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Lexington Annual Town Meeting 2025:
Lexington Annual Town Meeting 2025:
Opportunities for a More Sustainable Town
Opportunities for a More Sustainable Town
On this page, we highlight articles coming before Lexington’s Annual Town Meeting, that hold the promise to make Lexington a more sustainable and resilient place to live. This year, Annual Town Meeting begins on Monday, March 24 and there is one article we are highlighting. If you are a Lexington resident, we encourage you to take a few minutes to become familiar with this article, and if you’re moved to do so, to contact your Town Meeting representatives and let them know your thoughts.
We provide a short synopsis below. You can find links to the detailed proposals and video presentations on the Town Meeting website.
The Lexington Town Meeting Members Association makes it easy for you to contact your Town Meeting representatives. A single email to PrecinctX@lexingtontmma.org (where X is your Lexington precinct number, 1, 2, etc., up to 9) will reach all your representatives. See TMMA’s more detailed and helpful instructions here.
Article 24: Authorize the Town of Lexington to Prohibit or Restrict the Application of Second-Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticides
Article 24: Authorize the Town of Lexington to Prohibit or Restrict the Application of Second-Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticides
Passage of this article would ask the Select Board to petition our legislators on Beacon Hill for the authority to restrict or ban the use of Second Generation Anti-coagulant Rodenticides (SGARs) in town.
SGARs are infused in bait for rats, which die after a few days as the poison prevents their blood from clotting. It is a poison that persists up the food chain--a rat eats the poison, and when a predator eats the rat, it too is poisoned. Widespread use of SGARs, for which there are many readily available alternatives, is having the unintended consequence of harming and killing mammalian and avian predators, in addition to their rat targets. There have been numerous local cases of hawks, owls, and mammalian predators dying from SGAR poisoning in Lexington and in surrounding communities. Use of SGARs is harming our natural rat control mechanism. Limiting use of SGARs is an important prong in an integrated, ecological approach to rat control.
You can learn more about the proposal at the websites for Town Meeting and Save Lexington Wildlife.
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