Nantucket Town Government Roundup, October 16 - 29

This edition of the Current’s government roundup includes new information on mitigation sand for the Sconset geotubes and the approval of Nantucket's Master Plan.

• The Conservation Commission will allow the Sconset Beach Preservation Foundation to dump mitigation sand on its controversial erosion-control geotube installation, but the question of repairs remains unresolved. It’s possible, though not certain, that the repairs will have to go to Town Meeting before they can be approved.
  
• The Select Board is joining town-wide efforts to control Nantucket’s deer population.
  
• The Planning Board has approved Nantucket’s new master plan.

And here are the stories we covered in full over the last two weeks:

• The Planning Board will take up an effort to tighten Nantucket’s chain store ban.
  
• Patrick Considine, the public safety dispatcher at the center of a tense dispute with the Nantucket Police Department and the town of Nantucket over a series of grievances stemming from a disagreement about whether the dispatchers are entitled to work third-party police details, has filed a formal complaint with the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission against Town Manager Libby Gibson.
  
• The Planning Board approved the Nantucket Cottage Hospital’s expansion after the hospital made some key revisions.
  
• The Planning Board had mixed thoughts on developer Alan Worden’s proposed private membership Hensdale Club.
  
• The Steamship Authority is proposing another round of fare hikes for next year.
  
• The Affordable Housing Trust has increased incentives for its struggling year-round rental preservation program Lease to Locals.
  
• The Community Preservation Committee hired a new coordinator, but a rift with the town remains.
  
• The Steamship Authority has hired Simone Aguilera as its first manager of workforce training and development.
  
• Housing Nantucket and the Affordable Housing Trust teamed up for a small development on Dooley Court.