At a public hearing on April 15, the Town of Needham Select Board approved two separate petitions from Eversource Energy to install short segments of conduit for new single‑family service connections.

In the first petition Joanne Callender of Eversource described a proposal to install approximately 44 feet of conduit on Edgewater Drive to provide underground service to a new home at 124 Everwater/Edgewater Drive. After staff confirmed that the mapping discrepancies on the packet were due to different base maps used by Public Works, no members of the public offered comment and a motion to approve the petition passed by voice vote with no opposition.

Later in the meeting Callender sought approval for an approximately 24‑foot conduit installation in South Street to serve a new house at 1266 South Street (transcript lists "12 66"). The Select Board again voted by voice to approve and sign the petition; no public comments were recorded and no member opposed the motion.

Both approvals were granted under the town’s grant‑of‑location process, which allows utilities to place service conduit within public ways to serve private property following public notice and Select Board approval. The Select Board recorded the approvals by motion and voice vote; the town clerk and Public Works staff will process the signatures and file the approved petitions.