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Conservation office seeks to upgrade planner role; Connecticut River channel-marker program moved off local budget
Summary
The conservation and sustainability director asked the council to fund a full-time conservation planner to expand permitting, grant-writing and project capacity; the longtime river channel-marker line was removed pending state-level action and partner funding.
Yoni Golgower, director of Conservation and Sustainability, told the City Council on June 9 that the department—s workload has grown beyond a single-person office and asked the council to support converting a half-time clerical/administrative role into a conservation planner to handle permitting, grant writing and project management.
"The purpose of the conservation planner line item, which will replace the administrative assistant, ... is that my department will be even more effective,"…
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