Boxborough Select Board unanimously reappoints Town Administrator Johns to three-year term

BOXBOROUGH — September 22, 2025 — Boxborough Select Board unanimously reappoints Town Administrator Michael Johns through June 2028. The board voted 4-0 Monday — with Sam Anderson absent on vacation — to extend Johns's contract for three more years, then approved a personnel board appointment and an internal liquor license stock transfer before spending the bulk of the meeting on fire station temporary housing, town hall Friday closures, and strategic goals. On housing, Johns said modular sleeping quarters for firefighters — a 26-by-65-foot residential-code structure with four bedrooms and two bathrooms — are being priced by several companies, with a funding request targeted for the December Town Meeting. On transit, Johns announced that the Boxborough Connects bus route will continue indefinitely after the town redirected its existing $32,000 annual MBTA cherry sheet assessment to MART, covering the service's required one-third match of a roughly $100,000 annual operating cost. The town hall Friday-closure discussion produced no vote, with Johns directed to study staggered schedules and evening-hour options; a public commenter warned that empty Town Hall parking lots on Fridays would complicate any future override campaign.