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Select Board Meeting -- SCHEDULED

Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 4:30 pm until 6:30 pm
Highway Garage, 9 Jacksonville Rd, Colrain, MA and Microsoft Teams
A meeting of the Select Board

SELECT BOARD/MLP BOARD

HYBRID MEETING*

Agenda**

Highway Garage

9 Jacksonville Road

April 14, 2026

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.

*THIS MEETING WILL BE HYBRID, WITH BOTH AN IN-PERSON AND REMOTE PARTICIPATION OPTION.¹

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4:30 p.m. Call to Order

4:30 pm Land Trust Landscape Scale Colrain and Heath Conservation Effort, Liam Cregan, Land Conservation Specialist, Franklin Land Trust

4:50 pm Address Council on Aging Membership and Request for Disclosures, COA Members

5:00 pm FY27 Budget, Discussion of Operations and Surplus Property Disposal re: Public Safety & Public Works, Chief Lannon, Chief Anzuoni, Nate Gilbert, Highway Superintendent

  1. Consent Items

a. Approve Meeting Minutes

b. Warrant AP 2638 in the amount of $19,741.47

c. Warrant PR 2619 in the amount of $25,847.67
d. Warrant AP 2639 in the amount of $32,635.13

e. Warrant AP 2640 in the amount of $51,152.41

f. Warrant PR 2620

  1. Appointments and Resignations

  1. New Business
    1. Approve One Day Liquor License Request from Colrain Central School PTO
    2. Renew Intermunicipal Agreement for the Upper Pioneer Valley Veterans’ Services District from July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2028
    3. Discuss Woodlands Partnership Grant Application
    4. Amend Personnel Policy to Include 50% Health Coverage for Retiree Spouses Beginning 7/1/26

  1. Old Business
    1. Finalize FY27 Budget
    2. Review Final Draft of Annual Town Meeting Warrant
    3. Readdress Community One Stop Grant Application

  1. Administrator Updates

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

  1. Requests for Future Agenda Items
    1. Appointment of Hazard Mitigation Planning Committee
    2. New Host Community Agreement (HCA) for NE Craft Cultivators

  1. Correspondence and Select Board Informational Items (votes will not be taken)
    1. Community Meeting Scheduled by NE Craft Cultivators for May 19 at 6 pm at Highway Garage Meeting Room
    2. Massachusetts Select Board Association Western and Rural Massachusetts Conference, Saturday May 2, 2026, Delaney House, Holyoke MA – Registration is Open
    3. FRCOG 2025 Annual Report

  1. 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 March 28, 2025, Governor Healey, 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 June 30, 2027 – 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.

Posted to: Select Board on 2025-06-30 11:12:57 (updated 2026-04-09 20:38:19).

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