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Select Board

Monday, May 6, 2024, 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm
Repeats until Monday, July 1, 2024, 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm
Town Hall
A meeting of the Select Board

Meeting of Select Board

Members: (Quorum)

  • Present: Christopher Waldo, at 6:00 PM
  • Present: Philip Kantor, Chair, at 6:00 PM
  • Present: Erica Goleman, at 6:00 PM

Also Present:

  • Laurie Lucier
  • Troy Lucier
  • Yulia Stone
  • Denise Dwelley
  • Jimmy Recore
  • Veronique Blanchard and Adam Reed

See original Agenda Final Minutes

Meeting opened: 6:00 PM

Meeting closed: 7:38 PM

  1. Meeting Preliminaries

  2. Warrants

    • - Vote to approve the Accounts Payable Warrant W24-24 in the amount of $162,465.08; the Payroll Warrant PW24-24 in the amount of $123,561.84, and the Payroll Deduction Warrant PDW24-24 in the amount of $30,395.26.

      MOTION, moved by Erica Goleman, seconded by Christopher Waldo: .

      Pass: Aye: Philip Kantor, Christopher Waldo, Erica Goleman.

  3. Meetings Attended by Select Board Members

  4. Public Comments. None

    • Public

  5. Unfinished Business.

  6. New Business

    • - Discussion on Annual Town Meeting notes from last year with Moderator Jimmy Recore.

      General Discussion...
      It was agreed that we will keep all the handouts at a table and not on the seats in the gym. We will have instructions on how to operate the electronic clickers. There will be instructions on how the meeting works including people that they will need to be called on and will have one comment per article. The Selectboard will decide which member will discuss which article along with the Fiance Committee and Capital Improvements. Any comments not pertaining to an article will be stopped. Only relevant questions and concerns will to entertained. A break will be announced at the beginning of the meeting for 12:30.

    • - Discussion and vote on town records policy.

      General Discussion...
      Mike Feeney of the Department of Public Health came to the town hall to assess the situation with both the building and the vault, and assured officials that the records in the vault, as long as moved away from the bottom of the affected shelf, would be safe from mold. The town will be working to secure the vault from further damage based on the recommendations forthcoming in a report from Mr. Feeney. It was clearly stated the Historical Commission is not to be blamed for removing records that the Town Clerk is responsible for. The records will be returned to the vault and an official town policy will be signed to avoid future misunderstanding.

      MOTION, moved by Christopher Waldo, seconded by Erica Goleman: To sign a town policy reinforcing the state law regarding the storage of records.

      Pass: Aye: Philip Kantor, Christopher Waldo, Erica Goleman.

    • - Discussion and possible vote on increasing FY24 highway wages to FY25 amounts for current employees and for current job advertisements.

      General Discussion...
      Tabled.

    • - Discussion and vote to appoint Jameson Lavalle, current Vo-Tech employee, to be a fulltime temporary employee from June through the middle of August.

      MOTION, moved by Christopher Waldo, seconded by Christopher Waldo: To appoint Jameson to a full-time summer employee at $18 an hour.

      Pass: Aye: Philip Kantor, Christopher Waldo, Erica Goleman.

    • - Discuss and vote on the Germain shcolarships.

      MOTION, moved by Philip Kantor, seconded by Erica Goleman: To appoint each applicant a sum of $1,744.00 for the 2024-2025 school year.

      Pass: Aye: Philip Kantor, Christopher Waldo, Erica Goleman.

  7. Items Not Anticipated 48 Hours in Advance of the Meeting

    • none

  8. Town Administrator update

  9. Selectboard member comments/concerns

  10. Mail

    • - none

  11. Announcements

  12. Meeting Wrap-up

The listing of matters is those reasonably anticipated by the Chair which may be discussed at the meeting. Not all items listed may in fact be discussed and other items not listed may also be brought up for discussion to the extent permitted by law.

Minutes approved on Wednesday, May 22, 2024

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