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At a previous Winchester Select Board meeting, members authorized Town Manager Lisa Wong to change certain 15-minute parking spots in the downtown area and move them out of the town center.
In 2020, the Board approved six total “take-out” pick-up spots. On April 12, Wong recommended the following:
The town remove the takeout spots on Mt. Vernon and replace the first 30-minute parking spots on Converse Place with 15 minutes.
The town remove two takeout spots by Comella’s and replace one 30-minute parking spot with a 15-minute parking spot.
The town remove a takeout spot on Waterfield by First House Pub.
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Vice Chair Susan Verdicchio said the Board should put the override question to voters.
“People have been waiting for 20 years on this culvert and getting the whole thing finished,” said Verdicchio, who also reminded Board members of the catastrophic floods from March 2010. “You don’t notice when the flooding when it’s absent and you think you really don’t know what the need is.”
A debt exclusion is a temporary increase in the town s tax levy limit. A debt exclusion finances a particular project or projects and taxes increase for some time, usually 10-20 years, to cover the cost of the project.