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Ethics Board Anticipates New Complaint
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Members of a municipal body that fields ethics complaints lodged against the town’s elected and appointed officials, volunteers and employees say they’re expecting a new one. Ethics Board member Robert Schott said during the appointed body’s regular meeting, held Oct. 10 in a first-floor conference room at Town Hall, that at around 5:20 p.m. the prior Thursday he received a text from an unknown number. “It is a question that has come to me regarding a member of the selectmen or Town Council, and it regards the possibility of a conflict of interest within the purchase of—some self-dealing now that that person’s on the Town Council,” he said. The complainant flagged an “issue of this individual recusing himself from the budgeting or payment process or competitive bidding process,” Schott said.