Southwick panel to implement Master Plan gets final member and clarity on role

SOUTHWICK — Six months after the Planning Board formally approved the city’s Master Plan, the implementation committee that will work to carry out the recommendations is one step closer to having its role defined.

“This covers not only what we ask them to do, but also how we ask them to do it and the limits of what we ask them to do… to give them a little bit of guidance,” the Planning Board member said. Jessica Thornton, who detailed the committee’s responsibilities in a draft presented at Monday’s Select Board meeting.

Select Board member Diane Gale also drafted a set of recommendations for the committee, and the two were combined to create a document that still must be approved by the Select Board.