Wareham Sewer Board Votes 4-1 to Authorize Outreach RFQ

Water · Meeting of July 23, 2026

Wareham sewer board votes 4-1 to send outreach RFQ after town administrator balked. Commissioner Scott Sobey told the Board of Sewer Commissioners he'd drafted the request for qualifications more than a week earlier, but it sat unsent after Town Administrator Derek Sullivan signaled he wouldn't approve spending up to $50,000 to tell residents about looming costs. The board, grappling with a roughly $800,000 enterprise-fund shortfall and a possible 23 percent per-EDU rate hike tied to a $36 million plant project, voted 4-1 to send it anyway, with Sandy Slavin dissenting: "I'm just not comfortable sending something out under the town of Wareham without the TA approving it." The board also approved a $49,283 camera contract, a methanol supply deal at $6.95 a gallon, and an engineering-contract extension, and will hear from Woodard and Curran at its second August meeting.

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Source: the Water meeting of July 23, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.