Monterey Select Board
Minutes of the meeting of 12/22/08
Meeting Opened at: 4:00pm
Select Board Members Present: Wayne Burkhart, Chairperson, Scott Jenssen and Jon Sylbert
Also in attendance for parts of the meeting: Sue Protheroe for the Monterey News and Michael Storch (Finance Committee and Employee Compensation Committee member)
4:00pm: The board held a hearing (advertised in the Berkshire Record) to act on the application to transfer the annual alcohol license from Riccardo Boehm d.b.a. Monterey General Store to Kenneth Basler d.b.a. Monterey General Store. A motion was made to approve the transfer, was seconded and was unanimously approved by the Board. There were no members of the community present to comment on the transfer.
The board met with Fire Chief, Raymond Tryon to review the following items:
1. Raymond Tryon asked which of the 3 Select Board members declared the emergency during the ice storm; Wayne stated that it was him as per the instruction of the Emergency Manager, Gareth Backhaus who had consulted with Maynard Forbes and representatives from MEMA. R. Tryon stated that Wayne should’ve also contacted the NIMS system to notify them of the declared emergency. He stated that in Monterey the Fire Chief is the one running the Town under the NIMS system as the “Incident Commander” and the Emergency Manager is responsible for providing transportation. He did note that while we got through this situation fine we should be more prepared for the next one. M. Storch asked where the NIMS center was and how you contacted them. R. Tryon stated that it’s the
firehouse and that you’d call him. S. Jenssen stated that he has not taken the NIMS course yet and would like to know where this information can be found. The Board tried to locate the NIMS binder but it was not on the shelves in the meeting room as they had thought.
2. R. Tryon asked the members of the Employee Compensation Committee present (M. Storch and S. Jenssen) when their next meeting would be as he would like to attend to discuss the Fire Chief position. Their next meeting will be on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at 8am.
Miscellaneous Select Board Items Reviewed:
1. The Board reviewed the letter from the Building Commissioner regarding Chapter 304 of the Acts of 2004 Ticketing Acceptance and asked M. Noe to email D. Torrico to clarify if the responsible party is the owner of record or some other party.
2. BRPC sent a memo urging municipalities to submit an application for a 2nd round of grants being offered for energy audits. We have called National Grid to set up a free energy audit and are awaiting a date. The Board decided to only have the one through National Grid performed.
3. The minutes from 12.15.08 were approved as amended.
4. Warrants were signed.
5. The Board reminded everyone present that the Board will not be meeting next week. Their next meeting will be on January 5, 2009 at 4pm.
6. The Board reviewed the applicants (Richard Piepho, Anne Marie Enoch and Eric Pedersen) that applied and interviewed for the ZBA Alternate position. After some discussion a motion was made by Mr. Sylbert to appoint Anne Marie Enoch which was seconded by Mr Jensen and approved unanimously.
7. The Board discussed some options of where to keep the Edith Wilson inventory that isn’t currently located at the town hall. A suggestion was made to hold an auction to sell the paintings and have the proceeds go to the Edith Wilson Scholarship fund. Another suggestion was made to loan the rugs to the Bidwell House. The Board will write a letter to the Wilson committee asking them to come in to discuss this further. Members of the Board also discussed whether or not it would be worth it to have the paintings appraised prior to auctioning them if that route is taken.
8. The Board discussed the article in today’s Berkshire Eagle about New Marlborough closing Fish Hatchery Rd.
9. The Board discussed an email S. Jenssen and J. Sylbert received from D. Moriarity complaining about the gate still being opened at the Lake Garfield dam last week. D. Moriarity felt that this was the cause of the flooding at Lake Buel. M. Forbes went out to the dam at the time and took pictures of the output and did not feel that there was enough coming out to warrant closing the gate. Further discussion established that most of the water reaching the Lake Buel outlet comes from off the surrounding hillsides and into the streams feeding the Konkapot and Rawson brook, including runoff from a large pond on private property in New Marlborough.
A motion was made and unanimously approved to adjourn the meeting at: 5:23pm
Submitted by:
Melissa Noe, Inter-Departmental Secretary
Approved by:
Monterey Select Board
Select Board Members
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