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Williamstown Select Board Plans Return to In-Person Meetings

Chair Andrew Hogeland said it is his intention to hold the board s July 12 meeting at Town Hall, the first time the body will have used the Selectmen s Meeting Room since March 2020.

The tradeoff is that the town does not yet have the capability to hold hybrid meetings, during which members of the public can participate via video conference during an in-person meeting.

We expect within a couple of months we ll solve the hybrid technology, Hogeland said. There will be a couple of months where we re going back to old school meetings, but once the new technology is ready, there we go. ....

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Williamstown FY22 Town Spending Expected Not to Impact Property Taxes

That was the bottom line takeaway last week when Town Manager Jason Hoch presented the FY22 budget to the town s Finance Committee.

What is unknown at this point is the size of an increase in the assessment from the Mount Greylock Regional School District. Total education outlays (which includes a much smaller assessment from McCann Tech) accounts for about 52 percent of the revenue raised by property taxes in FY21.

One day after Hoch s presentation to the Fin Comm, the Mount Greylock School Committee heard from the administration that it will be proposing a budget that seeks 1.67 percent more from Williamstown in the coming fiscal year. ....

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