Town of Lisbon - Town Chairman Michael Reed says he is considering appointing former Supervisor Wendy Landry to a newly created committee to study whether the town should seek incorporation as a village.

Reed said he will ask forTown Board approval in May to create the committee. Reed wants the committee to review the recommendations of the so called "visioning committee" which worked last summer with a consultant to develop governance alternatives for the town.

The committee recommended that the town enter into new, and improve existing, border agreements with surrounding communities and consider incorporation as part of the town's long term land use plan.

The committee suggested incorporating into a village might help the town preserve its tax base and boundaries.

Reed said he wanted Landry to serve on the new committee because she is familar with issues related to incorporation and was a member of the visioning committee.

Landry, who was defeated for reelection in 2007, made an unsuccessful bid to be appointed by the Town Board earlier this week to fill a vacancy created by the resignation in February of former Supervisor James Stadley, who was convicted of a felony related to a domestic abuse incident involving him, his wife and child.