Finance Committee

ORLEANS — April 16, 2026 — Orleans Recreation Advisory Committee reviews a scaled-back $3.5 million Eldridge Park renovation plan after value-engineering trims it from a $5.5 million design. Regan Andreola, Senior Project Manager and Landscape Architect with Weston Sampson, and Recreation Director Tom DeServo walked roughly 25 residents

ORLEANS — April 9, 2026 — Orleans Finance Committee receives favorable water-use database analysis ahead of town meeting sewer vote. Consultant Mike Giggey presented findings from a five-year water consumption database covering 24 Pleasant Bay sub-watersheds, concluding the data are statistically consistent enough to serve as the formal basis

ORLEANS — April 6, 2026 — Orleans sidewalk committee directs engineer to scope Main Street design at four constrained locations. The committee voted by consensus at its April 6 meeting to have VHB and Director of Public Works Calvin Sutton cost out cross-section analyses at the Academy of Performing Arts frontage,

ORLEANS — April 2, 2026 — Orleans Finance Committee reverses its prior rejection of Phase 4 wastewater funding, voting 6-2-1 to recommend the article to Annual Town Meeting. The committee had voted 3-5 against the measure at an earlier meeting, but Member Alice Thomason, one of the original dissenters,

ORLEANS — March 26, 2026 — Orleans Finance Committee votes 3-5 against recommending $2.7 million in sewer design funding at packed March 26 meeting. The eight-member panel split sharply on Article 25, covering preliminary design for Phase 4 of the town's Comprehensive Wastewater Management Plan, with Chair