Dartmouth Select Board Unanimously Removes Three Historic District Commission Members

DARTMOUTH — June 8, 2026 — Dartmouth Select Board votes unanimously to remove three Russells Mills Historic District Commission members. The board voted at a June 8 special meeting to revoke the appointments of Gerard Koot, Janet Stanton, and Michael Woyciechouski, following findings that all three participated in an unauthorized, non-public deliberation in which they directed then-Chairman Sponberg to file litigation on behalf of the commission — action that Town Administrator Cody Haddad said "has cost the town thousands and thousands of dollars." Stanton and Woyciechouski faced a second charge: both are abutters to a property on which the commission recently ruled, a conflict the board characterized as a direct violation of Massachusetts ethics law. The removals follow the board's ouster of Chairman Sponberg at its June 1 meeting and leave the commission without a quorum.