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Votes at a glance: Shaftesbury Select Board actions July 20, 2026
Summary
At its July 20 meeting the Shaftesbury Select Board approved check warrant 27001, awarded an East Road paving contract to Springfield Paving, approved a VNA Hospice appropriation, adopted the municipal tax rate 0.3986, and approved two fire-department equipment purchases. The board entered and exited executive session to discuss personnel and directed DPW performance reviews.
The Shaftesbury Select Board recorded the following formal actions on July 20, 2026:
- Check warrant 27001 approved ($97,759.53). Chair read selected line items; grant-funded items (e.g., Northeast Municipal LLC highway work and a DPW/VCRC grant) were noted as reimbursable. The board approved the warrant for signature.
- East Road paving contract awarded to Springfield Paving: low bid $222,491.70; Peckham Road Corporation bid $247,250. The project uses a VTrans paving grant with an estimated town match of about $20,000. The board approved the award and signed the bid documents.
- Community appropriation: The board approved inclusion of a VNA Hospice appropriation (about $5,000) after the treasurer reported a clerical error caused it not to appear on this year's ballot; the board voted to include it in the tax-rate calculation and to send payment.
- Tax rate adopted: Municipal rate 0.3960 plus local agreement 0.0026, for a total municipal tax rate of 0.3986. The board voted to adopt the rate and authorized the treasurer to mail tax bills once final paperwork is complete.
- Fire-department purchases approved: A $10,236 equipment quotation from Harrison Schrader Enterprises (nozzle and accessories) and approximately $3,610.43 in communications cabling from Veracom/Stone security (cash price) were approved from the fire-department budget.
- Executive session on personnel: The board entered executive session to discuss personnel; on exit it directed Mike Inami, the DPW foreman, to implement performance-review criteria for the DPW crew and to move toward a merit-based pay system in the next fiscal year.
Votes were taken by voice; roll-call tallies were not recorded in the transcript.
