Select Board Meeting

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Tuesday, April 15, 5:00 pm until 8:30 pm
9 Jacksonville Road & Online
A meeting of the Select Board

SELECT BOARD/MLP BOARD

HYBRID MEETING*

Agenda**

Highway Garage

9 Jacksonville Road

April 15, 2025

5:00 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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5:00 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 (Director of Assessing).
• Approve Executive Session Minutes from 3/11/2025

The Board will reconvene in open session following the executive session (approximately 5:50 p.m.).

2. Consent Items

Review/Approve Warrants & Minutes

3. Appointments and Resignations
   1. None

4. New Business
   1. Declare Surplus Property for Disposal; Police Cruiser, Rolltop Desk (Letter Provided per 930 CMR 5.08:10 Retirement Gifts).

5. Old Business
   1. FY26 Budget Meetings, Continued.

Call to Order Finance Committee Meeting – 6:00 pm

• Assessor Budget Presentation – 6:00 PM
  • Operational expenses, cyclical inspections, property cards update. Q&A and recommendations.
• Town Clerk Budget Presentation – 6:20 PM
  • Operational expenses, Election Costs, Other miscellaneous. Q&A and recommendations.

• Review Final Draft FY26 Omnibus Budget Recommended by TA
• Review Draft FY26 Annual Town Meeting Warrant: Discuss Public Information Session and Town Meeting Details
• Set Next Meeting Date(s).

Dissolve Finance Committee Meeting

6. Administrator Updates

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

8. Requests for Future Agenda Items
   • • Sign Annual Town Meeting Warrant, 04/22/25
     • Renew Lease with MTRSD for Colrain Central School, 05/20/25
     • Personnel Policy Changes re: O/T Calculation & Reimbursement for Call-In, 05/20/25
     • Updates re: Colrain Sewer District Treatment Options

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 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.