The Oak Bluffs select board announced Tuesday that it is seeking members for a new committee to think up possible uses for the property, which residents voted to purchase or take by eminent domain earlier this year.
Last Tuesday, the select board voted to increase the amount the town charges the Rhode Island Fast Ferry, the Patriot Boat and the Island Queen to operate in and out of the town’s harbor this summer.
On Saturday morning, the Oak Bluffs select board unanimously voted to appoint current acting town administrator and former assistant town administrator Wendy Brough to the full-time role.
After years of debate on whether Oak Bluffs should change its town clerk position from elected to appointed, the select board voted Saturday to put the question before town meeting this spring.
The owners of Offshore Ale Company in Oak Bluffs announced plans at a select board meeting Tuesday to expand their business into the building next door.
After the Oak Bluffs select board last week floated plans to purchase or take Circuit avenue’s vacant Island Theatre by eminent domain, Ben Hall Jr. has come forward to say he’s willing to negotiate.
Since 2012, the Island Theatre in Oak Bluffs has sat vacant at the top of Circuit avenue. Now, town officials are considering plans to take the building by eminent domain.
Residential tax exemptions are allowed under state law as a way to shift some of the tax burden away from property owners in a town who call that town their primary residence.
