Open space panel reelects chair, vice chair, secretary

Other Committee · Meeting of August 11, 2026

SOUTHWICK — The Southwick Open Space Land Management Committee reelected its officers and stalled on an erosion-control project after state regulators raised concerns. Chair Connor Fleury, Vice Chair Phil Price and Secretary Martha Kane each won reelection by 3-0 roll calls. Liaison Norm Schieber told members the town's Master Plan has grown to 142 action items and recommended postponing one of the committee's four assigned deadlines given its new work rewriting the Open Space and Recreation Plan.

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection raised concerns that a planned erosion fix at the Safanowski preserve could introduce invasive species through imported topsoil, with one member saying regulators "didn't give us a lot of recommendations on how to solve them." A Woodland Ridge resident's complaint about an unfinished, letter-promised poison-ivy treatment was pushed to fall.

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Source: the Other Committee meeting of August 11, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.

Checked against the record: before publication this article was automatically compared with the meeting transcript. It was corrected where it differed.