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Select Board hears update on speed‑sign inventory, volunteer repairs and police CAD postings
Summary
The chair read an email from Chris O'Keefe saying the town has five speed signs and that two (west end of the green and Route 106) are not working; resident Jim Otranto volunteered to inspect and repair them but told the board he had not yet been contacted. The police department plans to post CAD logs on its new website.
Chair read an email from public works staff Chris O'Keefe at the Aug. 4 meeting saying the town owns five speed signs — at the Public Safety Building, the west end of the green, River Street Cemetery, Woodstock Elementary School and near the country club on Route 106 — and that two signs (west end of the green and the Route 106 location) were not currently working and would be inspected by volunteer resident Jim Otranto.
The chair said Jim had offered to inspect and repair the signs, and the email indicated that if volunteer repair is not possible, the signs would be sent to All Traffic Solutions for warranty repairs. Chris also committed to posting the police department’s weekly CAD log to the department’s new website. “My intent all along was to post our weekly log to the website, and that will be done,” the chair read from the email.
Residents at the meeting pressed the board about delays: Allison Taylor said some equipment has been out of service for months and noted that one sign had been turned off because it emitted flashing blue lights, which she said are illegal under state law. Volunteer Jim Otranto later clarified that changing blue LEDs to white bulbs requires replacing LEDs rather than a simple setting change and that he had not yet been contacted about the work. Board members agreed to follow up with staff and to contact Chris O'Keefe when he returns from leave.
