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Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 4:30 pm until 8:00 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

March 11, 2025

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. Executive Session
   Pursuant to M.G.L. Chapter 30A, Section 21(a)(2) – Strategy Session in Preparation for Contract Negotiations: Discussion regarding strategy for negotiations with non-union personnel.

The Select Board will enter an executive session to conduct strategy sessions in preparation for negotiations with Highway Superintendent, Treasurer/Collector, Director of Assessing, Town Administrator where an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the negotiation position of the Town of Colrain.

The Board will reconvene in open session following the executive session (approximately 5:45 p.m.).

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

1. Approve Minutes of February 11, 2025
2. Warrant AP2535 in the amount of $38,648.23
3. Warrant PR2517 in the amount of $51,515.79
4. Warrant AP2536

3. Appointments and Resignations
   1. Request for Appointment to Zoning Board of Appeals as Alternate, Matthew Lovett, 98 Church Street

4. New Business
   1. Request from Town Clerk to Vote to Keep Historic Ballot Box Commissioned for Local Elections and Further Vote to Commission the DS200 Tabulator To be Used for All Other Elections.
   2. Accept Donation of $3,000 per MGL c44, S53A from the Friends of the Library to the Town of Colrain for use by Griswold Memorial Library of Items (Except Books)
   3. Accept FY25 MVP Planning 2.0 Grant for Colrain and Charlemont in the amount of $100,000

5. Old Business
   1. FY26 Budget Meetings – Call to Order Finance Committee – 6:15 pm

• Highway Department Budget Presentation – 6:15 pm

Discussion of equipment, road maintenance, winter operations, and capital improvements.

Q&A and recommendations.

• Fire Department Budget Presentation – 6:55 pm

Equipment needs, fire safety operations, training programs, and vehicle replacements. Q&A and recommendations.

• Police Department Budget Presentation – 7:30 pm

Staffing levels, equipment needs, training, and public safety programs. Q&A and recommendations.

Finance Committee Dissolve – 8:15 pm

6. Administrator Updates
   1. Attended Governor Healey’s Transportation Road Show in Conway; Colrain’s Chapter 90 Allocation of $572,696.88
   2. Attended Site Visit at Barnhardt re Colrain Sewer District & Locating Wastewater Treatment
   3. Attended OIG Academy – 30B Overview Basics & Beyond – Renewing MCPPO
   4. Attended CDS Working Group Meeting – Continued Work on Treatment Solution
   5. Attended OSD Meeting w Minutes Software Demonstration w Maggie

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

8. Requests for Future Agenda Items

March 18 – Joint Meeting with Heath Select Board in Heath

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

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.

Select Board 2025-03-11 Minutes (2025-04-28 at 12:11 PM)

Posted to: Select Board on 2024-08-07 10:29:51 (updated 2025-06-06 10:01:46).

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