Meetings are held remotely. Go to truro-ma.gov, click on the meeting you want to watch, and open its agenda for instructions on how to watch or take part online.
Thursday, April 8
- School Committee, 10 a.m.
- Climate Change Action Committee, 10:30 a.m.
- Finance Committee, 4 p.m.
- Housing Authority, 4:15 p.m.
- Truro School Committee, 5:15 p.m.
Friday, April 9
- Community Preservation Committee, 5 p.m.
Monday, April 12
- Energy Committee, 4:30 p.m.
- Bike and Walkways Committee, 6 p.m.
Tuesday, April 13
- Council on Aging Board, 10 a.m.
- Select Board, 5 p.m.
Thursday, April 15
- Climate Change Action Committee, 10:30 a.m.
Conversation Starters
Planner and Land Use Lawyer All in One
Barbara Huggins Carboni has been hired as the new town planner. But that’s not all. She is also now the town’s land use attorney.
“The position she will occupy is different from any position on the Cape,” Town Manager Darrin Tangeman told the Independent.
Carboni, who has served as interim town planner since July, will earn $128,583 a year, which is a combination of what a top-qualified town planner earns on the Cape, he said, along with the $35,000 that Truro paid her firm, KP Law, for her legal advice on land use last year.
“It’s not an increase of our budget at all,” Tangeman said.
Carboni has left KP Law and moved to her Wellfleet home to take on her new combined roles. She began on April 1.
Though it appears she is earning a high salary for a small-town planner, Tangeman explained that her legal expertise makes her worth it. Crafting zoning bylaws and helping boards write decisions properly could help keep boards from being sued.
She has a good relationship with the town planning and zoning boards, and she doesn’t face the housing issues so many other employees do when moving to the Outer Cape, Tangeman said. Truro went through six planners in seven years before Carboni stepped in as interim, he added.
“We see this as a win-win,” Tangeman said.
Carboni has been a town counsel in several towns and has a master’s degree in urban and environmental policy and planning from Tufts. Before joining KP Law, she was a partner in Huggins and Witten LLC, a small firm providing land use planning services and practicing municipal land use law.
The town will still retain KP Law to handle other legal matters. Other KP Law attorneys will represent the town in active litigation even on zoning matters. Carboni, meanwhile, will work directly with the land use boards, will help write bylaws, and provide leadership for the local comprehensive plan, the Walsh property committee, and other initiatives, Tangeman said. —K.C. Myers
