Nominations Sought For Williamstown Employee Award

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The League of Women Voters of Williamstown is seeking nominations for its annual Employee of the Year Award.

The League established the annual award beginning in 2001 as a way to show appreciation for the work required to keep the town running smoothly.

Nominees should be employees of the town of Williamstown who have provided outstanding service to the Williamstown community – duty above and beyond what is expected of them. This service can have been performed during the past year or in previous years. It can have been a single exceptional act or have been spread over several years.

All employees of the town of Williamstown are eligible. For example, this includes snowplow drivers, librarians, cemetery workers, police officers, town department heads, custodians, teachers, transfer station workers, fire fighters, the town manager – anyone on the town payroll.


Nomination forms are available at the Milne Library and at Town Hall, or nominations can be sent to the League of Women Voters of Williamstown, P.O. Box 392, Williamstown, by May 7. Nominations should include a description of the exceptional service provided and the name and telephone number or email address of the person submitting the nomination.

The name of winner will be announced on May 21 at the annual town meeting.

Past winners are Tim Kaiser, Rose Hamman, Betsy Reali, Mary Kennedy, Pat MacLeod, Chris Lemoine, Mindy Hackner, Paul Langlois, Brian O'Grady; Janet Saddler, Patti Patterson and, last year, the entire Department of Town Inspections.
 

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Williamstown Housing Trust Commits $80K to Support Cable Mills Phase 3

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The board of the town's Affordable Housing Trust last week agreed in principle to commit $80,000 more in town funds to support the third phase of the Cable Mills housing development on Water Street.
 
Developer David Traggorth asked the trustees to make the contribution from its coffers to help unlock an additional $5.4 million in state funds for the planned 54-unit apartment building at the south end of the Cable Mills site.
 
In 2022, the annual town meeting approved a $400,000 outlay of Community Preservation Act funds to support the third and final phase of the Cable Mills development, which started with the restoration and conversion of the former mill building and continued with the construction of condominiums along the Green River.
 
The town's CPA funds are part of the funding mix because 28 of Phase 3's 54 units (52 percent) will be designated as affordable housing for residents making up to 60 percent of the area median income.
 
Traggorth said he hopes by this August to have shovels in the ground on Phase 3, which has been delayed due to spiraling construction costs that forced the developer to redo the financial plan for the apartment building.
 
He showed the trustees a spreadsheet that demonstrated how the overall cost of the project has gone up by about $6 million from the 2022 budget.
 
"Most of that is driven by construction costs," he said. "Some of it is caused by the increase in interest rates. If it costs us more to borrow, we can't borrow as much."
 
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