· The Board received a request from the Lions Club for a voluntary roadblock on Saturday, November 13 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. in two locations: in the town center at the corner of Route 2A and Main St., and at the corner of Whalom Road and Electric Avenue The rain date for the event is November 20.

· Pat Slattery of the Lunenburg Historical Commission requested the Board to accept a donation from Emerald Place, LLC. Emerald Place will pay for 34 rolls of microfilm to be scanned into PDF format. The microfilm contains documents dating back to 1720, including birth and death records. The project would cost $2,704.50, and the documents would be made available on a memory stick.

· Treasurer Jeffrey Ugalde gave a proposal for borrowing money against Chapter 90 allocation for the Road Management Plan. Fifteen years is the current maximum borrowing term for installing road material, such as macadam pavement, and $4,099,000 is the borrowing capacity, at a rate of $325,000 a year. The Board generally dismissed the idea. Selectman Dave Matthews said this would “dilute our buying power …it’s very short-sighted and just puts a burden down the road.”  Alonzo pointed out that, if spent over two years, less than 40 percent of the roads would be done.

· The Town Manager presented a ten-year trends monitoring report along with the financial forecast. Among the findings of the report, Kerry Speidel found that the revenue per capita in the town has increased slightly. Although local receipts appear to trend downwards, Speidel said that the town was helped by several residential development projects. In the first 90 days of 2010, Speidel said there was a slight decrease in uncollected property tax from 2009.

· There is concern over the loss of federal funding for the schools, according to Speidel. Speidel said that the town will face a 10 percent decrease in state aid. The Town Manager says that it is time to have a high level of public input “to determine if the level of service provided is meeting the needs of the community.”

· The financial trends and forecast packets are available on the town Web site, and the Town Manager and Board of Selectmen encourage the public to look at them. “We’ve got some challenges [ahead],” said Matthews.

· The Board accepted and signed the fourteen Special Town Meeting Warrant Articles. The Special Town Meeting is scheduled for November 30, and Warrant Articles include one for municipal aggregation of electrical power.