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Tuesday, July 23, 4:30 pm until 6:30 pm
Highway Garage, 9 Jacksonville Rd, Colrain, MA
A meeting of the Select Board

SELECT BOARD/MLP BOARD

Meeting Agenda

REGULAR MEETING*

Highway Garage

9 Jacksonville Road

July 23, 2024

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.

Call to order: 4:30 p.m.

1. Consent Items
   1. Review/Approve Warrants and Meeting Minutes
      1. Warrant – AP2455 in the amount of $38,830.83
      2. Warrant – AP2503 in the amount of $432,105.16
      3. Minutes – July 2, 2024 and July 9, 2024

2. Appointments and Resignations
   1. Franklin Regional Planning Board – Appoint Select Board Representative

3. New Business
   1. Award Contract [IFB 2024-2134] Heath Road Culvert Replacement Project to Western Earthworks for the sum of $516,342.80

4. Old Business
   1. Review Ad Posting for Highway Laborer
   2. Review Amended Host Community Agreement (HCA) for Atlantic Farms, LLC. (Tier 7 Cultivation)

5. Administrator Updates

1. Administrative Office Reconfiguration
2. Planning/Funding for Hybrid/Zoom Set-up
3. Misc. Communication Updates (Dept Head Mtg, Meet & Greet, Senior Luncheon)
4. Misc. Project Updates

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

7. Requests for Future Agenda Items

8. Correspondence and Select Board Informational Items (votes will not be taken)
9. Executive Session:
   M.G.L. c. 30A, § 21, #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 Department – THE BOARD WILL NOT RETURN TO OPEN MEETING.
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 July 16, 2022, Lt. Governor Polito, as Acting Governor, 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 March 31, 2025 – 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 2024-07-23 Minutes (2024-08-27 at 9:55 AM)