CHP Board of Trustees Names New Members

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GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Community Health Programs has welcomed two new members to its board of trustees.

Nicole Antil and Gloria Escobar took their seats on the board of the countywide health care network in December, said Christopher Phillips, board chair.

Antil, a native of Morris County, N.J., is the owner of Antil Creative and chief creative officer for Graham-Pelton Consulting, a nonprofit fundraising and management consulting firm. A graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, she is also a 2017 graduate of the Berkshire Leadership Program. She previously worked as a marketing and proposal manager for Maxymillian Technologies. She and her husband Peter live in Richmond with their sons.

Escobar, who came to the Berkshires from Colombia in 2000, is community development coordinator for Greylock Federal Credit Union and a certified credit union financial counselor. She also works as a bookkeeper at the Southern Berkshire Community Development Corp. and serves on the board of the Festival Latino of the Berkshires, where she also handles vendor coordination for the annual event. She is a student at Berkshire Community College, where she is pursuing a degree in business administration; she earned a certificate in accounting from Mildred Elley as well. She and her husband, Jose Huertas, live in Great Barrington with their three sons.

Community Health Programs, based in Great Barrington, Mass., is federally qualified health care network serving nearly 35,000 Berkshire County region residents with primary medical care for adults and children, women’s health care, dental care, physical therapy, vision care and nutrition services. CHP Family Services reaches parents and children in Southern Berkshire County with parent-child networking, parenting education, WIC and services and nutrition classes. CHP accepts all patients, regardless of ability to pay, and accepts all forms of public and private health insurance.

 


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Pittsfield Subcommittee Supports Election Pay, Veterans Parking, Wetland Ordinances

By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Ordinances and Rules subcommittee on Monday unanimously supported a pay raise for election workers, free downtown parking for veterans, and safeguards to better protect wetlands.

Workers will have a $5 bump in hourly pay for municipal, state and federal elections, rising from $10 an hour to $15 for inspectors, $11 to $16 for clerks, and $12 to $17 for wardens.

"This has not been increased in well over a decade," City Clerk Michele Benjamin told the subcommittee, saying the rate has been the same throughout the past 14 years she has been in the office.

She originally proposed raises to $13, $14 and $15 per hour, respectively, but after researching other communities, landed on the numbers that she believes the workers "wholeheartedly deserve."

Councilor at Large Kathy Amuso agreed.

"I see over decades some of the same people and obviously they're not doing it for the money," she said. "So I appreciate you looking at this and saying this is important even though I still think it's a low wage but at least it's making some adjustments."

The city has 14 wardens, 14 clerks, and 56 inspectors. This will add about $3,500 to the departmental budget for the local election and about $5,900 for state elections because they start an hour earlier and sometimes take more time because of absentee ballots.

Workers are estimated to work 13 hours for local elections and 14 hours for state and federal elections.

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