SUMNER — The Board of Selectmen were advised Tuesday night that the industrial wind ordinance is being edited in preparation for a townwide vote.

“I would like one public hearing and have the vote in April,” board Chairman Mary Ann Haxton told ordinance committee members: Chairman Kathleen Emery, Vice Chairman Jessica Doe, Lana Pratt, Jeff Pfeifer, John Allen, Lawrence O’Rourke, Diane Todd, James Gammon and Jacqueline Dwinal.

Committee facilitator James McCarthy said he thought the committee had all the text in the 48-page document and members are ready to go with it.

Pfeifer said they had to look at every word so the courts would have no room to consider it overly restrictive.

O’Rourke wondered about questioning every word.

Haxton said the ordinance should be clear and the language understandable.

Selectman Wally Litchfield said people told him the ordinance is too long.

“We need to be informed regularly of your progress and we need to see concrete evidence of that progress,” Haxton said.

Theodore Dawicki gave the board a copy of a letter he sent to the state attorney general, asking for an investigation of meetings by the committee and selectmen. He contends there was a  possible illegal executive session by the wind ordinance committee on Nov. 29, 2011, and an illegal meeting of selectmen, town Administrative Assistance Cynthia Norton said Wednesday night.

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