In Brief: RTM Wrap Up

Greenwich’s Representative Town Meeting met on Monday evening to take up a number of items before its summer break. The town’s legislative body is not expected to convene again until September.

While deliberations as to the exact site of a new building for New Lebanon School continue, the RTM took two significant steps in approving its construction. Approved was a resolution allowing the Board of Education to apply for and accept or reject state grants to defer some of the local cost of the construction.

Additionally, five residents were appointed to the building committee by unanimous consent. Once commenced, the Building Committee will manage all aspects of the construction project. The current school is overcrowded and dilapidated.

Stephen G. Walko, former State Representative from the 150th district and former Chairman of the Greenwich Board of Estimate and Taxation, was one of the appointed members. Joining him on the committee are Dean Goss, a veteran of many past building committees, Patricia Kantorski, Alan Harris and Clare Kilgaleen. Peter Bernstein has been appointed as the Board of Education representative on the committee. Bernstein is a past president of the Hamilton Avenue PTA.

The RTM also reappointed former five term First Selectman John Margenot to the Board of Ethics. Under other business, RTM delegates defeated a measure which would deny municipal improvement status for the Housing Authority’s rehabilitation project at the Armstrong Court housing complex in Byram. An effort by District 8 delegate Peter Berg to postpone the matter until December for further study was defeated with Housing Authority representatives arguing that if the project was delayed, the Housing Authority would move on to other urgent projects.

A proposal offered by three District 8 members to create competitive Board of Education elections again came before the RTM and was declared not to be in legal order. The RTM’s Legislative and Rules Committee had referred the matter to the Board of Selectman for consideration. However, while First Selectman Peter Tesei moved to take up the matter neither Selectman John Toner, a Republican, nor Selectman Drew Marzullo, a Democrat, would provide a second. Therefore no action was taken.

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