Auburn Select Board recommends approval on most of 26 special town meeting warrant articles
Auburn Select Board recommends approval on 20 of 26 articles for the October 28 special town meeting, deferring four and opposing two.
AUBURN -- September 29, 2025, Auburn Select Board recommends approval on 20 of 26 articles for the October 28 special town meeting, deferring four and opposing two. The board unanimously backed a $4.7 million sewer rehabilitation borrowing for problem-plagued force mains on Goddard Drive and Sword Street, and voted 4-1 to recommend a $2.5 million golf course drainage and irrigation package funded through $500,000 in retained earnings and $2 million in new borrowing. It unanimously declined to recommend a separate $1.5 million Water Street culvert borrowing after DPW Director Joanna Pacquin acknowledged the design would not be ready before May. Vice Chair Todd M. Kirrane pressed the town manager over a year-long delay in processing a proposed traffic study bylaw, the item was deferred again after the Zoning Bylaw Review Committee did not complete its review, while a citizen's petition to accept Whitman Bailey Drive as a public way failed to win a positive recommendation on a 3-1-1 vote over concerns about substandard construction. The board also received word that Auburn has been granted EOHLC safe harbor status on 40B developments through July 20, 2026.
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