Monterey Select Board
Minutes of the meeting of 6/1/09
Meeting Opened at: 4:00pm
Select Board Members Present: Scott Jenssen, Chairperson, Jon Sylbert and Wayne Burkhart (left at 4:55pm)
Also in attendance for parts of the meeting: Sue Protheroe for the Monterey News and Hilell Maximon
The board met with the Director of Highways, Maynard Forbes and reviewed the following items:
1. M. Forbes showed the Board where the crew installed a basin and 200 feet of tube on Main Rd to help with the water. While the crew was working a resident on Steven’s Lake showed up with his attorney claiming a new pipe was installed under the road which was going to flood his property. M. Forbes showed them that the pipe under the road was rusty and had been there for over 40 years, they seemed to be satisfied but they may ask to be on a future Select Board agenda.
2. M. Forbes let the Board know that the crew has finished clearing/cleaning up brush up to Brace Rd and should be finishing up on Beartown Mtn Rd within a week.
3. Wheel tracks were filled in on Tyringham Rd.
The board met with Police Chief, Gareth Backhaus to review the following items:
1. Court summons served.
2. Complaint received about a broken branch; the owner was concerned it would fall on their house. The complaint was passed along to the highway department but they don’t have the equipment to remove it. No one was sure whether it was on private property or in the town right of way.
3. Three more complaints were received from the resident on Art School Rd looking to file a complaint against National Grid and Verizon. The resident has been told in the past that this is not a Police matter.
4. Missing person report filed; runaway on Art School Rd.
5. False alarms at the library and Harmon Rd.
6. Assisted the county sheriff in attempting to serve a warrant; the person was not home.
7. Responded to a domestic call involving an out of control child.
The board met with Inter-Departmental Secretary, Melissa Noe to review the following items:
1. Weekly report was reviewed.
2. Time off request was approved.
3. The Board agreed to change the Inter-Departmental Secretary’s hours on Monday from 8:30am – 6:30pm (4-6:30pm with the Select Board) to 8am – 6pm (4-6pm with the Select Board).
Miscellaneous Select Board Items Reviewed:
1. Warrants were signed.
2. The minutes from 5.18.09 were approved as amended.
3. Hillel Maximon, resident on Beartown Mtn Rd came in to discuss the following with the Board:
a. Following up on his visit from 3 weeks ago. The Board spoke with M. Forbes and he’s come all the way up to Brace Rd and plans on finishing up through this week. He had a problem on Main Rd that needed to be taken care of that took him away from the clean up. Hillel states that all of the ditches on Beartown are filled and need to be cleaned. Hillel stated he observed the crew cleaning brush on Beartown for 2 - ½ days since his last visit. Hillel states that there are large tree trunks ready to roll into the road and that beyond the full ditches are tree stumps. Scott is going to drive up there this week. Hillel feels that there is a serious safety issue there.
4. Kathy Frome called to ask if the Select Board would allow the Cultural Council to hang the world AIDS quilts in the Town Hall. The Board is awaiting an email with the sizes of the quilts to determine if there is room.
5. A motion was made to appoint Laurie Shaw to the Wilson McLaughlin Committee. The motion was seconded and approved unanimously.
6. The Town earned another reward through our business link account which the Board agreed to give to Barbara Gauthier.
7. ZBA Secretary; The ZBA has requested to use Melissa Noe as their secretary as their current secretary has resigned. The Chair, Robert Gauthier feels that M. Noe will best be able to do the job since she’s in the office full time. M. Noe has agreed to do it at no additional salary if the meetings are held during her normal town hall hours providing the Select Board agrees; the Select Board agreed and told M. Noe to take comp time vs. salary for any meetings that run beyond her normal work hours.
8. The Board reviewed the list of appointments set to expire on June 30th. Letters will be written to each Board requesting their list of suggested appointees. M. Noe will confirm with Monica Webb if the Monterey Broadband Committee is still needed since a regional Committee has been created. The Board also requested that M. Noe contact Laurily Epstein for 2 recommendations to fill the vacant seats on the Agricultural Committee.
A motion was made and unanimously approved to adjourn the meeting at: 5:10pm
Submitted by:
Melissa Noe, Inter-Departmental Secretary
Approved by:
Monterey Select Board
Select Board Members
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