Preliminary funding for a town hall renovation project is on the docket when Aquinnah convenes a special town meeting Saturday afternoon. The meeting begins at 1 p.m. inside the town hall.
Faced with rising legal expenses on more than one front, Aquinnah will hold a special town meeting Tuesday to see if voters will transfer $125,000 into the town’s 2020 legal budget.
High school spending will again be the focus of three special town meetings next week, and while the school year is winding down, scrutiny of school finances is showing no sign of letup.
After nearly two years of rejections and revisions, Aquinnah voters agreed at a special town meeting on Tuesday night to adopt a bylaw to regulate private and public wind turbines. Crafted as an amendment to the townwide district of critical planning concern, the bylaw is the first of its kind to be adopted on the Vineyard.
But approval did not come without a wide-ranging debate that was at times passionate.
“If you believe in global warming, I think you should pass this,” declared selectman Jim Newman.