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like the proprietary designs that Hadco’s representatives showed the council at the April meeting. A Union Square model, he noted, could therefore be bid competitively.
Mr. Eldred said the ARB’s preferred models were unrelated to town history. His own goals on the Lighting Committee, he said, were to improve the street lighting, find something affordable, select a model that creates an “ambiance that people in the town can live with,” and a light that has “some historic correctness.” Not necessarily in that order, he added.
When he has “tried to introduce these” factors at Lighting Committee meetings, he said, “all of a sudden these people don’t want to sit around and talk.”
Asked about the request for resignations, Mr. Eldred said: “Dean (Morehouse, the mayor] gave us, I , think it was after the (Town Council’s April] meeting, a feeling at this point. . . . [that] perhaps if Mark [Bailey] and I had two members from the ARB to work with us, to work on some of the technical aspects.”
Mr. Eldred said it would be a “streamlining. I think that’s exactly the word Mark used.”
“Nobody was asked to resign from anything. That wasn’t the way it was meant at all,” he said.
Mayor Morehouse said, “If the committee has gotten ungangly and it’s out of control and there are too many people on it, ... then the chairman has the prerogative to ask for resignations.” ,
He added, however, that the ARB will be approving any final design, so its members should not be made to feel alienated.
Mr. Eldred, by the way, has sold the town some small parts for their Christmas lantern fixtures, an amount totalling about $30, he said, and furnished the Courthouse courtroom fixtures to the county several years ago at a cost of about $3,500.
In what is perhaps understatement, Mr. Eldred added: “I think there is more than enough controversy involved in this thing than is necessary.”
Mrs. Willis, for one, seems to agree. “It’s turning absolutely, totally absurd and I don’t have time for this in my life.”
Mr. Bailey said he was in fact trying to streamline the Lighting Committee. By having so many members, he said, getting all of them at meetings has become a problem. “What I asked [Mrs. Kevis] was, in the interest of getting, the committee going,... to streamline the committee so we could meet more regularly with more members there.”
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