Lincoln Select Board sets warrant positions, approves Parks and Rec appointment

LINCOLN — March 21, 2022 — Lincoln Select Board sends off Craig and lines up Town Meeting positions. The board's March 21 meeting marked James Craig's final session after six years; Chair Jonathan Dwyer read a mock "separation agreement" granting Craig a seat on any future Select Board Fourth of July float. The board voted 3-0 to support Articles 33 and 34 (Historic District Commission bylaw amendments) and 3-0 to appoint Anita Spieth to a three-year Parks and Recreation term. Members previewed Article 11, a $350,000 request to dismantle the school modulars and restore the soccer field, with Lincoln Public Schools' Buck Creel explaining the appropriation is needed now because $550,000 in proceeds from selling the units to Nauset will not be certified until FY 2025. The board declined to take a position on Article 12, the community-center sense-of-the-town vote, and deferred Article 31, a citizen petition seeking home-rule authority to restrict fossil-fuel infrastructure, until a Saturday-morning session before Town Meeting. Town Administrator Tim Higgins reported an agreement in principle with the firefighters' union and said the town's housing-choice response letter to DHCD is being used "as a model" by the Massachusetts Municipal Association.