Select Board Approves GoNetspeed as Comcast Rival

Select Board · Meeting of September 23, 2026

Clinton Select Board backs GoNetspeed as a Comcast alternative while an affordable-housing project loses its ARPA funding window. Liz Leonard, director of the WEED project and interim CEO of the United Way of Tri-County, told the board her group could not meet the deadline to build eight housing units with town-allocated federal relief funds, calling it a "pause," not a cancellation, after foundation cost estimates topped $1 million. One board member said the delay was avoidable: "That money disappears now." GoNetspeed representative John Delahan pitched a fiber network to rival Comcast, with tiers starting at $39.99 a month and construction tentatively eyed for 2028; the board voted unanimously to support it.

Separately, a board member said the town spent roughly $385,000 around 2017 on MUNIS finance software still unused nearly a decade later, calling it "a complete disservice to the taxpayers." The board also approved a liquor license transfer to In Place Social Club, Inc. and waived the town hall fee for a November Worcester Youth Orchestra concert.

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Source: the Select Board meeting of September 23, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.