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Committee presses staff for nonprofit-only resource listings on town website
Summary
Committee members asked staff to add nonprofit mental-health resource PDFs to the town resources page and sought a legal opinion on excluding businesses; staff said nonprofits are acceptable but businesses cannot be listed on the resources page pending legal counsel guidance.
Committee members asked staff to follow up on a previously submitted list of community resources and to confirm which organizations will be posted to the town’s resources page.
Town staff (Gabby) told the committee that the website can include nonprofit organizations and that the list the committee provided could be added, but the town cannot add businesses to the resources page. Gabby said, "As long as they're nonprofits, that's fine." Committee members said they had provided PDF resource lists and requested confirmation that submitted nonprofits had been added; staff replied they would double-check the postings and re-send a memo with the town’s position.
Members also reported they had requested a legal opinion from town attorneys about the policy and were still waiting for an official position. The committee discussed convening a meeting with staff (including Lorenzo) to go over a checklist for resource submissions and to confirm procedural safeguards to avoid conflicts of interest when listings reference providers that accept insurance or payments.
The committee directed staff to re-send the prior memo, confirm which nonprofit resources are live on the website, and seek the attorney’s formal guidance about whether and how non-governmental resources may be listed.
