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Thursday, October 27, 2011

10/27/11 Statement from the Greenwich Board of Selectmen

Please see the attached statement from the members of the Board of
Selectmen regarding the Selectmen's Nominations Advisory Committee.

Dustin Anderson
Town of Greenwich
p: (203) 622 7710
c: (203) 609 1945
f: (203) 622 3793
www.greenwichct.org

(See attached file: Board of Selectmen Statement Regarding SNAC.pdf)

Questions have been raised and allegations recently made with respect to claims

of inappropriate banter regarding the ethnicity and socioeconomic class of

potential volunteers being considered by the Selectman's Nominations Advisory

Committee (SNAC).

The committee serves in an advisory capacity to the Board of Selectmen, but

does not formally nominate candidates for Town boards and commissions. The

committee identifies residents who have the skill sets requested by the Board or

Commission Chairs and the Board of Selectmen and encourages them to submit

their nomination forms to the Selectmen for consideration.

To begin with, let us emphasize that we have the greatest respect and sense of

gratitude for these citizens who volunteer their time in an attempt to locate

volunteers to serve on our boards and committees. These are individuals

respected as leaders within our community and leaders who we do not believe

would engage in the type of activity or the kinds of comments alleged.

Be that as it may, once such an issue is raised, we must address it and see to it

that we continually improve our sensitivity to the concerns of others and to any

allegation of inappropriate comments. We believe the manner by which we are

dealing with this is proper in arranging for the Town Affirmative Action Officer to

provide training to the members of SNAC. This type of continuing education is

something we continually emphasize. Our officer has done a great job in training

and educating our community on a regular basis to be sensitive to others.

What is important for SNAC and for our community is that we always are

sensitive to even the slightest suggestion of inappropriate comments. It is for

that reason we think additional sensitivity discussion is always important for any

organization. We are confident that none of these members harbor any thoughts

which would suggest in any way bias or insensitivity to ethnicity or the

socioeconomic class of anyone .

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