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This is reportedly the best of both worlds for accessibility and is made possible by the act Gov. Charlie Baker signed on June 16 extending certain COVID-19 measures adopted during the state of emergency until April 2022.
The Executive Committee decided to continue Zoom meetings. BRPC has a setup that allows members to participate remotely from its offices with the help of BRPC employees if need be.
Many full committee members favored in-person meetings because of the quality of communication but did support the hybrid model.
I think something is lost by not meeting together because it just has a totally different quality, Tyringham alternate Sarah Hudson said. ....
This budget which was given a positive recommendation by the Finance Subcommittee earlier this month is $1,059,797 higher than this year s budget. This increase in the spending plan is primarily due to several new grants for economic development, education, and public health programs.
The budget includes salary increases of $496,455 that are largely for the promotion of a senior planner to a program manager, hiring a senior economic planner, an additional planner, and an open administrative position.
BRPC s overall benefits have increased by $193,231 from $640,138 to $833,369. This is mostly due to more staff and staff having a larger amount of unused vacation or unused compensation hours. ....
Executive Director Thomas Matuszko informed the Executive Committee that BRPC would be going out for bid for office space shortly with a possible deadline in early October. The offices are off Fenn Street, just a couple of blocks away from Park Square.
I guess one of the things that this committee would be most helpful with for me is getting some input on one of the criteria we had was that we needed to be within a mile, I think, of Park Square and trying to be located in downtown Pittsfield, he said. There are a lot of benefits to that I will say, I mean, when we could meet in person walking over to the City Hall for stuff in Pittsfield was quite easy but I don t know if there s still a desire to do that. ....