Select Board Meeting

MONTEREY SELECT BOARD MEETING AGENDA
Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Meeting begins at 5:30pm

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

Meetings are recorded on audio

 

5:30pm: Eric Weiss

6pm: Dave Fierro

6:30 – 7pm: Monthly meeting with the Finance Committee and BMA

1. Interdepartmental transfers from 7/12/19 meeting
2. Accounts payable section of draft finance policies and procedures manual (sent on 5/29)
3. Michael Germain to discuss Ken Wagner invoice/services/special town meeting
4. Jon S. report from the SBRSD regionalization meeting

7 – 7:15pm: Alice Boyd

1. Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) public hearing
2. CDBG update

7:15pm: Administrative items (in no specific order and if there is time):

1. Broadband Update, sign MBI Action Plan
2. Discuss report from Building Inspector on school building assessment
3. Select Board & Admin Asst roles/function
4. Temporary town administrator 
5. Adoption of a policy that no bill should be rejected unless the select board approves the rejection 
6. Administrative Assistant items
7. Approve minutes
8. Review mail and correspondence to be sent/signed
9. New Business - reserved for topics that the chair did not reasonably anticipate would be discussed

 

Future agenda items:

*Town hall parking lot/property line (update on options)

*CPR training (staff and residents)

*Appoint new Monterey School Building review committee

*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

*Continue discussion on PILOT letters to Hume & Gould Farm

*Selectpersons serving on other boards/commissions

*Exercising Select Board executive authority; discuss procedure

*Long range planning

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

 

***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.