Kingston Water Commission Elects New Chair, Advances Miramar and CDM Contracts

KINGSTON -- June 4, 2026, Kingston Water Commission reorganizes and presses toward signing two contracts. The board unanimously elected Elaine Pereira as chair and Brian Donahue as vice chair at its June 4 meeting before spending the bulk of the session negotiating final language on a capacity agreement with the developer of the Miramar 40B residential project in Duxbury and reviewing town counsel's markups on a separate engineering services contract with CDM. On the Miramar agreement, commissioners agreed to tie allocated sewer or water capacity to a specific Duxbury parcel identified by map and lot number, rather than to the project broadly, to prevent capacity from being transferred or redirected, and directed that language explicitly granting the commission the right to invest deposited developer funds exceeding $100,000 and retain all earnings be added to the document. On the CDM contract, the commission voted unanimously to accept town counsel's recommendations rejecting several CDM-proposed changes to suspension, owner-guarantee, quality-standards, and dispute-resolution provisions. The commission is targeting signatures on both agreements at its next meeting, expected Tuesday, June 9.