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Select Board asks subcommittee to revise ethics code after members flag unclear examples and conflict language

5854868 · August 11, 2025
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Summary

Board members asked a subcommittee to rewrite portions of a proposed code of ethics to remove unclear examples and to address employee treatment and conflict‑of‑interest timing; Lloyd and the town manager will draft language to return to the board.

The Select Board agreed Aug. 6 to have a small subcommittee redraft portions of a proposed municipal code of ethics after members raised concerns that some example scenarios in the draft created ambiguity about when a conflict applies.

Members said two examples in the draft — language about town officials hiring local contractors who also do private…

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