Ashland council rules that towns can pick which services they pay for
Ashland councilors voted to let the towns pay a la carte this year and work with leaders to craft a permanent agreement.
Ashland councilors voted to let the towns pay a la carte this year and work with leaders to craft a permanent agreement.
Incumbent councilors Andrew Caron and Corey Pelletier were both reelected for three-year terms.
The Select Board wants to increase the manager’s salary from $80,000 to $100,000. The budget committee is recommending only a modest increase to $82,400.
Darick Williams was elected to the council and will be sworn in at the May 1 meeting.
The departments are each seeking a roughly $90,000 increase this year, according to draft budgets presented to officials on Tuesday, April 2.
Mark Berube said the role has taken up too much of his personal life.
About 40 residents turned out Monday night to approve 42 warrants during the annual town meeting.
Jeremy Smith’s salary will be $110,000 and his new job with the town begins on April 29,
The act implements recommendations the commission presented to the committee in January. Additionally, it reestablishes the commission, whose work ended in January.
Concern over subsidies to the Town of Ashland for shared municipal services led residents of two surrounding communities to vote against those payments last week.