The Bourne Charter Review Committee was given several areas to consider amending or changing in the town charter, two of them specific to the function of town counsel. Bourne Town
The Bourne Planning Board has deferred making a decision on approving a dog training facility in downtown Buzzards Bay. Board members decided to continue the matter until a site visit could be held that would provide members with additional information about the business and its location.
The matter was taken up by the planning board during its remote Zoom meeting May 27. The business, To the Rescue Canine Training, would open in the building at 10 St. Margaretâs Street in Buzzards Bay. The building currently houses Bubbaâs Motor Sports.
Assistant town planner Jennifer Copeland explained to the board that the use table for the downtown business district does not include dog training facilities. Ms. Copeland added that, if the board were to permit the use of the building for the business, it would have to determine that the use âwill not be detrimental to other uses within the district or to the adjoining land uses.â
A section of the Bourne Town Charter calls for meetings of several town boards and committees to be televised. The one board mentioned in that section that currently does not have its meetings televised is the Bourne Board of Health. That could soon change.
Section 8.6 (d) of the charter stipulates that âMeetings of the board of selectmen, the school committee, the board of health and the planning board shall, if possible, be televised on the local cable channel or streamed on the townâs website.â The board of health is the only one in that group whose meetings are not televised live and made available for rebroadcast and later viewing at the Bourne Cable TV website.
Bourneâs Annual Town Election takes place Tuesday, May 18, with several races on which residents will cast their vote.
The most hotly contested race is for two seats on the Bourne Board of Selectmen. Five candidates are vying to be on the board. They include Bourne Finance Committee chairwoman Mary Jane Mastrangelo, Bourne Planning Board member Sandra E. Goldstein, former Town of Dennis selectwoman Jane Dumas Otis, and incumbents James L. Potter and Jared P. MacDonald. (See profiles on page 7.)
Another contested race is the one to fill two seats on the Bourne Recreation Authority. Incumbent George M. Sala is one of four people vying for a seat. The other candidates include Planning Board member Louis R. Gallo and residents John H. Coulumbe and Christopher M. McCarthy.
The Bourne Board of Health has a bone to pick with the Cape Cod Tobacco Control Board. Board of Health members were upset at the tobacco control board for citing