Steele Farm Advisory Committee

Meetings

• As needed
• Town Hall
  29 Middle Road
  Boxborough, MA 01719

Agendas & Minutes

Agendas are available prior to the meetings. Minutes are available following approval.

View Most Recent Agendas and Minutes

Members

It is with great sadness that we mourn the loss of our Chair, Jeanne Steele Kangas, who passed away on January 10, 2023.

• Arden Veley, Chair                                                                                                                 Term expires: 2024
• Chris Hydak, Clerk                                                                                                                  Term expires: 2023
• Melissa MacGillvray
  Term expires: 2024
• John Skinner
  Term expires: 2025

Members of the Steele Farm Advisory Committee are appointed by the Board of Selectmen to a three-year term.

Overview

As a result of the vote of May 1994 annual town meeting and a subsequent override election, the Town purchased the Steele Farm on Middle Road consisting of roughly 36 acres and three buildings. The charge of the Steele Farm Advisory Committee is to make recommendations to the Board of Selectmen as to the use of the property and buildings.

A vote at the November STM in 2009 empowered the Board of Selectmen to "complete and to put into place preservation restrictions on the Steele Farm property". The Board determined that mechanism for doing this should be a multi-part legal agreement among Boxborough, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts through the Secretary of the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs and the Massachusetts Historical Commission, and the holders of the restriction, which would be The Trustees of the Reservations and the Boxborough Historical Society.

Contact Information

• Phone: 978-264-1700