Jack Miller Contractors Fills Project Manager, Bookkeeper Positions

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Jack Miller Contractors has hired Shawn Thibodeau as project manager and Kris Maloney as bookkeeper to continue building a highly skilled management team and provide additional services to an expanding client base. Jack Miller Contractors employees 18 professionals in the community.

Thibodeau is a lifelong resident of Southern Vermont with a career focused on carpentry, construction and project management since the mid 1990s, when he started as a carpenter apprentice. He has been a professional carpenter for 20 years, working for David Tierney Construction in Pittsfield and Blue Heron Construction in Bennington, Vt. Thibodeau owned his own construction company for five years and was most recently project manager for Hayden Plumbing & Heating in Bennington, Vt. He joined the Jack Miller Contractors team in 2019 as project manager. In this position, he works directly with homeowners, design professionals and trade professionals to deliver the highest quality projects, on time and on budget.

Maloney was hired to the position of bookkeeper. A resident of North Adams, she joins JMC after a 21-year stint at Williams College, where she worked as benefits administrator overseeing a comprehensive employee benefit program for approximately 1,100 faculty and staff. Her background includes four years working as a human resource administrator and payroll supervisor for Patten Corporation in Stamford, Vt. As payroll specialist, Maloney was responsible for the administration of the benefits program and processing of payroll for hundreds of employees at North Adams Public Schools for six years and, prior to that, at Berkshire Health Systems Management Services. Her planning, administrative and negotiation skills as well as her ability to implement programs that align with long-term goals will serve the company well. She has a bachelor’s of science degree in business administration from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

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Williamstown Affordable Housing Trust Hears Objections to Summer Street Proposal

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Neighbors concerned about a proposed subdivision off Summer Street last week raised the specter of a lawsuit against the town and/or Northern Berkshire Habitat for Humanity.
 
"If I'm not mistaken, I think this is kind of a new thing for Williamstown, an affordable housing subdivision of this size that's plunked down in the middle, or the midst of houses in a mature neighborhood," Summer Street resident Christopher Bolton told the Affordable Housing Trust board, reading from a prepared statement, last Wednesday. "I think all of us, the Trust, Habitat, the community, have a vested interest in giving this project the best chance of success that it can have. We all remember subdivisions that have been blocked by neighbors who have become frustrated with the developers and resorted to adversarial legal processes.
 
"But most of us in the neighborhood would welcome this at the right scale if the Trust and Northern Berkshire Habitat would communicate with us and compromise with us and try to address some of our concerns."
 
Bolton and other residents of the neighborhood were invited to speak to the board of the trust, which in 2015 purchased the Summer Street lot along with a parcel at the corner of Cole Avenue and Maple Street with the intent of developing new affordable housing on the vacant lots.
 
Currently, Northern Berkshire Habitat for Humanity, which built two homes at the Cole/Maple property, is developing plans to build up to five single-family homes on the 1.75-acre Summer Street lot. Earlier this month, many of the same would-be neighbors raised objections to the scale of the proposed subdivision and its impact on the neighborhood in front of the Planning Board.
 
The Affordable Housing Trust board heard many of the same arguments at its meeting. It also heard from some voices not heard at the Planning Board session.
 
And the trustees agreed that the developer needs to engage in a three-way conversation with the abutters and the trust, which still owns the land, to develop a plan that is more acceptable to all parties.
 
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