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Tuesday, May 27, 2025, 4:30 pm until 6:30 pm
Highway Garage, 9 Jacksonville Rd, Colrain, MA
A meeting of the Select Board

TOWN OF COLRAIN

55 Main Road

Colrain, Massachusetts 01340

Tel: 413-624-6306

www.colrain-ma.gov

SELECT BOARD/MLP BOARD

HYBRID MEETING*

Agenda**

Highway Garage

9 Jacksonville Road

May 27, 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. Consent Items

Review/Approve Warrants & Minutes

2. Appointments and Resignations
   1. None

3. New Business
   1. Reorganize Select Board; Vote Chair, Vice-Chair and Clerk; Review FY26 Select Board Meeting Schedule; Address Dates & Times of Meetings
   2. Request Pole Attachment License for Brackets & Flags Located on Greenfield Road Poles (per map)
   3. FY2025 Broadband Uncollectables and other MLP Manager Updates, Mike Slowinski

4. Old Business
   1. Review Transfer Station Rules/Regulations re: Oversize Trailers
   2. Revisit request for Wood Bank Need and Location, Laurie Francis, Representative

5. Administrator Updates

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

7. Requests for Future Agenda Items
   • Review Highway Superintendent Job Description & Advertisement, June 10
   • Vote to Sign Amended Lease Agreement Through June 2035, with MTRSD for CCS, June 10
   • 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
   • Updates re: Colrain Sewer District Treatment Options

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

Select Board 2025-05-27 Minutes (2025-08-28 at 12:15 PM)

Posted to: Select Board on 2024-08-07 10:42:01 (updated 2025-09-10 11:55:13).

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