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  "Moving on to our next search, that committee will be subject to the Open Meeting Law," Hugh Daley said. "There will be minutes. There will be portions that will have to go into executive session, like when we consider resumes."   Preliminary screening committees, like the search committee, are permitted to go into executive session "if the chair declares that an open meeting will have a detrimental effect in obtaining qualified applicants," according to the Open Meeting Law.   The entire process of the Interim Police Chief Advisory Committee was exempt from the OML because it was ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — The selection of Lt. Michael Ziemba as interim police chief, while unanimously supported by the town's search committee, caused a procedural rift in the group at the end of the process. That rift was reported to the Select Board on Monday night. According to members of the committee, some felt that their first choice for interim chief should be the final choice, and pointed to communications they received from former Town Manager Jason Hoch. By the time the committee made its final decision, Hoch no longer was at the helm. So, committee members did what they were instructe...

The names are confidential until the town decides to release them. According to Anne O’Connor, the liaison from the Select Board, there have not been any responses to ads seeking applicants for the position. The three existing candidates had applied for the job before the advertisements ran in a variety of trade publications. “The whole goal is to help the [Police] Department — they’re a little understaffed,” O’Connor said. The Williamstown Police Department has been through a litany of issues since last summer, when Sgt. Scott McGowan filed suit against Police ...