WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Voters in the Mount Greylock Regional School District will be selecting their representatives for the next term at the general election on Tuesday, Nov. 8.
Most are incumbents running unopposed but there is a three-way race for two four-year seats to represent Williamstown on the committee.
Christine Enderle is challenging incumbents Carrie Greene and Steven Miller for the one of the two seats.
Enderle is a kindergarten teacher in the North Adams Public Schools and has three children in the Mount Greylock district. In a statement on her Facebook Page, she said she understood how "so much lies on the shoulders of our teachers." She said her focus is finding and supporting highly qualified teachers and that it is a personal issue for her. You can complain about the reality, she said, or "offer your service as an agent of change in your community."
Greene is Williams College's director of commencement and academic events. A veteran School Committee member, she is a former chair and was a member of the School Building Committee and Berkshire County Education Task Force. She served between 2009 and 2018 and returned to the committee to fill an empty seat in 2020.
Miller is a mathematics professor at Williams College and has two children in the school district. He is running for this third four-year term on the School Committee. He currently is the committee's secretary and also served on the School Building Committee and a chair of the Education subcommittee. He proposed new formulas on assessing capital costs during the school project and local budgeting between Williamstown and Lanesborough that were adopted by the committee.
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Williamstown CPA Requests Come in Well Above Available Funds
By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Community Preservation Committee faces nearly $300,000 in funding requests for fiscal year 2026.
Problem is, the town only anticipates having about $200,000 worth of funds available.
Seven non-profits have submitted eight applications totaling $293,797 for FY26. A spreadsheet detailing both FY26 revenue and known expenses already earmarked from Community Preservation Act revenues shows the town will have $202,535 in "unrestricted balance available" for the year that begins on July 1.
Ultimately, the annual town meeting in May will decide whether to allocate any of that $202,535.
Starting on Wednesday, the CPC will begin hearing from applicants to begin a process by which the committee drafts warrant articles recommending the May meeting approve any of the funding requests.
Part of that process will include how to address the $91,262 gap between funds available and funds requested. In the past, the committee has worked with applicants to either scale back or delay requests to another year. Ultimately, it will be the panel's job to send the meeting articles that reflect the fiscal reality.
The individual requests range from a high of $100,000 from the trustees of the town's Affordable Housing Trust to a low of $8,000 from the Williamstown Historical Museum.
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