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Select Board Meeting

Tuesday, August 26, 2025, 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

August 26, 2025

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

4:35 p.m. Acceptance of Conservation Restriction (CR) located at 413 Adamsville Rd donated to Franklin Land Trust by landowner Judson DeCew, Liam Cregan, Land Conservation Specialist, Frankin Land Trust

4:45 p.m. Request to be Colrain Representative on the MTRSD 2D8T Steering Committee, Kennedy Strakose-Hagen, 411 Jacksonville Road

5:00 p.m. Notice of Public Hearing for Unregistered Motor Vehicles located at 69 Adamsville Road
In accordance with the Town of Colrain General By-Laws, Unregistered Motor Vehicle By-Law, the Select Board of the Town of Colrain will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 5:00 pm in-person at the Colrain Highway Garage (9 Jacksonville Rd, Colrain, MA) and remotely via Microsoft Teams regarding an application for a special permit for the purpose of storing more than one unregistered motor vehicle at 69 Adamsville Rd, Colrain, MA.

  1. Consent Items

Review/Approve Warrants & Minutes

  1. Minutes of 5/27/2025, 6/10/2025, 6/24/2025
  2. Warrant PR2602 in the amount of $34,122.64
  3. Warrant AP2607 in the amount of $31,168.77

  1. Appointments and Resignations

  1. New Business
    1. Request from FRCOG to Support MassDOT Application to the Federal Railroad Administration’s Corridor Identification and Development (Corridor ID) Program for the Northern Tier Passenger Rail; Sign Support Letter
    2. Notice re Smith Vocational Student Transportation and Tuition Needed for FY26; To be Added to STM Warrant

  1. Old Business
    1. Receive Responses from Chris Curtiss re Questions from 8/12 meeting; Vote on Request for Town Endorsement of Study and Support for Deerfield River and its tributaries to be Designated as a National Wild and Scenic River
    2. Readdress Notice of Outstanding Host Community Municipal Equity Submission; Vote to Adopt Social Equity Plan and Host Agreement Policy (as opposed to Model Bylaw)
    3. Adopt Final Highway Superintendent Job Description; Re-Address Hiring Committee Formation, Process and Timing; Vote to Approve Advertisement
    4. Address Transition of Interim Superintendent and Next Steps

  1. Administrator Updates
    1. HO Cook Forest Fire; Thank you to all Fire (Public Safety) Personnel & EMD for Communications
    2. Update on Use of Emergency Alert System
    3. Orders to Correct for 6 Greenfield Road
    4. Update on Hiring Process re: Library Director
    5. Update on Hiring Laborer/Equipment Operator I
    6. Information from MTRSD re CCS Abutter Issue

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

  1. Requests for Future Agenda Items
  • Follow Up from Meeting 7/8/25 with Police Chief re: Police Department Staffing, 9/9/25
  • Schedule Fall Special Town Meeting (11/4/25); Review List of Proposed Articles, 9/9/25
  • Review FY25 Performance Appraisal for Town Administrator; Adopt FY26 TA Goals & Objectives
  • Schedule Joint Meeting with Council on Aging Re: COA Formation, Services & Facilities

  1. Correspondence and Select Board Informational Items (votes will not be taken)
  2. 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.

Select Board 2025-08-26 Minutes (2025-10-15 at 12:49 PM)

Posted to: Select Board on 2025-06-30 11:13:45 (updated 2026-03-22 13:26:35).

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