Mount Greylock Superintendent Search Panel Narrows Field to Two

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Superintendent Search Committee on Wednesday voted to send two candidates' names to the Transition Committee.
 
Search Committee Chairman and Transition Committee member Steven Miller said the screening panel did an in-depth review of the five applicants for the job and voted to advance two candidates to the hiring body.
 
The Transition Committee had charged the Search Committee with returning no more than three names. The finalists would be expected to visit the district for in-person interviews.
 
Miller was not at liberty Wednesday night to identify the two candidates who made it through the first stage of the process.
 
All five applicants' names were kept secret in order to protect their privacy, and the all the screening was done in executive session. The two candidates who made it through Miller's committee will be asked whether they want their names made public before they are identified in an open meeting by the Transition Committee.
 
The Transition Committee, which governs the recently expanded district from Jan. 1 until November's elections, meets Thursday evening, tonight, at which time Miller will give an update from the screening panel.

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Town Meeting Floor Fight Brewing on Williamstown Elementary School Budget

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — In January, the Williamstown Select Board decided to move town meeting back to the Williamstown Elementary School gymnasium.
 
On Wednesday, it became clear that the elementary school budget could be one of the biggest issues before the meeting.
 
Residents concerned that WES is underfunded and "slipping" said Wednesday that they will seek to amend the Mount Greylock Regional School District budget on the floor of town meeting to increase the district's assessment to the town.
 
"We are going to go to town meeting and propose, actually, an addendum to increase the budget and hopefully pass that to support not just a level service but to actually include some school improvement," Jenna Hasenkampf said Wednesday at a meeting of the town's Finance Committee.
 
"We also think we are long overdue to invest in your schools. We've shown, as a town, that we can spend that money when it comes to services like the Fire Department that we view as essential. We think our public schools are just as essential, if not more.
 
"I think that more students pass through those halls than we see a fire per year here."
 
Hasenkampf, a member of the School Council at WES, spoke from the floor at the Fin Comm meeting on the night the panel was reviewing the budget requests from both the Northern Berkshire Vocational Regional School District (McCann Tech) and the Mount Greylock district, which operates elementary schools in Lanesborough and Williamstown and the Mount Greylock Regional School, a middle-high school serving Grades 7 through 12.
 
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