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Board of Selectmen Meeting

Event Date: 
Thursday, May 11, 2017 - 7:00pm

Williamsburg Board of Selectmen

141 Main Street, Room 201

Thursday, May 11, 2017, 7:00 p.m.

Agenda – Revised*

 

7:00    Call to Order

 

Public and Public Officials

  1. Members of public
  2. HCOG – Todd Ford, with Director of Procurement Services Ellen Batchelder and our Director of Energy, Sales, and Innovation Sinead Coleman
  3. Highway Superintendent – Bill Turner – regular report
    1. Chapter 90 purchase of loader
    2. John Deere backhoe repair
    3. Streetscan
  4. Helen E. James use – John Hoogstraten
  5. Energy Committee – Kim Boas – LED streetlights

 

 

New Business

  1. *Appointments – resignation – Pat Wilson from Nutrition Programs Coordinator – possible vote to accept
  2. Licenses –
    1. All-Alcohol General On-Premises liquor license – The Yellow Barn, Inc. – sign
    2. Live Entertainment – Tom Adams for Angel Park Summer Music Series, additional date – possible vote to approve permit
  3. *Police Chief salary – possible vote on contract and amount to recommend
  4. Finance Committee vote/memo
  5. Annual Town Meeting warrant – possible motion to approve
  6. Health insurance – M.G.L. c. 32B sections 21-23 – possible vote to accept sections
  7. Highland Ambulance bylaws
  8. Town Administrator’s report
    1. Using free cash for budget
    2. Highway Department circuit breakers
    3. Employee injury
    4. Sculpture
    5. Police and Fire Dept. issues – roof, basement, water heater, clean-up
    6. Tree work
    7. Tree article
    8. Anne T. Dunphy attic insulation project
    9. COA employee update
  9. Correspondence
  10. *Minutes – 3/30, executive 3/30, executive 4/27 – possible votes to approve
  11. Any other business
  12. Warrant
    1. Warrant for fire truck

 

Correspondence

  • KP Law letter to an owner of 125 Goshen Road with deed to sign
  • HCDC annual meeting 5/15 Cummington 6 p.m.
  • Heating oil price was locked in last week at $1.84/gallon
  • Chapter 90 Bridge St bridge request has been submitted by MassDOT for further processing
  • New PVTA Administrator:  Sandra Sheehan, highly thought of by Jeff Ciuffreda and J.M. Sorrell
  • PVPC annual meeting Thurs 6/15 Easthampton $25, RSVP by 6/8, special parking instructions, 4:30
  • Rosenberg Report
  • Metropolitan Planning Organization Western Tier commissioners:  Charles Kaniecki, with Roger Fuller as alternate
  • Smart Growth America breakfast meeting Worcester 5/18 before Smart Growth Conference

 

Financial position:

  • Free Cash, current, after October Special Town Meeting:  $737,583.00
  • Stabilization Fund, current, as of 11/30/16, from Town Accountant, confirmed by Treasurer:  $1,451,535.14