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.