Select Board Awards $213,018 Gargon Terrace Bid
The Southwick Select Board awarded a $213,018 paving contract to Palmer Paving for the Gargon Terrace project and tabled a vote on creating a nine-member Green Energy Bylaw Committee.
Select Board · Meeting of August 17, 2026
SOUTHWICK — The Southwick Select Board awarded a $213,018 paving contract to Palmer Paving for the Gargon Terrace project and tabled a vote on creating a nine-member Green Energy Bylaw Committee. Town Planner Alvin Allen pitched the committee to address battery energy storage zoning ahead of an October state permitting deadline, but Vice-Chair Russ Anderson worried it would "get slowed right down." The board voted 2-0-1 to approve a one-day liquor license for the Southwick Rotary's August 29 concert, with Joseph Deedy abstaining, and appointed Deedy to the Master Plan Implementation Committee by the same 2-0-1 margin. Members also revised an accountant's employment contract 3-0 and reaffirmed a renegotiated, lower-cost weights-and-measures agreement with Westfield.
Chair Doug Moglin said the board would pursue a code of conduct after resident Deborah Herath criticized "disrespectful" emails between two elected board chairs.
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Source: the Select Board meeting of August 17, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
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