p.m. Monday. The board voted unanimously on articles totaling more than $2 million in proposed spending, including a $1.2 million bonded fire department pumper truck, an $80,000 fire department utility terrain vehicle, a $20,000 Modified Boxborough Emergency Assistance Program to replace expiring ARPA funding, and a $50,000 town share of a $250,000 Sargent Memorial Library interior renovation. Board member Dave Bohn announced he and his wife will sell their home and relocate to Cape Cod, with his resignation effective May 19, opening a three-year and a two-year Select Board seat on the spring ballot. Several articles were held for additional information, including a Taylor Farm Road parcel acceptance awaiting anti-precedent language requested by the Finance Committee, a DPW pickup truck pending hybrid vehicle research, a veterans tax exemption cost-of-living article pending assessor input, and an uncashed-checks tailings article for which the treasurer has informally estimated approximately $22,000 in unclaimed funds.