Southwick Finance Committee shoots down funding for tree removal at North Pond [Video]

SOUTHWICK — Just when it appeared the project to remove several trees from the North Pond Conservation Area where visitors hang illegal rope swings would move forward, the Finance Committee shot down a request to fund it at its meeting Tuesday.

“The saga continues,” Finance Committee Chair Joseph Deedy said the day after he asked for a motion to transfer $6,000 from one of the town’s reserve accounts to fund the project and was met with silence.

With no motion from any of the committee members who attended the meeting — Paul Connolly, Karen DeMaio, David Methe, and Richard Zalowski — the motion failed.