| Agenda: | ***UPDATED 1/6/2016***
APPOINTMENTS:
7:30 PM - BMS Weather Bug Station funding request from Highland Commons mitigation account
NEW BUSINESS
1. Accountant time off request – Vote
2. Approval of attendance at MMA Annual Meeting & Trade Show – Booman & Arata - Vote
3. Approval of refunds: (a) FY15 Motor Vehicle; (b) FY16 Real Estate – Vote(s)
4. Approval of letter to EMD Director regarding Feb. 1, 2016 merger of post into Fire and EMS Department and termination of appointment - Vote
5. Approval of refund(s): (a) FY15 Motor Vehicle; (b) FY16 Real Estate – Vote(s)
6. Approval of FY17 Budget Requests: (a) Highway, (b) Plumbing & Gas Inspector; (c) Conservation Comm.; (d) REVISED – Highway Snow & Ice – Vote(s)
7. Approval of 2016 License Renewals – Vote(s)
a. Starbucks, Solomon Pond Mall – Common Vic.
b. Wheeler’s Garage, 75 Carter Street – Class I Motor Vehicles Sales
c. Village Power Equipment, 244 Pleasant Street – Class I Motor Vehicle Sales
d. Berlin Farms, 200 Central Street – Common Vic; Sunday Ice Cream
e. Re-signing original duplicate (prev. approved 11/23/15) – RWJ Beverage (MA) dba The Wine Cellar, 1 Highland Commons West (within BJ’s Wholesale Club store) – Wine and Malt Beverage Alcohol License
8. Discussions: (a) re-schedule Morrison v Musorofiti Dog complaint hearings; (b) scheduling Personnel Reviews (Accountant, Admin. Sec., Highway Supt.); (c) Devens Dispatch meeting update; (d) Timing/presentation of FY17 Fire and EMS Department budget request – Vote(s)
9. Miscellaneous Correspondence
a. Selectmen account reconciliations through Sept. 30, 2015
b. Misc. FY17 Budget Request forms
c. Cons. Comm. FY17 capital budget request
d. Region 2 Public Health Emergency Preparedness advisory
e. Resignations: Melinda Rollins, Linda Wheeler
f. Retirement: Patricia Joubert
g. Monthly report: Building Inspector, 1870 Town Hall, Berlin Family Food Pantry
h. Maplewood Farm LSP review request and LSP response
i. Treasurer email re meals tax update
j. Accountant memo re 2016 mileage rate
k. Highway Supt email re FY15 Snow & Ice payroll rates
l. MRI and Public Safety Strategies emails of interest in Fire and EMS Chief search
m. MIIA letter regarding annual appointments – MIIA Directors and MIIA Prop. & Casualty Group
n. Enforcement letter – 196 Gates Pond Road
o. Charter Communications letter re new Worcester retail store location
p. MACC pipeline updates
q. MMA: annual meeting/tradeshow and website contest
r. MMPA alert re ACA
s. CMRPC M.O.R.E. Meeting and Elections advisory
t. Rep. Naughton New Year’s greeting
u. Discover Central Mass. Legislative Breakfast invitation
v. SBA letter re MA Annual Report
w. Mass. Taxpayers Foundation “Municipal Financial Data” 45th Edition
10. Executive Session: – (a) patrolman contract negotiations update; (b) McCulley property update
OLD BUSINESS:
• Approve Wiring Inspector job posting/pay rate/oversight of Wiring & Plumbing Insp.by Building Inspector
• Approve ACO job description/oversight
• Tolman Property groundwater concerns |