Monterey Select Board
Minutes of the meeting of 11/30/09
Meeting Opened at: 4:00pm
Select Board Members Present: Scott Jenssen, Chairperson, Jon Sylbert and Wayne Burkhart
Also in attendance for parts of the meeting: Sue Protheroe for the Monterey News and Linda Thorpe (Town Clerk)
The board met with Town Accountant, Barbara Gauthier to review the following items:
1. Reviewed resumes of the following applicants interested in the part time Town Accountant position; Tina Goewey, Yang Xu, Steven Pullen, Robin Sweet, Luba Peimer, Michael Zanin, Patrick Cullinane, Joshua Burdick and Amy Lane. Interviews will be set up for Monday, December 14th from 4:15 – 5:30pm in 15 minute intervals with five of the applicants. The position job description was reviewed and B. Gauthier confirmed that since this is a part time position there are no benefits (i.e. sick, vacation, health insurance or retirement). B. Gauthier recommended that when the applicant interviews are scheduled a copy of the job description should be emailed to them (M. Noe will take care of this).
2. Warrants were signed.
3. The potential of PILOT funds being cut was briefly discussed; no one knew how much Monterey would be affected as of yet. Later in the meeting after B. Gauthier left, J. Sylbert read in The Beacon that the Legislature stalled the local aid cuts but that the Governor still had the power to veto some or all of that decision.
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 11.23.09 were approved as written.
2. The Board approved the purchase of 11 gift cards for employees (D. Torrico, M. Noe, B. Gauthier, M. Forbes, R. Crittenden, J. Thomson, P. Leprevost, G. Backhaus, T. Martin, R. Gero and D. Moynahan) to purchase turkeys for the upcoming holiday season.
3. The Board reviewed and signed the EECBG (Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant) application available through the Department of Energy Resources and being submitted by the SBRSD.
4. The Board discussed the complaint received about the Transfer Station attendants mistreating residents again. A complaint was received about how rude they were treating people trying to leave items in the swap shop and their inconsistency in what items can be disposed of as well as the fact that they appear to be taking items left home with them. M. Forbes will be at next week’s meeting to discuss this with the Board and what options the town has for reprimanding or replacing the attendants.
5. Linda Thorpe came in for signatures on a warrant for the upcoming special election.
6. Linda Thorpe provided copies of the state approval to appropriate money for extra staffing for the election which to date has not been appropriated.
7. W. Burkhart provided L. Thorpe with the forms and maps received from the U.S. Census Bureau for her and Robert Lazzarini to review.
8. A letter from Stanley Stanisz of Housatonic was read regarding land he owns in New Marlborough that he’d like to sell for a future cell phone tower. The Board was unclear on what Mr. Stanisz was looking for from them since the land is not in Monterey. He included a copy of a letter he sent a year ago to the technology committee. M. Noe will call him to let him know that the Board will forward his letter to Monica Webb who is on the Berkshire Technology Committee.
9. After reviewing confirmation from Town Counsel that there was not an issue with all 3 Assessors also sitting on the Board of Appeals, a motion was made, seconded and unanimously approved to appoint Stanley Ross as the alternate on the ZBA to fulfill the remaining term vacated by Kathleen Wasiuk which expires June 30, 2010.
A motion was made and unanimously approved to adjourn the meeting at: 5:05pm
Submitted by:
Melissa Noe, Inter-Departmental Secretary
Approved by:
Monterey Select Board
Select Board Members
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