A Place For The Tartar Sauce?

Ken O’Brien

Following The O’Zone’s publication of its latest post, Southbridge, Does This Smell Fishy To You?, a friend asked me when the council authorized the town manager to make these sales and who voted for it.

After reviewing the town council minutes, I was able to find the following entry:

TOWN COUNCIL MEETING

TOWN OF SOUTHBRIDGE

MONDAY May 21, 2012

AGENDA ITEM #2- ROLL CALL: Councilors present: CLEMENCE, LANGEVIN, MARCUCCI, NIKOLLA, REGIS, SPINELLI & VANDAL. Absent: LIVENGOOD. MCDONALD arrived at 7:05pm. 

Southbridge, Does This Smell Fishy To You?

Ken O’Brien

David Livengood

Tomorrow’s Southbridge News will carry an article by Gus Steeves titled, “First industrial park lot sold in Southbridge."

The article will say, in part:

SOUTHBRIDGE — After being on the market for months, the first parcel has been snapped up in what the town has designated to become the Southbridge Technology and Environment Park on Commercial Drive.

According to Town Manager Chris Clark, Oxford-based Mid-State Welding bought three of the nine available lots, approximately four acres in total, for $107,000. But because the state did the feasibility study there, the town is paying for that out of the proceeds, meaning Southbridge is netting $26,000 less. Income from future sales, however, will go entirely to the town.