 Lanesborough Passes Budget, Mount Greylock Articles & Recall PetitionTown meeting on Tuesday approved an $11 million budget for fiscal 2024 and authorized the borrowing of $800,000 for the track at Mount Greylock Regional School.  Cheshire Town Meeting OKs Budget, Excavator PurchaseIt also spent nearly 45 minutes debating the benefits of buying a wheeled excavator before approving the purchase 49-34 in a card vote.  Adams Town Meeting Passes $17.6M Budget, Greylock Glen Fundingown meeting members on Wednesday passed all articles on the warrant during an almost three-hour-long meeting, including a $17.5 million budget and the transfer of $150,000 from stabilization to lower the tax rate. Lanesborough Police Station Site Needs Geotechnical SurveyA request that the town transfer $40,000 from the stabilization fund so the town can retain services from Jacunski Humes Architects will be added to the town meeting warrant for June 13.  Clarksburg Town Meeting OKs $5.1M Budget, Passes All Warrant ArticlesVoters at town meeting on Wednesday swiftly passed $5.1 million in spending for the next fiscal year with no discussion. But other articles, including a proposal to open the town's capped landfill to a solar operator, prompted debate and amendments from the floor. Clarksburg Town Election, Town Meeting Set This WeekThere are no names on the ballot for one-year terms as moderator, tree warden and on Planning Board; for a three-year term on the Board of Health and a five-year term on the Planning Board.  Prognostication, Recognition, Mistaken Identity at Williamstown Town MeetingIn order to give residents a chance to try out the town's new electronic voting devices on a low-stakes question, meeting organizers devised a couple of sample questions to kick off the meeting.  Williamstown Town Meeting Says Yes to Clickers, No to Manufactured HomesTown meeting Tuesday rejected a bylaw amendment that would have removed barriers to manufactured housing, endorsed the use of electronic voting devices at the meeting and chose to take no action on a bylaw change that would have required dogs to be leashed in public areas.  Letter: Electronic Voting at Town MeetingThis year, for the first time in Williamstown, we're proposing the town use electronic voting for town meeting. Dog Leash Bylaw Among Issues Before Williamstown Town MeetingFippinger has said publicly that he has been yelled at by a dog owner on the multimodal trail when he asked them to leash their canine, as required on the trail's posted signs.  Dalton Town Meeting OKs $21.5M Budget, All Warrant ArticlesExactly 99 voters attended the two-hour meeting to approve the budget and various spending items for town equipment, repairs and green initiatives. Dalton to Vote FY24 Budget, Spending Items at May 1 Town MeetingTown meeting will be asked to authorize a number of spending articles, including a $21 million budget. Of that, $10 million is the assessment to the Central Berkshire Regional School District and $9.4 million is the town operating budget.  Williamstown Planning Board Recommends Defeat of Sweetwood Zoning RequestBy late in the hearing, even the attorney representing Sweetwood was suggesting that if the planners could recommend at least one of the amendments, the petitioner would be grateful. Williamstown 'Off the Hook' for Remaining Cost of Trail OverrunAfter months of consternation over the cost of overruns to a multi-modal path through town, the town manager Monday announced that Williamstown's share of the cost has effectively been cut in half. |
