Weston Rail Trail Committee Votes on Signage, Weighs Dissolution Before June 2020

WESTON — September 23, 2019 — Weston's Rail Trail Advisory Committee approved final signage designs and debated its own dissolution at its September 23 meeting. The committee voted unanimously to adopt a trail map featuring mileage distances marked between road intersections, with a QR code to be added, and approved a condensed rules sign for four locations — Church Street, two Concord Road spurs, and Gun Club Road. Members discussed crediting the Community Preservation Committee on the map alongside Mass Trails, which contributed to a grant originally set at $100,000 and later increased to $192,000. The chair announced he will resign after the October 19 opening ceremony and said he had spoken with a town official identified as Leon, who confirmed the committee could seek dissolution from the Board of Selectmen. Members reached informal consensus to remain active through the spring 2020 planting season — tied to a $57,000 plantings contract — with a target wind-down date of June 30, 2020, the end of the fiscal year.