Town website leads to board confusion

Bev Hempel remembers being reappointed to the Saratoga Planning Commission, but does not remember when.

“I don’t remember details of my re-appointment other than it happened,” Hempel, Chairman of the Saratoga Planning Commission said in an email. “That was about the time my husband died after a long illness, and the focus of my memory from that time is not the specifics of my re-appointment to the Planning Commission. If there was some mistake made, it certainly was not intentional.”

There could have been a mistake made because public records suggest Hempel may not have been re-appointed to th...