Hari Kumar Joins NPC Board

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GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Hari Stephen Kumar of Williamstown has joined the board of Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires. 
 
Kumar is the founder of Convivo, a Berkshire-born small business that helps people build authentic communication skills for both professional and personal settings. With graduate degrees in engineering and communications, he has 20 years of facilitation and training experience in the tech industry and higher education sectors. Kumar is a graduate of E4All Berkshire County's Fall 2024 cohort, and member of the 1Berkshire Youth Leadership Program Steering Committee.
 
Officers of the NPC board include Emily Schiavoni (President), Hari Kumar (Vice President), Brian Berkel (Treasurer), and Cass Santos-China (Secretary). Additional board members include Kim Baker, Kevin Fleming, Tom Sharpe, and Laurie Werner. Former Board Chair, Dan Stanyon, is stepping down after serving two terms.
 
The Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires is now in its ninth year serving as an infrastructure and support organization for Berkshire County’s nonprofit sector.
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Williamstown's Cost Rising for Emergency Bank Restoration

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The cost to stabilize the bank of the Hoosic River near a town landfill continues to rise, and the town is still waiting on the commonwealth's blessing to get to work.
 
Department of Public Works Director Craig Clough was before the Finance Committee on Wednesday to share that, unlike the town hoped, the emergency stabilization work will require bringing in a contractor — and that is before a multimillion dollar project to provide a long-term solution for the site near Williams College's Cole Field.
 
"I literally got the plans last Friday, and it's not something we'll be able to do in-house," Clough told the committee. "They're talking about a cofferdam of a few hundred feet, dry-pumping everything out and then working along the river. That's something that will be beyond our manpower to do, our people power, and the equipment we have will not be able to handle it."
 
Clough explained that the cofferdam is similar to the work done on the river near the State Road (Route 2) bridge on the west side of North Adams near West Package and Variety Stores.
 
"We don't know the exact numbers yet of an estimate," Clough said. "The initial thought was $600,000 a few months ago. Now, knowing what the plans are, the costs are going to be higher. They did not think there was going to need to be a coffer dam put in [in the original estimate]."
 
The draft capital budget of $592,500 before the Fin Comm includes $500,000 toward the riverbank stabilization project.
 
The town's finance director told the committee he anticipates having about $700,000 in free cash (technically the "unreserved fund balance") to spend in fiscal year 2027 once that number is certified by the Department of Revenue in Boston.
 
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