BOS minutes exec session 11-13-12

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Minutes 
Board of Selectmen 
Executive Session 
November 13, 2012 
Memorial Hall - Salah Meeting Room 
Present: Robert E. Burr Jr. Chairman, Avril T. Elkort, Vice-Chairman, Gerald A. Salvatori, Jr., 
Clerk, John J. Connolly, Member, Victor D. Del Vecchio, Member, William T. Friel, Town 
Administrator, Jennifer Andrews, Administrative Secretary. 
Also present were members of the Conservation Commission: Deb Sundin, Chairman, 
Tom Liddy, Vice-Chairman, Bruce Rohr, Member, Robert MacDonald, Member, and Steve 
Landry, Member. 
Town Counsel, Rich Hucksam, was present as was Bob Murphy, Conservation 
Consultant. 
Deb Sundin made a motion for the Conservation Commission to go into Executive 
Session. 
She asked each member individually if he or she wished to go into Executive Session to 
discuss complaints brought against an "employee" as defined via the Conflict of Interest Law. 
Each answered in the affirmative. 
Ms. Sundin: Affirmative 
Mr. Liddy: Affirmative 
Mr. Rohr: Affirmative 
Mr. MacDonald: Affirmative 
Mr. Landry: Affirmative 
Prior to the meeting, the Conservation Commission had made the Board of Selectmen 
aware that there was a perception of a conflict of interest regarding the Conservation 
Consultant, The Board of Selectmen had promptly, appropriately and fully investigated the 
matter through a variety of means. 
Ms. Sundin opened the meeting by stating that the Conservation Commission felt there 
was a potential conflict of interest due to the fact that Bob Murphy, the Town's Conservation 
Consultant engaged via a Conservation Professional Services contract, was an owner of M&M 
Engineering, a firm that had done survey work in Canton on some projects which had gone 
before the Conservation Commission for permits and Mr. Murphy did not disclose that fact nor 
the fact that he had an ownership in the company. She noted that some filings had been 
presented to the Commission (recalling that M&M Engineering had been involved) where Mr.