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Charter review panel questions changes to fire commission roles, disciplinary process and recruitment
Summary
At a Feb. 5 interview, the Charter Review Committee questioned longtime local official Beth Jones about keeping volunteer representation on the fire commission, whether to expand the commission, how discipline should align with the collective bargaining agreement and ways to recruit unaffiliated residents to serve.
Members of the Charter Review Committee interviewed Beth Jones on Feb. 5 about proposed revisions to the town charter affecting the fire commission, focusing on volunteer representation, commission size, disciplinary procedures and recruitment of volunteers.
Beth Jones, who identified herself as a former member of the Board of Selectmen, a former town councilor and a former member of the fire commission, told the committee the town remains “one of the very few in this state at least, that still has a combination department of paid firefighters and volunteer firefighters,” and that the arrangement works because a former active volunteer sits on the commission to ensure the volunteers’ perspective is…
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