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Regular Meeting - 2nd Tuesday
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Tuesday, June 16, 2026 - 6:00pm
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Select Board

Select Board
Select Board Meeting Room, Town Hall
June 16, 2026 @ 6:00 PM

AGENDA

  1. Minutes of Prior Meetings
    1. April 21, 2026
    2. May 29, 2026
  2. Menemsha Store - Updates
  3. James Malkin - MV Commission & Chapter 40B
    •  MVC/40B issue is an existential fight for the Island’s ability to manage and maintain its character.
    • Edgartown Gardens/Green Villa developer seeking to remove the MVC from its role in reviewing and regulating 40B projects by demoting it to “local board” status. 
      • These tend to be the largest, densest and most impactful developments on the Island.
    • Under 40B, Towns do not have the same authority as the MVC to regulate development
      • Cannot control nitrogen discharges to the Great Ponds
      • Cannot require open space preservation
      • Cannot require same traffic mitigation
      • Rural character of Island means nothing under 40B
    • 40B particularly problematic on Island
      • Developer only has to provide 20-25% of the units as income restricted affordable
      • Rest are unrestricted, market-rate
        • Basically creating large #s of investment properties, airbnbs, vacation rentals
        • Worsens affordable housing crisis on Island – drives up cost of housing, creates more demand for workforce but without housing
      • Only MVC – not towns – can condition 40B projects to prohibit short-term rentals, require greater % of affordability, require year-round occupancy, require workforce housing
    • State Housing Appeals Committee has sided with developer
      • Unfortunate that the administration is taking this position
      • Completely at odds with  Plain language of the MVC Act  Prior court precedent  50 years of established practice
      • MVC is litigating this in court, but Edgartown Gardens is moving forward even though MVC denied it and this developer has already proposed another 40B project in Edgartown -
    • Hope is that Legislature will act to adopt legislation confirming that MVC is not a local board for 40B
      • Need to call Moakley and Cyr and let them know that this is critical for the Island. Time sensitive outreach – want to get something in this legislative session before this gets out of hand
  4. CCC Summer Operator - CTAC
    1. Memo for 2026 summer Season
    2. Vendor exemption request
    3. Agreement FINAL for signatures
  5. Friends of the Chilmark Preschool - Summer event permission request
  6. Shellfish - Advisory Committee recommendations
  7. Harbor
    1. Dredge Spoils discussion, disposal location and uses
    2. Dock Phase 2
  8. Up Island Regional School District Committee - Jessica Mason:  Discussion of issues that are requested to be addressed in a school lease.
  9. Beach Committee - Squibnocket Beach loss of sand at parking lot entrance area.
  10. Historical Commission - memo on donation of historic shed
  11. TriTown Ambulance
    1. Posting of EMT vacancy
    2. Debt collection agreement
  12. Donation of specimen tree by Michael Van Valkenberg for 399 Middle Road entrance
  13. Legal Defense Gift Fund - establish to accept donations
  14. Police - Sign agreement with new police officer and Local 194 regarding benefits
  15. Chief of Police
    1. Possible Executive Session to discuss contract
    2. List of draft Goals & Objectives from SB & COP
  16. Select Board
    1. Appointments to town committees:  Colin Ruhl, Lynne McCormack, Nancy Grundman
    2. R. Haag - Town use of calendar invitations for meetings
    3. M. Poole - Highway to trim Beetlebung Corners to Menemsha of low hanging limbs to allow pedestrians to walk on the grass beside the road.
    4. R. Haag - Start discussion of Goals & Objectives for Select Board and Town Administrator to support those Goals.
    5. Update on Verizon Lawsuit - Possible Executive Session
    6. Town Hall closed in observance of Independence Day on Friday July 3rd 2025.  Other agencies that operate on Saturdays to observe the holiday on Saturday July 4th.
    7. Ads for Auditor, Sailboat, Menemsha Cleaning, Harbor Regs, and STM June 29, 2026
    8. DCFC updates
    9. Correspondence - Susan Larsen, Barnstable County,