| Agenda: | TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON
SELECT BOARD AGENDA
Joint Meeting with Board of Assessors
Tuesday, November 9, 2021 AT 6:00 PM
Town Hall
1st Floor Meeting Room
210 College Highway, Southampton, MA 01073
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Pledge of Allegiance
• Call to Order
Public Hearings – 6:00 PM
• 6:00 PM - Pole Hearing – NSTAR Electric Co. D/B/A Eversource Energy – Install one (1) solely owned pole. The new pole will be located five hundred ten (510) feet west of the centerline of County Road and fifteen (15) feet north of the centerline of Wallace Street. The purpose of this new pole is to relocate pole #10-30-3 per customer request and to eliminate an aerial trespass. The existing pole is to be removed.
Location – 10 Wallace Street.
• 6:05 PM - Tax Classification Public Hearing – 6:05 PM Joint Meeting with Board of Assessors
Presentations
• None
“Open Time for the Public”
The Select Board reserves a portion of its meetings for public comment and encourages participation as follows:
• Open time is a time when town residents can bring matters before the Select Board that require a minimum of discussion and are not on the agenda.
• Please try to keep your comments short and to the point. Plan on being allowed up to five minutes per person, not per topic, to speak at any meeting under open time, only.
• If it appears that the topic(s) being discussed will consume longer than the five minutes allocated then, at the discretion of the Chair, the matter will be placed on an upcoming Select Board meeting agenda.
• If you believe that your topic will require more time or desire to make a more formal presentation than is allowed under these guidelines, please contact the Town Administrator to ask to be put on a future agenda so that we can properly allocate enough time.
• You are free to ask questions or to make your point for all to consider. However, engaging in active debate with the Select Board or audience members will not be allowed. All comments and questions must be directed to the Chair of the Board.
• All remarks must be respectful and courteous, free of name-calling and personal attacks. Inappropriate language will not be tolerated.
Qtrly. Reports
• Highway Dept/Transfer Station – Randall Kemp, Highway Superintendent
• Board of Health – Kaitlyn Swistak-Rooks, Chair
• Ad Hoc Grant Committee – Christine Fowles, Chair
Appointments/Resignations
• Robin Richard – Resignation – Personnel Policy & Procedures Board
• Derek Geser – Resignation – Personnel Policy & Procedures Board
• Tracy Collins – Library Board of Trustees – Term to expire at the next Annual Town Election, May 17, 2022
• Joanne Alderman – Personnel Policies & Procedures Board – Term to expire at the next Annual Town Election, May 17, 2022
Reports
• Town Administrator Report
• Select Board
Old Business
• Audit Update Outstanding Issues
• Annual Audit Contract Scope of Work
• East Street Bridge – Update
New Business: Action/Discussion
• Precincting for Southampton – Town Clerk, Luci Dalton – Select Board approval of 2 Precincts
• Communication – Melanson – PCF’s
• Collaborative for Education (CES) for Mass in Motion reprocurement Discussion
• Right of First Refusal – Map 29, Lot 65 – MGL 61A Notification letter
• COVID-19 Update
• CARES Act – Update
• American Rescue Act – Update
• Revenue & Expenditures FY 2022 – Update
• Cost Efficiencies Alternative Committee Discussions & Appointments
• Requests for Special Town Meeting Articles
o Police Wage Transfer $15,000 from Police Wage Account to Police Overtime Account
o Police Expense Transfer $13,000 from Police Wage Account to Police Expense Account
o Police Building Expense Transfer $3,000 from Communications Expense Account to Police Building Expense Account.
o Police Equipment Maintenance Transfer $4,650 from Regional Lock-up Assessment
o Unpaid Previous Fiscal Year Bills (3)
o Library Request for Funding to Meet their State Requirement $9,879
o Employment Advertising Transfer $105
o Town Accountant Expenses Transfer from Salary $9,878.40 from Accountant Wages
o Replacement Dump/Plow Truck Highway – Borrowing - $261,000?
o Tree Expenses Transfer $8,000?
o Transfer Station $25,000 from Retained Earnings to purchase Recycling Containers
o Elections – 10 Voting Booths for new Precinct - $2,200 from
o Elections – 1 Voting Machine for new Precinct - $5,700 from
o Fire/EMS Wages $30,000 from Ambulance Receipts reserved for Appropriation
o Others received
o Community Preservation Sponsored Articles
Canal $20,000 for PVPC from Historical Preservation Account
Greenway $270,000 for acquiring Right of way and Design from Undesignated account
PARC $86,000 for Conant Park Path and Splash Pad from Undesignated Account.
• Any other necessary business that cannot await the next regular November 23rd Select Board Meeting.
Signatures
• Personnel Change Forms (PCF - PRF)
• None
Licenses/Permits
• None
Warrants
None
Other Documents requiring Signatures
• None
Minutes to Approve
• None
Pending Items
• Naming Rights
• Old Town Hall
• Charter Building Fomer Road
• Clearwater Woodland – Boundary
• DOER – Green Community Grant
Calendar & Announcements
• Select Board Meetings Nov 9th & 23rd
• Select Board Meetings December - TBD
Select Board to adjourn Open Session
Executive Sessions
• None |