| Agenda: | Selectmen’s Meeting March 28, 2022
Town Hall, 2nd Floor Stage, 30 Martin Street
Note: This meeting will be held in-person at the location provided on this notice. Members of the public are welcome to attend this in-person meeting. Please note that while an option for remote, audio-only attendance and/or participation is being provided as a courtesy to the public, the meeting/hearing will not be suspended or terminated if technological problems interrupt the virtual broadcast or its quality, unless otherwise required by law. Members of the public with particular interest in any specific item on this agenda should make plans for in-person vs. virtual attendance accordingly.
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AGENDA – OPEN SESSION
6:00 p.m. Call to Order.
6:15 p.m. Public Hearing regarding a request from Woodman’s Lobster Pool for an Alteration of Premises.
Brendhan Zubricki: Presentation of his Town Administrator’s Report for the period March 5, 2022 through March 25, 2022, regarding the following:
• Strategic Planning Committee Meeting Summary
• Conomo Point Seawall Replacement Project Update/Change Order Work
• Zoning Bylaw Review Project Update
• Chebacco Lake Coalition Alewife Brook Engineering Study
• Old Fire Station Site Restoration Project Update/Change Order
• Continued Consideration of Future Solid Waste/Recycling Services
• Regional Storm Water and Zoning Bylaw Review Project Meeting
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 03/10/2022 warrant pursuant to subsection (d) of said Section.
NAME VENDOR DATE AMOUNT DEPT’S BILL
Jim McNeilly McNeilly EMS 03/01/2022 $ 14.00 Police
Jim McNeilly McNeilly EMS 02/24/2022 $ 657.00 Ambulance
Jim McNeilly McNeilly EMS 03/01/2022 $ 164.00 Ambulance
• 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 03/17/2022 warrant pursuant to subsection (d) of said Section.
NAME VENDOR DATE AMOUNT DEPT’S BILL
Ernie Nieberle Nieberle’s 02/24/2022 $ 274.05 Fire
David Pereen Pereen Plumbing 01/23/2022 $ 171.40 BOS
• 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 03/24/2022 warrant pursuant to subsection (d) of said Section.
NAME VENDOR DATE AMOUNT DEPT’S BILL
Jim McNeilly McNeilly EMS 03/11/2022 $ 155.00 Fire
Ernie Nieberle Nieberle’s 02/24/2022 $ 179.00 Snow Removal
• Approve the minutes for the Selectmen’s March 7, 2022, Open Meeting and Executive Session.
• Vote to appoint Selectman Peter D. Phippen as acting Chairman, effective April 1, 2022 through April 8, 2022.
• Vote to reappoint Pam Stone to the position of Animal Health Inspector for one year commencing on May 1, 2022.
• Consider a request from Jean and Rick Grobe for a parking sticker for Conomo Point.
• Reconsideration of revisions voted at the last meeting to the Town’s Shellfish Regulations regarding issuing Annual and Daily Non-Resident Recreational Permits to Out-of-State persons.
• Vote to ratify the Chairman’s approval of a line item transfer in the amount of $1,570.00 from Blanket Insurance to Plumbing Inspector Misc. Expenses.
• Vote to ratify the Chairman’s approval of a line item transfer in the amount of $1,200.00 from Selectmen’s Temp Clerical to Board of Appeals Clerk.
• Vote to approve the FY2023 Enterprise Fund Budget proposals and discuss the status of the remainder of the Town Operating Budget.
• Vote to approve the Wage and Salary Scale for FY2023.
• Annual Town Meeting:
• Vote to hold the Annual Town Meeting on Monday, May 2, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. at the Essex Elementary School;
• Vote to open the warrant for the May 2, 2022 Annual Town Meeting;
• Vote to add articles to the warrant for the May 2, 2022 Annual Town Meeting per the draft warrant presented at this meeting, or as revised (which is attached hereto);
• Vote to close the warrant;
• Vote to approve the warrant;
• Vote to sign the warrant at or outside of a meeting (if revisions are necessary).
• Possible vote to approve and sign a successor collective bargaining agreement with the Essex Police Association – MassCOP Local 270.
• Items that could not be reasonably anticipated by the Open Meeting Law posting deadline.
LICENSING:
Commercial Shellfish Permits:
• Kenneth Baker
• Wesley Cannon
• Keith Carter
• Kevin Carter
• Kelly Corrao
• Pietro Cusenza
• Gordon Day
• Christopher Fox
• Jacob Heath
• Ian Lewiecki
• Peter Marshall
• Joel Rembert
• Joseph Rizzo
• Keith Woodman
• Anida Xhalia
• Eugen Xhalia
Student Commercial Shellfish Permit:
• Colby Doane
• Liam Hemeon
• Todd Rogers, Jr.
Senior Shellfish Permit:
• Richard Buczko
• Michael Ginn
• John Ryan
Non-Resident Annual Shellfish Permit:
• Nicole Coles, Gloucester – Richard Tofuri
• Scott McKenna, Ipswich – Tom Prentiss
• George Smolinski, S. Hamilton – Alexander Dale
Gasoline-Fuel Storage Permits:
• Nieberle’s Service Station, 8 Main Street
• Gaybrook Garage, 152 Western Avenue
• Holden Oil, Inc., #2 Scot’s Way
*Perkins Marine, Inc., 82 Main Street
One-Day Entertainment License:
• Woodman’s Function Hall, 125 Main Street, Steve Woodman, for use on Friday, August 12, 2022, between the hours of 3 and 8 p.m., four piece band amplified with speaker pointed towards the Hall, within the confines of the tent in front of the Hall.
PUBLIC COMMENT.
REMINDERS:
• The next regular Board of Selectmen’s meeting will take place on Monday, April 11, 2022, at 6:00 p.m. in the 2nd Floor Stage Conference Area at the Town Hall at 30 Martin Street.
AGENDA – EXECUTIVE SESSION
• Discussion with respect to collective bargaining with the Essex Police Association – MassCOP Local 270 and with American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 2906, AFL-CIO. |