| Agenda: | REGULAR SELECT BOARD MEETING
Senior Center
40 Field Street Extension
With option for remote Zoom participation:
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May 23, 2022 – 7:00 P.M.
Agenda
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1. Call to Order
2. Pledge
3. Roll Call
4. Board Re-organization—elect Chair, Vice Chair
5. Minutes
6. 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 the 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 try to attend in-person.
7. Appointment Ratifications:
Jason Dion as Plumbing/Gas Inspector, effective May 23, pending pre-employment physical
8. Waste Management & Recycling Committee membership
Remove Dalton Health Agent
Add At-Large Representative
9. Town Hall construction update
10. Letter of support for MassTrails Grant; Greenagers
11. Town Planner update
12. Sign Dispatch agreements with Windsor and Hinsdale
13. Proposed Special Town Meeting in June: additional debt authorizations for sewer work; Town Hall renovations; miscellaneous grants account deficit for FY 2021
14. Discussion: Remaining ARPA funds and how to use balance
15. Update on Hinsdale/Dalton Police Department merger
16. Report on Town Debt
17. Discussion on Bardin property
18. Vacation Rollover: 26 hours for Town Manager; 40 hours for Police Chief
19. Town Manager Update
20. Future Agenda Items
21. Items not anticipated 48 hours before the meeting
22. Remarks of the Select Board
23. ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Tax Collector, Assessors, Health Agent and Building Inspector have moved from Town Hall, across the street, to the old Berkshire Bank building at 488 Main Street. With the rise in Covid cases, we encourage you to use drop boxes located outside of Town Hall for any payments, or you still can stop over to their new location.
With the upcoming Town operation of the Transfer Station, residents will still be able to use up their old bags and will be able to buy car permits and bag stickers both by check at the Transfer Station and on the Town’s website.
The following committees have vacancies and are looking for volunteers:
ADA Committee
Beautification Commission
Conservation Commission
Dalton Cable Advisory Committee
Dalton Green Committee
Dalton Redevelopment Authority
Finance Committee
Stormwater Management Commission
Waste Management and Recycling Committee
If interested, please reach out to the Town Manager’s Office by calling 413-684-6111 ext. 202
24. Next meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, June 13, 2022 at 7:00PM at the Senior Center with an option for Zoom participation
25. Executive Session- Not to return to Open Session
Reason #2- To conduct strategy sessions in preparation for negotiations with nonunion personnel or to conduct collective bargaining sessions or contract negotiations with nonunion personnel;
• Highway contract
• Town Manager (amendment)
• Highway Superintendent (amendment)
• Highway Foreman
• Police Chief
• Police Sergeants
Reason #7- To comply with, or act under the authority of, any general or special law or federal grant-in-aid requirements;
• Consider prior Executive Session Minutes:
February 7, 2022; February 14, 2022; February 28, 2022; March 7, 2022
26. Adjourn |