Agenda: | 1. Welcome by the Chair
2. Review of Minutes
3. Introduction of New Board Members
Harry Comerford, Hardwick
Nick Thomo, Brookfield
Diane Vayda, West Brookfield
4. Massachusetts Regionalization & Innovation Conference
• September 16, 2013, 9:00 – 2:30, at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, $40
• Steve Fleshman is a speaker for the panel on “Good Governance for Regional Programs”
5. Update on the Invitation to Other Communities to Join the Cooperative: Holland, Wales, Monson, New Braintree, Barre, and Oakham
6. Procurement
• COOP Procurements – Sign Materials, Paint, Line Painting, Drain Pipe
• Possible Application to Homeland Security for a Bucket Lift
• Feasibility of a Joint Purchase of a Catch Basin Cleaner for the Cooperative
• Possible Use of Chapter 90 Funds to Purchase a Truck, or Obtain a Surplus Truck from Fort Devens, for the Catch Basin Cleaner and/or Bucket Lift
• Radios for Hardwick
7. Update of Procurement to Hire a Labor Consultant
8. Update of Equipment Use by Community, Cindy Thompson
9. Discussion of $500 Annual Dues per Town for Administration
10. Discussion of Next Round of the CIC Program 11.
Other Business
12. Set Date for Next Meeting |