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Select Board approves Fire Chief’s health officer certification and changes highway truck order; Wells abstains on the truck change
Summary
The Board approved Fire Chief Chris Olsen’s request to be certified as the town Health Officer at a cost of $12,000 and approved changing a highway truck order to a lower-cost model priced at $107,941; the truck-order vote passed 2-0-1 with Select Board member Sadie Wells abstaining.
During the Town Administrator update at the Jan. 20 meeting, Canaan Fire Chief Chris Olsen requested support to obtain certification as the town’s Health Officer at a cost of $12,000. The Select Board discussed the position’s responsibilities and approved Olsen’s certification by motion (Wells, Johnston).
Separately, the Board reviewed an option to change a previously ordered highway truck to a less expensive model priced at $107,941, representing a $46,000 reduction from the original specification. A motion (Freese, Johnston) to change the truck order passed with a recorded vote of 2-0-1; Sadie Wells abstained.
The Board also approved the Water/Sewer billing warrant for the third and fourth quarters and tabled action on a Dorchester Fire/EMS contract that would have provided $24,000 in fire coverage and $37,095 in EMS coverage until amendments were addressed.
