Yarmouth Select Board seals Taylor Bray Farm land deal, recommends postponing library article

Select Board · Meeting of May 20, 2026

Yarmouth Select Board accepts Taylor Bray Farm parcel deed and moves to shelve library article. Meeting Wednesday as a special session, the five-member board voted unanimously to finalize the $600,000 purchase of 3.14 acres on Nottingham Drive adjacent to Taylor Bray Farm in Yarmouth Port, a deal enabled by a $347,000 Massachusetts Division of Conservation Services grant that required closing before the end of the fiscal year. The board also voted unanimously to approve a conservation restriction on the parcel to the Yarmouth Conservation Trust, as required under M.G.L.

Chapter 184 and Chapter 44B. In a separate unanimous vote, the board approved and executed the warrant for a June 24 special town meeting at D-Y Intermediate School, then immediately voted to recommend indefinite postponement of the sole article on that warrant, a library measure that was defeated at the May 19 town election by voters who turned out at a rate of 16.29 percent, or 3,757 of 23,052 registered voters. Chair Tracy Post credited conservation administrator Brittany DiRienzo for navigating a land court process to bring the acquisition to completion.

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Source: the Select Board meeting of May 20, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.