MINUTES
Morgan Select Board Meeting
Held on April 13, 2015 at 6:00 PM
Selectmen’s Draft Agenda/Meeting
April 13, 2015
The meeting was called to order at 6:00 p.m.
Present: Larry Labor, Chair, Thomas Bonneville and TammyLee Morin,
Clerk to the Board.
Others Present: Attorney William Davies.
* Minutes to meeting of March 23, 2015 to review and approve as written.
A motion was made and seconded to approve the minutes of March 23, 2015 as
written.
A motion was made and seconded to move all to the end so that Attorney Bill
Davies was not held up.
Mr. Davies and the Board went over the proposal written up from NFI and their
Lawyer. After reviewing proposal there were a lot of things to reconsider
and change or disregard. Attorney Davies suggested that the Board and NFI
sit down and discuss each parties needs and put this in writing, then give
to the Lawyers to be able to make a finalized agreement. Mr. Davies felt
that the communication between both parties and their Lawyers needed to be
better.
Chuck Myers from NFI, phoned during the meeting and the suggestion from
Attorney Davies was brought to Mr. Myers attention and he agreed to meet
for the purpose suggested above. This meeting will take place at the
regular scheduled Select Board meeting of May 11, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. at the
Town Clerk’s office.
* Tabled from meeting of March 23rd, 2015 #11 request of School Bus Stop ahead
sign from Amy Nadeau. Larry was to look into it at the meeting with AOT on
April 1st. 2015 and bring back information to this meeting.
On April 1st 2015, Larry met with the AOT and questioned how to go about
getting a sign for the request of Amy Nadeau’ s letter. Shane Morin and
Bruce Nyquist are working on this and more information is to follow in the
near future. A copy of the Letter from Amy Nadeau was sent to both
parties. Tammy will update Mrs. Nadeau.
* Tabled from meeting of March 23rd, 2015 under other business, an e-mail from
Kasey Kathan from Solid Waste management. Larry was to make phone calls
and bring back to this meeting.
Larry has been doing a lot of work to this matter and will give a presentation
at the meeting of April 20th, 2015.
* Over Weight permit from Cardinal Logistics Management Corp. to review,
approve and sign.
A motion was made and seconded to approve and sign the Uniform Municipal
Excess Weight permit for Cardinal Logistics Management Corporation.
* Request for any BCA to attend workshop on Effective Property tax Appeals in
the amount of $60.00 per person on May 5th 2015 in Lake Morey on Wednesday
May 12, 2015 in Montpelier?
A motion was made and seconded to allow up to two (2) members of the BCA to
attend the Property Tax appeals workshop in the amount of $60.00 per
person.
* Request for Delinquent Tax Collector James Judd and TC & Treas. TammyLee
Morin to attend Delinquent Tax Collector workshop in Randolph on May 20th,
2105, in the amount of $60.00 per person?
A motion was made and seconded to approve for both James Judd and TammyLee
Morin to attend the meeting of Effective Property Tax appeals workshop on
Tuesday, May 5, 2015 in Randolph, Vermont, in the amount of $60.00 per
person.
* Orders #25 were pre-approved and signed on April 2nd, 2015 by Thomas
Bonneville and Larry Labor, in the amount of: AP. $842.07 and PR.
$2,528.27.
* Orders #26 to review, approve and sign in the amount of AP – $ 17,487.55.
A motion was made and seconded to approve and sign.
* Copies of Revenue reports and Budget Status report.
FYI for review.
Other Business:
In reference to a letter from Dr. Poole back in September of 2014 requesting a
speed limit decrease from 50 mph to 35 mph beginning at the Sportsman Lodge
extending to Trails End Road.
This appears to be a seasonal issue so Traffic Operations will conduct a
traffic engineering study, as required by law, and will forward the
recommendation to the Vermont traffic Committee, who will make the final
decision.
The Engineering study will be scheduled in the spring/early summer months when
camps are most active. A speed cart will be set up when available for a
rental price billed to the Town.
An E-mail from Shane Morin, Re: Beaver Dam.
Tammy will send a copy of e-mail to all abutting property owners of the Beaver
dam.
A letter from the State of Vermont Department of Taxes in regards to Towns
owning a solar plant having a nameplate capacity greater than 10 kW.
Tammy will call to find out if we are exempt or not.
There are 5 bills for the Select Board to review and approve for payment for
the E. Taylor Hatton School:
Nadeau’s Fuels, Inc. $ 1,515.73
Martin Davis (Custodian) $ 208.00
Fair Point Communications $ 81.63
Lakefront Properties Mgt. $ 80.00
TammyLee Morin, Riemb. Keys $ 5.69
Total: $ 1,891.05
A motion was made and seconded to approve to pay the 5 bills in the total
amount of $ 1,891.05.
TammyLee requested a money transfer to the school for bills and that the
balance at this time was only $ 310.20.
A motion was made and seconded to approve for a transfer from the Town
checking to the School checking in the amount of $ 5,000.00.
A motion was made and seconded to adjourn the meeting at 7:50 p.m.