To be updated after the Spring Town Meeting officially adjourns.

Download and Review a PDF copy of the Warrant Articles for 2026 Spring Annual Town Meeting (as advertised in the Dedham Times on February 26, 2026). 

ARTICLE ONE: To choose all necessary Town Officers. The following are to be chosen by the Ballot.

• Two members of the Select Board for terms of three years
• One member of the Board of Assessors for a term of three years One member Town Moderator for a term of three years
• Two members of the School Committee for terms of three years One member of the Board of Health for a term of three years One member of the Planning Board for a term of five years
• Two members of the Trustees of the Public Library for terms of three years One member of the Commissioner of Trust Funds for a term of three years Two members of the Park and Recreation Commission for terms of three years One member of the Housing Authority for a term of five years

Town Meeting Representatives as follows:

• Precinct One: Vote for not more than thirteen for a term of three years
• Precinct Two: Vote for not more than thirteen for a term of three years
• Precinct Three: Vote for not more than thirteen for a term of three years
• Precinct Three: Vote for not more than one for a term of one year
• Precinct Four: Vote for not more than thirteen for a term of three years
• Precinct Five: Vote for not more than thirteen for a term of three years
• Precinct Five: Vote for not more than one for a term of one year
• Precinct Six: Vote for not more than thirteen for a term of three years
• Precinct Six: Vote for not more than one for a term of two years
• Precinct Seven: Vote for not more than thirteen for a term of three years
• Precinct Seven: Vote for not more than one for a term of one year

and to return to meet at the place so designated, Dedham High School Auditorium, 140 Whiting Avenue, Dedham, for the 2026 Spring Annual Town Meeting in said town on the third Monday in May (it being the eighteenth day of said month) AD 2026 at 7:00 o'clock in the evening then and there to act on the following articles, namely:

ARTICLE TWO: By the Select Board: To see if the Town will vote to adopt changes in Schedule A (Classification Schedule), or Schedule B (Compensation Schedule), or Schedule C (Fringe Benefits) of the Personnel Wage and Salary Administration Plan; to act upon the recommendations of the Town Manager as to actions he deems advisable and necessary in order to maintain a fair and equitable pay level and compensation policy; to implement collective bargaining agreements listed below, the funding for which is included in the appropriate departmental budgets under Article Three:

1. AFSCME, Local #362 (Library Staff Unit)
2. Dedham Police Patrolman’s Association, Massachusetts Coalition of Police, Local #448,

   AFL-CIO

3. Dedham Police Association (Lieutenants & Sergeants)
4. Dedham Firefighter’s Association, Local 1735
5. AFSCME, Local #362 (DPW- Unit A)
6. AFSCME, Local #362 (DPW-Unit B)
7. AFSCME, Local #362 (Town Hall)
8. AFSCME, Local #362 (Parks)
9. AFSCME, Local #362 (Civilian Dispatchers)

or take any other action relative thereto. Referred to Finance and Warrant Committee for study and report.

ARTICLE THREE: To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds such sums of money needed to defray departmental and incidental expenses of the Town for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2026, not otherwise provided for, or take any other action relative thereto. Referred to Finance and Warrant Committee for study and report.

ARTICLE FOUR: To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, transfer from available funds or borrow to implement capital improvements and capital projects, or take any other action relative thereto. Referred to Finance and Warrant Committee for study and report.

ARTICLE FIVE: By the Director of Finance: To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds for payment of outstanding bills of prior fiscal years, or take any other action relative thereto. Referred to Finance and Warrant Committee for study and report.

ARTICLE SIX: By the Finance and Warrant Committee: To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds to meet additional expenses of the current fiscal year not adequately funded under Article Three of the 2025 Spring Annual Town Meeting (FY'26) or any other article thereof, or take any other action relative thereto. Referred to Finance and Warrant Committee for study and report.

ARTICLE SEVEN: By the Director of Finance. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to appropriate from any special purpose fund, or from one or more special purpose stabilization funds, to one or more of the stated purposes for such funds to be expended at the direction of a specified officer or multiple member body of the Town, or take any other action relative thereto. Referred to Finance and Warrant Committee for study and report.

ARTICLE EIGHT: By the Director of Finance. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds to operate the Sewer & Stormwater Enterprise Funds for the fiscal year commencing on July 1, 2026, or take any other action relative thereto. Referred to Finance and Warrant Committee for study and report.

ARTICLE NINE: By the Director of Finance. To see if the Town will vote to rescind borrowing authorizations that have been previously authorized, but not yet issued, or take any other action relative thereto. Referred to Finance and Warrant Committee for study and report.

ARTICLE TEN: By the Director of Finance. To see if the Town will vote to amend the funding sources for certain capital projects for which borrowings have been authorized, but not yet issued, and, in turn, to rescind all or a portion of such borrowing authorizations, or take any other action relative thereto. Referred to Finance and Warrant Committee for study and report.

ARTICLE ELEVEN: By Police Chief Michael d’Entremont. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Dedham Zoning By-Laws, Chapter 280 of the Town Code, to regulate so-called “cryptocurrency” automatic teller machines (ATMs), or take any other action relative thereto. Referred to Planning Board for study and report.

ARTICLE TWELVE: By the Decennial Bylaw Review Committee. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Town of Dedham General By-laws. as recommended by the Decennial By-law Review Committee, by making revisions to Chapter 12, Boards, Commissions and Committees, Article II, Sections 12-1 through 12-6, Youth Commission, to characterize the Youth Commission as the Youth Commission Board, so as to distinguish it from the Youth Commission Department, and update certain portions thereof, by making revisions to certain sections in Chapter 39, Finances, Article II, Budget Preparation, Section 39-8 and Article III Audits, Expenditures and Collections, to update certain outdated language, and to correct a typographical error in Chapter 39, Finances, Article VI, Departmental Revolving Funds, Section 39-9, all as set forth in more detail in a document entitled, “Article Twelve - Recommendations of the Decennial By-law Review Committee - General By-law Amendments”, on file in the office of the Town Clerk and available on the Town’s website at http://www.dedham-ma.gov, or take any other action relative thereto. Referred to Bylaw Review Committee and Finance and Warrant Committee for study and report.

ARTICLE THIRTEEN: By the Decennial Bylaw Review Committee. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Town of Dedham General By-laws. as recommended by the Decennial By-law Review Committee, by inserting a new bylaw in Chapter 265, Vehicles and Traffic as Article 9, Street Takeovers, prohibiting persons from intentionally engaging in Street Takeovers, including Street Racing, and Trick or Stunt Riding, upon any public way or highway or on private property open to the public, including parking lots, regardless of whether the business owning or controlling the property is open or closed at that time, all as set forth in more detail in a document entitled, “Article Thirteen –Recommendations of the Decennial By-law Review Committee - Street Takeovers”, on file in the office of the Town Clerk and available on the Town’s website at http://www.dedham-ma.gov, or take any other action relative thereto. Referred to Bylaw Review Committee and Finance and Warrant Committee for study and report.

ARTICLE FOURTEEN: By Select Board member Dennis J. Teehan, Jr. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Dedham General Bylaws by revising Section 39-10, entitled, “Departments to submit budgets to Director of Finance”, to clarify that all departments of the Town, including the School Department, are required to submit detailed budgets to Director of Finance as part of the budget development process, and, for such purposes, to delete the strikethrough and insert the underlined text, as follows:

All officers, boards, departments and committees of the Town authorized to expend money, including the school department, shall annually prepare a detailed line-item statement of the amounts estimated to be necessary for the proper maintenance of the respective departments, boards or committees for the ensuing year, including estimates of the salaries for officers of the respective boards or departments, with the same purpose during the preceding year; estimates of the amounts necessary for capital outlays for permanent improvements; estimates of the income to be received in connection with the Town business or property entrusted to their respective appropriations of which they have the expenditure and which remain unpaid, showing the amount thereof, to whom due and for what due. Such statements shall include the actual expenditures for each line item for the three years immediately preceding the current fiscal year and shall be submitted to the Director of Finance for the Finance and Warrant Committee in accordance with a schedule annually determined by the Town Manager but in no event later than 90 days prior to the start of the Annual Town Meeting or on such other date as may be established from time to time pursuant to the Town Charter.  With respect to the detailed line-item statement submitted by the school department, consistent with the provisions of G.L. c.71, §34, the finance and warrant committee, may make non-binding recommendations to increase or decrease certain items allocating such appropriations.

or take any other action relative thereto. Referred to Bylaw Review Committee and Finance and Warrant Committee for study and report.

ARTICLE FIFTEEN: By Precinct 4 Town Meeting Member Carmen E. Dello Iacono. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Town of Dedham General Bylaws by inserting the following new bylaw :

Chapter 12, Article XIII, General Provisions Section 12-58 Meetings

Meetings of public bodies shall preferably be held in person with other means of access provided, if feasible, including, for example, simultaneous airing of the meeting on public access television or through a remote meeting platform.

or take any other action relative thereto. Referred by Bylaw Review Committee and Finance and Warrant Committee for study and report.

ARTICLE SIXTEEN: By Select Board member Dennis J. Teehan, Jr. To see if the Town will vote to request that the Select Board establish a working group to consider how to best utilize anticipated tax revenues generated by so-called Planned Commercial Developments in the Single Residence A District abutting Route 128/95, including the project commonly known as The Campus at 128, analyzing whether it may be appropriate to deposit a portion of such anticipated tax revenues in the Robin Reyes Stabilization Fund and/or to set aside a portion of such revenues to address the Town’s current and future capital needs, including school building needs, or otherwise; such working group to include but not be limited to the following voting members: a member of each of the Select Board, Finance Committee, School Committee, Planning Board, and Capital Planning Committee, as designated by their respective board or committee, and two or four voters of the Town of Dedham appointed by the Select Board, with support from the Town Manager, Director of Finance, and Superintendent; such working group to be disbanded upon submission of its recommendations to the Select Board, or take any other action relative thereto. Referred to Finance and Warrant Committee for study and report.

The Warrant Review Meeting, commonly referred to as "Mini Town Meeting", will be held on DATE TO BE FINALIZED BY THE PRECINCT CHAIRS.

This annual meeting is hosted by the Precinct Chairs and provides an advance opportunity for Town Meeting members to ask questions about the Warrant Articles and seek any necessary clarification from staff in preparation for Town Meeting on Monday, May 18.

Capital Expenditures Committee

• January 7, 2026
  • Joint meeting with the Finance & Warrant Committee
  • Agenda
    • Presentation and Review of Capital Budgets with Fire Department, Police Department, Public Works, Recreation and Town Information Technology
  • Meeting Materials
    • Fire Dept. Presentation
    • Police Dept. Presentation
    • Parks and Recreation Presentation - Playgrounds
    • Parks and Recreation - Heaphy Field
  • Meeting Recording: Available on Dedham TV website
• January 12, 2026
  • Joint meeting with the Finance & Warrant Committee
  • Agenda
    • Presentation and Review of Capital Budgets with Information
      Technology, Engineering and Dedham Public Schools
  • Meeting Materials
    • Memo: F27 School Department Proposed Capital Budget
    • DPS F27 Proposed Capital Budget
  • Meeting Recording: Available on Dedham TV website
• January 15, 2026
  • Agenda
    • Discuss, deliberate & vote on the CEC recommendations for the
      FY’27 Capital Budget
  • Meeting Recording: Available on Dedham TV website

Finance & Warrant Committee

• January 7, 2026
  • Joint meeting with the Finance & Warrant Committee
  • Agenda
    • Presentation and Review of Capital Budgets with Fire Department, Police Department, Public Works, Recreation and Town Information Technology
  • Meeting Materials
    • Fire Dept. Presentation
    • Police Dept. Presentation
    • Parks and Recreation Presentation - Playgrounds
    • Parks and Recreation - Heaphy Field
  • Meeting Recording: Available on Dedham TV website
• January 12, 2026
  • Joint meeting with the Finance & Warrant Committee
  • Agenda
    • Presentation and Review of Capital Budgets with Information Technology, Engineering and Dedham Public Schools
  • Meeting Materials
    • Memo: F27 School Department Proposed Capital Budget
    • DPS F27 Proposed Capital Budget
• March 7, 2026 (All Day Budget Hearings - Town Departments)
• March 10, 2026 (Education Budget Hearings - Dedham Public Schools, Blue Hills Regional)
• March 23, 2026
• March 24, 2026
• April 1, 2026
• April 8, 2026
• April 13, 2026

School Committee

• December 9, 2025
  • Agenda
    • Includes: Ongoing discussion of FY27 operating budget
• December 18, 2025
  • Agenda
    • Includes: Discussion and Possible Vote on FY27 Operating Budget
  • Meeting Recording: Available on Dedham TV website
• January 6, 2026
  • Agenda
    • Includes: Initial presentation and Discussion of FY27 Operating Budget Proposal; Discussion of FY27 Program Fees and Possible Vote
  • Meeting Recording: Available on Dedham TV website
• January 20, 2026
  • Agenda
    • Includes: Public Hearing for FY27 Budget
  • Meeting Recording: Available on Dedham TV website

Planning Board

• Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Please use the following links to access a copy of email communications shared with Town Meeting Members:

• Select Board votes to Close Warrant on February 13

Please use the following links to review and download the Town Manager Leon I. Goodwin III's Budget Message presentation to the Select Board on February 26, 2026 where he outlined his recommended budget for Fiscal Year 2027:

• FY27 Town Manager's Budget Message - Memo PDF
• FY27 Town Manager Budget Message Slides PDF
• Dedham TV recording (presentation begins at 58:07)