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Selectmen approve payrolls, equipment purchases, contracts and energy consultant; accept fire report
Summary
The North Brookfield Board of Selectmen on Feb. 25 approved routine payroll and multiple departmental purchasing and contracting requests, accepted the December 2024 fire report, authorized a revised senior-center contract for 36 months, and named Power Management Company LLC as the town's exclusive energy consultant.
The North Brookfield Board of Selectmen on Feb. 25 approved routine payroll and multiple departmental purchasing and contracting requests, accepted the fire chief's monthly report, authorized a revised senior-center contract for 36 months, and approved a letter naming Power Management Company LLC as the town's exclusive energy consultant. The board also voted to enter executive session at 6:45 p.m. to discuss complaints against an individual.
What the board approved (voice votes unless otherwise noted): payroll warrants and warrants covering school and general accounts; multiple small capital or replacement items for fire and highway departments; a senior center monitoring-system upgrade and revised senior-center contract; an emergency highway pump purchase; and authorization for an energy consultant for municipal accounts.
Key approvals and amounts (voice vote, recorded as 'Aye') included:
- Payroll warrant number 18 for $360,984.03 and school order 1068 for $123,925.49.
- CDBG NB 24 warrant 1069 for $6,646.36; fire/highway warrants 1070 ($107,075) and 1071 ($19,535.45); general warrant 1072 for $113,774.04.
- Air hose reels for the highway building: $1,100 (purchase and installation) — approved.
- Fire department laptop replacements: $1,358 (state contract, one-time purchase) — approved.
- Structural fire boots: $2,445 for five sets (budgeted, planned purchase) — approved.
- Battery-operated K12 saw replacement (battery-powered) for $800 — approved.
- Highway emergency pump unit for $2,013.60 — approved as an emergency purchase.
- Senior Center: upgrade to a cellular fire-monitoring system with vendor Brown Electric for $520 (presenter said the upgrade would reduce monitoring to about $49/month from two telephone lines at $133/month) — approved.
- Revision and execution of the Usherwood contract for the senior center, reduced from an impermissible 60-month term to a 36-month term — approved.
- Acceptance of the December 2024 fire chief's report (34 calls in December, listed incident types and community activities) — accepted.
- Authorization of a letter naming Power Management Company LLC as the town's exclusive energy consultant for municipal electrical accounts — approved.
After routine business the board moved into the public comment period and later voted to enter executive session (reason cited: complaints against an employee or individual) and recessed until executive session.
The approvals were recorded as voice votes with "Aye" responses; individual roll-call tallies by name were not recorded in the public transcript.
