BOARD OF SELECTMEN MEETING
MONDAY FEBRUARY 1, 2016
AGENDA
SELECTMEN’S MEETING ROOM
1ST FLOOR
GROTON TOWN HALL

5:30 P.M. Executive Session Pursuant to M.G.L. c.30A, §21, Clause 4. “To discuss the deployment of or strategy regarding security personnel or devices.”

6:00 P.M. Announcements and Review Agenda for the Public

6:05 P.M. Public Comment Period – Vote May Be Taken

I. 6:10 P.M. Town Manager’s Report

1. Selectmen’s Agenda Schedule
2. Ratify Town Manager’s Appointment of Laurie Connors Bonavita as the Land Use Director/Town Planner – Vote May Be Taken
3. FY 2016 Second Quarter Financial Update – Vote May Be Taken
4. Review Status of FY 2016 Goals and Objectives – Vote May Be Taken
5. Review and Approve Proposal on Country Club Liquor Licenses – Vote May Be Taken
6. FY 2017 Budget Update – Votes May Be Taken
A. Consider Finance Committee Proposal to Establish a Sustainable Budget Study Committee
B. Update on Debt Service Proposal
C. Determine What Budgets the Board Wants to Review at February 13, 2016 Joint Budget Meeting with Finance Committee
D. Follow-Up - Proposal to Establish a Fund to Aid Senior Citizens

II. 6:15 P.M. Friends of Prescott School – Request to Support CPA Application for Improvements to the Prescott School – Vote May Be Taken

OTHER BUSINESS
- Discussion – Consider Providing a “State of the Town” Report to the 2016 Spring Town Meeting – Vote May Be Taken
- Discussion – Review Selectmen’s Policies and Consider Additions, Including: Guidelines for Abstaining from Votes; Meeting Attendance; and Guidance in Preparation of the Annual Budget – Vote May Be Taken

SELECTMEN LIAISON REPORTS

III. Minutes: Regularly Scheduled Meeting of January 11, 2016

IV. Executive Session Pursuant to M.G.L. c.30A, §21, Clause 2. “To conduct strategy sessions in preparation for negotiations with non-union personnel or to conduct collective bargaining sessions or contract negotiations with non-union personnel.” - Town Manager Contract

ADJOURNMENT

The listing of topics that the Chair reasonably anticipates will be discussed at the meeting is not intended as a guarantee of the topics that will have been discussed. Not all topics listed may in fact be discussed, and other topics not listed may also be brought up for discussion to the extent permitted by law.