Select Board Meeting

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Tuesday, September 10, 4:30 pm until 6:30 pm
Highway Garage, 9 Jacksonville Rd, Colrain, MA
A meeting of the Select Board

SELECT BOARD/MLP BOARD

Meeting Agenda

REGULAR MEETING*

Highway Garage

9 Jacksonville Road

September 10, 2024

4:30 p.m.

Public Comments – The Colrain Select Board encourages citizens to attend its meetings and welcomes their views on pertinent subjects. Anyone may comment for up to two minutes during the Public Comment portion of the agenda regarding an issue that is not on the agenda. However, given that no public notice of the topic has been provided, the Select Board will not engage in discussion. The Select Board will give your issue appropriate consideration. Additional comments during agenda items may be allowed at the discretion of the Chair.

Call to order: 4:30 p.m.

1. Consent Items
   1. Review/Approve Warrants and Meeting Minutes as listed below:

1. Meeting Minutes of August 13, 2024
2. Warrant AP2510 in the amount of $44,756.28
3. Warrant PR2504 in the amount of $20,843.81

2. Appointments and Resignations:
   1. Appoint Representative to the Franklin Regional Animal Control Advisory Committee

3. New Business
   1. Accept Regional Digital Equity Plan Prepared by the FRCOG
   2. Notice of Intent Received; Request for Right of First Refusal on Van Nuys Road (Convert 10 acres to Residential Use)

4. Old Business:
   1. Vote BSC Construction Phase Engineering Contract for Jacksonville Road Slope Stabilization Project
   2. Updates re: New Highway Staff Onboarding & Staff Pay Upgrades
   3. TA Proposal re: COA Foot Clinic Location for Oct/Nov
   4. Update re: Pollinator Garden in Colrain Village Center
   5. Update re: Colrain Community Wood Bank for 2024-2025 Heating Season
   6. Outdoor Nativity Set on Veterans Memorial presented by Elaine Stanley

5. Administrator Updates:
   1. Remote Meeting Room Set-Up
   2. Pre-construction Meeting re Heath Road Culvert Replacement
   3. DEP Extension Received for I & I Study until December 31, 2024
   4. Update on Sewer Collection System Inventory and Field Testing
   5. Misc. Meetings/Events: Planning Board Meeting; Fix-It Day; Special COA Meeting

6. Public and Board Member Comments (votes will not be taken)

7. Requests for Future Agenda Items:

1. Review Capital Planning Materials
2. Schedule All-Board Meeting
3. Discuss [possible] Special Town Meeting

8. Correspondence and Select Board Informational Items (votes will not be taken)
   1. Crafts of Colrain Open Studio Tour, November 9-10, 2024, 10 am-4 pm
1. Executive Session: None
10. Dissolve Meeting

*Please note the Select Board agenda may be subject to change and items not anticipated may be discussed and all listed agenda items may be subject to a vote.

1 On July 16, 2022, Lt. Governor Polito, as Acting Governor, signed into law An Act Extending Certain COVID-19 Measures Adopted During the State of Emergency. Chapter 2 of the Acts of 2023 authorized a further extension – until March 31, 2025 – of the remote meeting provisions established by the initial March 12, 2020 Executive Order Suspending Certain Provisions of the Open Meeting Law. Section (1) of the executive order allowing public access through adequate, alternative means is independent from Section (2), which allows members of the public body to participate remotely. The public body may conduct its proceedings under the relief provided in section (1) or (2) or both.