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 Charter Review Panel OKs Fix to Address 'Separation of Powers' Concern

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Charter Review Committee on Wednesday voted unanimously to endorse an amended version of the compliance provision it drafted to be added to the Town Charter.
 
The committee accepted language designed to meet concerns raised by the Planning Board about separation of powers under the charter.
 
The committee's original compliance language — Article 32 on the annual town meeting warrant — would have made the Select Board responsible for determining a remedy if any other town board or committee violated the charter.
 
The Planning Board objected to that notion, pointing out that it would give one elected body in town some authority over another.
 
On Wednesday, Charter Review Committee co-Chairs Andrew Hogeland and Jeffrey Johnson, both members of the Select Board, brought their colleagues amended language that, in essence, gives authority to enforce charter compliance by a board to its appointing authority.
 
For example, the Select Board would have authority to determine a remedy if, say, the Community Preservation Committee somehow violated the charter. And the voters, who elect the Planning Board, would have ultimate say if that body violates the charter.
 
In reality, the charter says very little about what town boards and committees — other than the Select Board — can or cannot do, and the powers of bodies like the Planning Board are regulated by state law.
 
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