Seymour Town Hall. That’s in Seymour.
SEYMOUR — The Seymour Board of Selectmen met Tuesday to conduct town business. The two videos from the meeting, which were held on Zoom and then uploaded to YouTube, are embedded below.
The meeting ended with a tribute to Kurt Miller, who will be leaving office in October.
The meeting started with a public comment read into the record. The public comment was from Seymour resident Brian Koskelowski calling for the resignation of Selectman Chris Bowen, a Democrat, for comments that Bowen posted on Facebook which offended Koskelowski.
Click the video below to hear the public comment. It’s toward the start of the meeting.
Koskelowski, a former Seymour Republican Town Committee chairman, started complaining about Bowen after Seymour Democrats in June called for the resignation of Republican Paul Wetowitz from his role as an alternate on the Board of Finance.
Wetowitz, who apologized and resigned, had shared a meme on Facebook that complained Blacks had not thanked whites who died freeing them from slavery, an image Koskelowski has defended while attacking Bowen for posting cringy, profanity-laden posts about people who don’t leash their dogs.
Seymour’s tit-for-tat social media controversies were the subject of two Valley Indy podcasts.
Click here to listen to an interview with Seymour First Selectman Kurt Miller about the issue.
The controversies were also addressed at the start of a second ‘Navel Gazing’ discussion. Click here for more.
Bowen is a candidate to represent District 105 (Beacon Falls, Seymour, and Derby) in the Connecticut House of Representatives. His opponent is incumbent Republican Nicole Klarides-Ditria, a former member of the Seymour Board of Selectmen.
Click here for a profile of Klarides-Ditria published in July.
Click here for a profile of Bowen published in July.
The remainder of Tuesday’s Seymour Board of Selectmen meeting was geared toward more routine town matters.
The group talked about the town’s capital plan, a list of repairs and big equipment purchases that has been in limbo due to the economic uncertainty triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The group met in executive session to review several union agreements and employment contracts. The Seymour police department’s union was among those discussed, thought he Selectmen took no action.
The Selectmen also went over the work of their ordinance subcommittee. That work included a recommendation to change the terms of members of the WPCA so the terms are staggered, as outlined in state law. Apparently the current term structure doesn’t comply with state regulations. That ordinance will be the subject of a public hearing.
The meeting ended with a number of heartfelt comments from the members of the Board of Selectmen thanking First Selectman Kurt Miller for his service to the town over the years.
Miller recently announced he will be vacating his office in October to pursue other professional interests. Click here for a previous story.
The tributes to Miller from his fellow elected officials happen toward the end of the video embedded below.
