The recommendation to hire a consultant for $10,000 to conduct a dog park feasibility study was the only Community Preservation Committee funding request that didn’t pass during the third session of town meeting.

A number of voters spoke in opposition to the article in part due to the cost, while one resident suggested the creation of a study committee to consider a possible location.

Voters did, however, approve appropriating Community Preservation Act funds to resurface the exterior red zone of the Kenberma pickleball courts, $10,000; install “sail” shade structures at Menice Field, the Dust Bowl, and the area adjacent to the pickleball courts, $20,000; restore the Paragon Carousel’s lights, $25,000; purchase veterans’ memorial grave markers for the Hull Village Cemetery, $7,700; restore the Hull Lifesaving Museum boathouse at Pemberton Point ($85,000) and the steeple at St. Nicholas United Methodist Church, $27,000; and $500,000 for the rehabilitation of the historic Village Fire Station.

CPA funds, which come from a tax surcharge, may only be put toward historic preservation, open space, community housing, and certain recreation projects.

-- Carol Britton Meyer

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