Select Board Meeting

Billerica Select Board voted 3-2 Monday to require internal candidates be considered first for police and fire chief vacancies, brushing aside a town counsel opinion that the policy conflicts with the town charter.

BILLERICA — June 1, 2026 — Billerica Select Board approves new sports bar license at long-troubled Nutting Lake site, capping hours at 11 p.m. The board voted 5-0 at its June 1 meeting to grant Playoff Sports Bar LLC at 512 Middlesex Turnpike an all-alcohol restaurant, common victualer&

BILLERICA — May 18, 2026 — Billerica Select Board voted 4-1 to add Juneteenth and Pride flags to its official flag policy, waiving its own first-reading requirement over procedural objections. Select Board Member Daris O'Connor introduced the item, citing Billerica's status as a welcoming community; Member

BILLERICA — May 4, 2026 — Billerica Select Board approves May 19 special town meeting warrant while stripping largest Cider Mill parcel from open-space protection article. On a 3-2 vote, the board reaffirmed its earlier direction to bring a specific gazebo redesign — a platform lowered to 30 inches with a

BILLERICA — April 30, 2026 — Billerica Select Board moves annual town meeting to May 19 and strips key Cider Mill parcel from conservation article. The board voted 4-1 Thursday to reschedule the annual town meeting from May 7 after town counsel warned that a public vote taken at a procedurally

BILLERICA — April 9, 2026 — Billerica Select Board unanimously authorizes two middle school state funding applications and ratifies a new clerical union contract. The board voted Thursday to allow Superintendent Carrie Cleary to submit statements of interest to the Massachusetts School Building Authority for the Locke Middle School at 110 Allen

BILLERICA — March 30, 2026 — Billerica Select Board approves spring town meeting warrant 3-2 amid procedural chaos and charter dispute. The board voted Monday to place all articles on the preliminary warrant for the May 7 annual town meeting, but the session descended into disorder over whether the board had

Billerica Select Board orders full outdoor water ban starting March 23 as tank rehabilitation begins.

BILLERICA — March 2, 2026 — Billerica Select Board approves $3.65 million town center overhaul and ratifies a contested FY27 budget carrying a projected 5.85 percent tax levy increase. The board voted unanimously Monday to proceed with a redesign of the town center that includes new HAWK pedestrian signals, concrete

BILLERICA — February 23, 2026 — Billerica Select Board punts Shawsheen Tech feasibility vote and opens license-plate-camera debate during a remote snow-night session. The board declined to act on a warrant article request from Shawsheen Valley Technical School Superintendent Tony McIntosh, who is seeking up to $554,002 from