SELECT BOARD MEETING

MONDAY, JULY 9, 2018

AGENDA

SELECT BOARD MEETING ROOM

1^st FLOOR

GROTON TOWN HALL

 

            5:00 P.M.        Announcements and Review Agenda for the Public

 

            5:05 P.M.        Vote to Appoint Michael Luth as Police Chief – Vote to Ratify Employment Agreement – Vote May Be Taken

 

            5:10 P.M.        Public Comment Period – Votes May Be Taken

           

1. 5:15 P.M. Town Manager’s Report

 

1. Select Board’s Agenda Schedule
2. Consider Approval of Various FY 2018 Line Item Transfers – Votes May Be Taken
3. Consider Change of Location for Precinct 1 Polling Location – Vote May Be Taken
4. Consider Approval of a One Day Beer and Wine License for First Parish Church for the Second Annual Groton Neighbors Pot Luck to held on Sunday, July 22, 2018 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. – Vote May Be Taken
5. Consider Approval of an All Alcohol One Day License for the Groton Historical Society’s Farm to Brew Event at Williams Barn on Saturday, August 25, 2018 from 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. – Vote May Be Taken
6. Update from Town Manager on Assisting Town of Dunstable – Vote May Be Taken

 

1. 5:30 P.M. In Joint Session with the Planning Board – Interview and Select Candidates to Fill Vacancies on the Planning Board – Candidates to be Interviewed – Annika Nilsson Ripps and Gus Widmayer – Votes May Be Taken

 

OTHER BUSINESS

 

ON-GOING ISSUES – Votes and Action May Be Taken

 

1. Police Chief Search
2. Prescott School Disposition/RFP
3. Town Counsel RFP
4. Signage/Traffic at Intersection of Route 119/West Street
5. Memorandum of Understanding – Four Corner Sewer District Repayment
6. Senior Center Building Project
7. Goal Compilation – Align Department Head and Select Board Goals
8. Proposed Policy on Major Initiative Planning
9. Operational Audit Recommendations/Implementation
10. Charter Approval/Implementation of New Provisions
11. Local Room Occupancy Tax – How to Account for in FY 2020 Budget
12. Proposed Bylaw for Permanent Building Committee
13. Route 119 Sidewalk Installation
14. Recreational Marijuana
15. Florence Roche Elementary School Feasibility Study
16. Building Fee Waivers
17. Task Force to Consider Adding Additional Police Officers
18. Task Force to Consider Having a Full-Time 24/7 Fire Department
19. Union Negotiations

 

           

SELECT BOARD LIAISON REPORTS

 

III.        Minutes:         Regularly Scheduled Meeting of June 18, 2018

 

1. Executive Session – Pursuant to M.G.L. c30A, §21(a)(3) – “To discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining or litigation if an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the bargaining or litigating position of the public body and the chair so declares” – Purposes – 1. Review Tentative Agreements with Various Unions; 2.  Review Step 3 Grievance Filed by SEIU 888 – Town and Library Employees Union

 

1. Consider Ratifying the Collective Bargaining Agreement Between the Town of Groton and AFSCME, Council 93 – Vote May Be Taken

 

1. Consider Ratifying the Collective Bargaining Agreement Between the Town of Groton and Groton Patrolmen’s Association – Vote May Be Taken

 

VII.       Consider Ratifying the Collective Bargaining Agreement Between the Town of Groton and Groton Superior Officers Association, NEPBA, Local 53 – Vote May Be Taken

 

VII.       Consider Ratifying the Collective Bargaining Agreement Between the Town of Groton and the Groton Professional Firefighters, IAFF, Local 4879 – Vote May Be Taken

 

1. Consider Ratifying the Collective Bargaining Agreement Between the Town of Groton and the Groton Communications Officers, IBPO, Local 522 – Vote May Be Taken

 

 

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.