BLAINE BERSHAD AND ARDEN SONNENBERG, BOTH MEMBERS OF “KEEPING STERLING ACTION COMMITTEE,” ARE IN A BLATANT “FOOD SCRAPS COMPOSTING INITIATIVE” CONFLICT OF INTEREST

“Keeping Sterling Action Committee” is pushing the Sterling D.P.W. hard to locate a food waste composting facility that would take up to 30 tons a day of “regional” food waste–not merely Sterling table scraps– 1000 feet behind the Sterling Police Department and close to Bartlet’s Pond and Wekepeke Brook, South Branch. In the September 2021 Sterling Meetinghouse News, “Keeping Sterling Action Committee” had its open letter, “Food Scraps Composting Initiative,” printed. SEE page 2 of that issue at http://sterlingmeetinghousenews.com/virtual-paper/#

Turns out, BOTH Blaine Bershad, D.P.W. Board member, and Arden Sonnenberg, Select Board member and liaison to the D.P.W. Board, are members of “Keeping Sterling Action Committee.” As a matter of law and ethics they are BOTH, therefore, in a blatant conflict of interest and, as municipal board members, should make full, public disclosure of that fact and recuse themselves from any and all municipal proceedings involving this so-called “Food Scraps Composting Initiative.” SEE GENERALLY: https://www.mass.gov/service-details/summary-of-the-conflict-of-interest-law-for-municipal-employees

J.G.