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Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 4:30 pm until 6:30 pm
Microsoft Teams Only due to Severe Winter Weather
A meeting of the Select Board

SELECT BOARD/MLP BOARD

HYBRID MEETING*

Agenda**

Highway Garage

9 Jacksonville Road

THIS MEETING WILL ONLY BE HELD HYBRID THIS EVENING DUE TO SEVERE WINTER STORM

December 2, 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

1. Minutes of 10/28/2025 and 11/4/2025
2. Warrant PR 2610 in the amount of $27,492.16
3. Warrant AP 2622 in the amount of $470,866.17
4. Warrant AP 2623 in the amount of $17,074.24

2. Appointments and Resignations

3. New Business
   1. Accept Donation of Snow Removal at Griswold Memorial Library; Revisit 12/16/25 w Highway Dept.
   2. Annual Select Board License Renewals:
      1. 2025 ABCC Retail License Renewals

• Catamount Country Store, Inc., Annual Package Store All Alcoholic Beverages, Fee $1,000
• Pine Hill Orchards – Annual Package Store Wines and Malt, Fee $750

ii. 2025 Common Victualler License

• • • • Catamount Country Store, Inc., Fee $25
      • Pine Hill Orchards, Fee $25

iii. 2025 Class II and Class III

• Marty’s Repair, Class II – To Buy or Sell Second-Hand Motor Vehicles, Used Car Dealer License, Fee $50 (Marty Bird)
• M & T Auto, Class II – To Buy or Sell Second-Hand Motor Vehicles, Used Car Dealer’s License, Fee $50 (Mark Scranton & Brian Scranton)
• M & T Auto, Class III -- Motor Vehicle Junk License, Fee $50 (Mark Scranton and Brian Scranton)

4. Old Business
   1. Colrain Sewer District Update Meeting (larger group); Thursday, December 18, 9 am
   2. Review Draft Highway Foreman Job Description with Highway Dept FY26 Budget; Request to Adopt effective 12/15/25

5. Administrator Updates

6. Public and Board Member Comments (votes will not be taken)
   1. Update from Chair from COA November Meeting

7. Requests for Future Agenda Items

a. Meet Highway Department Staff, 12/16/25; Updates from Superintendent

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

Posted to: Select Board on 2025-06-30 11:13:45 (updated 2025-12-02 15:36:32).

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