Letter: Breen Has Right Experience for North Adams Council

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To the Editor:

Well, I just voted, and I gave my first vote for City Council to Pete Breen. Why, you ask?

No other new candidate has the experience and devotion and has been as generous with their time. Over the past 40 years, Pete has served on many boards and commissions. He has worked for a variety of employers including MCLA, where Pete was a facilitator and instructor for technology and curriculum development and assistant registrar. Pete took that experience over into the town of Adams, where he implemented the town's entire computer system, serving as the town's technology administrator. Pete then went farther south, where he was a member of the adjunct faculty at BCC for four years.

Shifting gears into education, Pete taught computer science at Hoosac Valley for 12 years, while also serving in the district office and as the pupil transportation officer.



After retiring from compensated work, Pete set his sights on volunteering in North Adams serving on the License Board Commission and serving as the North Adams representative for the Northern Berkshire Vocational School District, and finally, Pete's current passion, serving on the Hoosic River Revival Board.

That's why I gave my first vote to Pete Breen. And I hope that you do too.

David Willette
North Adams, Mass.

 

 


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North Adams Votes to Create Ad Hoc Committee for City Code Review

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The City Council approved the creation of an ad hoc committee to review the codification process and make recommendations. 
 
The city has embarked on a recodification process that over the next two years will complete a review to find contradictory ordinances and regulations and outdated materials and language, ensure new ordinances have been properly recorded, and make the code cleaner and more transparent. 
 
The total cost of the work will be $19,540 and is being undertaken by vendor General Code, which has maintained the city's code for 40 years. 
 
The last time the code was updated was 61 years in 1964.
 
The committee will be comprised of three councilors, the city clerk and a representative of the administration appointed by the president. The mayor will also select members of her administrative team to act as advisers. 
 
Councilor Lisa Blackmer questioned why Council President Bryan Sapienza brought the committee forward as an order. 
 
"When we had other ad hoc, we haven't normally presented an order in my memory, but I could be misremembering," she said. 
 
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