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Stockbridge Select Board approves minutes, appointments, hires and grant applications
Summary
The Select Board approved meeting minutes, appointed Thomas Mitchell to the portable housing trust, authorized a grant application to remove underground storage tanks on E Street, approved hiring Eric Dean to the highway department, authorized pursuit of a $1,000,000 state solar grant (with $250,000 town match previously appropriated), and awarded a feasibility study contract to CBA.
The Stockbridge Select Board on July 13 approved a package of routine administrative items and funding authorizations.
The board approved prior meeting minutes as read into the record and recorded no public comment during the public‑comment period. The board appointed Thomas Mitchell to the portable housing trust (motion carried with two yeas and one abstention as recorded). The hiring panel recommended Eric Dean as highway equipment operator and the board approved the hire subject to standard offer and notice procedures.
The board authorized staff to submit a state grant application to remove underground storage tanks on E Street; staff said the state approached the town seeking eligible projects and that prior partial cleanup had not found leaking tanks. The board also agreed to proceed with a $1,000,000 state solar grant application to install solar at highway, water and sewer facilities; staff said the total project cost is approximately $1,190,000 and the town previously appropriated $250,000 at town meeting toward that total.
On intermunicipal matters, staff discussed an addendum to a fire/EMS bridge‑years IMA that would add four firefighters and share training costs with West Stockbridge; the board discussed pending tweaks to a longer 10‑year IMA to be finalized this summer. The board also voted to award a feasibility/study contract to CBA as the recommended architect, with staff to negotiate final contract terms and a timeline expected to yield deliverables by year‑end. The board closed the meeting with local announcements and adjournment.
