| Agenda: | TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON
SELECT BOARD AGENDA
Tuesday, September 22, 2020 AT 6:00 PM
Town Hall (Virtual Zoom Meeting)
210 College Highway, Southampton, MA 01073
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Please note that due to the COVID-19/Coronavirus outbreak and due to Governor Baker’s Order that Town Hall is closed to the public in regards to public meetings of the Select Board unless otherwise postponed or cancelled. Otherwise they will livestream the Select Board meeting via Zoom on the internet and via Public Access TV on Charter/Spectrum Channel 191. In person attendance and Public Comment at Select Board Meetings will be suspended until further notice. If you e-mail a written Public Comment before the scheduled Select Board Meeting it will be read at that Select Board Meeting, if you e-mail a written Public Comment after viewing something at a live-streamed Select Board Meeting it will be read at the next Select Board Meeting. Please send your Public Comments via e-mail to Selectmen@townofsouthampton.org Please note that all Public Comments must be within the requirements of the Policy on Public Comments listed in the “Open Time for the Public” below:
To Watch on Computer/Tablet or phone
• Go to Zoom.us/join
o Hit “Join a meeting” in top right of screen
o Type in Meeting ID: 827-5683-3086
o Password: 922015
o Hit “Join”
o Please be sure to mute your device when joining in
Note: to join in video meeting with cell phone you will need to down load the zoom app from the app store.
Call in Telephone #646-558-8656
Pledge of Allegiance
• Call to Order
Appointments/Resignations
• Select Board Liaison assignments & Committee appointments
• Select Board member to be the primary authorized signor of the Payable Warrants & an authorized member to be their back-up when not available
Qtrly. Reports
• Health Department – Charlie Kaniecki, BOH, Vice Chair
• Fire/EMS Department – John Workman - Fire Chief
• Highway Department – Randall Kemp - Highway Superintendent
Presentations –Public Information Session – 6:45 PM
• East Street Bridge – Public Information Session
Reports
• Select Board
• Ad Hoc Grants Committee Update
• Town Administrator Report
Old Business
• 29 Cottage Ave, BOH Requests Authorization for Use of Legal Funds
• 93 College Highway – Purchase & Sale Agreement
• DOER Grant – Update
• Easthampton Media – PEG Equipment
New Business: Action/Discussion
• Proposed Articles for Annual Town Meeting
Community Preservation Requests
o Park Commission for the installation of two Pickle Ball Courts at Conant Park $115,00
Capital Requests
o Highway Dept. F550 equivalent with plow and drop in sander $140,000 borrowing
o Library, Security system $5,800
o Building Dept., Wide Format Scanner $7,000
o Tasers 3 units, $12,600
o Desktop PC’s replacement (6) $7,600 Capital stabilization
o Easthampton Media _ PEG Access Equipment for Town hall $47,895.50
• Approval of employee for short term disability
• Planning Board – Zoning Application form approval
• Halloween
• CARES Act Funding
• IT status updates – Town Hall
• Any other necessary business that cannot await the next regular October 6th Select Board meeting.
Signatures
• Personnel Change Forms (PCF - PRF)
• None
Licenses/Permits
• None
Warrants
P 21-12 $291,987.91 Payroll Warrant
PD 21-12 $47,906.15 Payroll Deductible Warrant
Other Documents requiring Signatures
• None
Minutes to Approve
• June 9, 2020
• June 23, 2020
Pending Items
• Dog Complaint – White Loaf
• DOER Green Community Grant Update
• Charter Building Fomer Road
• Clearwater Woodland – boundary
• ST/LT Disability
Calendar & Announcements
• Select Board Meetings October – TBD
• East Street Bridge – Hearing/Public Notification – September 22nd
• Special Town Meeting – Tentative Oct. 17th and 24th
“Open Time for the Public”
The Select Board reserves a portion of its meetings for public comment and encourages participation as follows:
• Open time is a time when town residents can bring matters before the Select Board that require a minimum of discussion and are not on the agenda.
• Please try to keep your comments short and to the point. Plan on being allowed up to five minutes per person, not per topic, to speak at any meeting under open time, only.
• If it appears that the topic(s) being discussed will consume longer than the five minutes allocated then, at the discretion of the Chair, the matter will be placed on an upcoming Select Board meeting agenda.
• If you believe that your topic will require more time or desire to make a more formal presentation than is allowed under these guidelines, please contact the Town Administrator to ask to be put on a future agenda so that we can properly allocate enough time.
• You are free to ask questions or to make your point for all to consider. However, engaging in active debate with the Select Board or audience members will not be allowed. All comments and questions must be directed to the Chair of the Board.
• All remarks must be respectful and courteous, free of name-calling and personal attacks. Inappropriate language will not be tolerated.
Correspondence
Read any letters or comments received.
Executive Sessions
• MGL c. 30A Sec 21 (a) # 3 – To discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining or litigation if an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the bargaining or litigating position of the public body and the chair so declares. Police Officers – New England Benevolent Police Association
Select Board to adjourn Meeting and not return to Open Session |