Select Board Meeting

MONTEREY SELECT BOARD MEETING AGENDAWednesday, September 28, 2022

Meeting will be held in the Town Hall Meeting Room as well as remotely at 5:00pm

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Call to Order 5:00pm

6:00pm: Executive Session to discuss potential discipline or dismissal of, or complaints against the Town Clerk (Purpose 1)

Old Business

1. Draft Special Town Meeting warrant, sign and issue
   1. Tree work at Bidwell Park $29,580
   2. FY22 unpaid bills $10,001.66
   3.  $8,737.31 bill from Jeremia Pollard for Hume lawsuit appeal
   4.  Amend wording of Article 14 from Annual Town Meeting
2. Draft policy: anti-discrimination and harassment
3. Review Town Administrator job description, contract, and corresponding draft memo
4. Office coverage during vacation or make up time after vacation
5. Neighbor concerns about Camp Kimama Half Moon

New Business

1. West Road (private road) maintenance, invoice from Highway Department
2. Town Administrator items:
   1. Department roundtables
   2. Schoolhouse insurance renewal
   3. Public street lights, National Grid Conversion program
   4. Part time employees putting in for more than the weekly approved hours
   5. Pat Nourse senior tax abatement application request
   6. Green Communities update
   7. Use of the front meeting room (scheduling)
3. Keys to the main office for Select Board
4. Discussion of processes to improve communications both between the Board and the Town Clerk, and between the Town Clerk and the Town Administrator
5. Regular reports from the Town Clerk's office
6. GZA Municipal Vulnerability Grant Phase II proposal

Correspondence, minutes, public comment

1. Review mail & correspondence received or to be sent:

1. Acknowledge receipt of American Rescue Plan Act request from the Community Center committee for constructing a pavilion
2.  Thank you to the Friends of the Library
3.  Memo to the Planning Board re: Zoning Bylaw error

1. Approve minutes of 9/7/22, 9/13/22 joint meeting, 9/14/22, 9/21/22, and 9/21/22 executive session
2. 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.