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Saturday, October 18, 2025

Glorious weather weekend leads to a full meeting week

Glorious fall New England weather for this weekend to kick off the full week of Town meetings and early voting in the Town Clerk’s office during office hours Monday through Friday, with Saturday early voting and last day to register to vote both available by appointment.


Monday is the busiest day with Municipal Affordable Housing Trust, Housing Authority, Board of Assessors, and Planning Board all scheduled for meetings.


Tuesday is quiet but then Wednesday the Cultural District has a meeting at Franklin TV while the Finance Committee and Town Council go with back to back sessions. FinCom at 5:30; Council rescheduled from last week at 7.


The Zoning Board of Appeals meets for the only time this month on Thursday at 7:30 PM. 


Special events for the week, a webinar on educational aspects of AI at the Franklin TV Studio, Monday at 6:00 PM. Homecoming week at the High School leading to the homecoming game Friday. The Lions hold their annual Trunk or Treat at the High School on Saturday from 4 to 6 PM.


For all the meetings and cultural events, check out the calendar at Franklin.news where each day, that day's events are posted on the top of the page, the TV and radio schedules are on the bottom, and all the other goodness falls in-between.


Audio link -> https://franklin-ma-matters.captivate.fm/episode/fm-1551-fm-weekly-outlook-lookback-combo-10-19-25/


*** Meeting schedule and agendas as of Town page 10/17/25, 5:00 PM   ***


Municipal Affordable Housing Trust

Monday, October 20 Time: 9:00 AM

https://www.franklinma.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10202025-1957 


Franklin Housing Authority Meeting

Monday, October 20 Time: 4:30 PM

https://www.franklinma.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10202025-1958 


Board of Assessors

Monday, October 20 Time: 5:30 PM

https://www.franklinma.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10202025-1960 


Planning Board Meeting

Monday, October 20 Time: 7:00 PM

https://www.franklinma.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10202025-1955


Finance Committee Meeting

Wednesday, October 22 Time: 5:30 PM

https://www.franklinma.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10222025-1961


Cultural District Monthly Meeting

Wednesday, October 22 Time: 7:00 PM

https://www.franklinma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/7219/FCD_Agenda_October-2?bidId=


Town Council Meeting

Wednesday, October 22 Time: 7:00 PM

https://www.franklinma.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10222025-1962


Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) Meeting

Thursday, October 23 Time: 7:30 PM

https://www.franklinma.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10232025-1947



*** Looking back at the week that was ***


The School Committee meeting on Tuesday was broadcast by Franklin TV. The recap and video link is available -> https://www.franklinmatters.org/2025/10/school-committee-gets-updates-on-after.html 


The Conservation Commission meeting on Thursday was broadcast by Franklin TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxXeA21lueQ


On the sports front for Franklin High School broadcast of the following are available:

Volleyball on Tuesday, Oct 14 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxXeA21lueQ

Girls soccer on Weds Oct 15 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV-LEaPRdYM

Boys soccer on Friday, Oct 17 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV-LEaPRdYM

Football on Friday, Oct 17 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M9EyN_YfzY 


The 23 Biennial Election candidate videos conducted are available in a single YouTube playlist  bit.ly/2025-ElectionCollection 


For all the meetings and cultural events, check out the calendar at Franklin.news where each day, that day's events are posted on the top of the page, the TV and radio schedules are on the bottom, and all the other goodness falls in-between.


Town calendar -> https://www.franklinma.gov/Calendar.aspx     

Community calendar -> https://bit.ly/FranklinCommunityCalendar    


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Saturday, April 26, 2025

School vacation ends, busy week ahead

School vacation comes to an end with another wet weekend and major meetings are on the calendar for the week ahead.

Hopefully folks are fully rested and ready to return. The Finance Committee has its 3 budget hearings set for this week. They start Monday with Education covering the Tri-County, Norfolk Aggie and Franklin Public Schools budgets. Tuesday they get into the details on Public Works (water, sewer, roads, storm water, etc.) and Public Safety (police, fire and regional dispatch). They close out the week on Thursday with General Government, health and debt accounts and the vote to recommend for the Town Council. The Town Council will conduct their 2 budget hearings in May (May 21 & MAy 22).

As mentioned earlier, if there are remaining questions on the need for the override special election coming up on June 3, these three meetings are the time to get those lingering questions answered.

As to why the override is back again? Folks should remember that the steps taken to adjust the budget last year after the override failed used $3M of one time funds to balance that budget setting up for this year. We are fortunate that the school redistricting effort did result in significant savings so we are only facing a $3.8M deficit; yes, only .8M more than we knew last June we would face this year. 

As for the remainder of the full week schedule, it is good that Franklin TV did build out the 3rd floor training room as a second broadcast spot (in addition to Council Chambers), as there will be dual live broadcasts on 3 of the 4 nights Monday through Thursday.

  • Monday - Finance Committee and Planning Board
  • Tuesday - Finance Committee and School Committee
  • Wednesday - Town Council
  • Thursday - Finance Committee and Conservation Commission

*** The agendas for the week ahead can be found here:

Finance Committee Meeting (Council Chambers)
Monday, April 28 Time:7:00 PM

Planning Board Meeting (3rd Floor Trng Room)
Monday, April 28 Time:7:00 PM

Massachusetts Strategic Health Group (Medway)
Tuesday, April 29 Time: 1:00 PM

Finance Committee Meeting (3rd Floor Trng Room)
Tuesday, April 29 Time:7:00 PM

Franklin School Committee Meeting (Council Chambers)
Tuesday, April 29 Time: 7:00 PM

Cultural District Committee — SUBCOMMITTEE Porchfest Meeting  
Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 6:30pm

Town Council Meeting (Council Chambers)
Wednesday, April 30 Time:7:00 PM 

Franklin Housing Authority - Special Meeting of the Board of Commissioners (Remote Mtg)
Thursday, May 1 Time: 4:30 PM

Conservation Commission Meeting (3rd Floor Trng Room)
Thursday, May 1 Time: 7:00 PM

Finance Committee Meeting (Council Chambers)
Thursday, May 1 Time: 7:00 PM
No agenda released at this time


*** Looking back at the week that was ***

The meetings during the school break week were generally quiet. I will bring to your attention the following recordings that if you missed as worthy of listening to:

Town Council Chair Tom Mercer and I condense the Council meeting of 4/16/25 to about 30 minutes
FM #1431 - Town Council Quarterbacking - 04/17/25

Listen to the origin story of BLAST - Bringing Libraries and Schools Together. We talk with Erin O’Leary and Caleigh Keating, the collaborators who start with “Yes” and then figure it out.
FM #1434 - BLAST Fun - 04/17/25


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