Category: Select Board Meetings

MINUTES
Morgan Select Board Meeting
Held on February 12, 2007 @ 7:00 PM

Present: R. Miller, Brian Gray. Excused: Robert Guyer

The minutes from the previous board meeting were read and approved pending an
amendment to be made in # 5 from NO to NEW:

2. Seminar for Town Clerk: approved

3. Weekly Legislative Reports for February 2 & 9: Reviewed

4. Certificate of Highway Mileage: Signed and returned to Tammy for her to
sign and mail no later than Feb. 20, 2007.

5. VLCT: Director Vacancy on the Board of Directors: Reviewed

6. Landvest Information: Reviewed

7. Certificate of No Appeal or Suit Pending: We reviewed and signed

8. VT Coalition of Municipalities position on Education Finance and Property
Tax Reform: Thoroughly Reviewed.

9. US Census Bureau Form: We reviewed and ask Tammy to update and return

10. NVDA Board Minutes from meeting on January 25, 2007. Brian Reviewed and
approved.

11. Sheriff’s report for January: Reviewed

12. We reviewed and want to pass on to Shawn Austin.

13. Opinions Feb. Issue: We both receive in our personal mail: Reviewed

14. 2 Estimates on Rug: We chose Don’s Wayside to do the job.

15. Public Works January Issue: given to Brian Gray

16. Orders to sign: we signed each order.

Additional Business:

Larry Labor came to the meeting to inform us that our minutes from December
26, 2006, were wrong in Section 2 at Bottom of page: It is not the Valley
Road, which is what is written, but rather Town Highway #15 which is correct.
We need to change these minutes to reflect this change.

R. A. Miller informed Brian Gray of the meeting in the Town of Brighton on
Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007 at 6: 00 p.m. in the Town Hall. Brian will attend if
able.

Brian Gray will contact Ivan Maxwell to inform him that we will work with him
for a trial period of 6 months. We are asking him to place a roll off at the
Land Fill for steel and metal products.

MINUTES
Morgan Select Board Meeting
Held on January 22nd 2007 @ 7:00 PM

Present: R. Guyer, B. Gray, R. Miller
Guest: Roland Besaw

Meeting started at 7:00 pm

1. Roland Besaw will be attending tonights meeting in reference to the Town
Shed.
Roland has voiced that he would like to buy the town shed located at the rear
of his property for the value listed in the town report. This will be listed
as an article to vote on at Town Meeting.

2. Minutes to January 8th meeting.
Reviewed and approved as written

3. Letter of Thanks from the Old Stone House for last year’s appropriation.
Reviewed

4. Bill from Doug Garon for work done in the Cemetery here and there for the
past 2 years. I spoke to Doug about this and the reason for not getting it to
us each year was just due to Laziness he said or that the bill just
weren’t enough to bother with at first. He did the work rather then try to
find and hire someone else to come and do it when he was right there. He
said he would work on his bookkeeping skills and get any bills in for the
physical years from now on.
Reviewed and approved

5. No Exposure Certification No. 4878-9003 for the Closed Morgan Landfill on
Route 111.
Reviewed

6. Weight Permits from Gosselin Water Wells & Roger Gosselin Inc to be signed.
(Paid)
Reviewed and signed

7. Copy of Solid Waste Management Program Quarterly Report
Reviewed and forwarded to Land fill supervisor, Maurice Coutu

8. Letter of request from Economic Development Council of Northern Vermont for
submission of proposed economic and community project’s for the districts
2006-2007 Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy.
Reviewed and forward to Zoning Adm. Steve Matson

9. Aquatic Nuisance Grant Closeout
Reviewed

10. Bill from Poulin Lumber for replacement window for the Listers Office.
Reviewed and approved to pay

11. Letter from State of Vermont Department of Public Safety.
Reviewed and a copy will be forwarded to Road Commissioner, Shawn Austin

12. Orders #16 & 16A to be signed.
Reviewed and signed

13. W-2’s for selectmen.
Received by all members

Other business:

1. Additional meeting to be held @ 6:00 pm for completion of budget.

Meeting adjourned @ 8:15 pm

Minutes written by: Robert Guyer

MINUTES
Morgan Select Board Meeting
Held on January 8th, 2007 @ 7:00 PM

Present: R. Guyer, B. Gray, R. Miller
Guest: Moe Couture, Ivan Maxwell

Meeting started at 7:00 pm

1. MOE COUTURE WILL BE ATTENDING.
Some discussion with regards to the scrap metal at the Morgan Recycling
center, Ivan Maxwell has expressed interest in taking care of our scrap metal

2. MINUTES FROM MEETING ON DECEMBER 28, 2006.
Reviewed and approved as written

3. NORTHEAST WASTE MANG. RE MILEAGE REIMBURSEMENT.
Reviewed

4. THANK YOU LETTER FROM VT CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING.
Reviewed

5. ORLEANS COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPT. REQUEST FOR $8,970.00.
Reviewed and added as a separate article on the warning

6. LETTER FROM ALLAN WOOLEY CONCERNING PUTTING TAX MAPS ON LINE.
Reviewed and approved to add maps and a page on our website for the Seymour
Lake Association as requested by Jim McWain

7. 2007 CERTIFICATE OF HIGHWAY MILEAGE.
Reviewed and amended as required to add .07 miles to #13 Road, CLASS# 3

8. BILL FROM BRIGHTON FIRE DEPT., LISA DEBLOIS.
Reviewed and approved, we will be contacting the individual for reimbursement

9. NEW MILEAGE RATE FROM JANUARY ISSUE FROM VLCT NEWS.
Reviewed

10. LETTER FROM DEPT. OF TAXES RE; EXPIRATION OF PRIOR AGREEMENTS (ACT 60)
Reviewed and passed on to listers for further review

11. MINUTES FROM NVDA MEETING ON DECEMBER 14, 2006.
Reviewed

12. VLCT LEGISLATURE PRIORITIES.
Reviewed

13. WASTE AGE DECEMBER ISSUE.
Reviewed and passed on to Brian

14. ORDERS 15 AND 15A.
Reviewed and approved

Other business:

1. A replacement window was ordered and will come in this week. This will
replace the window which has been an eye sore for some time. I thank those
individuals who pushed to have this completed. I won’t mention any names. Our
hope is to replace all the windows in early spring. This particular window
could not wait.

2. Letter from Mrs. Senerchia regarding the town road off the Valley road.
This needs to be added to the Certificate of Highway Mileage as well. Further
review required to determine the class of road. We believe it to be CLASS# 4,
noted as a pent road, which is One Rod wide (16 feet in width)

Meeting adjourned @ 8:30 pm

Minutes written by: Robert Guyer

MINUTES
Morgan Select Board Meeting
Held on December 28th, 2006 @ 7:00 PM

Present: Richard A. Miller, and Brian Gray. Rob Guyer was absent.

1. The meeting opened at 7:00 p.m. The minutes from December 11, 2006 were
approved as written.

2. Letter from Dorothy Senerchia: re: Town Highway #15. R. Miller will check
with Diane Moore.

3. From the State of VT certified equalized property value: R. Miller will
check with Diane Moore

4. Letter from Dave Snedeker with the unified towns and gore. R. Miller will
take to the dump on January 6 and discuss with Maurice.

5. Information from Diane Moore requested at last meeting.
R. Miller will mail to Brighton Fire Dept. after checking with Joel Cope (723-
4753) to make sure if we have a fire, we won’t be charged for it.

6.Northeast Kingdom Waste Management: new forms to fill out: reviewed: will
put on the warning for 2007

7. Petition from the Dailey Memorial Library: Reviewed

8. copy of post closure certificate from state of VT: reviewed.Also: a letter
from NVDA seeking an appropriation,R. Miller will talk with Jim Judd re: this.

9. VLCT News Letter. Dec. and Jan. Issue. reviewed

10. Expenditure and Revenue for last year and current year.Reviewed.

11. Public Works December Issue: one copy given to Brian Gray and one will be
given to Rob Guyer.

12. ARC News Fall Issue: Reviewed

13. Orders # 14 Signed

New business: R. Miller discussed his job to get a phone to Landfill. After
meeting with phone man at dump he suggested that a engineer consult with us.
He will call one and have that engineer contact me. When I heard from the
engineer, he told me that the complete job would cost 4,000 dollars. I told
him that was too much money. He asked me to call and cancel the job. Which I
did. We want to ask Rob to get a cell phone for the landfill.

Next Meeting will be January 8, 2007 at 7:00 p.m.

Minutes taken by Richard A. Miller

MINUTES
Morgan Select Board Meeting
Held on December 11th, 2006 @ 6:55 PM

Present: Richard A. Miller, Chair, Brian Gray, Excused: Rob Guyer
Guest: Larry Labor, and Kurt Martin

The meeting opened at 6:55 p.m.

Kurt Martin, Deputy Sheriff from Orleans Dept. was present. He presented the
budget for the Sheriff’s Office. He noted that there was a 4.6% increase. This
was due to a rise in insurance due to litigation. He asked if there were any
concerns or questions. We thanked him for being present.

Then Larry Labor came in and told us we as a town did not receive funding
through a grant for Ancient Roads through the State of Vermont. He informed us
that 68 towns applied and 22 were chosen randomly. We were not one of them. We
hope that when the new legislators meet they will take this up again. We
thanked him for what he has done.

The minutes were approved as written.

We noted that our next scheduled meeting would be on Christmas Day so we
agreed to meet the following night on the 26th at 7:00 p.m.

The sheriff’s report to the Town of Morgan was reviewed.

The Town of Brighton Fire Dept. sent us a letter discussing funding. We will
give it to Diane Moore first before any determination is made. We will ask her
to give us a read out on what areas the Brighton Fire Dept. covers in the Town
of Morgan.

We will ask Tammy, our Town Clerk, to inform the five organizations that
requested funds from our appropriations to file a petition showing that people
want us to give them some funds.

We reviewed the newsletter from VT Co-op.

We reviewed the northeast States Emergency Newsletter.

We received a newsletter from Public Works: given to Brian Gray

We received a newsletter from Vt. Land Trust: given to R. Miller

We signed orders 12 and 12A.

Then R. Miller informed the Board that he spent over an hour today on the
phone attempting to get a phone for our Land Fill. After much discussion it
was agreed to place a phone there this Friday. The new phone # for the Land
Fill will be 723-4380. R. Miller will speak with Tammy about keys for the
Land Fill so that he can get in on Friday.

The meeting adjourned at 7:45 p.m.

MINUTES
Morgan Select Board Meeting
Held on November 27th 2006 @ 7:00 PM

Present: R. Guyer, B. Gray
Guest: N/A

Meeting started at 7:00 pm

1. MINUTES FROM NOV. 13, 2006
Reviewed and approved as written

2. APPROPRIATION REQUEST FROM ISLAND POND LIBRARY
Reviewed, Need to send a letter requiring this item being petitioned
prior to adding

3. APPROPRIATION REQUEST FROM ORLEANS COUNTY CITIZEN ADVOCACY
Reviewed, Need to send a letter requiring this item being petitioned
prior to adding

4. LETTER FROM DEPT. ENVIROMENTAL CONSERVATION
Reviewed, Not applicable

5. VLCT SELECTBOARD FORUM
Reviewed, No one attending at this time

6. VLCT BOARD DUES FY08
Reviewed

7. PROBATION & PAROLE DISCHARGE
Reviewed, awaiting a return call from Ann Vining w/ questions.

8. DISTRICT FEES FROM NEKWMD
Reviewed

9. APPROPRIATION REQUEST FROM NEKCA STEP O.N.E.
Reviewed, Need to send a letter requiring this item being petitioned
prior to adding

10. NO EXPOSURE CERTIFICATE FOR LANDFILL
Reviewed and signed by Brian Gray

11. NEMRC SEMINAR PAYROLL END OF YEAR
Reviewed and approved

12. REPORT FROM JUDICIAL BUREAU
Reviewed

13. TABLED FROM NOV. 13, MEETING EXTENDING ROAD BY ALLAN WOOLEY
Reviewed and approved to add .07 miles to Town Road#13. This will be
added to the Yearly update which is done prior to February of 2007 as
required.

14. RC&D CONFERENCE
Reviewed and forwarded to Shawn the Road Commissioner

15. WASTE AGE NOVEMBER ISSUE
Reviewed and taken by Brian

16. MSW NOV ISSUE
Reviewed and taken by Brian

17. UTILITY NOVEMBER ISSUE
Reviewed and taken by Robert

18. ORDERS # 12
Reviewed and approved

Other business: Regarding the Ancient Roads Issue, Al Wooley attended a
meeting and presented his notes. We have reviewed and taken them under
advisement.

Meeting adjourned @ 7:45 pm
Minutes written by: Robert Guyer

MINUTES
Morgan Select Board Meeting
Held on November 13th 2006 @ 7:00 PM

Present: R. Guyer, B. Gray
Guest: Shawn Austin (Road Commissioner)

Meeting started at 7:00 pm

1. MINUTES FROM OCT. 23, 2006 MEETING.
Approved as written with change to date as shown on attached minutes

2. DOUG GIMLER, REVIEW OF VLCT MEETING.
Not present

3. PHONE FOR LANFILL, FOR EMERGENCIES.
Richard is taking care of this and he was not present.

4. VTRANS, SURVEY ANCIENT ROADS/ CERT. OF HIGHWAY MILEAGE.
Reviewed and forwarded to Larry Labor for review

5. FALL ISSUE OF GOVERNMENT MATTERS.
Being reviewed by Brian

6. SEMINAR ON TAX ADMIN. , TAMMYLEE & PAULA.
Reviewed and approved

7. NEWSLETER FROM VT URBAN & COMMUNITY FORESTY PROGRAM.
Reviewed, passed on to Greg Smith, the Tree Warden

8. VLCT SELECTBOARD FORUM.
Reviewed and tabled for further discussion at next meeting

9. APPROPRIATION FROM N.E.K.H.S.
Reviewed, Tabled

10. APPROPRIATION FROM VT GREEN UP.
Reviewed, Tabled

11. APPROPRIATION FROM AMERICAN RED CROSS.
Reviewed, Tabled

12. VLCT NEW NOV. ISSUE.
Reviewed

13. QUARTERLY REPORT FROM WASTE MANAGEMENT.
Reviewed

14. RINKER MATERIALS/ WORKSHOP STORMWATER.
Reviewed

15. LETTER FROM ANDREW CROSSMAN, SELECTMAN FROM PLYMOUTH.
Reviewed and tabled for further discussion with full board

16. TRANSFER OF LAND FROM JORDAN TO THE TOWN.
Reviewed and approved as written. A meeting will be scheduled to have the
signing take place and it may be held at the Town Office if so agreed by all
Parties. The select Board agrees with this.

17. ORDERS #11
Reviewed and signed as written.

Other business:
1. The animal control officer had a request which was approved by both members
present. The request will be found on Orders#12 for the next meeting.

Meeting adjourned @ 7:50 pm

Minutes written by: Robert Guyer

MINUTES
Morgan Select Board Meeting
Held on October 23th 2006 @ 7:00 PM

Present: R. Miller, R. Guyer, B. Gray
Guest: Larry Labor, James Judd

Meeting started at 7:00 pm

1. Minutes from meeting on Oct. 16, 2006.
Reviewed and approved as written

2. Larry Labor Re: Ancient Roads.
Mapping Grant Reviewed and signed as written. We would like to take this time
to Thank Larry for the time he has given to complete this Grant.

3. NVDA Minutes, meeting September 28, 2006.
Reviewed

4. VLCT Workshop for Ancient Roads.
Reviewed and passed on to Larry Labor for further review

5. Amendment to Management plan N.E.K.W.M.D.
Reviewed

6. Management Academy info.
Reviewed and passed on to Road Commissioner

7. Resignation from Richard Dill.
Reviewed and regretfully accepted. Richard will write a letter of thanks.

8. Oct. issue of Waste Age.
Reviewed and taken by Richard

9. Orders #9
Reviewed and signed.

Other business:
1. Information was received by the Select Board with regards to ATVs and Town
property. We reviewed and placed it on file for future use. This information
was presented by James Judd. Jim picked up the information at a seminar he
recently attended.

Meeting adjourned @ 8:00 pm

Minutes written by: Robert Guyer

MINUTES
Morgan Select Board Meeting
Held on October 16th 2006 @ 7:00 PM

Present: R. Miller, R. Guyer, B. Gray
Guest: Larry Labor

Meeting started at 7:00 pm

1. Minutes from Sept. 25, 2006 meeting.
Reviewed and approved as written!

2. Revolt & Repeal re: property tax,
Reviewed

3. Vision / Appraisal Software,
Reviewed and passed on to listers

4. Drift Dusters , Landowner Permission,
Reviewed and approved

5. Registration for Jim Judd, class on 10-30.
Reviewed and approved

6. Letter from VT Public Interest Research Group re: Mercury Exposure.
Reviewed

7. Sept. Newsletter from EPA.
Reviewed

8. Frontier Animal Society, Informative Meeting on 11/02/2006.
Reviewed

9. VLCT OCT. Issue
Reviewed

10. Renewal Application Package from VLCT.
Reviewed and signed

11. Hearing for Subdivision Permits on 11/03/2006.
Reviewed and Richard will sit in on the meeting

12. Letter from Allen Wooley & Ilene Douglas.
Reviewed and taking under advisement

13. VT Rural Fire Protection Task Force Grants available.
Reviewed and passed on to Forest Fire Warden (Bob Cain)

14. Expenditure & Revenue Reports.
Reviewed

15. Public Works Sept. Issue.
Reviewed

16. Orders #7a Payroll
Reviewed and signed

17. Orders #8 Payroll & AP
Reviewed and signed

Other business:

1. Appointed Larry Labor as the Grant Writer for the Ancient Roads committee

2. We reviewed a Letter written by Richard Miller to the State of Vermont
regarding the Milfoil Project. Letter was approved as written. This letter was
requested by the Seymour Lake Association regarding future additional grant
moneys. Seymour Lake is one of a few lakes thru out the state which is still
Milfoil Free. We would like to keep it that way.

3. A concerned citizen has requested we repair or replace a window at the town
office. We will be pursuing the issue at the next meeting.

Meeting adjourned @ 8:00 pm

Minutes written by: Robert Guyer

MINUTES
Morgan Select Board Meeting
Held on September 25th, 2006 @ 7:00 PM

Present: R. Miller, R. Guyer, B. Gray
Guest: Doug Gimler

Meeting started at 7:00pm

1. Minutes from meeting on Sept. 11, 2006.

Reviewed, and approved as written!

2. Doug Gimler will be attending.

Doug had questions regarding the tax rate and school issues! Doug was asked to
attend a meeting with the VLCT regarding a vote for Education Finance Reform
Recommendations. He agreed to attend.

3. UVM Seminar for Diane Moore, Deanna Keenan and Jim Judd.

Approved to send all (3) listers as requested.

4. Sign Letter of Agreement from Computer Appraisal Services.

Reviewed and signed by Richard miller

5. Memo from VLCT re; Education Finance Reform Recommendations.

Reviewed and asked Doug Gimler to attend. He agreed as noted above.

6. State of Vermont, 2 new grants available Municipal Education & Ancient
Roads.

Ancient roads research and mapping municipal grant program: Will review
further and pass it on to the Ancient Roads committee (Larry Labor)

Municipal education grant: Will review further and pass it on to the planning
commission (Jim Jordan)

7. Letter from Waste Management Division, Post-Closure Certificate

Reviewed and Richard will discuss with Maurice Coutu at the land fill

8. NVDA 2006 Annual Report.

Reviewed