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Ethics board recounts a "perfect storm" of vacancies; CRC considers alternates and improved appointment process
Summary
The interim chair of the town ethics board told the Charter Review Commission the five-member board briefly lost quorum because of simultaneous vacancies and a medical emergency; CRC members discussed shortening vacancy timelines, creating a vetted bench or alternates, and better publicizing the board and complaint channels.
Ali Van Ness, interim acting chair of the town ethics board, told Group 2 of the Charter Review Commission that the board generally operates well but recently experienced an unusual set of events that left it without a quorum for about a month.
Van Ness described the sequence that created the problem: one member ran for a different elected office and stepped away, another accepted an appointment elsewhere, and a third had a medical emergency. "We barely had a quorum in December," she said, adding the board could…
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