Government & development in Hull

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Last 14 days

• Hull home sales span wide price gap in September. A look at Hull's September home sales turned up a notable spread between the month's priciest and most affordable closings, raising questions about where the local market is headed heading into fall.Hull News
• Select Board forwards four preservation grant bids. Hull's Select Board forwarded four Community Preservation Act grant requests toward an October 29 final-application deadline, as Town Manager Jennifer Constable pushed back hard on Planning Board resistance to the town's master plan contract, warning that stopping now would waste months of work.Hull News
• Manager won't pull light plant from resiliency grant. Hull's town manager refused to withdraw the light plant from a state coastal resiliency grant despite the Light Board and Select Board rejecting a proposed Light Plant-DPW garage estimated at $55 million to $65 million, with a subcommittee tasked to refine its scope by October.Hull News
• School Committee weighs phone ban, five-year plan. Hull School Committee considered a new 2026-2031 strategic plan built around community, confidence and curiosity after an 18-member steering committee met over the summer, and took up a proposed bell-to-bell personal-device ban at Hull High School.Hull News
• Planning Board debates response to flawed MAPC report. Hull Planning Board elected Jean Paquin as its new clerk and spent over an hour debating how to respond to consultant MAPC after a subcommittee found the $155,000 phase-one master plan report seriously flawed and unusable as written.Hull News
• Select Board weighs Light Plant garage site. Hull Select Board took up whether to endorse a new Municipal Light Plant garage at its current Edgewater Road site, after two members warned the vote would lock in a location before the Light Board's own $110,000 feasibility study was finished.Hull News

Coming up

• Wed, Oct 7, 3:00 p.m.: Light board subcommittee meets Wednesday afternoon. A subcommittee of the Hull Municipal Light Board meets at 3 p.m. Wednesday at 253 Atlantic Ave.Town of Hull
• Wed, Oct 7, 3:00 p.m.: Light Board subcommittee meets Wednesday. A subcommittee of the Hull Municipal Light Board meets Wednesday, October 7, at 3 p.m. at 253 Atlantic Ave.Town of Hull
• Wed, Oct 7, 3:00 p.m.: Light Board subcommittee meets on DPW garage scope. The Hull Municipal Light Board's subcommittee, tasked with refining the scope of a proposed Light Plant-DPW garage project, meets Wednesday at 3 p.m. at 253 Atlantic Ave.Town of Hull

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