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Meeting Agenda

REGULAR MEETING*

Highway Garage

9 Jacksonville Road

August 27, 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 as listed below:

1. Warrant AP2508 in the amount of $58,164.06

2. Warrant AP2509

3. Warrant PR2502 in the amount of $24,283.14

4. Warrant PR2503 in the amount of $20,439.43

5. Executive Session Meeting Minutes of July 23, 2024

6. Meeting Minutes of August 13, 2024

2. Appointments and Resignations: None

3. New Business

4. Old Business:

   1. Update re: Hiring of Highway Laborer/Equipment Operator staff

   2. TA Proposal re: COA Foot Clinic Location for Oct/Nov

5. Administrator Updates: None

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

7. Requests for Future Agenda Items: None

8. Correspondence and Select Board Informational Items (votes will not be taken)
   1. MassDEP Extension Letter for Colrain Sewer District Collection System
   2. Invitation to Colrain Central School First Day Celebration, August 28, 8:30 am-10 am
   3. Colrain Fix-It Day, Saturday, September 7, 2024, 11 am-2 pm. FRTA Shuttle Available at Colrain Central School beginning at 10:30 am.

   4. Crafts of Colrain Open Studio Tour, November 9-10, 2024, 10 am-4 pm

9. Executive Session: None

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 2024-08-27 Minutes (2024-09-26 at 9:54 AM)