ROTHBURY — The Rothbury village council was presented a clean audit report by accounting firm Brickley DeLong during its regular meeting Tuesday.
The council narrowly had a quorum with four voting members present; Autum Drake, Denise Kurdziel and Dylan Zuniga were absent from the meeting.
The voting members did not encounter any disagreements on voting matters Tuesday. They voted 4-0 to approve a planning commission recommendation to split off 22.5 acres of a 35-acre parcel on Winston Road. The council said it does still need paperwork from the applicant regarding a road they want to put on the property.
The council also approved the new employee handbook 4-0, with no significant changes made, and voted 4-0 to give the now-obsolete police radios that were recently replaced with newer models to the Montague Department of Public Works. The DPW could possibly use them for non-encrypted communication channels, and if the DPW does not find them useful, it can recycle or return the radios.
Planning commission chair Mike Harris discussed the ongoing issues with the Greenlawn Mobile Home Park, saying it appears grass maintenance, one of the issues the commission wanted addressed, has improved. However, there remain "four or five" mobile home units that are unlivable and unsalvageable and need to be removed. The commission is working to ensure that is done.
Clerk Brandy Williams said the village will again host its Halloween drive-through event next month, in which families can come by the Rothbury Community Center and receive a goodie bag of hot dogs and candy to fuel them up for their trick-or-treat adventures.
