Board tables vote on light plant grant scope

Select Board · Meeting of October 14, 2026

Hull's Select Board approved an $8.99 million bond sale but put off a vote clarifying its stance on a Coastal Zone Management grant for a combined DPW-Light Plant facility. Town Accountant Mike Buckley and Town Treasurer Eileen White secured UMB Bank N.A. as bond buyer at 4.28 percent, with an S&P AA rating. Vice Chair Jerry Taverna moved to clarify that the board does not want to exclude the Light Plant, whose board voted 5-0 to stay at its Edgewater Road site, from the grant scope, though member Greg Grey warned that excluding it would leave the town "half blind." Constable called the two-year dispute "a distraction," saying "it is time to move on from it." The board also unanimously approved a license for a donated lighthouse and tower replica at a Nantasket Avenue lot, conditioned on police, building and conservation review, and deferred the grant question to its next meeting.

In the full story:

• Bond Sale and Financing Approval
• Lighthouse and Village Tower License Request
• Knights of Columbus One-Day Alcohol License
• Coastal Resilience Grant and Combined DPW/HMLP Facility
• Finalize Select Board Integrated Goals and Objectives
• Finalize Select Board Commitments
• James Avenue Title Search Update
• Correspondence, Appointments and Updates
• Who Was There
• Organizations And Documents Referenced
• The complete report: 3,271 words

Source: the Select Board meeting of October 14, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.

Checked against the record: before publication this article was automatically compared with the meeting transcript. It was corrected where it differed.