Select Board Amended Meeting Agenda 6/16/21

Date: 
Wednesday, June 16, 2021 - 6:00pm
MONTEREY SELECT BOARD AMENDED MEETING AGENDAWednesday, June 16, 2021

Meeting will be held at 6pm

 

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6pm: Administrative

  1. Town Administrator items
    1. Shared HR grant announcement and recap of presentation at LT. Gov’s award ceremony
    2. Revised alternative compliance fuel efficient vehicle policy draft for Green Communities grant
    3. Internal transfer requests
    4. Juneteenth
    5. Transfer station software renewal mistake update
    6. Agenda posting primary location
    7. Update on posting meeting videos
  2. Special event beer and wine permit application
  3. Highway Planning Commission appointments
  4. Planning Board appointment: Lauren Behrman
  5. FY22 appointments/reappointments
  6. Alternate Electrical Inspector Appointment: Warren David Harrison
  7. Vacation carryover requests
  8. Approve minutes of 5/26 (executive session), 5/26, 6/1 (emergency) and 6/2/21
  9. Review mail and correspondence to be sent/signed
  10. Master plan
  11. Continue review of Select Board Roles, Polices & Procedures draft
  12. Defining the roles of the town Grant Writers and the TA “supervision” role over the grants, defining access to the grants (JW)
  13. Motion to reconsider transfers involving overtime for AA contrary to job description (JW)
  14. Discussion of why Monterey involved in HR search when job description says TA is HR (JW)
  15. Discussion of annual appointments with no expiration dates, change no expiration appointments with annual appointments (JW)
  16. Discussion to explore hiring new town counsel (JW)
  17. Legal updates to Selectboard from town counsel on all pending cases involving the Town and a summary of what happened at the last trial (JW)
  18. Clarification on legal counsel contact policy by entire Selectboard and all Chairs of committees and commissions after a vote of committees and commissions excluding SB as was agreed to put not included in the SB minutes (JW)
  19. Posting of Meetings/Agendas on Town website states the Agenda’s will be posted by "Town Clerk;” who has no access to website to post agendas or even the Town Clerk page.  Discuss to change this policy to allow town Clerk to legally post all agenda as the law provides for.  Each department have control of its own website page.  List each Selectboard email address on their page, take TA off the Selectboard page and move TA to her website page (JW)
  20. Policy:  old business and tabled business is discussed first at the following SB meeting, not last.  All votes shall be roll call votes (JW)
  21. Dump sticker fees and payment issue clarification (JW)
  22. Public communications from Select Board members (JM)
  23. Order of articles at Town Meeting (JM)
  24. Comments & questions from the public

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***All agendas are subject to change***

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