MINUTES
Morgan Select Board Meeting
Held on September 26, 2011 @ &:00 PM AND Held on August 22, 2011 @ 7:00 PM
at the Town Office
Present: Richard Miller. Larry Labor, Robert Guyer, TammyLee Morin, Janet
Selby & Richard Delfavero.
Meeting called to order at 7:00 p.m.
1. Minutes to meeting of September 12,2011 to review and approve.
Accepted as written.
2. Janet Selby will be attending the meeting.
Discussed budget for Milfoil and asked the Town for $ 5,195.00 from the budget of $7,125.00. Approved.
3. Richard Delfavero will be attending the meeting.
Richard explained that he was in the process of putting his land in a preservation with Vermont Land Trust and would like the Town to send a letter stating we had no problems.
4. We had a request for the Transfer/Recycling Center to be open 1 day
during the week in the summer.
This will be put to the voters at the 2012 Town meeting to be voted on.
5. Certificate of Public Good – Section 248 Permit Process from Encore.
Reviewed and discussed. Robert Guyer will look into. Tabled to next meeting.
6. 2 Quotes for some Town Office Maintenance and sprucing up.
Quote from Rick Pare and Bill Sanville. Rick Pare was awarded the project. Notice will be sent to Bill Sanville.
7. Copy of some FEMA forms from Shawn Austin for your info.
Reviewed and filed.
8. Copy of Thank you letter to former Town Auditor Joette Lantagne.
Filed.
9. E-mails in reference to FEMA and Flood insurance program.
Reviewed and info will be sent to James Jordan.
10. Letter from Frederic Satink from VLCT from a site visit on the Town
Office, Transfer station and Town Hall with suggestions to some minor
hazards to these building that need to be corrected for insurance
purposes.
Reviewed. Notification of hazard suggested will be sent when they have been put into place.
11. Letter from Vermont Land trust for Richard and Barbara Delfavero in
the process of permanently protecting their farmland from development.
Discussed and approved in #3.
12. Copy of Preliminary cash flow sheets for FY2012.
Reviewed. Filed to be paid.
13. Drawing from Casella for work needed to be done at the Transfer station
to cover the roll off boxes.
Reviewed. Tammy will put in paper for bids with an October 30th deadline.
14. Bill from Oasis Enterprises Inc. for 8 dogs impounded by AGO T.
Approved to pay. Tammy will call Thomas Bonneville to find out whose dogs these were and bill them.
15. Blittersdorf, Solar Panel Proposal.
A company named Allearth Renewables Inc. would like to propose a site at the Morgan Landfill. This is supposed to save the Town of Morgan and School property’s only money on electricity. This would not include the street lights at this time but eventually could. There were some concerns and more information is needed. Tabled to next meeting.
16. Discussion on Tax Stabilization Policy.
Larry Labor brought forward for the Town of Morgan a 5 year Tax Stabilization Policy. A motion was made and seconded to accept as written.
17. Letter to Everett Driver.
A letter was written to Evertte Driver for his rental property on 113 Derby Gore Road in reference to the Junk Yard Ordinance, to inform him that he is not in compliance with this ordinance. The letter with a copy of the ordinance will be sent return/receipt.
18. Discuss Town Clerk/Treasurer pay to take minutes and come to each
Select Board Meeting.
TammyLee Morin agreed to participate at each Select Board meeting and to take minutes at a rate of $25.00 per meeting. Approved by Selectmen.
19. Orders # 4A and 15 to review approve and sign.
Reviewed, approved and signed.
Other Business: Robert Guyer noted at the NVDA meeting he went to that he was informed that the Town of Morgan’s Town Plan has expired and needs to be renewed and sent to NVDA. This Plan is only good for 5 years at a time had expired in 2009. TammyLee will notify the Planning/Zoning Commissioners, James Jordan and Steve Matson to this matter.
Meeting adjourned at 8:30 p.m. and the next meeting will be Tuesday October 11, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. at the Morgan Town Clerk’s Office.
I. Call to order ———-7:00 PM
II. Roll Call ————–R. Miller chair, R. Guyer, L.Labor
III. Approval of minutes—approved as read.
IV. Chairperson’s report; Richard Miller read the following communications.
VLCT sent a notice of the annual business meeting to be held at the Killington
Grand Hotel in October and requesting one member from each municipality
attend. This was read and filed.
A notice of expiration and renewal of the No Exposure Conditional Exclusion
from storm water MSGP #4878-9003 for the closed landfill was read and returned
to Tammy for filling out from last year’s data. This will be signed out when
the form is completed.
The roll off covers were discussed. Casella has been sent pictures and
dimensions of our facility; Brian (of Casella) will send drawings of a
proposed structure.
The board discussed a proposed addition/change in the form of a secretarial
assistant or support position for the board. Discussion followed. It was
agreed that Tammy would be asked to come to the SB meetings and take minutes.
It was also discussed that compensation would be in the form of comp time off
for an equal amount of time and that if she was unable to attend then the
function may be delegated to Paula Keenan if she is willing to come in her
place. There are increasing amounts of time spent by the board gathering
information or seeking clarification on subject matters that the
clerk/treasurer would most likely be able to answer or facilitate handling for
the board. This can best be accomplished by verbal discussion at the boards
meeting.
Tax stabilization discussion followed: The town does not have a policy on
granting tax stabilization to new businesses looking to establish a position
in Morgan.
The NVDA office has submitted a model policy for review. Copies were
disseminated to the members. This will be reviewed with the intent of
developing a policy for the Town.
A request was made by R. Guyer to attend the NVDA Annual Meeting on September
15th. This was approved.
V. Orders #4 were reviewed and signed for payment.
VI. Copies of expenditure and revenue reports were distributed and reviewed.
VII Next meeting is September 12th
VIII Meeting adjourned at 7:45PM
Submitted by L. Labor