Monterey Select Board
Minutes of the meeting of 6/18/07
Meeting Opened at: 8:30am
Select Board Members Present: Jonathan Sylbert, Chairperson (left at 11am), Wayne Burkhart and Scott Jenssen
Also in attendance: M. Storch
The board met with the Director of Highways, Maynard Forbes and reviewed the following items:
1. DSL on Gould Rd; some residents have received it but the Highway garage has been unable to get it as of yet. M. Forbes is going to call Verizon.
2. Weekly report was reviewed.
3. Sandisfield Rd is being prepped for the upcoming paving job.
4. Trees at Richard Tryon’s farm. R. Tryon received the letter from Town Counsel and the release form to be signed; it hasn’t been received back from Mr. Tryon as of today. Mr. Tryon came into the meeting at 9:49am to state that he is resentful of the letter he received, he states that no one has ever come down and in a friendly manner spoke about the problem and discussed a way to resolve it. He signed the release and gave it to the board.
5. Grass seed for the swales: M. Miller is requesting seed to put at the swales, M. Forbes said she is welcome to come up and get some from the highway garage as needed.
6. Transfer station porta potty: M. Forbes is going to order one for the dump attendants to use rather then continuing to use the one in the highway garage.
The board met with Fire Chief, Ray Tryon and reviewed the following items:
1. Ray Tryon suggested that there may be a potential extra parking space if the guardrails across from the town hall were to be moved over a bit and suggested that the board speak with M. Forbes.
The board met with Police Chief, Gareth Backhaus to review the following items:
1. Complaint from someone on Fairview Rd: run off road by a box truck towing a trailer.
2. Complaint received about the dumpster being emptied at the general store at 4am, G. Backhaus will follow up that it can’t be done until after 6am.
3. Assisted with a medical call on Tyringham Rd.
4. Assisted with a tree down.
5. Towed a disabled MV left on Rt 57.
6. False alarm on Steven’s Lake.
7. Town counsel stated that the open police officer position should be posted in the paper. G. Backhaus will work on an ad to be placed in the Berkshire Eagle for 1 week.
8. S. Jenssen suggested putting a sign before the sharp turn on Tyringham Rd stating something to the effect of “Entering Village”, “Stop Sign Ahead”, etc to help slow the traffic down coming to the intersection. In the mean time S. Jenssen will ask M. Forbes to place some cones out near the masonry building.
The board met with Inter-Departmental Secretary, Melissa Noe to review the following items:
1. The ongoing conflict between the town clerk’s office and the Inter-Departmental Secretary’s office that has been a 2-year issue was again discussed. M. Noe, Inter-Departmental Secretary again asked the board to have the clerk’s office come in and discuss what the issue is (as it’s unknown to her) in an Executive Session (which in the past has been refused by the clerk’s office). The board reviewed the option given to them by Town Counsel last year that allows the board to open an investigation into the issue and post any findings in the next town report.
The board met with Town Accountant, Barbara Gauthier to review the following items:
1. Warrants were signed.
2. S. Jenssen inquired about how he can get paid for his Select Board position.
10:00 – 10:57am WiSpring
Potential locations for a wireless tower in Monterey were reviewed. The next step is to review these sites and decide which is the most feasible.
Miscellaneous Select Board Items Reviewed:
1. Minutes from 6.4.07 & 6.11.07 were approved as written.
2. J. Sylbert gave M. Noe the handwritten notes he took at last week’s minutes for her to type up.
3. W. Burkhart spoke with the Town Clerk about the April request to provide the town hall with electronic copies of the town bylaws and town zoning bylaws. The town clark will not pass them to the Inter-Departmental Secretary as she feels that the certification of the documents would be lost (even though it was noted that other surrounding towns post theirs). The town clerk is going to contact the website provider about getting access to her own page.
4. D. Moriarity came in to let the board know that the Lake Buel District concensus is that they would like to have a porta potty placed at the boat ramp. B. Gauthier mentioned that she believes that this is state property and the town shouldn’t get involved.
5. Berkshire Mediation Services revised report was reviewed and will be discussed further next week (J. Sylbert had to leave early).
6. The issue of the town clerk’s availability was again discussed. It has been a long on-going issue to get the town clerk to work from the office provided at the town hall (it should be noted that all the town clerk records and computers are located in the town hall). M. Noe will provide the board again with the list of people that have come in looking for the clerk during the week (the previous Select Board asked M. Noe to keep this list to be given to the Select Board when requested o help support the fact that the clerk should be available during the week/daytime).
7. A letter was written to Pat Mielke requesting information about the origination of the stone wall outside of her house on Main Rd.
8. The board signed the NOI for Lake Garfield and this will be sent back to Ken Wagner of ENSR.
9. Old mail was reviewed.
10. R. Palmer, resident came in to discuss the status of a public boat ramp. The board informed him that they are still working on it. Mr. Palmer feels that the town should think about using their eminent domain option. Mr. Palmer also inquired about the transfer station and how people are dumping the garbage and keeping their car in front of the dumpsters while they rummage around in the “swap shack”. He asked that the attendants keep cars moving and/or ask them to move their cars after they’ve dumped their trash to a parking spot out of the way.
The meeting adjourned at: 12:02pm
Submitted by:
Melissa Noe, Inter-Departmental Secretary
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