Friends of Concord-Carlisle Playing Fields

Green-Rainbow Party activist Mark O'Lalor filed a petition with Concord's Board of Selectmen this afternoon, demanding that a Special Town Meeting be held to rescind the town funding of the Concord-Carlisle fields project.  The funding in question won the necessary two-thirds majority of Town Meeting voters on April 24th.

Despite the unanimous support of the Board of Selectmen for the fields project, and the fact that several have gone on record saying that yet another town meeting to consider fields funding would be, in the words of Chairman Virginia McIntyre, "a waste of town resources," O'Lalor's petition appeared to have the requisite 200 signatures to force the Selectmen's hand to schedule a Special Town Meeting.

According to town officials, the Selectmen must now schedule the Special Town Meeting within the statutory limit of 45 days.  With the time required for notice and registration, that will mean the meeting will need to be held between approximately June 12th and June 22nd.

The Board of Selectmen are expected to take up the scheduling of the Special Town Meeting at their meeting on Monday night, May 14th.