Select Board Meeting

Meeting begins at 9am

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

Meetings are recorded on audio

8am: Broadband review

9am: Conference call with MBI

9:30am: Administrative items (in no specific order and if there is time):

*Continuation of Fiber Connect’s pole petition (from April 24)

*Memorial Day

*Letter from BBD; response needed

*Town hall internet; Fiber Connect pricing

*Arbitrator/Mediation request

*Fiber Connect negotiations schedule

*Procurement Officer appointment

*Update (if available) on Community Center lighting

*Approve minutes

*Administrative Assistant items

*Formal complaint filed by Don Coburn

*Review mail and correspondence to be sent/signed

*Collins Center Study

*New Business - reserved for topics that the chair did not reasonably anticipate would be discussed

Future agenda items:

*National Grid retrofit of streetlights

*Update on HCOG contract

*Financial policies and procedures; review for adoption by year’s end

*Rental property tax

*Unemployment Insurance; self-fund (to be discussed again in Jan)

*paid FMLA

*Continue discussion on PILOT letters to Hume & Gould Farm

*Selectpersons serving on other boards/commissions

*Exercising Select Board executive authority; discuss procedure

*Transfer station inspections

*Update on school deed

*School building – next steps

*New dog bylaw - clarify

*Long range planning

*Select Board & Admin Asst roles/function

*Professional help for boards/commissions and/or compensating board/commission members

*Committee to help lobby for state funds for Beartown State Forest (DC)

***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.

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.

SELECT BOARD CALENDAR 2019