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BRATTLEBORO â Phone lines went down and mislabeled garbage bags went out, causing some frustration around town.
When postcards about absentee ballots for the March 2 election started going out last week, the townâs phone lines stopped working for about two days due to an issue within the system that affected other groups as well. The stateâs online My Voter Page also wasnât working around the same time.
âThe card is encouraging people to either call the town clerkâs office or go to MyVoterPage and people were striking out in both efforts through no fault of their own,â Town Manager Peter Elwell said at the Select Board meeting held remotely Tuesday. âThere was a lot of frustration around that understandably.â
PITTSFIELD â Some Pittsfield city councilors said Wednesday they arenât ready to decide whether to support a proposal to reform trash collections. And with that, a majority agreed Wednesday that any such program should not begin before summer 2022.
At a Committee of the Whole meeting, councilors voted 8-3 to set July 1, 2022, as the earliest date on which such a proposal would go into effect.
The council agreed it needs more time weigh the modified âpay-as-you-throwâ proposal and hear more from residents.
With the vote, âwe let people know that they have over the next year to talk to us,â said At-Large Councilor Pete White, who introduced the proposal with fellow at-large councilors Earl Persip III and Peter Marchetti, also council president. Councilors debated reforms in how the city handles solid waste collection. They then tabled the measure, which Marchetti said would be revisited later.
RICHMOND Quarterly tax bills rolled around again at the beginning of the month, a major reminder that it takes cash to keep a government, large or small, operating smoothly.
PITTSFIELD â The cityâs leadership this week will delve into a traffic project and waste management proposal that are already generating strong opinions in the community.
The city has for years been looking for ways to rein in curbside waste disposal costs, and the newest proposal aimed at achieving just that will be outlined and no doubt scrutinized at Wednesdayâs 7 p.m. Committee of the Whole meeting.
At-Large Councilors Peter Marchetti, Earl Persip III and Pete White proposed a bag-based âpay-as-you-throwâ system for curbside waste disposal that subsidizes what shakes out to two 15 gallon bags per week and compliments a recycling incentive program, which the councilors estimate would produce around a half-million in savings and increase rates of recycling. The proposal has already drawn criticism.