Board of Selectmen Meeting

Event Date: 
Thursday, April 13, 2017 - 6:00pm

Williamsburg Board of Selectmen

141 Main Street, Room 201

Thursday, April 13, 2017, 6:00 p.m.

Agenda

 

6:00    Call to Order

 

Public and Public Officials

  1. Capital Plan – meeting with Capital Planning and Finance Committees – Capital Planning Committee budget FY18 recommendations; facilities scenarios (6:00 p.m.)
  2. Members of public
  3. Licenses – public hearing –The Yellow Barn, Inc. – General On-Premises All Alcohol – possible vote to approve new license (7:00)
  4. Police – Chief Denise Wickland – regular report
  5. Treasurer – Nathan Rosewarne – two Town Meeting articles

 

 

New Business

  1. Highway – Chapter 90 reimbursement request – Bridge Street bridge – possible vote to approve
    1. MassDOT letter about Fy18 apportionment
  2. Appointments –
    1. Planning Board – Mimi Kaplan – term to June 30, 2017 or 2018 – possible vote to appoint
    2. Community Development Advisory Committee – committee charge
  3. Licenses – Pool table license – American Legion – possible vote to approve license
  4. Metropolitan Planning Organization Western Tier member and alternate – possible vote
  5. Annual Town Meeting warrant
  6. Town Administrator’s report
    1. Massachusetts Downtown Initiative grant
    2. Budget FY18, including Selectmen’s, Police Labor
    3. Telephone pole on South Main Street
    4. Fire Station furnace
    5. Fire Station interference issues
    6. Senior Center Smart TV
    7. Comcast Committee
    8. Snow plowing Williamsburg Market and Florence Savings Bank
    9. Chapter 90
    10. Town Offices oil and oil tanks
    11. Town Office water leaks
    12. Hampshire County Health Improvement Plan
    13. Community Compact Initiative, shared IT, phone
    14. Highway personnel issue
    15. Highway – shade trees on trail
    16. Audit FY16
  7. Executive session – M.G.L. c. 30A, sec. 21(a)(2) – to conduct strategy sessions in preparation for negotiations with nonunion personnel or to conduct contract negotiations with nonunion personnel – Police Chief contract, Town Administrator contract – possible vote to go into executive session
  8. Police Chief contract and Town Administrator contract
  9. Correspondence
  10. Minutes – evaluations 3/30 – possible votes to approve
  11. Any other business
  12. Warrant

 

Correspondence

  • Mass. Town Clerks’ Association – Town Clerk of the Year nomination form
  • Hampshire Regional School District letter with news
  • Auditor’s professional standards letter
  • Dept of Telecommunications & Cable letter saying cable TV license will expire 5/23/17
  • Comcast programming
  • Rosenberg report

 

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
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