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Tuesday, December 10, 2024, 4:30 pm until 6:30 pm
Highway Garage, 9 Jacksonville Rd, Colrain, MA
A meeting of the Select Board

SELECT BOARD/MLP BOARD

HYBRID MEETING*

Agenda**

Highway Garage

9 Jacksonville Road

December 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.

*THIS MEETING WILL BE HYBRID, WITH BOTH AN IN-PERSON AND REMOTE PARTICIPATION OPTION.¹

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4:30 p.m. Call to Order

1. Consent Items
   1. Review/Approve Warrants & Minutes

1. Approve Minutes of October 22, 2024
2. Warrant AP2523 in the amount of $488,845.11
3. Warrant AP2524
4. Warrant PR2510 in the amount of $33,348.55

2. Appointments and Resignations
   1. Request for Appointment as Tree Warden, Teresa ‘Tes’ Siarnacki, 9 Crosier Lane

3. New Business
   1. Jan Ameen, Executive Director, FCSWMD
      1. Extension to the MOU for the Springfield Municipal Recycling Facility (MRF), Agreement Expires December 31, 2024
      2. Annual Inspection Report for Transfer Station
      3. Input on Recommendations re: Transfer Station Policy & Procedures Update
   2. Police Department Updates, Chief Chris Lannon
      1. Additions to Email and Access by Officers
      2. Update re: Addition of F/T Officer, Schedule & Operational Updates
      3. Update on Detail Billing and Other Administrative Tasks
      4. Other Misc. Updates
   3. Address Prior Votes re: Annual Town Meeting & Election Dates for Spring 2025 (FY26)
   4. Adopt Employee Status Change Form
   5. Statement re: Winter Road Maintenance on Discontinued Roads for Winter Season 24-25
   6. Statement in Response to Town Meeting Vote re: Jacksonville Rd Intersection Safety
   7. Letter to Library Abutter Requesting Permission for Wetlands Delineation
   8. Annual Select Board License Renewals:
      1. 2025 ABCC Retail License Renewals

• Catamount Country Store, Inc., Annual Package Store All Alcoholic Beverages, Fee $1,000
• Pine Hill Orchards – Annual Package Store Wines and Malt, Fee $750
  1. 2. 2025 Common Victualler License

• Catamount Country Store, Inc., Fee $25
• Pine Hill Orchards, Fee $25
  1. 3. 2025 Class II and Class III

• Marty’s Repair, Class II – To Buy or Sell Second-Hand Motor Vehicles, Used Car Dealer License, Fee $50 (Marty Bird)
• M & T Auto, Class II – To Buy or Sell Second-Hand Motor Vehicles, Used Car Dealer’s License, Fee $50 (Mark Scranton & Brian Scranton)
• M & T Auto, Class III -- Motor Vehicle Junk License, Fee $50 (Mark Scranton and Brian Scranton)

4. Old Business
   1. Transfer Station Recommendations – Next Steps

5. Administrator Updates
   1. Heath Road Culvert Replacement Project Updates – Status of Detour
   2. Application for MVP 2.0 Submitted 12/4/24
   3. Attendance at Connect 351 (formerly MMA Annual Meeting) in Boston – January 23-25, 2025

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

7. Requests for Future Agenda Items
   1. Address December 24^th Meeting Date – Reschedule or Cancel?
   2. Review Amended Building Department Fee Schedule
   3. Review General Bylaws Changes for Annual Town Meeting

8. Correspondence and Select Board Informational Items (votes will not be taken)

1. Executive Session: None

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.

Select Board 2024-12-10 Minutes (2025-01-29 at 2:38 PM)