At its Jan. 2, 2025 meeting the Tamworth Select Board recorded and approved multiple administrative and budget items by roll call.

Key votes recorded in the meeting minutes:

- Office of Highway Safety grant amendment: The board approved acceptance of a grant amendment for grant 25-181 (Office of Highway Safety) to allow purchase of e-ticket printers; the amount recorded in the minutes was $3,315. Vote: approved by roll call.

- Unanticipated FEMA emergency management award: The board moved to accept an unanticipated federal Emergency Management award in the amount of $8,147.78 as 2024 revenue (for costs from the April storm). Vote: approved by roll call.

- Encumbrance amendments: The board amended a prior encumbrance to reflect $4,000 for the hazardous mitigation plan (previously misstated) and amended an encumbrance for energy improvements on town buildings to $8,810. Vote: both amendments approved by roll call.

- Abatement: The board approved an abatement for Map 214, Lot 154, Sub-Lot 13 (amount not specified in discussion). Vote: approved by roll call.

- Accounts payable and payroll: The board approved accounts payable and payroll warrants for the close of fiscal year and the start of the new year, including a payroll warrant of $57,815.64; the full accounts-payable figures were read into the record and approved by roll call.

- Cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) and wage timing: After discussion the board voted to implement the COLA for eligible employees effective the first pay period of the year; employees still within probationary periods or who had recent wage adjustments are excluded from the COLA. The motion carried by roll call. Meeting participants noted that the 3% COLA had already been budgeted for 2025.

The board also approved minutes, moved to and from nonpublic sessions under RSA 91-A:3 II(a), and completed routine municipal business during the meeting.