Monterey Select Board
Minutes of the meeting of 2/4/08
Meeting Opened at: 8:30am
Select Board Members Present: Jonathan Sylbert, Chairperson and Scott Jenssen
Also in attendance for parts of the meeting: Michael Storch, Dan Moriarity, Mary Ellen Brown, Brian Puntin, Alan Salamon, Deborah Mielke, Stanley Ross, Peter Murkett, John Campetti of Foresight Land Services and Nora Hayes
The board met with the Director of Highways, Maynard Forbes and reviewed the following items:
1. J. Sylbert updated M. Forbes on his conversation with Representative Smitty Pignatelli regarding the salt shed. Smitty has asked J. Sylbert to get information on the permits to pollute for all of the towns in Smitty’s district.
2. Weekly report was reviewed.
3. The Board informed M. Forbes of Richard Tryon’s request that a portion of his road be oil and stoned. M. Forbes stated that to do what Mr. Tryon is requesting would cost approximately $30k and would only temporarily fix the problem.
4. M. Forbes provided the Board with an updated capital plan for the Highway Department.
The board met with Fire Chief, Ray Tryon and reviewed the following items:
1. R. Tryon reviewed his FY09 budget requests and three special articles (16 sets of turnout gear, 6 SCVA’s and a hose replacement) with the Board. R. Tryon is going to turn his requests into the Finance Committee today.
2. Incident Command System flowchart; R. Tryon wanted to review the Select Board’s role, which is to operate the EOC (Emergency Operating Center) along with the Emergency Manager. The Board suggested having a meeting to review emergency management and command structure sometime before summer.
The board met with Inter-Departmental Secretary, Melissa Noe to review the following items:
1. M. Noe reminded the Board that the Town Hall will be closed from 10:30 – 12:30 on Wednesday, February 6th for an educational seminar in Egremont through MIIA.
2. M. Noe informed that Board that Michael Storch has declined the appointment to the Employee Compensation Committee to replace Janet Cathcart (resident representative). The Board was also reminded that they need to fill the vacancy created by Dan Moriarity (Finance Committee representative).
The board met with Town Accountant, Barbara Gauthier to review the following items:
1. At the Town Accountant’s recommendation, Mary Ellen Brown and Dan Moriarity of the Finance Committee came in to officially declare a winter emergency with the Select Board. Dan Moriarity made a motion to declare a winter emergency and continue the spending in the snow and ice budget, which was seconded by Scott Jenssen and unanimously approved by the Select Board and Finance Committee.
Miscellaneous Select Board Items Reviewed:
1. The minutes from 1.28.08 were approved as written.
2. A letter was written to Valerie Spriggs of the SBRSD and reviewed by the Board, Finance Committee and Deborah Mielke of the School Committee regarding the recent proposal to reduce the number of classes resulting in larger classrooms. This letter will be cc’d to the members towns Select Boards and all of the school committee members.
3. B. Puntin and A. Salamon of the Planning Board came in to formally request that the Board appoint their recommendations to fill the vacancies on the Planning Board. It was mentioned to the Planning Board that the Board was asked by a member of the democratic committee why the Planning Board would appoint persons to fill the vacancies now when in 3 weeks they will have to be nominated and run for office. The Town Clerk and/or Town Counsel need to be contacted to find out if a person appointed now would appear as an incumbent on the ballot in the upcoming election. The Board looked up Planning Board Appointments on www.mass.gov and was referred to M.G.L. Chapter 41 §11 which stated that all the members needed to be present to vote on the appointments. The Planning Board is going to try to arrange to have all of their Planning Board members present at next week’s Select Board meeting.
4. Peter Murkett came in to follow up with the Board about his position the recent letter in the Monterey News to drop the investigation.
5. John Campetti of Foresight Land Services was asked to meet with the Board today what it would take to definitively determine the owners of several plots of land surrounding the Town Beach. Mr. Campetti brought maps along with him from when the dam was reconstructed and the road was relocated (the firm he works for was the Engineer/Surveyors for the project). The Board pointed out the areas they were concerned with and asked what the cost would be to officially open up the survey and if there would be a definitive answer to the Board’s questions to resolve this issue.
6. The Board set a submission deadline of March 31st at 11:30am for Citizen Petitions and Special Articles for the Town Meeting Warrant.
A motion was made and unanimously approved to adjourn the meeting at: 12:05pm
Submitted by:
Melissa Noe, Inter-Departmental Secretary
Approved by:
Monterey Select Board
Select Board Members
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