by Kieron Kramer
Like the amount of time it takes for the perfect soft boiled egg, the Grafton Planning Board meeting on Monday, December 16, lasted three minutes. All the Board members braved a bitterly cold night to attend the meeting in which their only act was to approve the minutes of the previous month’s meeting and pubic hearing. There was no old business, no new business and no informal discussion. Only this reporter and Planning Board Secretary Jessica Crandall’s personal assistant were in attendance.
[private]Before the meeting started at 7 pm, several Board members passed around Planning Board Chairman Tom Withcuskey’s gavel, which he eventually reclaimed. Withcuskey’s term on the Planning Board expires December 31. The Town Board will decide to reappoint him or not for another five year term at the Organizational Meeting in early January and also decide whether or not to reappoint him as Chairman of the Planning Board for 2014.
Planning Board Secretary Jessica Crandall’s term is also up this month. She would like to remain in that capacity since her courses for the Master of Business degree she is pursuing do not conflict with the Planning Board meetings. She will submit her resume and letter of interest as required. Several Board members speculated as to how long she has served as secretary. “Since she was an infant,” one Board member said, but how long ago that was nobody seemed to know.
The Board did not set the date for its next meeting in January because no one was sure when the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday was and whether the Board meetings in January would have to be rescheduled because of it.
In closing Chairman Withcuskey wished all the residents of Grafton and their families a happy holiday. No residents were present to hear this holiday wish.[/private]