Town of North Stonington

                                           Board of Selectmen

                                           July 1, 2014

                                           New Town Hall Conference Room

                                           Regular Meeting--7:00 PM

MINUTES

Call to Order-7:00 PM with Selectmen Mullane, Testa and Donahue present

Public Comments and Questions

EDC Coordinator’s Job Description and Discussion for Advertisement-Job Description should be finalized and confirmed before advertising to comply with Board if Finance comments.  What is the major goal of individual.  How do you evaluate

Minutes-A motion was made by Selectman Donahue and seconded by Selectman Mullane to approve the minutes of June 24, 2014, carrying.  3-0

Correspondence

Boards/Commissions/Official’s Comments-BOE Chairman Dave McCord, Darren Robert, Bob Carlson, Walt Mathwich, Christine Wagner, Alex Karpinski, Brett Mastroianni, Ad Hoc School Committee, and Superintendent Peter Nero were present to discuss the failed proposed school projects.  Members asked for direction on the project, Selectmen recommended a joint meeting, public meeting, surveys, planning, finances, etc.  The Board of Selectmen will meet for a preliminary planning session then joint meetings to plan and organize a procedure to develop for new proposed school project.

 

Mary Ann Ricker recommended Paul Bliven, Anthony Road for a vacancy on the Affordable Housing Committee, Selectmen will consider at next Selectmen’s Meeting.

Old Business

1.           Tribal Issues – Acknowledgement/Annexation Issues-Additional extension request has been filed.  Perkins Coie is drafting comments for submittal to BIA on proposed regulation revisions.

2.           Permanent School Building Project Committee

A.           Permanent School Building Committee Projects-An RFP and specifications for the High School emergency generator and sealing of parking lot at Elementary School were provided and will be advertised.

3.           Status of Center for Emergency Services Project-Chairman Perkins and several members of the Committee informed the Selectmen that the project is over budget, approximately 2.4 million dollars, at this time and asked for direction from the Selectmen.  The Committee is considering an independent estimate and issuing a separate RFP for project site work.

4.           Boombridge Road Bridge-Design and work is on Schedule

5.           Parking Lot/Brook Stone Walls-Paving of first layer is complete waiting on utilities to remove temporary pole in the parking lot before for final layer and striping

6.           Hewitt Property

A.           Dam Repairs- Bid Results are being evaluated by Karl Acimovic.

                                                         

Contractors       Bid Amount

Mattern Construction, Baltic, CT              $455,460

             

Suchocki & Son, Preston, CT                     $690,090

             

Pazz Construction, Old Lyme, CT              $648,720

             

NE Infrastructure, Hudson, MA               $798,495

             

 

7.           Grant Applications/administration

Water Study Ex 92 x I95 consultants are working on project

2014 STEAP Grant Extension of Village Water System-No report from OPM

Housing Grant-State is due to announce recipients in late July

8.           Budget 2013-2014-Close Out-Working on final expenses and revenues

Budget 2014-2015-New Budget is in effect today.

9.           Special Town Meeting-No action

Items for Future Town Meetings

•            Lake of Isles subdivision granting of easements to the Town

•            Exempt Tax Payments of Outstanding Taxes on Open Space received by

                                           Non-Profit organization

10.         Tax Collector Appointment/ Tax Policy-Next Week

11.         Town Ethics Policy-No Action

New Business

1.           Purchase Policy for Used Equipment-Draft provided for review and comment

2.           Services for Private Roads-Will discuss at a future meeting

3.           Proposed School Project

4.           Incentive Housing Grant RFP-Remove

5.           Tax Refund(s)

A motion was made by Selectman Mullane and seconded by Selectman Donahue to approve the following tax refunds:

              Mary E Dean                                                 $117.00                             Michael and Kathleen Poirier      $128.42

              Williams Assc Mech Cont                          $105.93                            Timothy Baas                                   $    5.72

              Richard Evans                                               $  65.52                             Liisa Priest                                           $   58.50

              Robert or Lisa Gay                                       $    9.00                             Carol Roberts                                           $   63.18

              Michael Crutchley                                       $  85.02                             Diana Finney                               $     5.94

              Brian Huber                                                  $  64.32                             William Finney                               $     3.99

              Joseph Cherenzia                                        $  27.23                             Jerome Seison                               $   65.29

              Omnipoint Communications                     $780.26                             James White                                $   60.55

              James Murray                                              $  65.12                             Robert  & Judith Joy                         $   76.73

              Paul & Nicole Contino                                 $  32.50

6.           Selectmen’s Public Communications

7.           Executive Session-

A motion was made by Selectman Mullane made a motion to enter executive session at 9:28 PM seconded by Selectman Donahue, carrying.  The session ended at 9:38 PM with no action taken.

              Sale of 101 Anthony Road

              Tax Collector’s replacement

              Tribal Recognition

Public Comments and Questions

Adjournment-9:39 PM