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Tuesday, October 22, 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

9-11 Jacksonville Road

October 22, 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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Call to order: 4:30 p.m.

4:35 p.m. Sheryl Stanton, MTRSD Superintendent and Joint Meeting with Heath Select Board; MTRSD/HRSD Sustainability Project Progress Update – October 2024

1. Consent Items
   1. Review/Approve Warrants and Meeting Minutes

1. Meeting Minutes of September 24 and October 8, 2024
2. Warrant AP2516 in the amount of $185,449.93
3. Warrant PR2507 in the amount of $45,105.90
4. Warrant AP2517

2. Appointments and Resignations
   1. Board of Registrar Appointment – Joe Slowinski (Previously Tabled)

3. New Business
   None
4. Old Business
   1. Approve Change Order for ET&L re: Jacksonville Road Slope Stabilization Project; Project Updates

5. Administrator Updates
   1. Heath Road Culvert Replacement Project Updates
   2. Colrain Wood Bank Survey & Regionalization Meeting
   3. Fee Schedules & Policy Under Review
   4. Tech Inventory & Upgrades in Progress

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

7. Requests for Future Agenda Items
   1. Updates from Interim Highway Superintendent, Nate Gilbert – tentative for November 5
   2. Tax Classification Hearing with Board of Assessors – tentative for November 19
   3. Annual Licensing

8. Correspondence and Select Board Informational Items (votes will not be taken)
   1. Trunk or Treat, Colrain Central School Parking Lot, Sunday, October 27, 2024, 1 pm-4 pm
   2. Road Closures on October 25 and October 28 for Filming
   3. 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.

Select Board 2024-10-22 Minutes (2024-12-17 at 9:43 AM)