Select Board Meeting

Meeting will be held in the Town Hall Meeting Room as well as remotely at 12pm

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Call to Order 12pm

12pm: Meet with Sophia Bletsos, Human Resource Director to discuss the following items:

1. General updates
2. Draft policy: anti-discrimination and harassment
3. Timetable for employee reviews
4. Structure for department head reviews
5. Town Clerk recommendations
6. Employee handbook

12:30pm: Meet with David Eisenthal of Unibank to discuss loan renewal options

1. Roll over the Borrowing Anticipation Note for Library
2. Roll Borrowing Anticipation Note for highway equipment - paying down principal for amount not used
3. Bid sheet will be going out 1st week in October, and banks will bid the week of October 17th

Old Business

1. Plan for Special Town Meeting
2. Early voting hours for the State election

New Business

1. Administrative Assistant/Council on Aging Outreach Worker appointment: Kathryn Roberts
2. State of the school house
3. Town Administrator items:
   1.  Department roundtables
   2. Accept $100 police donation
   3.  Medex renewal for 2023

Correspondence, minutes, public comment

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

1. Letter from the Southern Berkshire Regional School District School Committee regarding the 8 Town Regional School District Planning Board
2. Response from State Representative Pignatelli regarding parking fees for State Forests

1. Approve minutes of 9/14/22, 9/21/22, 9/21/22 executive session, 9/28/22, and 9/28/22 executive session
2. Unanticipated business
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.