The Board meets on the first and third Monday of each month. Meetings begin at 1:00 p.m. and are held in the department conference room at 65 Lafayette Ave, Littleton. Board meetings are open to the public and time is allotted for public comments at each meeting.
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The regularly scheduled business meeting of the Littleton Water and Light (LWL) Board of Commissioners (BOC) began at 1:04 p.m. on Monday,
December 1, 2025, in the LWL conference room. Present were Commissioner Peter Cooper, Commissioner Ralph Ross, CEO Lori Hogan, and Operations Manager, Justen Elliott.
Public in attendance – None
MINUTES REVIEW:
The minutes of November 17, 2025, regularly scheduled Commissioners meeting were reviewed.
Commissioner Ross made a motion to accept the minutes as amended, seconded by Commissioner Cooper.
The vote was in favor of the motion 2-0-0.
APPOINTMENTS: None
CUSTOMER & PUBLIC CONCERNS: None
OPERATIONS MANAGER:
Mr. Elliott reported on a vehicle accident on Elm Street on Saturday. The repair required assistance from consolidated communications and is being finalized today.
Mr. Elliott outlined the work that needs to be performed at the South Street Substation. With more information there are 5 inline insulators with some of the middle insulators having hairline cracks. ICR agrees that we would need to schedule a town outage to be repaired. Understanding that the cracks are not as severe as originally thought, Mr. Elliott instead recommends that we create a substation bypass line to enable this repair in the near future without having to schedule an outage.
We are still awaiting the update of the controllers for the Lafayette Substation.
The work on Line 30 has been moved by ICR to January 2026. The work to repair pole 23, and pole 39-43 is $115,000. Therefore, the amount in the 2026 capital budget is appropriate.
CEO & TREASURER:
Mrs. Hogan noted that the audit preliminary work has been scheduled for Tuesday, December 16th.
Mrs. Talotta has researched and recommends changing our postage machine that is leased through Pitney Bowes, to a smaller, less expensive model. This is a planned savings with the outsource of the billing. Mrs. Hogan requested approval to execute a 5-year lease.
Commissioner Ross made a motion to grant authority for Mrs. Hogan to execute a 5-year lease agreement for postage equipment with Pitney Bowes, seconded by Commissioner Cooper.
The vote was in favor of the motion 2-0-0.
Mrs. Hogan noted that the press release previously approved will be in the Caledonian Record starting this week.
A review of the status of the warrant article for the battery storage project was discussed. The Selectboard has requested the Town Manager, Troy Brown to research the previously passed warrant article and to move forward with the posting of the warrant article if needed.
Mrs. Hogan outlined the results of the energy procurement held on Tuesday. The low bid was with Macquire for 3,043.2 MWh at $104.25 for a total of $317,253.60. This tightens up our position for peak times during 2026 and helps to mitigate risk.
Commissioner Ross made a motion to authorize Mrs. Hogan to execute the agreements, seconded by Commissioner Cooper.
The vote was in favor of the motion 2-0-0
Mrs. Hogan is researching the ability to apply for a grant for the interconnection of Well B. It may be a project to qualify for the CDBG program. More information to come.
The Brickyard well is being considered for testing to verify any impact of the blasting work being performed at the intersection of West Main & St. Johnsbury Road. Mrs. Hogan has reached out to DL Maher Co who perform the original analysis of the well in 1994.
Mrs. Hogan requests we defer the vote on the 2026 capital budget until the next meeting as quotes are still being received.
Commissioners’ stipends for 2025 meetings will be processed and hand delivered at the Christmas party.
GENERAL / OTHER BUSINESS
None
The meeting was adjourned at 2:25 p.m.
The regularly scheduled Commissioner’s meeting is held twice monthly on the first and third Monday, at 1:00 p.m., in the Department’s conference room.