Wrentham's Fall Town Meeting is Monday, November 9. As usual, the meeting will be held at King Philip Regional High School beginning at 7 p.m.

The warrant has eight articles and covers the fire union contract, recreation funding, police hiring rules, and a new zoning definition for data centers.

Spending articles

Article 2 funds Wrentham firefighters. Article 7 asks for $350,000 to light a Little League field at the William Rice Recreation Complex. The money would come from Community Preservation accounts.

Article 6 does not ask for new money. It would extend the deadline to spend $200,000 that voters approved in June 2024. That money is for an engineering design study of the Metacomet Greenway. The new deadline to finish spending would be December 31, 2028.

Police hiring age limit

Article 5 deals with police hiring. In 2002, Town Meeting adopted a state law that sets a maximum age of 32 for new police officers. The Select Board is asking voters to rescind the restriction.

Data centers

Article 8 comes from the Planning Board. It would add a definition of "data center" to the town's zoning bylaws. The proposed definition describes a mainly commercial or industrial building that houses large computer servers, data storage, and networking equipment. Small server rooms that support another business would not count.

The article would add data centers to the town's table of allowed uses; however, each zoning district is marked "N" for "not allowed" effectively excluding data centers from the Town's current zones.

Other articles

Article 1 recognizes Wrentham's 2026 Volunteer(s) of the Year.

Article 3 updates job titles in the town's general bylaws. "Town Administrator" would become "Town Manager." "Superintendent of Public Works" would become "Director of Public Works." "Town Planner" would become "Director of Planning and Economic Development."

Article 4 asks voters to let the Select Board seek a special act from the State House. It would extend the deadline for issuing certain alcohol licenses under a 2024 state law. The new deadline would be January 3, 2031.