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Votes at a glance: Selectmen approve warrants, appointments and several administrative items
Summary
The Board of Selectmen approved payroll and departmental warrants, appointed a resident to the School Committee, approved employee evaluation guidelines, referred an earth-removal bylaw draft to town counsel, and approved several CDBG-related items and a lien discharge.
At its Jan. 28 meeting the North Brookfield Board of Selectmen recorded the following formal outcomes and motions (summarized from meeting actions and public minutes):
- Warrant approvals: The board approved payroll warrant No. 16 for $353,112.18; school warrant No. 1058 for $252,821.71; fire/highway warrant No. 1059 for $456,487.89; general warrant No. 1060 for $70,616.74; and wastewater treatment plant warrant No. 1061 for $55,137.
- Senior center spending request: Approved a $300 spending request for a premium call-broadcasting feature to prevent calls being marked as spam (motion made and seconded; vote in favor).
- Appointment: Ralph Kaye of Ward Street was appointed to the School Committee to fill a vacancy through May (motion made, seconded, approved).
- Employee evaluations: The board approved new employee evaluation guidelines (ratings and categories to be used for probationary and annual reviews) and discussed implementing 90-day, 6-month, and annual reviews for new hires and yearly reviews for existing employees.
- Earth removal bylaw: A proposed policy on earth removal and fill (zoning-related provisions) was sent to town counsel for review after discussion; the planning board had previously not moved to accept the draft and the building inspector flagged potential overreach.
- Discharge of lien: The board approved discharge of a $40,000 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) loan lien for property at 27 Donnan Road, as evidenced by recorded assignment of proceeds.
- CDBG administration: The board signed a request for a waiver from the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities’ timely-expenditure guidelines for the town’s 2025 CDBG application and approved a CMRPC contract extension to June 30, 2025, to finish closeout work on the Mount Pleasant Street project.
- Other: The board authorized pursuit of a regional energy-manager assistance program (see separate article) and voted to enter executive session to discuss police union negotiations.
Where a mover and seconder were not identified in the transcript, the minutes record motions as made and seconded and votes as "Aye"; the transcript does not include a full roll-call vote for each item.
