| Agenda: | SELECT BOARD MEETING
Senior Center
40 Field Street Extension
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Monday, March 11, 2024 – 6:00 P.M.
Agenda
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6 p.m. Executive session, for Reason #1, anticipated executive session in accordance with G.L. c. 30A, s. 21(a)(1), to discuss complaints against a Town employee
7 p.m. Regular session
1. Call to order
2. Pledge
3. Roll Call
4. Minutes
5. Public Address to the Board:
This is the time when the Public may address the Board on any item listed on the meeting agenda or on any issue or matter of the Town. If you intend on addressing the Board at this time we ask that you do the following:
Please identify yourself by name, address or the company/institution you represent.
The Public Address to the Board segment will last no longer than 30 minutes.
Please make your comments concise and try not to repeat statements made by others.
Please address your comments to the Board Chair.
Discussion or debate on any issue may not take place at this time.
The Chair or their designee may answer questions on procedural matters.
Please be cordial and respectful of others.
If anyone wishes to be recognized when the Board discusses an agenda item, please make that request at this time. The Board Chair may grant this request. Address comments to the Board Chair and be concise.
We are meeting in person and making this meeting available via Zoom for the convenience of the public. Since we are meeting in person, we will not be responsible for any technical difficulties, so if you would like to be sure of participating, please attend in person.
6. Appointment ratification:
Chuck Gaylord as Buildings and Grounds Assistant, effective March 11, 2024 to June 30, 2024, pending a pre-employment physical
7. Accept grant for Police Department program for disposing of prescription medications
8. Approve CRA’s 47th annual Dalton Road Race on Sunday, May 5, 2024
9. Community Development Block Grant: additional Berkshire Regional Planning Commission program
10. Public Hearing-
Pole Relocation Request
11. FY25 Budgets:
192 Building Maintenance, 196 Town Hall, 135 Accountant, 424 Streetlights, 449 Waste Water Treatment, 320 Vocational Education, 146 Collector, 158 Postage, 145 Treasurer, 710 Debt Service, 914 Group Health, 915 Group Life insurance, 911 Retirement, 916 Medicare Tax, 919 Employee benefits, 945 Town insurance, 543 Veterans, 310 CBRSD
423 Snow & Ice revised
Revised by Finance Committee- 210 Police Dept, 244 Building Inspector, 292 Animal Control
Overall budget review
12. Draft warrant for May Town Meeting
13. Discussion: request for partial payment for sewer lateral
14. Updated EV charging station proposal
15. Proposed resolution in support of Paint Stewardship Legislation
16. Priority Capital Projects
17. Discussion: Digital annual report
18. Town Manager Update
19. Future Agenda Items
20. Items not anticipated 48 hours before the meeting
21. Remarks of the Select Board
22. ANNOUNCEMENTS
Annual car permits, bag stickers and Recycling Only car permits are available for purchase at the Transfer Station and on the Town’s website.
There are numerous committees and boards with vacancies. Please see the Town website for more information, or reach out to the Town Manager’s Office.
The Dalton Housing Authority has one vacancy on their board. Must be a Dalton resident. Please contact Sue Gregory at 684-2493 for more information.
Is your electricity bill too high? The Town has contracted with Colonial Power to provide an electricity plan for town residents that takes advantage of joining with other communities to have a larger customer base for negotiations, which has resulted in prices lower than current Eversource prices. Please note, this may not always be the case. For more detail or to opt in or opt out, visit the Town’s website or call the Town Manager’s Office.
The Dalton Police Department would like to remind residents of the Winter Parking ban, which is in effect from November 15, 2023 through April 15, 2024. There will be no parking allowed on streets between these dates and between the hours of 1AM and 6AM.
The Department of Public Works would like to remind residents to remove basketball hoops in the roadway, as well as ones that hang over the roadway between the dates of November 1, 2023 and April 15, 2024.
23. Next Meeting: The next special meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, March 25, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. at the Senior Center, with an option for remote participation.
24. Executive Session:
For Reason #7: To comply with, or act under the authority of, any general or special law or federal grant-in-aid requirements; namely, to review and approve executive session minutes
• January 31, 2024 & February 5, 2024
25. Adjourn |