The Select Board last summer created what became the Diversity, Inclusion and Racial Equity Committee as an advisory panel. Members of that panel this week questioned why the Select Board has not appeared willing to consider the advice the DIRE Committee has provided.
"I actually don't care how the Select Board feels about the resolutions," Aruna D'Souza said. "But if they're saying they're recommendations, so [they] don't have to act on them, it seems to me that, procedurally, there should be a point at which they decide, 'We don't have to act on them,' and that should take place at an open meeting.