Wareham Finance Committee tables Beaver Dam Creek land funding vote

Finance Committee · Meeting of March 30, 2026

Wareham Finance Committee tables cranberry bog conservation funding, questions past $1.2 million land deal. Members voted 7-0 Monday to delay a Community Preservation Act request for the roughly 98-acre Beaver Dam Creek property until they learn how long a cranberry-growing contract will keep the bogs in commercial use. Clerk Alan H.

Slavin said he wants answers before approving more conservation land after last fall's $1.2 million purchase of Gleason family land, saying the committee "got the wool pulled over our eyes." The panel separately passed a plastic bag reduction bylaw 5-1-1 and, 6-0-1, a zoning change letting downtown businesses count public parking toward site plan requirements, with Chair Joseph R. Smith Jr. abstaining as the article's author. "I believe that this is a very level piece of land," Select Board Liaison Judith Whiteside said of the bog property.

The committee cleared a dozen other warrant articles unanimously and set its next meeting for April 6.

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Source: the Finance Committee meeting of March 30, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.