Plainfield OKs pay for full-time police chief
Published: 5/3/2021 7:50:33 PM
PLAINFIELD Voters at Saturday’s Annual Town Meeting approved a pay increase that will allow the police chief to become a full-time position.
Fire Chief David Alvord said there was “a lot of discussions pro and con” on the matter. But in the end, voters agreed on $107,892 for police pay, the amount requested in the budget.
The money will serve to pay both the chief and other officers.
Saturday afternoon’s Town Meeting was outdoors amid wind and cold, and Alvord said it drew more than 100 people. “We pulled it off,” he said.
Police pay, Jake Brakes on Plainfield TM agenda
Published: 4/30/2021 5:52:50 PM
PLAINFIELD Residents will vote on a 32-item Annual Town Meeting warrant this Saturday, which will include a more than 34% increase in police pay and a proposal to restrict the use of so-called Jake Brakes in town.
Town Meeting will take place at the Alden Pavilion on 304 Main St. beginning at 1 p.m.
The total proposed budget is $2,239,062, an increase of 8.3% from the $2,067,495 appropriated for fiscal year 2021.
Within the operating budget is a proposal to increase total police pay by $27,619, a 34.4% increase, for a total of $107,892.
Last year, the increase to police pay supported by the Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee was voted down at Town Meeting. In the wake of this, the Plainfield Police Ad-Hoc Working Group was formed to examine policing in Plainfield and its costs.
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Published: 1/25/2021 4:40:24 PM
Legal review is ongoing in Temple for the 16,080-square-foot building Ben’s Maple Products LLC proposed for the corner of Route 101 and Webster Highway. Proponents of the project introduced what they believed were legal precedents for the project, which requires both a variance and a special exception from the Temple Zoning Board of Adjustment, at a hearing on Jan. 19. 42 people attended the virtual meeting.
At the crux of the request for a variance is an unusual situation: Applicant Ben Fisk obtained written permission from the former residents of an adjacent house, as was required since the proposed building is sited within 500 feet of that residence. However, homeownership has since passed to the mortgage finance goliath Freddie Mac, and the applicant’s months of requests for permission from the company have gone unanswered, according to representatives at last Tuesday’s meeting. The applicant’s lawyer, Tom Han