Foxborough Select Board Adopts Goals, Approves $655,000 in Year-End Transfers

FOXBOROUGH -- June 23, 2026, Foxborough Select Board adopts annual goals, clears $655,000 in year-end transfers, and gets stadium lawsuit update. Town Manager Bill Keegan presented five goals Tuesday that the board approved unanimously as amended, adding language directing staff to evaluate restrictions on data centers, citing the Schneider Electric property's power infrastructure as a potential draw, and to review the Personnel Wage Board, which currently lacks enough members to hold a binding vote. Finance Director Marie reported that a $339,210 snow and ice salary overrun drove roughly 52 percent of the $655,000 in year-end transfers, but that a state supplemental budget allocation of $247,293.86 will fully cover the remaining snow and ice deficit. On the stadium front, Keegan told the board that Craft Sports and Entertainment Group filed suit against the town on June 15 after rejecting the town's position on non-event-day cost recovery, and that the lease, carrying four automatic extension options totaling up to 35 additional years beyond its current 12-year remaining term, makes any cost-sharing commitment extraordinarily long-range. The board also approved an administrative merger agreement between SEMREC and the Metacomet Emergency Communications Center under which MEC will pay SEMREC $200,000 annually, net of a $26,000 consulting credit, with SEMREC Director Rob Verdone overseeing both organizations.