| Agenda: | Selectmen’s Meeting November 14, 2022
Teachers’ Lounge, Essex Elementary School, 12 Story Street
AGENDA – OPEN SESSION
6:00 p.m. Call to Order.
6:01 p.m. Postponed until November 28, 2022 (See revised notice on page 2): Meet jointly with the Planning Board to consider nominations for and to vote with the remaining members of the Planning Board on appointing a successor to Skip Crocker, who resigned from the Planning Board effective December 8, 2022, all in accordance with Section 11 of Chapter 41 of the General Laws.
6:30 p.m. Finance Committee to go over FTM motions.
7:30 p.m. Adjourn to the Fall Town Meeting in the gymnasium.
Brendhan Zubricki: Presentation of his Town Administrator’s Report for the period October 21, 2022 through November 11, 2022, regarding the following:
• Process for Choosing Donors for Bench & Picnic Tables at Conomo Point
• Review of Final Fall Town Meeting Motions
• Off-Season Event Grant Award
• Apple Street Project Public Site Visit and Public Information Forum
• Apple Street Project Construction Funding Preliminary Grant Application
• Community Planning Grant Award
• Alewife Brook Surface and Groundwater Monitoring Contract
OTHER BUSINESS:
• Approve the weekly warrant in the amount of $.
• Vote to exempt from Section 20 of Chapter 268A of the General Laws, the contracts and amounts for the individuals listed below contained within the 10/27/2022 warrant pursuant to subsection (d) of said Section.
NAME VENDOR DATE AMOUNT DEPT’S BILL
Jim McNeilly McNeilly EMS 10/12/2022 $ 85.00 Ambulance
Ernie Nieberle Nieberle’s 09/24/2022 $ 0.81 Highway
David Pereen Pereen Plumbing 10/16/2022 $ 226.50 BOS
David Pereen Pereen Plumbing 10/16/2022 $ 613.12 Public Safety Bldg
• Approve the minutes for the Selectmen’s October 24, 2022, Open Meeting and Executive Session.
• Consider a request from Joseph Cellucci to close J.T. Farnham’s from December 25, 2022 through March 3, 2023 for cleaning, painting, and minor repairs.
• Vote to acknowledge the resignation of Ted Marshall from the Conservation Commission effective 11/3/2022.
• Ratify the Chairman’s signature on a Memorandum of Understanding with the City of Gloucester Health Department and the Essex Council on Aging.
• Continue to make appointments to the Essex Municipal Affordable Housing Trust.
• Vote to appoint Patrick Rose to the position of Probationary Firefighter, contingent upon drug and medical testing.
• Items that could not be reasonably anticipated by the Open Meeting Law posting deadline.
LICENSING:
Antiques License Renewals:
• Michael March, Blackwood March Antiques, 3 Southern Avenue
• Vincent W. Caravella, The Scrapbook, 34 Main Street
• Dana Guarnera, Ro-Dan Antiques, 69 Main Street
• David Neligan, DPN Corp., d/b/a David Neligan Antiques, 38 Main Street
• Shelagh Schylling, Prezona Design, 72 Belcher Street
• A.P.H. Waller, A.P.H. Waller & Son, 140 Main Street
Class II License Renewals:
• Steven Pascucci, Cape Ann Auto Body, Inc., 19 Grove Street
• Charles F. Coles, Jr. & Mark Gallagher, Dynamic Auto Brokers, 147 Eastern Avenue
• Michael Crowley, Gaybrook Garage, 152 Western Avenue
• Scott Woodward, Pike Marine, Inc., 80 Main Street
• Scott Savory, Scott’s Auto Clinic, Inc., 6 Scot’s Way
Common Victualler License Renewals:
• Adrian Wilkins, Essex Meeting & Retreat Center, LLC, 1 Conomo Point Road
Innholder’s License Renewal:
• Adrian Wilkins, Essex Meeting & Retreat Center, LLC, 1 Conomo Point Road
Marijuana Retailer License and Cultivation License Renewals:
• John Tremblay, BB Botanics LLC, 242 John Wise Avenue
NOTICE:
• The Selectmen will meet jointly with the Planning Board on Monday, November 28, 2022 at 6:01 p.m. in the 3rd Floor Auditorium of the Town Hall to consider nominations for and to vote with the remaining members of the Planning Board on appointing a successor to Skip Crocker and to Kim Drake, who are both resigning from the Planning Board effective December 8, 2022, all in accordance with Section 11 of Chapter 41 of the General Laws.
REMINDERS:
• The next regular Board of Selectmen’s meeting will take place on Monday, November 28, 2022, at 6:00 p.m. in the 3rd floor auditorium of the Town Hall, 30 Martin Street.
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