Select Board Meeting
Highway Garage, 9 Jacksonville Rd, Colrain, MA
A meeting of the Select Board
HYBRID MEETING*
Agenda**
Highway Garage
9 Jacksonville Road
June 10, 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
Meeting ID: 226 091 830 08
Passcode: DyF84U
4:30 p.m. Call to Order
- Reorganize Select Board
- Vote Following Slate: Emily Thurber, Chair; Katie Korby, Vice-Chair; and Ben Eastman, Clerk
- Review and Adopt FY26 Select Board Meeting Schedule
- Consent Items
Review/Approve Warrants & Minutes
- Warrant AP2549 in the amount of $81,733.88
- Appointments and Resignations
- Request for Appointment to the Conservation Commission; Mia Francesconi, 2 Griswoldville St.
- New Business
- Conservation Restriction (CR) Located at 413 Adamsville Rd donated to Franklin Land Trust by landowner Judson DeCew, To be Reviewed and Signed by Colrain Select Board, Liam Cregan, Land Conservation Specialist, Frankin Land Trust
- Request for Support for Grant Application for Studying Regional Ambulance Operation; Gary Ponce, Director, Colrain Volunteer Ambulance Association
- Review and Approve Signage Location for Pollinator Garden provided by Franklin Conservation District; Elizabeth Erikson, Chair; Vote to Dissolve Pollinator Committee as formed by Select Board
- Vote for Additional Contract Amount Requested by Gill Engineering for Health Road Culvert Replacement Project in the amount of $9,852; Final Project Total = $524,387.45 (Barnhardt Donations; $304,822.06, Fair Share (DOT) Funding $219,565.39)
- Review Draft Highway Superintendent Job Description & Proposed Hiring Committee Formation, Process and Timing
- Old Business
- Revisit request for Location for Wood Bank, Laurie Francis, Representative
- Vote to Sign Amended Lease Agreement Through June 2035, with MTRSD for CCS
- Written Update re: Colrain Sewer District Treatment Solution/Rural Development Grant from Jessica Atwood, Director of Planning, FRCOG; Support Letters for Earmark & Rural Development Grant
- Administrator Updates
- Public and Board Member Comments (votes will not be taken)
- Requests for Future Agenda Items
- Annual Select Board Reappointments
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- Annual Meeting with Representative Blais, June 24
- Personnel Policy Changes re: O/T Calculation & Reimbursement for Call-In, Other Misc., June 24
- Performance Appraisal for Town Administrator; Set Goals & Objectives for FY26
- End of Year Transfers
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- Correspondence and Select Board Informational Items (votes will not be taken)
- Eversource Electric Smart Meter Program
- 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 March 28, 2025, Governor Healey, 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 June 30, 2027 – 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.