And one member of the five-person Select Board will be leaving his post a year ahead of schedule.
Those were the surprises to emerge from a meeting that mostly focused on the town's efforts to investigate accusations of wrongdoing in its police department and develop a plan to replace its recently retired chief.
Patton later said the town is just at the start of investigating the latest complaint and she was not at liberty to provide any details, including the department where the accusation arose.
But in her initial announcement, she did refer to "another town department," implying that the new complaint is outside the Williamstown Police Department, which has been under the microscope townwide since August's announcement of a federal discrimination lawsuit brought by a sergeant in the department.