Will history be made?
Patriot Staff
Town Manager John Klimm was scheduled to deliver the 10th annual State of the Town address last night (April 28), after the paper's deadline.
The theme for this year's address is "A Decade of Progress Through Partnership."
Barnstable Awards were planned to be presented to the Centerville Pie Company and Cape Abilities, which partnered to make pies for national distribution, and Suzanne and Bill Powers and Suzanne Duffy Savage, who were the driving forces behind the Luke's Love playground in West Barnstable.
Back in 2005, the theme was "making history every day." The speech highlighted the town's AA+ bond rating (it's risen to AAA since) as well as plans to "design a comprehensive capital plan designed to maintain our roads, expand our sewers, and fix our school buildings."
Questions to be pursued were the value of regionalization, possible alternative uses of town properties, the possibility of privatizing some services, and the idea of consolidating the village libraries.