HALIFAX - July 7, 2026 - The Halifax Select Board voted unanimously tonight to officially close the warrant for the upcoming Special Town Meeting scheduled for July 29, 2026. The six-page warrant features four citizen-petitioned articles alongside two crucial board-sponsored measures aimed at restructuring municipal PFAS remediation funds to allow immediate deployment by the town’s water commissioners. In the interest of regulatory compliance and potential capacity issues, officials solidified the Halifax Elementary School gymnasium as the meeting venue.
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Town Administrator Steven Solbo presented the final draft of the Special Town Meeting warrant, outlining a six-page document that balances public petitions with urgent town business. Articles 1 through 4 were placed on the warrant exactly as submitted by a citizen petitioner. While the board did not alter or heavily debate the citizen-led items, they focused their attention on Articles 5 and 6, which seek to clean up the financial mechanisms governing the town’s PFAS settlement monies.
According to Solbo, Article 5 will rescind Article 19 from the May 11, 2026 Annual Town Meeting, which originally placed PFAS settlement funds into a standard stabilization account.
“One of the main reasons we want to reword this is because in order to take money out of stabilization funds, you need a two thirds vote. So it would be difficult to take money out of that account or more difficult in order to spend it for PFAS remediation.” — Town Administrator Steven Solbo
