Monterey Select Board
Minutes of the meeting of 10/26/09
Meeting Opened at: 4:00pm
Select Board Members Present: Scott Jenssen, Chairperson, Jon Sylbert (arrived late) and Wayne Burkhart
Also in attendance for parts of the meeting: Sue Protheroe for the Monterey News, Maggie Leonard (Planning Board), Alan Salamon (Planning Board), Larry Klein (Planning Board) and Bridget Krans (Planning Board)
The board met with Director of Operations, Maynard Forbes to review the following items:
1. The contract with Foresight has been reviewed by Town Counsel and he made two recommended changes/deletions. The Board will send letters to the engineering firms that were not chosen thanking them for their submission.
2. Weekly report was reviewed.
3. Transfer Station is currently operating without an authorization to operate (it was a 10 year permit last issued in 1995 by DEP). We were made aware of this by Jamie Cahillane of CET. CET has been helping us with the renewal papers but we have been made aware that a letter of non-compliance is being sent to the Town from DEP. Otis, Mt. Washington and West Stockbridge are all in the same boat.
4. Beartown Mtn Rd., a culvert collapsed and was replaced by the highway crew.
5. The Lake Garfield dam is down 3 feet right now (about 3 inches per day) and the goal is 6 feet.
6. Deliveries of sand will start tomorrow.
7. Sylvan Rd – M. Forbes has spoken with J. Rodriguez and told him that the Town will not be doing anything there because it would be too expensive to blend in with the private road work that was done and the town portion of the road isn’t in that bad of shape right now.
The board met with Town Accountant, Barbara Gauthier to review the following items:
1. Yearly review; B. Gauthier declined to have her review in an executive session and requested that it remain open as she informed the Board that she will be retiring effective April 30, 2010 unless a replacement is found and trained sooner. She felt that the review wasn’t necessary. M. Noe will help B. Gauthier with preparing a help wanted ad to be placed in the local papers. B. Gauthier currently works 2 days a week during normal town hall operating hours so that she is available for questions for approx. 16 hours. There are certain times of the year that require she be here longer.
2. Warrants were signed.
The board met with Inter-Departmental Secretary, Melissa Noe to review the following items:
1. Weekly report was reviewed.
Miscellaneous Select Board Items Reviewed:
1. The minutes from 10.19.09 were approved as written.
2. The Town Hall will be closed for the following 2010 state holidays, a memo will be distributed and posted:
Friday, January 1st |
New Year’s Day |
Monday, January 18th |
Martin Luther King Day |
Monday, February 15th |
President’s Day |
Monday, April 19th |
Patriot’s Day |
Monday, May 31st |
Memorial Day |
*Monday, July 5th |
Fourth of July |
Monday, September 6th |
Labor Day |
Monday, October 11th |
Columbus Day |
Thursday, November 11th |
Veteran’s Day |
Thursday, November 25th |
Thanksgiving Day |
*Friday, December 24th |
Christmas Day |
3. The Select Board was made aware that the request to transfer the liquor license from Riccardo Boehm (former owner of the General Store) to Kenneth Basler (current owner of the General Store) was disapproved by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission because of outstanding tax issues with the Department of Revenue and Mr. Boehm. Therefore there is not a valid license to sell alcohol. Mr. Basler has been made aware and will be removing the alcohol and discontinuing sales until this has been resolved.
4. J. Sylbert recused himself while Alan Salamon (member of the Monterey Land Trust) gave the Board a conservation restriction on the Pearson property on Chestnut Hill Rd.
5. The following members of the Planning Board were present to make a motion that Stephen Enoch be appointed to fill the remaining term of the vacant seats created when Cynthia Hoogs resigned from the Planning Board: Alan Salamon, Maggie Leonard, Bridget Krans and Larry Klein. The motion was seconded and unanimously approved by both the Planning Board and Select Board. A letter will be sent to S. Enoch and cc’d to the Town Clerk.
6. Mail was reviewed.
7. The Board performed a satisfactory yearly review with Melissa Noe, Inter-Departmental Secretary.
8. D. Torrico was supposed to have his yearly review tonight but it’s postponed until November 16th at 4pm.
9. Jon reviewed his impressions of the recent meeting at the Mahaiwe Theater regarding the possibility of merging the school districts.
A motion was made and unanimously approved to adjourn the meeting at: 5:44pm
Submitted by:
Melissa Noe, Inter-Departmental Secretary
Approved by:
Monterey Select Board
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