Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Committees Boards topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Board discusses charges for building and infrastructure advisory committees; staff to produce redlines
Summary
The board reviewed draft charges for a standing building advisory committee and an infrastructure committee (which would absorb the former roads committee), agreed on 5‑member panels with staggered three‑year terms and requested staff to prepare redlined charge documents and signable versions for the board.
Select board members discussed proposals to create a technical advisory “building committee” and an infrastructure committee at the Sept. 16 meeting, reviewing draft charges and membership rules in the packet.
Members agreed the infrastructure committee should encompass roads, bridges, dams and utilities — effectively absorbing the former standalone roads committee — and that the building committee should focus on municipal and historical building issues. The draft charges offered membership of five or seven; the board favored five voting members for practicality and public interest.
Board members requested the committees follow structured procedures: committees should elect a chair at an annual organizing meeting, comply with open‑meeting requirements, provide meeting minutes to the town manager for posting, sign any required ethics or code‑of‑conduct acknowledgments, and include an ex‑officio select board or staff liaison to facilitate reporting back. The board also discussed staggering terms (three‑year staggered terms were preferred) to preserve continuity.
No final appointments or formal establishment votes were recorded. Instead, the board asked staff to clean up the charge documents, insert references to applicable policies (ethics, open meetings), and return draft, redlined and signable versions for formal adoption at a subsequent meeting. Staff said it will produce redlines and notes for the board to consider.
