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Planning board resignation prompts emergency meeting
Stockbridge planning board member's resignation triggers emergency joint meeting with select board to fill vacancy. From our own coverage: Planning board clears sign, minutes in brief session; Water panel OKs $66,000 clarifier parts order.
From Stockbridge News
- Planning board clears sign, minutes in brief session. Stockbridge's Planning Board lost a member when W. Eric Egan announced he is leaving town, forcing a scramble to schedule a joint meeting with the Select Board as soon as October 15 to fill the vacant seat ahead of a packed fall agenda.Stockbridge News
- Water panel OKs $66,000 clarifier parts order. The Stockbridge Water and Sewer Committee took up a $66,000 plan to rebuild an aging wastewater clarifier while grappling with warnings that a proposed firehouse site next to the treatment plant could limit future water and sewer expansion for years to come.Stockbridge News
- Panel votes to recommend wake boat ban. The Stockbridge Bowl Stewardship Committee weighed video evidence that wake-boat turbulence could stir up a dormant layer of cyanobacteria on the lake bottom, as members debated whether to recommend the Select Board add a ban to the town's general bylaws.Stockbridge News
- Cemetery commission OKs $44,450 vault repair bid. The Stockbridge Cemetery Commission weighed competing bids for masonry repairs on the cemetery vault's south, east and north walls after a mandatory site visit revealed the project would exceed the funding the Community Preservation Committee had already set aside.Stockbridge News
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