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Tuesday, October 28, 2025, 4:30 pm until 6:30 pm
Highway Garage, 9 Jacksonville Rd, Colrain, MA and Microsoft Teams
A meeting of the Select Board

SELECT BOARD/MLP BOARD

HYBRID MEETING*

Agenda**

Highway Garage

9 Jacksonville Road

October 28, 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

Executive Session

Vote to Enter into Executive Session pursuant to M.G.L. c.30A, Sec. 21(a), paragraph 2 for the following:

a. To conduct contract negotiations with nonunion personnel, Interim Highway Superintendent

The Board will return to Open Session at 5:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m. Discussion re: Police Chief position; Request to Review Wages/Salary for Full-Time Position; Joint Meeting in Heath Follow up; Chief Chris Lannon

1. Consent Items

Review/Approve Warrants & Minutes

a. Minutes of 7/22/25, 9/22/25, 9/23/25 and 10/7/25

b. Warrant PR 2607 in the amount of $48,455.80

c. Warrant AP 2617 in the amount of $588,174.34
d. Warrant AP 2618 in the amount of $13,078.83

2. Appointments and Resignations

3. New Business

4. Old Business
   1. Council on Aging Conflict of Interest Disclosures Per MGL 268A
   2. Review Motions w Finance Committee Recommendations for Special Town Meeting Warrant of November 4, 2025
   3. Review Letter re: Donation of Gate from Barnhardt Manufacturing Co.; Accept Donation of Personal Property per M.G.L. C 44, §53A½
   4. Letter Received from MA DOT; Response to Request for Snow Removal Support of Route 112

5. Administrator Updates
   1. Update on Laborer/Equipment Operator Hiring

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

a. Update re: Work Bee for Wood Bank; Received Specs for Wooden Sign

7. Requests for Future Agenda Items

a. Tax Classification Hearing, November 18, 2025

8. Correspondence and Select Board Informational Items (votes will not be taken)
   1. Opioid Abatement Collaborative Progress Report
1. Executive Session
   Vote to Enter into Executive Session pursuant to M.G.L. c.30A, Sec. 21(a), paragraph 2 for the following:
   1. To conduct strategy sessions in preparation for negotiations with nonunion personnel, Interim Highway Superintendent; and
   2. To conduct contract negotiations with nonunion personnel, Town Administrator.

The Board will not return to Open Session.

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.

Select Board 2025-10-28 Minutes (2025-12-10 at 10:48 AM)

Posted to: Select Board on 2025-06-30 11:13:45 (updated 2026-01-22 19:12:53).

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