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Select Board discusses rewriting highway job descriptions, proposes raising stipends
Summary
Board members reviewed highway commissioner and road foreman job descriptions (last updated in 2009), discussed shifting responsibilities to the foreman or a new board assistant, and floated raising the select board stipend to $3,000 if members take on additional roles.
Chair (S2) presented a line-by-line review of the highway commissioner and road foreman job descriptions and said much of the commissioner's listed duties appear to overlap with the foreman's current work. S2 emphasized the documents have not been rewritten since 2009 and suggested the board consider reassigning responsibilities to prepare for the next 5–10 years of management.
"My random proposal is that the next year in the select board, everybody on the select board has 1 extra job... I would propose also then that the select board segment be raised to $3,000 because everybody's gonna have a real job attached along with meetings and budget," Chair (S2) said. Isaac (S5) and other members discussed practical questions about how roles would be defined, whether stipends would be proportional, and which tasks should be foreman duties versus commissioner duties. Members also considered using a new board assistant to manage grants and records, reducing workload on elected officials and staff.
The board agreed to continue detailed, line-by-line work on the descriptions at the next meeting so members who were absent or remote could participate and provide input. No formal vote was taken on changing the stipend or the commissioner role during the session; one member (S6) noted that to change the elected status of the commissioner the question would need to appear on the March ballot.
