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Commission schedules July meeting, debates stipend and reducing board size to ease quorum
Summary
The commission set a tentative July meeting (July 14) and discussed recruitment challenges: whether to propose stipends to attract members and the idea of reducing the planning commission from seven to five members (a change that would require a town vote).
At the end of the plan review commissioners moved to schedule the next meeting in July (members proposed July 14) and raised the recurring problem of filling vacancies. Several participants said offering a small stipend might attract candidates; one member noted stipend decisions fall to the Select Board.
Commissioners also discussed a proposal to reduce the planning commission from seven members to five to make quorum attainment easier. Members noted that such a change would require a town vote and that a smaller board is not guaranteed to make quorum easier, since a three-of-five quorum can be harder to reach percentage-wise than four-of-seven.
