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Select Board Meeting Agenda 8/17/22

Submitted on August 15, 2022 - 12:36pm
Date: 
Wednesday, August 17, 2022 - 6:00pm
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Select Board Meeting
MONTEREY SELECT BOARD MEETING AGENDAWednesday, August 17, 2022

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

Please join the meeting by going to www.GoToMeeting.com/meeting/join-meeting (you can choose to download the desktop app or join using a browser) and entering the following meeting id: 729-118-653

Please use the “raise hand” button if you would like to speak

You can also dial in using your phone but will be unable to raise your hand while muted.
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Access Code: 729-118-653

(Please call 528.1443 x111 to be placed on the agenda)

 

Call to Order 6:00pm

6:30pm: Peter Murkett, Chair of the Renewable Energy Working Group, to recommend preliminary vote of support for the Town’s participation in the UMass Clean Energy Extension Program

Old Business

  1. Town Charter Committee status
  2. The VOTES Act, police officer detail at elections
  3. Special Town Meeting items: storm damage tree work, elevator code upgrade, unpaid FY22 bills
  4. Milfoil Remediation bid and contract

New Business

  1. Town Administrator Items:
    1. Request to use legal counsel form regarding abandoned kayaks
    2. Appoint Kate Van Olst to Office Assistant position
    3. Chapter 90 project request wheeled loader
  2. Sign State primary election warrant
  3. Review Town Administrator job description and corresponding draft memo
  4. Fiber Connect Security Agreement
  5. Scanlon & Associates, LLC audit of the Town’s financial management
  6. Electronic voting for Town Meeting, number of units and possible sharing with New Marlborough
  7. Select Board secretary interest
  8. Select Board web page
  9. Time clock software
  10. Appointment to vacant Finance Committee seat. Applicants: Roger Tryon, Ilene Marcus, Donald Coburn, Kevin Moody
  11. Conservation Commission appointment: Kevin Moody
  12. Mediation update

Correspondence, minutes, public comment

  1. Review mail & correspondence received or to be sent:
    1. 8/12/22 time sensitive request to use legal counsel form regarding the VOTES Act & elections
    2. Updates from Town Counsel regarding release of executive session minutes, Town beach parking
    3. Acknowledge receipt of 8/7/22 Proposal for use of American Rescue Plan Act funds submitted by Tom Mensi of the Parks Commission, for rebuilding the playground at Greene Park
  2. Approve minutes of 7/27/22, 8/3/22, and 8/13/22
  3. Comments & questions from the public

Adjournment

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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.