MONTEREY SELECT BOARDAMENDED MEETING AGENDA
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Meeting begins at 9am
(Please call 528.1443 x111 to be placed on the agenda)
9 – 9:30am: Administrative items (in no specific order):
*Bidwell House Special event – all alcohol permit requested
*Departmental weekly reports and November time off requests
*Utility easement
*Library construction change order procedure
*Library bond/schedule
*Veteran’s Day/transfer station hours
*SBETC transportation agreement/MOU
*Egremont vote to withhold assessment
*UMASS Collins Center proposal continue discussion
*Review mail and correspondence to be sent/signed
*Approve minutes
*Select Board meeting procedures
*Discuss current policy on contacting town counsel
*Meeting frequency
*Evaluation of rental property (DC)
*Administrative Assistant items
*New Business - reserved for topics that the chair did not reasonably anticipate would be discussed
9:30 – 9:45am: Meet with Parks Commission
*kayak racks
9:45 – 10am: Shawn Tryon, Director of Operations
*Temporary help
*Fairview & Beartown Roads
*School heat
*Town hall & highway department furnaces
10am: Town Clerk
*Asst Town Clerk vacancy
*RAO (records access officer)
*Long range plan
10:15am: Alice Boyd
*proposals for Housing Rehab sub-grantee
10:30am: Police Chief
*Hazard mitigation grant
Future agenda items:
*Continue discussion on PILOT letters to Hume & Gould Farm
*Selectpersons serving on other boards/commissions
*Exercising Select Board executive authority; discuss procedure
*Hauling contract (expires June 2019)
*Discuss recommendations to school assessment committee (spreadsheets distributed on 8/29)
*Fire Dept lease renewal
*School building – next steps
*New dog bylaw - clarify
*Long range planning
*Unemployment Insurance; self-fund (begin discussions in Fall for Jan 1 start)
*Select Board & Admin Asst roles/function
*Professional help for boards/commissions and/or compensating board/commission members
*Committee to help lobby for state funds for Beartown State Forest (DC)
***All agendas are subject to change***
The listings of matters are 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.
Items requiring extensive discussion or prior research should be placed on a future agenda so that the issue receives the appropriate attention. Please leave the room if you need to converse with other members of the audience. If you wish to speak during the meeting, please raise your hand in order to be recognized by the Chairman. Please state your name for the record before you begin to speak on an issue. Regulation of participation by public in open meetings: No person shall address a public meeting of a governmental body without permission of the presiding officer at such meeting, and all persons shall, at the request of such presiding officer, be silent. If, after warning from the presiding officer, a person persists in disorderly behavior, said officer may order him/her to withdraw
from the meeting, and, if he/she does not withdraw, may order an officer.
The Board of Selectmen shall post all meetings in compliance with Open Meeting Law and pursuant to the regulations of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office 940 CMR 29.03(4). Please visit our website for all meeting information. All approved meeting minutes of the Board are posted on the town’s website under minutes and agendas.
SELECT BOARD CALENDAR 2018
11/28 |
Wednesday |
4 – 4:30pm |
Administrative Items |
11/28 |
Wednesday |
4:30 – 4:45pm |
Plumbing & Gas Inspector *Raising fees/amount paid to inspector |
11/28 |
Wednesday |
4:45 – 5pm |
Monthly updates from Accountant and Treasurer *Review properties to declare as surplus |
11/28 |
Wednesday |
5pm |
Monthly meeting with the Finance Committee |
12/5 |
Wednesday |
9 – 9:30am |
Administrative Items |
12/19 |
Wednesday |
4 – 4:30am |
Administrative Items |
12/19 |
Wednesday |
4:45pm |
Monthly updates from Accountant and Treasurer |
12/19 |
Wednesday |
5pm |
Monthly meeting with the Finance Committee |
Broadband RFP Calendar
Bidder’s Conference |
November 27, 2018, 2pm |
Questions Due |
December 3, 2018 |
Response to questions |
December 10, 2018 |
Submittal deadline |
January 7, 2019 |
Interview date |
Week of January 14, 2019 at town’s discretion |
Award date |
During month of Feb |
Ongoing projects:
- CDBG grant program
- Broadband
- Schools, Monterey K, district & regional
- Curtis Rd bridge
- Library building project
- Lake Garfield
- Infrastructure
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