Stockbridge Board-Size Study Committee Sets September Meeting, Plans Holliston Governance Zoom

Select Board · Meeting of June 29, 2026

Stockbridge's Select Board governance study committee set a September 2 restart and will bring in a Holliston expert to advise its five-member board expansion inquiry. The committee, chaired by Georgia, a former Stockbridge town administrator, voted unanimously to approve its May 7 minutes and then spent the session building a structured survey for former Stockbridge selectmen, organized around three categories: time, work, and communication. Paul LeBeau, a retired Holliston town administrator and former member of that town's now-disbanded governance committee, agreed to participate in a later September Zoom session after the committee has finalized its question set.

A central finding from a Belmont governance study the committee is using as a model showed former selectmen spent roughly 10 hours a week on board duties; members noted Belmont respondents also said public recording of meetings made them less willing to express dissenting views openly, a dynamic the committee called "unfortunate." The committee identified special permit constraints on a two-member board as a structural problem that could warrant a separate recommendation regardless of how the board-size question is ultimately resolved.

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Source: the Select Board meeting of June 29, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.