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,
April 06, 2026, in the LWL conference room. Present were Commissioner Cooper, Commissioner Linda MacNeil, Commissioner Ralph Ross, CEO Lori Hogan, Accounting Manager Tammy Talotta, and Operations Manager Justen Elliott.
Public in attendance – BG Frazier
MINUTES REVIEW:
The minutes of March 2, 2026, regularly scheduled Commissioners meeting were reviewed.
Commissioner MacNeil made a motion to approve the minutes as presented, seconded by Commissioner Cooper.
The vote was in favor of the motion 2-0-1
The minutes of March 16, 2026, regularly scheduled Commissioners meeting were reviewed.
Commissioner MacNeil made a motion to approve the minutes as presented, seconded by Commissioner Cooper.
The vote was in favor of the motion 2-0-1
APPOINTMENTS: None
CUSTOMER & PUBLIC CONCERNS:
A backflow violation letter was sent to Simon’s Market. This letter gave them 30 days to address the lack of a proper backflow device. They have yet to contact us and we are past the 30 days. We discussed what the next steps would involve. The commissioners requested that this be addressed by management as deemed appropriate.
Mrs. Hogan was contacted by a representative of the GSSL lienholder. We were informed that the lienholder is taking over the project. They requested information on the current source of drinking water, sewer and fire flow. Mrs. Hogan highlighted that this facility is not connected to our public water system. When approached in 2021, we highlighted that the hospital storage tank was only adequate to supply water needed for the hospital only and had no excess capacity.
The developer made the decision at that time to go in a different direction with a private water system.
OPERATIONS MANAGER:
The leak on Union Street was repaired just recently. At the same time, we investigated a potential leak around the fire hydrant in this area. We did not find a leak and will report back to the leak detection company.
We will be adding a master control valve and a hydrant at the Brickyard well. This will allow us to isolate brickyard from the rest of the system and will allow us to move forward with the Brickyard project with Weston & Sampson.
The electrical staff are completing make ready work to reconduct the North Littleton Road. Additionally, the regulator that has been on backorder is being shipped.
Mr. Elliott noted that we had a good meeting with American Rivers to review the 90% design specification of the Gale River intake. There are some follow-up items that we will be working with the engineer to refine. In total the team felt very comfortable with the 1st round of plans, approach and knowledge.
CEO & TREASURER:
Mrs. Hogan noted the receipt of RGGI funds in the amount of $180,999.27. These funds will be distributed over April 26.
We are expanding our AMI meters into our pilot area. Currently the repeaters are at 50% capacity, and we intend to build this out to capture 80-90% before we add repeaters to other sections of Town. The budget for 2026 is $75,000 and currently we intend to be under budget.
Mrs. Hogan and Commissioner Cooper met with American River to address commissioners’ questions on the engineering of the dam removal and redesign of the intake at Gale River. The American Rivers & engineering team will attend the May 4th meeting to provide a high-level review of the intake redesign and to discuss next steps. The goal of this meeting is to provide a comfort level to the commissioners on the proposed changes and background of experts providing recommendations. We’ll discuss risks and mitigate alternatives. Mrs. Hogan will make the invitations as to who will attend this review to ensure the focus is on the commissioners.
Mrs. Hogan recommends that we cancel the April 20th meeting as she is on vacation and it’s the start of the exploratory work on I93. The next meeting would be Monday, May 4, 2026.
GENERAL / OTHER BUSINESS:
Mrs. Talotta presented the financial statements for the period ending January 31, 2026. Overall, due to dramatic increase in the cost of power and increasing demand for supplemental heat the combined results were short to plan by $475,367. We anticipate another loss for February which is why management implemented a recovery plan that started in February and will continue into July 2026.
Commissioner MacNeil made a motion to provide a copy of the financial statements to the selectboard, seconded by Commissioner Ross.
The vote was in favor of the motion 3-0-0
We are still awaiting a response from the Town regarding the streetlights.
Commissioner Cooper distributed an article that was presented in the Boston Globe about the comparison of investor vs municipal owned utilities. There was a lot of discussion as to what creates the large differences. Mrs. Hogan noted that the rates of LWL are lower than any of the rates being charged by the MA Municipal utilities. There was some talk about the impact on regulation in MA that is driving some of those variances.
Mrs. Hogan requested we enter non-public under RSA 91-A:3, II(e)
Commissioner MacNeil made a motion to enter non-public as allowed under RSA 91-A:3, II(e), seconded by Commissioner Ross.
Roll call vote 3-0-0. Entered non-public at 2:22pm
Commissioner MacNeil made a motion to adjourn non-public at 2:45pm, seconded by Commissioner Ross.
Roll call vote 3-0-0.
Commissioner MacNeil made a motion to seal the minutes of non-public, seconded by Commissioner Ross.
Roll call vote 3-0-0.
Commissioner MacNeil made a motion to adjourn the meeting, seconded by Commissioner Ross.
The vote was in favor of the motion 3-0-0
The meeting was adjourned at 2:46 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.