Select Board Remote Amended Meeting Agenda 8/5/2020

Date: 
Wednesday, August 5, 2020 - 4:00pm
MONTEREY SELECT BOARD AMENDED MEETING AGENDAWednesday, August 5, 2020

Meeting will be held at 4pm

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4pm: Administrative Items

  1. COVID-19 updates/items (if any)
  2. Chris Isner Probationary firefighter appointment
  3. Review response from counsel on Fiber Connect shelter request
  4. Proposed Fiber Connect contract with Monterey
  5. Discussion of proposed agreement with Holyoke Gas & Electric
  6. Tree warden and special municipal employee position designations
  7. Select Board goals for the year (DC)
  8. Town Administrator
    1. Job listing draft (JW)
    2. Job description draft (JW)
  9. Consideration of recall bylaw (DC)
  10. Administrative Assistant items
    1. Chapter 90 project request
    2. Additional accounting software cloud license
    3. Direct deposit policy (waiting on guidance from DOR)
    4. MCPPO continuing ed classes
    5. Update on vacation carryovers
    6. Update on Monterey Town Bylaws Article XIV. Town Data Processing Center and MGL Chapter 41 Section 23D
    7. Executive session minutes release update
    8. Intercom system
    9. Cell phones and town business
    10. Bally Gally rent (lease up in September)
    11. Bill submittal deadline
    12. Town report memo
  11. Initial discussion on (DC):
    1. Future of basement
    2. Records storage
    3. Highway garage expansion
    4. Police department building needs
    5. Moving fuel pumps
    6. Moving pavilion to Community Center
    7. Town hall heating system
  12. Approve minutes: 7/15 x 2 and 7/29
  13. Review mail and correspondence to be sent/signed
    1. Hupi Rd - 61A removal
  14. Code of Ethics (draft from JW)
  15. Appointment of Historical District Committee re: School Building (JW)
  16. Kayak removal, notice, policy, permits, racks (JW)
  17. Town bylaw article II, Section 18, Select Board compliance: department head meeting scheduling (JW)
  18. New Business - reserved for topics that the chair did not reasonably anticipate would be discussed
  19. Opportunity for public questions and comments

4:30pm: Council on Aging

  1. Possible transportation issues

5pm: Broadband ad hoc group

5:30pm: Terry Walker

  1. New office hours
  2. Grant research
  3. State primary

 

***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.  If you wish to speak during the meeting, please raise your hand in order to be recognized by the Chairman.  Please state your name for the record before you begin to speak on an issue.  Regulation of participation by public in open meetings:  No person shall address a public meeting of a governmental body without permission of the presiding officer at such meeting, and all persons shall, at the request of such presiding officer, be silent. If, after warning from the presiding officer, a person persists in disorderly behavior, said officer may order him/her to withdraw from the meeting, and, if he/she does not withdraw, may order an officer.

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