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**Disclaimer: If you have a disability that requires certain accommodations, please contact the Select Board’s office at least 48 hours before the meeting, excluding Saturday, Sundays and legal holidays at 781-326-4172 or selectboard@townhall.westwood.ma.us.

LIST OF TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED

(For updates to this notice, please see www.townhall.westwood.ma.us)

 Westwood Media Center will be livestreaming the first portion of the meeting (through Police Chief Selection). In the interest of fairness for the candidates for town counsel, WMC will end their livestream for the interview portion of the meeting, and will upload that recording to their YouTube channel for later playback

1. ATTENDANCE AND CALL TO ORDER: 6:00 pm in the Community Meeting Room, Westwood Public Library.Grant Permission to Westwood Media Center and anyone else who wishes to record the meeting.
2. CHAIR’S UPDATE

    

3. SCHEDULED ACTION

    

   1. Police Chief Selection
      1. Select Board Deliberation
      2. Select Board Vote to appoint the Chief of Police

          

         Live stream ends, recording for later playback begins.

          

   2. 6:30p Town Counsel Interviews
      1. KP Law, Lauren Goldberg and Roger Smerage
      2. Mead, Talerman & Costa, LLC (MTC), Brian Winner and Kate Feodoroff
   3. Deliberation and Selection of Town Counsel

       

4. OTHER BUSINESS THAT MAY PROPERLY COME BEFORE THE BOARD

    

5. NEXT MEETING – Monday, August 3, 2026, at 6:00 p.m., Hybrid Meeting conducted via Zoom and in-person at the Westwood Main Library Community Meeting Room

    

6. ADJOURNMENT

    

7. DEPARTMENT REPORTS AND FOR YOUR INFORMATION

*Order of Agenda Items subject to change, times are estimated.

NOTE: Per changes to Open Meeting Law, effective July 1, 2010, notice of any meeting of public body shall include “A listing of topics that the chair reasonably anticipates will be discussed at the meeting”. Topics must give enough specificity so that the public understands what will be discussed, but not necessarily all items that may come up. Please list those topics above.