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Select Board approves minutes, warrants, contracts, policies and a hire in routine session
Summary
At its meeting the North Brookfield Select Board approved minutes, multiple warrants, several spending requests, the comprehensive emergency management plan, borrowing paperwork, municipal electric aggregation terms, senior center policies and contracts, library pricing support, ABCC renewal letter and a highway hire.
The Town of North Brookfield Select Board approved a slate of routine measures and administrative items in a single meeting, including minutes, payroll and vendor warrants, spending requests for municipal operations, an emergency-management plan, borrowing paperwork and a new hire for the highway department.
Key approvals included: minutes for Feb. 25 and the Feb. 25 executive session; payroll and vendor warrants described in the meeting record; a $500 spending request noted as from "Centimeters Geeks" for upgrading town-office computer hard drives to solid-state drives; a $387.90 spend from senior center funds (to be taken from a state grant) to buy convertible benches; the town’s Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan as drafted by the emergency management office; and signature of BAN paperwork to finalize borrowing tied to a fire/highway project.
The board also voted to sign a letter approving the sewer department’s request for a federal funding application (see separate article), approved updated senior center policies and a new job description for the senior center outreach coordinator, and approved a memorandum of understanding to host the SNAP-Ed nutrition program with Sentria (appearing in the record as "Sentria Care Alliance").
On municipal electricity procurement, the board voted to accept a 36-month fixed-rate aggregation contract through the town’s power-management arrangement. The chair reported the fixed 36-month rate was lower than the 12- and 24-month options discussed. The board approved a request from the library board of trustees to support a policy change to make faxing services free to patrons (the proposal asked the Select Board to "support their change in pricing").
Other administrative approvals included signing the annual ABCC (state alcoholic beverage) renewal-letter requirements and hiring Eric Josephson as a heavy equipment operator for the highway department with a proposed start date of April 1.
All motions recorded at the meeting were approved by voice vote; the transcript records unanimous "Aye" responses for each item.
