Morgan Select Board Meeting 8/11/14

MINUTES
Morgan Select Board Meeting
Held on August 11, 2014 @ 6:00 PM

Select Board Draft Agenda/Meeting
For August 11th, 2014

Present: Chair, Larry Labor, Clerk, TammyLee Morin, Robert Guyer, Thomas
Bonneville.

Others present: None.

The meeting was called to order at 6:03 p.m.

* Minutes to meeting of July 28, 2014 to review and approve.

A motion was made and seconded to approve the minutes as written.

* Notice of Certificate of deposit maturity for 10 months with an annual
percentage yield of .15%. Tammy changed it to 12 months at an annual
percentage yield of .20%. (FYI)

A motion was made and seconded to approve the change by Town Clerk to 1
year and .20% APY.

* Request from Town Clerk TammyLee Morin to put a copy of a notice to tax
payers about the increase in their tax bills being state education, and
requesting tax payers to call their local representatives with any
question, concerns and complaints.

A motion was made and seconded to approve the Town Clerk’s request to put
tax payer notice in with tax bills.

* Copy of an e-mail from David Antone, Director of Vermont Local Roads on
Better Back Roads Grants.

E-mail reviewed and filed. (FYI)

* Bob Durgin requests that we have the recycling Center bush hogged down
the fence and up by the entrance.

A motion was made and seconded that TammyLee would contact Russell Guyer
to do this request.

* Request for Town Clerk to attend a workshop of Vermont Public Records
Act and Open Meeting Law on September 10th at the Capital Plaza Hotel and
Conference Center in Montpelier in the amount of $60.00.

A motion was made and seconded to approve for TammyLee Morin to attend if
she so pleases.

* Review and approve tax rate for FY14/15.

A motion was made and seconded to approve tax rates as noted:
Town tax Rate to be .2067
Residential Tax rate: 1.7439
Non-residential rate: 1.7272

* Orders #4 Accounts Payable and Payroll to review, approve and sign.

A motion was made and seconded to a approve and sign orders #4 in the
amounts of:

Payroll: $ 4,261.24
Accounts payable: $ 34,898.48

Other business:

Emergency Management information and Emergency Operations Plan to review
from Bruce Melendy, NVDA’s Regional Emergency Management Coordinator.

A motion was made to take and review and table to next meeting of August
25th, 2015.

Reviewed an email and information on valuation estimates on the Recycling
Building, Town Hall, and Town Office. (FYI) Filed.