Select Board Meeting

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Tuesday, March 25, 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

March 25, 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) – Contract Negotiations
   The Select Board will enter executive session to conduct contract negotiations with nonunion personnel (Highway Superintendent).

The Board will reconvene in open session following the executive session (approximately 5:40 p.m.).

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

1. Approve Minutes of February 11, 2025
2. Warrant AP2537 in the amount of $145,824.08
3. Warrant PR2518 in the amount of $29,853.11

3. Appointments and Resignations

None

4. New Business
   1. Consider Bylaw Changes
      1. Finance Committee Bylaw (minor clean up)
      2. Unregistered Motor Vehicle Bylaw
   2. Close Annual Town Meeting Warrant, effective April 3, 2025; Review List of Articles

5. Old Business
   1. FY26 Budget Meetings, Continued. Call to Order Finance Committee – 6:00 pm

• Education Budget Presentation
  • Franklin County Technical School – 6:00 PM
    • Operational expenses, programs, staffing, and building maintenance.
    • Q&A and recommendations.
  • Mohawk Trail Regional School District including Colrain Central School – 6:45 PM
    • Operational expenses, programs, staffing, and building maintenance.
    • Q&A and recommendations.
• Library Budget Presentation – 7:30 PM
  • Operational expenses, programs, staffing, and building maintenance. Feasibility study status & update.
  • Q&A and recommendations.
• Board of Health Budget Presentation – 8:15 PM
  • Operational expenses, costs for condemnations, Mosquito District membership.
  • Q&A and recommendations.

Dissolve Finance Committee – 9:00 pm

6. Administrator Updates
   1. Update Following Pole Hearing re West Leyden Road; Temporary Step-Up Transformer & Poles at 345 West Leyden Road

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

8. Requests for Future Agenda Items

FY26 Budget Meetings Continued, 04/08/25

Review DRAFT ATM Warrant, 04/08/25

Updates re: Colrain Sewer District Treatment Options

Personnel Policy Changes re: O/T Calculation & Reimbursement for Call-In

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.