December 23, 2020 · 0 Comments
By: Paula Brown
Shelburne Town Council has held their final meeting for the year, and Mayor Wade Mills spoke with the Free Press, reflecting on the local council’s role through 2020.
“In a word the year has been challenging, it was very early March when [we] were confronted with the pandemic on a local level and almost overnight everything changed,” said Mills. “We’ve had to be pretty nimble and flexible since, when it comes to how we’ve proceeded, what that’s meant is a number of plans that we had in place for 2020 had to be set aside.”
The townâs selectboard voted to accept the settlement after entering executive session on Nov. 24.
After he was terminated in October 2019, Fisher filed a charge of harassment with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Fisher, who was the departmentâs only Black officer, alleged he was subjected to workplace harassment while working for the Shelburne Police Department.
In the resolution passed by the selectboard that night, the town said it was authorizing the payment âwhile admitting no liability.â
The motion passed unanimously.
Shelburne will pay $56,250, or half of the total settlement amount. The other half will be paid by the Vermont League of Cities and Towns Property and Casualty Intermunicipal Fund, the townâs liability insurer.
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