Know Your Vote 2020: Quarantine Edition
eHop sits down with town officials and gets answers to questions about how Town Meeting will be run and the Warrant Articles. Available on HCAM’s YouTube Channel.
eHop Updates
Weekly News Roundup – 09/06/2020
Covid-19 Updates & Precautions • List of Town Meeting Articles with Links and Details • Superintendent: District, teachers union ‘working really hard’ to finalize agreement • Town counsel: Select Board did not violate open meeting law with anonymous comments • Select Board roundup: Developer continues prep …
List of Articles with Links & Details
Read the Town Meeting Warrant 2020 FINANCIAL – FISCAL YEAR 2020 ARTICLE: 1 FY 2020 Supplemental Appropriations and Transfers Sponsor: Town Manager Transfer the sum of $62,000 from Certified Free Cash to supplement the FY2020 Snow and Ice Control Operating Budgets, $151,054 from Certified Free …
Select Board Actions Taken 09/01/20
Agenda Items & Actions Taken: 6:00 PM CALL TO ORDER – EXECUTIVE SESSION i. To approve executive session minutes. ii. To consider strategy with respect to the lease, sale or value of real property in relation to Main Street parking – 25/35 Main Street. 6:30 …
Weekly News Roundup – 08/30/2020
Covid-19 Updates & Precautions • Health director: Residents traveling out of state put Hopkinton at risk • With some in-person learning set to resume this fall, Hopkinton schools turn to innovation to keep COVID-19 at bay • Ready, set, go! Virtual Boston Marathon is about …
Select Board Actions Taken 08/25/20
Agenda Items & Actions Taken: 5:00 PM CALL TO ORDER, PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 5:05 PM PUBLIC FORUM 5:15 PM CONSENT AGENDA i. The Select Board will consider approving the Minutes of the August 4, 2020 Select Board Meeting. ii. The Select Board will consider accepting …
Planning Board Actions Taken 08/27/20
Agenda Items & Actions Taken (unofficial): Discussion and vote about whether to keep Town Meeting Articles sponsored by the Planning Board on the Warrant for Annual Town Meeting or withdraw some or all of these articles – Vote to recommend Town Meeting take no action …
Weekly News Roundup – 08/23/2020
Covid-19 Updates & Precautions • Health Department supports state’s decision to require flu immunization for students • Health director laments uncooperative resident, seeks ‘solutions’ to basketball court closures • Board of Health on basketball court closures: ‘Illegal activities represented a public health nuisance’ • Hopkinton-only …
Planning Board Actions Taken 08/18/20
Agenda Items & Actions Taken (unofficial): Discussion and vote about whether to keep Town Meeting Articles sponsored by the Planning Board on the Warrant for Annual Town Meeting or withdraw some or all of these articles. The Board took two votes: The first being to …
Select Board Actions Taken 08/18/20
Agenda Items & Actions Taken: 5:30 PM EXECUTIVE SESSION i. To discuss strategy with respect to contract negotiations with non Union staff. ii. To consider strategy with respect to the lease, sale or value of real property in relation to the Upper Charles Trail. 6:00 …
State Primary Election Information
There is a state primary election coming up and there are many ways to vote this year: Absentee or Early Mail-In Voting – You should have already received your ballot if you requested one. You can check the status online here. If returning it by …
Weekly News Roundup – 08/16/2020
Covid-19 Updates & Precautions • Basketball courts outside middle school closed indefinitely • Massachusetts has released high school sports guidelines. What do they mean? • Hopkinton Teachers Association issues statement questioning safety of returning to school • Motorcyclist disrupts India celebration at Town Common • School Committee …