Select Board Meeting

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

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6pm: Old Business

1. None

New Business

1. Investigator’s request for additional funds and consider requesting of the Finance Committee to approve a reserve fund transfer to finish investigation (SW & JM)
2. Town Administrator Items:
   1. Firefighter safety grant award
   2. Transfer station attendant rate increase request
   3. Electronic voting update (town meeting numbers)
   4. Bally Gally Terminex proposal/increase to spending limit
   5. Otis elevator contract renewal
   6. Truck loan options
   7. Request to send Planning Board RFQ to counsel for review
3. FY23 preliminary budget review
4. Approve minutes of 1/12/22
5. Review mail and any correspondence to be sent/signed:
   1. Kim Wetherell email dated 1/11/22
   2. Ilene Marcus resignation from the Council on Aging
   3. Michele Miller email dated 1/11/22
   4. SPR21/3364 public records response
   5. Jon Sylbert email dated 1/13 (see also budget planning memo from FY22)
6. Discussion of strategies to reach 100% broadband accessibility (JM)
7. Executive session minutes: 5/26, 7/21, 10/4, 11/4, 11/17 (may require entering into executive session for review and approval) (JM)
8. Comments & questions from the public

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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.