“Pretty much, Zoom is out”: Most area towns discontinuing virtual meeting participation >Published: 7/1/2021 5:13:11 PM
Virtual meetings became ubiquitous for town boards and committees over the past year. For some towns, the expiration of the state emergency order heralded a return to the pre-pandemic status quo, while other towns don’t want to give up the virtual format – and the wider access it provides.
The State stopped allowing exclusively virtual municipal meetings on June 11. Now, every meeting must have a quorum of town board members in-person at a publicly accessible venue. Once that’s established, however, boards may offer a hybrid option in which additional board members call or Zoom in. They can also provide an option for members of the public to participate virtually, or at least view the meeting remotely.
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Published: 2/9/2021 7:37:58 AM
Temple residents are now scheduled to vote on ConVal’s warrant and elect town officials on March 9, a reversal of the Select Board’s unanimous vote last Monday to postpone voting until June out of concerns for COVID-19.
The Board reversed course at a meeting on Friday after the town’s legal counsel determined the town did actually have to vote on the school district’s warrant in March. All of the other eight towns in the ConVal School District opted to keep to the March 9 voting date prior to Temple’s decision.
Although Temple could have continued to postpone local elections until June, Select Board Chair Ken Caisse said he thought it made more sense to just do it all in March. “If it was to have a vote just for the School Board, we wouldn’t have any kind of turnout,” he said. The decision to hold the vote for town officials in March passed two to one, with Select Board member Bill Ezell objecting, Caisse
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Published: 2/3/2021 5:17:22 PM
Temple’s Conservation Commission decision not to enter a contract allowing Ben Fisk to harvest maple sap from the Temple Town Forest was upheld after Fisk brought his objection to the Select Board and was heard at their Monday night meeting.
Fisk currently has 50 active taps set up on the town land on North Road, which the Conservation Commission agreed to let him keep using until the end of the current sugaring season. Fisk got on the Select Board’s Monday night agenda, which was scheduled specially to discuss the postponement of Town Meeting and voting, after he asked to get on the Jan. 26 meeting agenda but was skipped after a Board member forgot to mention him, Select Board Chair Ken Caisse said.