Ronald Beaty Jr., an outspoken and sometimes controversial political activist, would like to be elected to his old job—a member of the Barnstable County Board of Regional Commissioners.
In a last-ditch effort to keep their $22.2 million budget intact, the Barnstable County Board of Regional Commissioners voted this week to have an attorney look into whether the county’s
The Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates delivered the coup de grace to the county administration’s $22.2 million budget this week by wielding its powerful—though rarely used—override vote.
An impasse over Barnstable County’s $22.2 million budget deepened this week after a newly formed reconciliation committee failed to work out a compromise between the two branches of government.
A Reconciliation Committee—a hybrid group of one Barnstable County Commissioner and four assembly of delegates members—was created this week in an effort to get the two sides to compromise on