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Votes at a glance: Templeton Select Board, Jan. 8, 2025
Summary
Summary of formal actions taken by the select board at the Jan. 8 meeting, with motion text, mover/second where recorded, and vote tallies.
The Town of Templeton Select Board recorded the following formal votes at its Jan. 8, 2025 meeting. This roundup lists each action, motion text (short form), mover/second when recorded in the transcript, and the vote tally as recorded.
Votes at a glance
- Approve regular meeting minutes, Dec. 11, 2024 — Motion to approve as presented. Vote: 5–0 (Tim: yes; Jeff: yes; Matt: yes; Terry: yes; Chair Mike Curry: yes).
- Approve executive session minutes, Nov. 20, 2024 (not released) — Motion to approve and not release. Vote: 5–0.
- Appoint Christine Brown to Cultural Council and Council on Aging through June 30, 2025 — Motion to appoint. Vote: 5–0 (motion and second recorded; terms specified on record).
- Accept anonymous senior-center donation — Motion to accept $1,000 anonymous donation. Vote: 5–0.
- Accept Friends of Templeton Elders donation, $63,289.12, with stipulations — Motion to accept with four stipulations (equipment-only $14,000 grant restriction; remaining funds designated for kitchen; no use for salaries/programming; adjust prior appropriations). Vote: 5–0.
- Adopt Digital Equity Plan — Motion to adopt the plan as presented and file. Vote: 5–0.
- Budget amendment 2025-1 (transfer for nonunion merit/equity raises) — Motion to approve the proposed budget amendment as presented (total $30,000, allocated among departments). Vote: 5–0.
- Food pantry license renewal (New Hope Bible Church) — Approve 1-year renewal through Dec. 31, 2025. Vote: 5–0.
- Rescind 2017 EDIC order — Motion to rescind the Economic Development Industrial Corporation order. Vote: 4–0 with 1 recusal (one board member recused; counsel opinion prompted rescission).
- Approve amended Table B spend plan for state earmark (special acts of 2022) — Motion to move from submitted Table A to proposed Table B, reallocating earmark funds to MRPC planning, legal, marketing and engineering consultants. Vote: 4–1 (Jeff: no; four others yes).
- Additional procedural amendments and administrative approvals (select board operating procedure edits) — The board voted to adopt several clarifying changes to its operating procedures (agenda deadlines, packet availability, action-item tracking and legal-opinion circulation). Each procedural amendment was approved by recorded vote during the meeting (unanimous on recorded changes).
Ending
Meeting minutes and department reporting will record motions and exact wording; board staff will file required spend-plan documents with state grant administrators and follow up on actions described above.
