Only 55 percent of Hilltown households have self-responded to the 2020 census with less than a month before the United States Census Bureau stops collecting data.
A recording of an executive session held by the Berne Town Board was made public after Councilman Joel Willsey, a Democrat who claims he was harassed by the GOP-backed board members in the April 29 session, made a motion for its release.
The Berne Town Board voted at its Aug. 26 meeting to not take part in a regional shared-services agreement that would have formalized the already common practice of using other towns’ highway-department resources. The surprising vote appeared to be an attempt to spite the town board’s lone Democrat.
The Berne Town Board voted, 3 to 2, to approve a new labor union contract that guarantees a 10-percent raise by 2022 for the town’s highway workers, in addition to new longevity pay bonuses.
