Select Board Minutes

Groton Community Building

June 8, 2006

Present:

Select Board: Leonard Doscinski, Debra Tinkham and David Spencer

Treasurer: Roberta Dana

Road Personnel: Brent Smith & Phillip Palmer

Planning: Wade Johnson

Building Committee: Warren Tripp

Guests: Jonathan Austin-Shott

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Leonard called the Selectboard meeting to order at 7:00 PM.

Correspondence and Selectboard minutes were reviewed. The June 1^st minutes were approved.

Dave questioned if the letter from Cartographic was to be given to the Listers for their files?

Leonard: Explained that he had met with Otterman & Allen concerning a tax appeal and right of way issue for the new cemetery. Otterman will check more into this. Leonard made the motion to contact Otterman and Allen to do the work that is needed. Debra seconded the motion. Linda will give Otterman a call to give the go ahead.

Wade gave the clarification to why there shouldn’t be two members from the same family on the Planning Commission Board, due to conflicts of interest.

Debra made the motion to increase the Planning Board from three to five people. Leonard seconded the motion. The Selectboard had reduced the amount of people required on the Planning Board until more people could be appointed. This way the Planning Board could continue to work on the town plan. Wade Johnson requested the Selectboard appoint Debra Johnson and Carol Abraham to the Planning Commission board. Debra made the motion to appoint Debra Johnson and Carol Abraham to the Planning Board. Leonard seconded the motion.

Phillip: concerned with the parking at the Welch Block and the parking in the town’s right of way.

Phillip questioned if Gilman Housing was asking the town to give them land for parking? Debra: Gilman Housing hasn’t requested anything yet, it has only been talk. Phillip has concerns about leasing town property to Gilman Housing or anyone. There are many concerns about the parking from the beginning.

Warren: Gilman Housing had shown a sketch for the parking at the Welch Block and it was to be paved and grassed over and the parking hasn’t been resolved yet.

Gilman Housing will be invited to a Selectboard meeting.

Warren request they go into executive session concerning contracts.

Leonard made the motion to go into executive session concerning contracts at 7:34 pm. Debra seconded the motion.

The Selectboard came out of executive session at 8:19 pm.

Leonard made the motion to go with the recommendations from the Groton Community Building advisory committee and award the contract to SVA Associates. Debra seconded the motion and Dave agreed.

The Cemetery Commission will be invited to the next Selectboard meeting to discuss having the land purchased for the cemetery surveyed and where the money will come from to pay to have this being done.

Warren questioned if the Selectboard had decided on anyone from the list of people for the building committee?

Debra: thought the committee was going to make a recommendation.

Warren will come back to the next meeting with recommendations.

Phillip: would like to make a change of use in his pay check. Phillip would like to change the time he’d taken at the time of his father’s heart attack from vacation time to sick time.

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Leonard said he doesn’t have a problem with this. Dave said it was fine with him.

Brent: received letter from Shauna approving money for bridge on Cochran Road.

This will be put out to bid.

Brent: ordered parts for the old loader.

Brent: still checking out loaders.

Roberta: purchase order from Jonathan for uniforms. If there are any questions you can talk to him.

Leonard talked to the Fire Department and they don’t want to spend the money on class A uniforms now.

Roberta: I have concerns with the reports I send to Ryegate and how Ryegate will look at it.

Jonathan explained about attending funerals and parades in their class A uniforms.

Dave requested a copy of the reports that are filled out on the runs made. Dave would like to have them on fill incase anyone has questions on the amount of runs made. Dave said they could be dropped in the mail drop each time.

Jonathan: any checks that came in for Richard Perkins were handed over to Debra Darling.

Roberta: will be taking vacation Wednesday, Thursday and Friday next week, orders will done on Tuesday.

Roberta: need to purchase a computer as her computer is doing strange things. The Selectboard told her to purchase one if it’s in the budget.

Gilman Housing’s open house is July 23 at 2:00 pm.

Linda: have had calls of concern about skateboards on the new side walk in front of the general store.

Selectboard: Invite Olivia to a Selectboard meeting concerning the sidewalks.

Leonard: Engine #1 and Tanker #1 taken for maintenance this week.

Dave: Kitchen is almost cleaned out.

Dave: made some repairs to the handrail going into the gym.

Brent: truck # 7 needs state inspection.

Roberta: we have several old printers that are taking up space, what should we do with them?

Leonard made the motion to adjourn; Debra seconded the motion David agreed, so moved.

Meeting adjourned at 9:20 PM.

Orders signed in the amount of $ 7,644.90.

Groton Selectboard

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Leonard Doscinski, Chair

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Debra Tinkham

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David Spencer

Respectfully submitted by Linda Nunn

Not Valid Until Signed By The Selectboard