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this year’s budget discussions and other weighty matters before the board. “We talked about this as citizens in early March,” he said. “(Town administrator) Dean (Bloch) is retiring, I think it’s time to consider a town manager for the town. Things are getting more complicated. I’ve
Hinesburg has agreed to provide on-call police services for Richmond as part of an inter-municipal agreement between the two neighboring towns to assist the Richmond department, which is struggling to provide coverage with only two cops on hand. The agreement, approved at last week’s selectboard meeting, allows for Richmond to make an advance request for a Hinesburg officer to respond to calls from Richmond at a rate of $50 an hour, but only when the Hinesburg department has the staffing bandwidth to do so. “We’re only going to provide coverage when we’re able to — when we have more than one officer on,” Hinesburg police chief Anthony Cambridge said. “If our numbers are too low, or we’re too busy at the time, we’re not going to provide coverage, so it’ll be on a limited basis.” Richmond may also request that Hinesburg officer patrol the town at a rate of $70 an hour. The department in neighboring Richmond currently only has two available officers on hand, each of whom “are basically kind of working opposite days, just to make sure that there’s someone here each day,” according to Richmond’s town manager Josh Arneson. “What the agreement with Hinesburg is going to allow us to do is, should there be a
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Charlotters seek town manager government LIBERTY DARR STAFF WRITER
The Charlotte residents who are circulating a petition to change to a town manager form of government spoke before the selectboard Monday night to offer details on how to implement the change. The idea arose at a recent meeting at the Charlotte Senior Center that Jim Faulkner,
chair of the selectboard, characterized as “a very difficult meeting” where residents were “very critical of the selectboard. It was a very disappointing event for me to go through that.” At the Monday night meeting, Lane Morrison, who had been chair of the selectboard for almost six years before calling it quits three years ago, has remained intently involved in town affairs, especially during
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