Town officials reported progress toward settling differences with BB Botanics over prior host community agreements for two divisions of the business. Town counsel drafted a unified host community agreement (HCA) and the company has tentatively agreed to make specified one‑time payments.

Town Administrator Brendan told the board the parties discussed changing state law and evolving industry practice that may affect ongoing community impact fees. The company has tentatively offered a one‑time $10,000 payment to the town next fiscal year (reported as a one‑time amount) to the police vehicles fund and an immediate $2,500 payment this fiscal year to reimburse legal fees incurred while the town sought legal advice on the agreements.

Town counsel has prepared a unified HCA that would retain nonmonetary terms from the original agreements while consolidating the two host agreements into a single document. Brendan said the owner and his attorney were reviewing specific provisions and the town offered to remove language that no longer reflected operational reality.

The board voted to accept the proposed resolution and to authorize the chairman to sign the revised HCA covering both divisions of BB Botanics once the final language is agreed.

The board’s motion to authorize finalization and signature was approved by voice vote.