shirley brown howard ninety data mass formally of westwood died peacefully on thursday nov twentieth at her home at new bridge on the charles and diana mass she was born in concord massachusetts forty years in one nine hundred eighty six she survived by four children thomas of columbia heights minnesota dana cortland ohio peter of dover mass and jonathan of internment will be a private graveside service at the convenience of the family and were flowers moral contributions may be made to westwardly interest p o box three six one six westwood ma eleven grandchildren two great creative children from pat was elected a town meeting men were in milford and spent her professional career advocating for senior citizens a bet she earned a bachelor's and master's degree in human services that was a member of the town of westwood human services committee safety committee long range planning committee westwood food pantry and westwood community chest she also worked with westwood planning board on senior housing issues was a cor certified agent and a passport agent and notary that was applicable to a year in two thousand and six for the care from the council on aging and was chosen educator the year in two thousand and twelve from the westwood education foundation the town of first i want to say shirley howard was a mentor to me and i think like what you had i met her early on actually when i was initially running and she became a very good friend and i would say she i think she's she's definitely a trailblazer and she i knew it he mentored a lot of women who have been involved with and i think that's the noted thing that she did because even people who were new residents and got them involved in knowing what was going on in the town and would often bring an entourage of people to town meeting and so i think that just showed how committed she was so you helping less would be the best it could be so heartbreaking and i think last year it was such a high right to have the dedication of the senior center or have it named after pat after all she did for it was such a fitting thing and we were so once you have been applied been only interest instrumental person but you know both of them and no one backtracking but numerous people are better off because of their contribution to the town of west  to this so right now we're currently paying seventy five dollars and sixty six cents for our tipping fees our proposal in the agreement is now made that was going to be sixty four to oppose aton starting january first tw deescalation will not occur until july one of twenty seventeen and the other big part of this is that if a town so chooses i don't think we will be in this in this condition whatsoever if in town choose to get out of the subways business completely they took the better pay provision in the agreement meaning that we would have to provide them with one year notice if we were to opt out of this contract which i don't think we'll be doing but it was a benefit to any communities process of ordering more cards right now ok we purchased the cars we housed them at the yard when there's damages we provide that to the community that if we found that we were warning a couple more total of roughly one hundred thirty one thousand dollars so it's a significant savings to our community as well as a bunch of others you know we we can't just opt out of the contract at this point in time you know right now we are demolition of a property you know we made that next door or we charge them for that postcards but it sounds like a good thing and i hope that two thirds of the community say yes so it can happen it seems like it's going in that direction from the people who do that i was on the back has been very positive with lots of different options but we thought it was all this was the best one for us because three years from now some of the competitors incidental to the discussion that would be three years down the road if we do decide to renegotiate and and you know a contractor come in and service waste management comes out we would have the option to replace those cards if need be their business and i think there's a new owner they felt that you know with the current prices and some of the other competitors they should do this now rather than l  contract this document is only effective if two thirds of the consortium agree to it the second you just say understanding the discussion  infrastructure and adopting a financial policy to fund the program has been abroad since two thousand and three he is an attorney and a graduate of towson university in suffolk law as general practice work has an emphasis in business litigation is legal for twenty five thousand to a director of energy efficiency to pursue projects in funding to reduce town energy consumption primarily in its facilities the program offers to funding the second year for cities and towns that can demonstrate success in implementation of its programs since they were similar to the town advertised in the commit murder up of no school and school staff selected thomas building as the most qualified candidate contract with full benefits there would be a contractual commitment that the position would be funded initially from where from the date of hire the contract language included the position will be fully covered and indemnified in held harmless clauses under the town's liability there are no provided assurances or guarantee would be expected to be able to attend professional meetings that would have a better potential benefit for the town work with both school and town staff in helping save energy but w reports of the town administrator will not be restricted from pursuing engaging in other work and activities the other half of the mutually agreed upon work schedule which might be modified by mutual agreement from time to time based on these terms  in order to proceed with groupon in terms devote to allocate ten thousand dollars in the energy reserve account to be used to pay the salary and expense of the director of energy efficiency for the remainder of the fiscal year  establishing the budget for the upcoming year the proposal will be made to continue to service is through the entire fiscal year at a cost of an additional twenty eight thousand the town like the state to consider the success of the first year we considering  additional appropriated to if to extend the contract beyond december thirty first two thousand and fifteen questions comments or concerns from the board yes mr  piece of benefits or health insurance and so we're fortunate to have an individual with a lot of expertise who is smart enough negotiator on negotiating his agreement with us to say i need help that i have always been and will continue to be reticent not to provide people with health care benefits i think it commentary for us up to now on the as a member of the we have growth in the group was a pretty good sense of the systems in place and for that reason i think he's well worth the money that was in them from the here and now i don't exploring as much as we can and really make sure that that money is you know we get the maximum value for the time invest and i just encourage you to carefully monitor the time he spends so that we know he set th right place when we need him because we are allowing him you know it's part time job to pursue other things we need to make sure that the responsibilities to the town don't get but you know on the back burner  tely time is a great guy so i just just it's up to you to make sure we're satisfied with how we deploy so it's twenty hours a week and you know time sheets or whatever would need to be in place or monitor it so that we know that we're satisfied it can't get ross because there are too many people involved it has to be structured so that we know we're banishing it  need our approval still looks like they have three or so it's nice to fill it out after the fact constructed to the specification step work three two but by the planning board in the primary process the university station and the answer to the question is yes it is on the intended to assist to address traffic on concerns related to the opening of the retail establishment wisdom for space maybe the retail traffic that would be coming up permanent process related to the opening of the slippery from northbound i ninety five and when that occurred during the am peak travel hour there's fear that some people and we could not come to a designed everybody agreed to that would address that problem which is a couple years away on bass and so the would better alternatives could that then could be implemented as part of the process of getting going when we go through it with the same abram with the state and so we have already started to work with beta engineering are now doing the study that involved and when that gets further on the plane would will be holding some hearings and we'll be sharing those design options with the borzoi for your access from the south their intention is not to drain it off and bring it up can't it's not what they're looking to do that's it and it has any consequence intended consequences but only only during the during the studying that could address the problem where the choir some additional expenditure and on the inter