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Select Board advances financial policies, discusses committee overhaul

Orleans Select Board advanced eight financial policies and discussed restructuring inactive committees during a workshop session. The board voted unanimously to send the policies, including Capital Improvement Plan and Ambulance Billing Procedure provisions, to a future regular meeting, while

Select Board · Meeting of July 15, 2026

Orleans Select Board advanced eight financial policies and discussed restructuring inactive committees during a workshop session. The board voted unanimously to send the policies, including Capital Improvement Plan and Ambulance Billing Procedure provisions, to a future regular meeting, while deferring two investment policies pending additional information. Discussion focused on potential restructuring of five inactive committees, with the board agreeing to defer any dissolutions pending complete proposals for replacement structures.

Chair Mefford Runyon, Vice Chair Michael Herman, Member Mary Wright, and Member Kevin Galligan participated; Clerk Mark Mathison was absent.

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Source: the Select Board meeting of July 15, 2026, compiled from the official minutes.

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