BCC Announces New Staff

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Erica Barreto, Kathy Baugh, and Lauren Gregory.
PITTSFIELD, Mass — Berkshire Community College (BCC) announces the addition of four staff members.   
 
Erica Barreto
joins BCC as Coordinator of Student Diversity Programs and Belonging. Born to first-generation immigrant parents from Brazil and Portugal, Barreto grew up in the Hudson Valley, New York, before moving to the Berkshires. In 2019, she returned to her alma mater, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, to coordinate the MCLA Institute for the Arts and Humanities (IAH). In 2022, Barreto was awarded the BCC 40 Under 40 Award to commemorate her work with IAH. She is the vice president of the board of directors for WAM Theatre. In her free time, she likes dancing at live music festivals, making collage art with girlfriends, reading with her lap cat Apollo and cooking for her loved ones.  
 
Kathy Baugh
joins BCC as Program Coordinator of the STEM Starter Academy, helping to recruit new students and prepare them to start at BCC. Baugh brings over 30 of experience in non-profit management, including 16 years in youth development through the Student Conservation Association (SCA), where she became National Director of program.  In her spare time, Baugh is an editor for the Becket Beat (a small monthly newspaper). She also serves on the MA Recreational Trails Advisory Board and as a judge for MA Envirothon. Baugh lives in Becket with her wife, two cats and a dog. In her leisure time, she enjoys hiking, x-country skiing, kayaking and gardening. 
 
Amy Emerson-Inhelder
joins BCC's Jonathan Edwards Library as Library Assistant III-Circulation Manager. Native to Berkshire County, Emerson-Inhelder comes to BCC after almost 10 years as library director of small local library. Previously, she was an elementary school teacher at Cheshire Elementary School after earning a B.S. in Elementary Education at North Adams State College. In her free time, she enjoys baking for friends and loved ones. 
 
Lauren Gregory
joins BCC as an Accountant II in the Business Office. A native of Pittsfield, she attended BCC before graduating and transferring to Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in 2020. She graduated MCLA in December 2021 with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration (accounting concentration). Gregory brings six years of accounting experience, most of it working as a bookkeeper at David J. Tierney, Jr., Inc. She also worked as a staff accountant at a Brazee and Huban, CPAs, where she prepared taxes.  

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Pittsfield Proposes a Deputy Public Works Commissioner

By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The city is looking to add another leadership position to the public works department.

The Personnel Review Board on Monday supported the creation of a deputy commissioner in the Department of Public Services and Utilities. The full-time position, if approved by the City Council, will have a Grade M-8 pay scale with a yearly salary ranging from $89,247 to $116,021.

This position would assist Commissioner of Public Services and Utilities Ricardo Morales.

"If we think back over my 16 years of being a city councilor, at one point in time, we had a commissioner of public services and a commissioner of public utilities. In some prior administration, we merged those two commissioners together with just one commissioner," Mayor Peter Marchetti said.

"I think if you pulled any member of the City Council, they would tell you that the workload for both commissioners to pull it into one has not really set up our commissioners to be able to be successful with everything that they need to be dealing with on both public services and public utilities as well as keeping up to date with the day to day operations."

Marchetti engaged with a former commissioner shortly after taking office in January and asked for him to offer suggestions about how the department could be run more efficiently.

One of his first questions was "One commissioner or two?"

"As a former commissioner, he quickly answered 'one' but he wanted to do his analysis and review of the department before it came forward. When he was done with his analysis, his report showed that he would stay with one commissioner but highly recommended the position of deputy commissioner. And so the deputy commissioner would report directly to the commissioner and handle much of the day-to-day operations and doing the field work and being on the ground with the staff," the mayor explained.

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