Debby Mayer is reporting for The Columbia Paper for the second time in four years, the Germantown Town Board has chosen to commission a management and feasibility study of the town's police department. The board voted May 8, to hire retired New York State Police superintendent Harry J. Corbitt to conduct the study. In 2014, the board hired Peter Volkmann, chief of the Chatham Village Police Department, and he submitted a draft report to the board less than a year later. Under the direction of then Supervisor Joe Craig, the board discussed the matter in public: at two regular meetings and a workshop meeting. However, current supervisor Robert Beaury said that because a portion of the matter concerned personnel, the discussion this time around took place behind closed doors, in executive session. "...We felt it might not be reasonable to go off of the 2015 study, and [that] we should engage someone qualified for today, who would give us their expert opinion,” Beaury said. Corbitt is now a resident of Georgia, but comes north to do business in New York City and to see family in Albany, Beaury said. Corbitt served 25 years with the state police before he retired in 2004. Read the full story in The Columbia Paper.