Thomaston Board of Selectmen
3/17/26 6 p.m.
Present: First Selectman: Rich Sileo. Selectmen: Michael Burr and Beth Campbell
The Town of Thomaston’s grand list saw significant growth from 2024 to 2025.
Thomaston Assessor Jen O'Neill presented the new figures found in the list, which was updated at the end of 2025, to the board of selectmen at their March 17 meeting. The grand list is the aggregate valuation of taxable property within a given municipality.
The grand list for 2025 showed an increase of around 36.1% in total valuation from last year, according to figures shown by Thomaston Assessor Jen O’Neill. The overall sum of real estate, personal property, and motor vehicle valuations amounted to $901,235,184, compared to the $662,023,500 total in 2024. This signified an increase of about $239,211,684.
The new figures come after the town conducted a re-evaluation completed last Oct. 1. “It's always good to see it go up,” Selecman Michael Burr said.
The board also discussed a Request For Proposal (RFP) draft that First Selectman Rich Sileo plans to put out for waste management services. Last month, The Goshen News reported the town was looking to change its solid waste local law and enter a three-year contract with Murphy Road Recycling for the management of recyclable materials. That deal would last until June 30, 2029.
“That will include collection, solid waste disposal. And then we will be plugging in Murphy Road as our recycler,” Sileo said at the March 17 meeting. “I will also include a section here that includes the responsibility of the collection party to have an alternative location for recycling, so I will hopefully have that for review by the end of this week.”
In other waste management news, Dennis David, the Thomaston Transfer Station director, announced the transfer station is operating at a profit at the moment.
“We are $2,134.01 in the black, which is really good because we have never really been anywhere close to that in the time we re-opened it,” David said. “Our customer experience is better, we are processing transactions faster, and our traffic pattern is better.”
David also provided the board with updates on renovations at the transfer station, something he noted started last summer.
“We got quite a bit done,” David noted.
The town allocated $5,000 toward renovations. So far the station has used $3,374.28 toward weed remediation and other beautification projects around the facility.
“We moved the trailer over for our recycling, and so the place looks better,” he said.
The remaining funds will go toward new storage solutions that will help continue decluttering the station.
The Board of Selectmen also voted unanimously to change the transfer station’s summer hours, which will begin in April. Hours of operation during this period are 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. every first and third Wednesday of every month. David said town residents have suggested to him moving the hours of operation during this period from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
“This would give people who can get there later in the morning,” he said. “If they have a job or something where they get out at noon, they could still get there and we wouldn't be closed. It's just a window to open up so people can find it a little more convenient to go down there.”
