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Municipal clerks tell committee one resident’s repeated disruptions are tying up meetings and legal budgets
Summary
Municipal clerks told the House Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee that a single, persistent resident has repeatedly disrupted public meetings and town offices, forced adjournments, prompted police responses, and triggered multiple court cases that are costing the town tens of thousands of dollars.
Municipal clerks from a Caledonia County town told the House Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee that a single resident’s repeated disruptions at public meetings and in the town office have forced adjournments, required police intervention and produced legal bills they say are straining the town budget.
Linda Corey, town clerk, said the resident repeatedly exceeds public-comment time limits, speaks over the chair and in one meeting forced officials to adjourn because they could not restore order. “We had to adjourn the meeting, stop the business of the town, and adjourn the meeting because we could not get this person to stop,” Corey told the committee.
The clerks said the resident also has refused to fill out…
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