Bethany Hammond, assistant director of the Up-Island Council on Aging, will be taking over as new director of the organization next month.
The Up-Island Council on Aging board met to discuss planning and priorities Monday, the first in-person meeting since the body was reconstituted following a review of the board’s internal bylaws. High on the list will be to find a replacement for director Joyce Albertine.
The appointment comes after two West Tisbury representatives were found to be in violation of internal council bylaws forbidding more than two consecutive terms.
Plans to renovate the Howes House in West Tisbury are on-hold indefinitely as the town select board reckons with policy violations on the Up-Island Council on Aging, the intermunicipal body headquartered there.
Plans to renovate and expand the Howes House in West Tisbury have run up against repeated roadblocks in recent weeks.
Volunteers are sought for participation in focus groups about a major renovation of the Howes House in West Tisbury.