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Select Board Meeting Agenda 3/9/22 - 6pm

Submitted on March 7, 2022 - 1:46pm
Date: 
Wednesday, March 9, 2022 - 6:00pm
Related Event: 
Select Board Meeting
MONTEREY SELECT BOARD MEETING AGENDAWednesday, March 9, 2022

Meeting will be held in the Town Hall Meeting Room as well as remotely at 6pm

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Old Business: none

New Business

  1. Town Administrator Items:
    1. SPR22/0363 public records determination for appeal filed by Jon Sylbert
    2. SPR21/3294 public records determination for 2nd appeal filed by Jon Sylbert
    3. SPR2/0449 public records determination for appeal filed by Jon Sylbert
    4. Jon Sylbert’s failure to provide documents (or response) for a paid public records request
    5. Public records meeting request with town counsel
  2. Native Plants working group citizen petition request
  3. Budget review including but not limited to COLA, budget requests, impacts, response from Lake Garfield Working Group
  4. Highway Department winter road watch proposal for weekends and holidays
  5. Highway 2 appointment: Kyle Pettibone
  6. Approve minutes of 3/1 and 3/2/22
  7. Open Meeting Law Complaint filed by John Weingold dated 3/4/22
  8. Review mail & correspondence to be sent:
    1. Open Meeting Law 2022-40 determination
    2. Gary Shaw’s 3/4/22 email
    3. Statement from Jon Levin dated 3/7/22
  9. Consider appointing a Salary Commission (JM)
  10. Consider appointing a Swap Shop Committee (JM)
  11. Review & Discussion of 2017 Monterey Financial Policies and update from TA on which policies have been adopted or not adopted (JW)
  12. Discuss DLS helping (free of charge) Monterey to create & adopt  written Financial Policies in late fall, if requested by the SB to update the 2017 policies (JW)
  13. IT Audit discussion (JW)
  14. Discussion of interdepartmental public records policy drafting (Select Board instructed by town vote requiring Selectboard to create a town policy) per Article 9, June 12, 2021 Town Meeting vote (see minutes of June 12, 2021 meeting) (suggest we take wording right from the vote) (JW)
  15. Preliminary Discussion on Annual Warrant Articles  that the Select board wants to be added to warrant (JW)
  16. Discuss cease and desist letter to citizens contacting the town's investigators , what impact these contacts have had on investigation, & request a status and request a date on investigator's  report (JW)
  17. contact KP law and request their free Open Meeting Law training seminar for all (JW)
  18. 5 year Master plan discussion (JW)
  19. Grant updates (JW)
  20. Comments & questions from the public
  21. Discuss entering executive session to continue review and consider approval of the following sets of Executive Session minutes: 10/4, 3/2 and 3/9/22

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

The listings of matters are those reasonably anticipated by the Chair which may be discussed at the meeting. Not all items listed may in fact be discussed and other items not listed may also be brought up for discussion to the extent permitted by law.

Items requiring extensive discussion or prior research should be placed on a future agenda so that the issue receives the appropriate attention.  Please leave the room if you need to converse with other members of the audience. 

The Board of Selectmen shall post all meetings in compliance with Open Meeting Law and pursuant to the regulations of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office 940 CMR 29.03(4). Please visit our website for all meeting information. All approved meeting minutes of the Board are posted on the town’s website under minutes and agendas.