Selectman Files Right to Know With Town

Windham administration has confirmed that Selectman Ross McLeod has submitted a Right to Know request with the town.

According to Town Administrator Dave Sullivan, the request is for emails related to workforce housing. Many of those emails are specific to those of Community Development Director Laura Scott.

McLeod could not immediately be reached for comment on the request.

This is the second Right to Know request made with the town of late. Windham Patch announced last week that it had filed a request seeking emails and texts from Scott over the last 18 months.

That request has since been narrowed to exclude the texts, as Scott is not issued a town phone.

Scott was criticized by McLeod for her managerial tactics during a

During that hearing, McLeod called Scott's two-day suspension of her employee, Town Planner Elizabeth Wood, "wholly without merit."

Workforce housing was a major topic during the hearing, specifically the recently-approved Cricket Ridge application.

Robert Pliskin, developer for that project, publicly criticized Scott's handling of the application during its first year-and-a-half, and said that he requested to Sullivan that the project be turned over to someone else.

Wood took over the reigns of the application following that meeting.

Selectman voted in the opposite direction during a similar appeal hearing held in late January,