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 1:02 p.m. on Monday,
May 18, 2026, in the LWL conference room. Present were Commissioner Cooper, Commissioner Ralph Ross, CEO Lori Hogan, Accounting Manager Tammy Talotta, and Operations Manager Justen Elliott.
MINUTES REVIEW:
The minutes of May 4, 2026, regularly scheduled Commissioners meeting were reviewed.
Commissioner Ross made a motion to approve the minutes as amended, seconded by Commissioner Cooper.
The vote was in favor of the motion 2-0-0
APPOINTMENTS: None
CUSTOMER & PUBLIC CONCERNS:
The RPZ violation for Simon’s Market has been addressed, and we have conducted the inspection.
Mrs. Hogan requested that the concerns expressed by VIP be deferred to the next meeting to allow for further research.
A water abatement was issued by Mrs. Hogan for a customer on Union Street that had a leaking toilet. The abatement was significant but has also been submitted for a sewer adjustment.
OPERATIONS MANAGER:
The water department repaired an 8” water main break on Morrison Hill Drive. This has been leaking for several years as the customer’s had standing water on their front lawn for more than 5 years. It was initially investigated as a sewer break. Our equipment was unable to detect any issue, however EJP was able to conduct a leak detection and found the leak. We will return in the early summer to repair their lawn once it has a chance to dry out.
We have started hydrant flushing and pressure tests. This is a joint venture with LFD. The LFD staff is learning a lot about hydrants and getting hands on experience. During the flow test we had a hydrant failure at the bottom of Church Street. Currently this hydrant is black bagged,
and we’ve scheduled the repair for the week of June 15th. We’re working with DPW as they will need to repair the sidewalk after we replace the hydrant.
Mr. Elliott noted that we have an unbudgeted expense in the amount of $10,000 for the cost of removing 27 trees at the Railroad Street monitoring station. The trees caused damage to a neighboring lot in 2024, and the insurance company recommended that we clean up the lot.
Mr. Elliott noted the electric crew will be working on North Littleton Road for the next few weeks. They will be reconducting the primary and installing a regulator. We’ll need to bring in flaggers during some of this project, but that expense was budgeted.
The remainder of the parts and pieces for the Lafayette Substation are starting to come in. Where this project is being deferred due to funding, we recommend purchasing a 44’ storage unit to segregate these materials so they do not get used and intermingled with our standard inventory. Mrs. Hogan noted that the cost of $8k will be added to the project but we’ll adjust the capital projects list to ensure in aggregate we don’t exceed the current projection.
CEO & TREASURER:
Mrs. Hogan highlighted the Consumer Confidence Report for 2026. This year the report will be distributed to all customers by NISC as an insert in the billing process.
We received a notice from the planning board as an abutter for a subdivision project on Railroad Street. I spoke with the owner/developer, and he indicated that it’s related to the division of an estate to the family members. There are no current plans to develop the property. Mrs. Hogan will attend the planning board meeting and will indicate that there is no guarantee of providing water or electric if the parcels are ever developed and they would have to apply to LWL to discuss design and possible connection and fire protection needs.
The Town has requested an RFP for Main Street phase 2 project. Mrs. Hogan spoke with Eric Oliver who indicated that this would be 4+ years so there is no rush for the electric and water portions of the project to be engineered.
Mrs. Hogan led a discussion to review the American Rivers presentation. There was a general consensus that the presentation provided comfort and confidence in the design and engineering. We also noted that the private funding for the intake redesign is fully funded and very flexible.
This is most likely due to the gambian baskets over the top of our current intake. The group also agreed that we want to continue to have American Rivers involved in the project to assist with
the administrative aspects of the project. Mrs. Hogan will continue to move forward with obtaining signatures on the permits and research on performance bond.
Mrs. Hogan requested a deferral on the water investment fees to the next meeting to allow for more research.
Mrs. Hogan reviewed the hedge policy with a recommendation to increase the hedge % for the summer. The reasoning is that current rates are less than the budgeted spot market rates and with the uncertainty in the market she would like to remove the budget risk and hedge to 95%. This % would allow for volume adjustments. There was much discussion about the costs vs. benefits.
Commissioner Ross made a motion to approve a temporary increase of the hedge requirements to 95% for June – August of 2026, and to authorize Mrs. Hogan to execute contracts to buy energy futures to achieve this directive, seconded by Commissioner Cooper.
The vote was in favor of the motion 2-0-0
Contracts to be ratified at the next meeting.
Mrs. Hogan has requested a report of collateralization from ENE. We need to access the risk that we have in connection with our long-term energy contracts with the large volatility in the market.
LIDC is looking for guidance as to the amount of load that we can support for businesses considering development in this area.
GENERAL / OTHER BUSINESS:
Mrs. Hogan noted that we are scheduled to re-organize for this upcoming year.
Commissioner Ross made a motion to maintain the same positions, seconded by Commissioner Cooper.
The vote was in favor of the motion 2-0-0
Commissioner Ross, Secretary said the letter of reorganization and Mrs. Hogan will deliver to the selectboard.
We are still awaiting a response from the Town regarding the streetlights.
Mrs. Hogan requested that we enter non-public session under RSA 91-A:3, II (e) for matters related to legal.
Commissioner Ross made a motion to enter non-public under RSA 91-A:3, II (a) at 2:32 pm, seconded by Commissioner Cooper.
The roll call vote was in favor of the motion 2-0-0.
Commissioner Ross made a motion to exit non-public session at 2:56pm, seconded by Commissioner Cooper.
The roll call vote was in favor of the motion 2-0-0
Commissioner Ross made a motion to seal the minutes of the non-public session, seconded by Commissioner Cooper.
The roll call vote was in favor of the motion 2-0-0
Commissioner Ross made a motion to adjourn the meeting, seconded by Commissioner Cooper.
The vote was in favor of the motion 2-0-0
The meeting was adjourned at 3:00 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.