Morgan Select Board Meeting 1/26/15

MINUTES
Morgan Select Board Meeting
Held on January 26, 2015 @ 6:00 PM
Town of Morgan Select Board Draft agenda/Meeting January 26, 2015

Present: Larry Labor, Chair, Thomas Bonneville, Robert Guyer & TammyLee Morin, Clerk to the Board.

Others Present: Marc Nadeau, Shawn Austin and Harvey Morissette.

Harvey Morissette will be attending the meeting in reference to the Recycling Center.

Meeting started promptly at 6:00 PM

* Minutes to meeting of January 19, 2015 to review and approve as written.

A motion was made and seconded to approve the minutes of January 19th as written.

* Harvey Morissette discussion of recycling Center.

Mr. Morissette had a complaint about one of the Morgan Transfer/Recycling attendants. Mr. Morisette sid he felt like the attendant was always picking on him and that he didn’t feel comfortable going to the recycling center anymore. The Board Thanked Mr. Morissette for bring it to their attention and that they would take it under advisement.

* A revised copy of the Certificate of Highway Mileage to resign.

A motion made and seconded to sign again.

* Two (2) Weight Permits to sign from RG Gosselin, Inc. and Gosselin Water Wells Inc. to review approve and sign. (All documents needed and payment is attached.)

A motion was made and seconded to approve and sign the weight permits and in addition a 3rd weight permit from Newport Sand and Gravel Co. Inc/ Carroll Concrete Co.,Inc. also approved and signed.

* A copy of Minimum Criteria for Facility Operation in the NEKWMD from Brian Gray to distribute to the Board.

FYI Read and Reviewed.

* A copy of an Animal bite report from the Department of Health. The dog owner suffered a bite on her left hand from her own dog.

FYI

* Record of $5,000.00 transferred from Town account to the School account to pay bills re: minutes of January 19, 2015.

FYI

* Notice from Lyndon Rescue, Inc. of 1.8% budget increase for services to the Town of Morgan starting July 1st, 2015.

Read and Reviewed.

* Orders #17 & #17A to review, approve and sign.

A motion was made and seconded to approve and sign Orders #17 in the amounts of:
Payroll $2,253.72
Accounts Payable $4,103.62

Other Business:

Marc Nadeau from Nadeau’s Plumbing and Heating was there to give a quote on the renovations to the Heating System at the Morgan School. The board thanked Mr. Nadeau for coming in and explaining the quote. A motion was made to accept the bid with a few changes in the amount of $67,400.00.

A quote from D & D Electrical in the amount of $2,400.00 for the Code update’s and inspection to fire alarm system at the Morgan School.

The Board then discussed a budget for the school to be added to the Town budget in the amount of $ 89,950.00 for renovations and upkeep of the school for July 1, 2015 to June 30th 2016.

A motion was made and seconded to approve the $ 89,950.00.

Shawn Austin came to the meeting with his budget for the FY 2015-2016 year. A motion was made and seconded to approve a budget for highway’s in the amount of $ 245,500.00.

The Town Budget was also approved. A motion was made and seconded to approve without the highway and school in the amount of $306,798.72

TammyLee asked the Board to approve payment to Vt. Electric Coop in the amount of $418.29 and Fair Point Communications in the amount of $132.79 for the E. Taylor Hatton School.

A motion was made and seconded to approve payment of these 2 bills.

A copy of 2 letters dated December 15, 2014 and January 21, 2015 from NFI stating that they remain interested in the Leasing of the E. Taylor Hatton School and will review the proposal. The Select Board is waiting to hear back from NFI.

Jessica Judd called Tammy asking permission to use the gym for her Roller Blading practicing. The Board approved for her touse it as long as a copy of her Liability Insurance was on file with Tammy.

Tammy will also contact Sean Selby and Crystal Durgin for copies of their Liability Insurance also. And anyone else who uses the facility in the future.

Meeting adjourned at 9:27 PM

Morgan Select Board Meeting 1/22/15

MINUTES
Morgan Select Board Meeting
Held on January 22, 2015 @ 5:30 PM
Special Select Board Meeting
The Town of Morgan Select Board
will be meeting on Thursday January 22, 2015 at 5:30 p.m.
for the purpose of finalizing the FY 2015/2016 budget.

The meeting was called to order at 5:40 p.m.

Present: Larry Labor, Chair, Robert Guyer, Thomas Bonneville and TammyLee Morin, Clerk to the Board.

In going over the budget for the Town the board still needs figures from the Highway Department and Cemeteries. We will continue this meeting on Monday January 26, 2015 to try and finalize for these missing and also to put a budget in for the school’s operation and maintenance.

Ended meeting to continue on Monday the 26th of January 2015 at 6:50 p.m.

Morgan Select Board Meeting 1/12/15

MINUTES
Morgan Select Board Meeting
Held on January 12, 2015 @ 6:00 PM

Select Board Draft Agenda/Minutes
January 12, 2015

The meeting was called to order at 7:05 p.m.

Present: Larry Labor; Chair, Robert Guyer, Thomas Bonneville, TammyLee Morin: clerk to the Board.

Others present: Shawn Austin and Jeremy from Nadeau s Plumbing and Heating.

Jeremy from Nadeau s Plumbing and Heating will be attending the meeting.

* Minutes to meeting of December 22, 2014 to review and approve as written.

A motion was made and seconded to approve the minutes of December 22, 2014 as written.

* Jeremy from Nadeau’s Plumbing and Heating with proposal information on repairs to School Heating System.

Jeremy came to discuss the problems and what should be done with the boiler system at the E. Taylor Hatton School. The Board asked Jeremy to get a bid/proposal price on what it would cost to get the system up and running without having to have someone constantly checking it. Jeremy will get back to the board as soon as possible.

* Bill’s for the School to be approved to pay:
Vermont Electric Coop, Inc. (2 months Nov & Dec.) $ 830.02
Nadeau’s Plumbing and Heating, Inc. (work on boiler) $ 150.00
Nadeau’s Fuel, Inc. (Automatic Oil bill) $ 1,207.63
Lakefront Property (snow removal) $ 165.00
Fair Point Communications (2 months Nov/Dec) $ 317.41

A motion was made and seconded to approve to pay. Robert Guyer will call the School Board/OENSU on the budget for these bills. Any remaining money budgeted for these bills should either be paid by the School Board or remaining money sent to the Town for payment.

TammyLee mention that after 2 of these bills are paid the balance is only $164.12. A motion was made and seconded to transfer another $5000.00 to the school account for payments.

* E-Mail from Paul Luciano FYI on Hazard Mitigation Plan. (Charleston Sample Plan enclosed)

A motion was made and seconded to have Larry send a letter/reply to Paul Luciano.

* Insignificant Waste management Event Approval Application Form from NEKWMD to review and sign.

Read and reviewed.

* Reminder Letter of Statutory obligations of reporting special weight limits for highways and bridges from Department of Motor Vehicles.

Shawn was asked about this and he said nothing has changed to go ahead and fill in the same as last year.

* Certificate of Highway Mileage to review and complete in order to determine the town’s share of state aid for town highways for fiscal year 2016.

A motion was made and seconded to sign.

* Discuss Culvert near Bear Mountain Road the State wants to work on and traffic flow.

Shawn said that the State had a culvert they need to replace which is located between Bear Mountain Road and Whitehill Loop. The had two (2) options: 1 – was to do a box culvert, in which they would ask that they use White Hill Loop to detour traffic during this project. Or 2 – Push another culvert through the one that is already there.

The Board had concern’s if the traffic has to be detoured through Whitehill Loop that, 1. It is not wide enough for a car and a tractor trailer to meet and 2 that the culvert that is on the road was not strong enough to take all the traffic.

Shawn said he would let them know that the Board was not in favor of using Whitehill Loop and get back to the Board as soon as possible.

* Notice from the Orleans County Sheriff’s Department request for the town 2015 is level funded at last year’s rate of $ 44.33 per hour.

Read and reviewed.

* Notice from Division of Property Valuation and Review of Certified Equalized Education Property Value (Effective 1-1-2015)
Equalized Education Property Value: $ 172,261,000
Coefficient of Dispersion: $ 6.51%
Education Grand list (411) $ 1,726,385
Equalized Education Grand List: $ 1,726,010
Common Level of Appraisal: (CLA) 100.02%

Read and reviewed.

* A letter from NFI Vermont, Inc. to Select Board of negotiations for the school.

FYI. Read, reviewed and filed.

* A copy of an E-mail to Attorney Bill Davies asking legal advice on wording of a notice.

FYI Read, reviewed and filed.

* Review budget for FY 2105/2016. (tabled from last meeting of 12-22-14)

Tabled to a date to be determined.

* Orders #16 & #17 to review, approve and sign.

A motion was made and seconded to approve and sign orders # 16 & #17 in the amount of:
#16 AP – $ 2,348.88 Payroll – $ 5,638.88
#17 AP – $20,788.69 Payroll – $ 3,305.01

Other Busines:

E. Mail from Attorney Bill Davies of his approval of the Request for Proposal of lease/purchase of the E. Taylor Hatton Elementary School property. Tammy will send to paper for advertisement.