In Plymouth, the Select Board met on Tuesday and the newly elected, Chair Dick Quintal, looks to focus on planning.
Bobbi Clark has more:
The fact that the previous Planning Board voted to negate a covenant, allowing Tom Wallace, of T & K Retail LLC to double the density from 3 to 6 parcels—without conditions—on property on Bump Rock Road, Quintal says, is a concern:
“That’s a major one because that’s going to affect so many different pieces of property in Plymouth. And I don’t know what their challenge might be right now, where it’s a new board—if they can reconsider that or not. That’s a lot of the questions we’re going to have for the Planning Department. How did this happen?
Why did this happen? Can it happen again?
Quintal says, the Board will evaluate Town Manager Melissa Arrighi’s performance for this past year—a time that includes surveillance of Selectman Betty Cavacco’s emails:
“What will happen is, we’ll pass out the evaluation forms, and they come back to the chairman and the vice chairman, we compile them and we sit with the Town Manager.”
The surprise of the meeting was the resignation of Selectman Shelagh Joyce:
“Nobody was expecting that—it just happened. And we need about 60 to 65 days to announce and have time to have a special election, it would be over thirty thousand dollars and I really don’t know how my board feels about that. But, we’ll be discussing it this coming Tuesday.”
