Recreation Commission challenges building committee review of Morses Pond bathhouse

WELLESLEY — May 20, 2026 — Wellesley Recreation Commission pushes back as Permanent Building Committee reopens Morses Pond bathhouse design questions. Chair Paul Cramer and Commissioner Mark Wolfson, who has tracked the project since roughly 2017, said town meeting twice approved the roughly $9 million redevelopment by margins as wide as 170-7 and warned against "fundamentally" rewriting a concept shaped by years of public engagement. "Please don't bring me back a moped," Cramer said of cost-cutting suggestions. Commissioner Laurance Stuntz and Commissioner Garfield Miller said they will attend the Natural Resources Commission's May 29 meeting and the Permanent Building Committee's June 11 session. Separately, commissioners declined to waive fees for a July 20 TUBB3 Family Foundation fundraiser, keeping the $200-per-hour gym and $125 kitchen Class 2 rates. Morses Pond opens June 22; pass sales trail 2024.