Fire Chief Brett LaRose reported a roughly one‑half acre ground fire on A. Johnson Company land that consumed town resources and drew state and U.S. Forest Service wildland crews; he said crews were "99.9 percent confident the fire had been extinguished."

Town Administrator Gregory Faust reported a State readiness schedule for the Bristol East and Rockydale water project with four deadlines (90% design due Dec 1; environmental document due Jan 1; bond vote warned by end of Jan for March vote; construction loan application due May 1) and said the State estimates the cost at roughly $2.5 million, a figure the Board noted is not reconciled with earlier signed documents.