SOUTHWICK – Since the town learned in early January that a citizens’ petition adopted by two consecutive Town Meetings asking the state to allow the town to elect three of the seven members of the Conservation Commission, there were questions about the next step, until Monday night.
“It’s the purest form of government and the people voted for it,” said Select Board member Diane Gale looking over at fellow board member Doug Moglin after he voted against refiling the petition during the board’s meeting Monday.
Since the town learned the citizens’ petition was killed when it reach its third reading the state Senate, there have numerous questions about how it happened, or more specifically, if anyone in town torpedoed the bill, which had been engrossed by the House after its third reading., which essentially initially approved it.
