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Board of Selectmen Meeting

Event Date: 
Tuesday, February 16, 2021 - 6:00pm

Board of Selectmen

Agenda

February 16, 2021

6:00 p.m.

Virtual Meeting

AMENDED

 

6:00 p.m.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6:15 p.m.

 

 

 

 

6:30 p.m.

 

 

 

 

 

6:35 p.m.

 

 

6:40 p.m.

 

Executive Session: To conduct strategy sessions in preparation for negotiations with non-union personnel and to conduct collective bargaining sessions or contract negotiations with non-union personnel; and

 

To discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining if an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the government’s bargaining position and the Chair so declares.

 

 

Executive Session: To consider the purchase, exchange, lease, or value of real property, if the Chair declares that an open session may have a detrimental effect on the government’s bargaining or litigating position, and the Chair so declares.

 

  1. Open Session
  1. Call to Order
  2. Pledge of Allegiance
  3. Public Service Announcements
  4. Moment of Silence

 

  1. Pole Hearing – National Grid Installation of one (1) jointly owned pole on 7 Cove Drive

 

  1. Pole Hearing – National Grid Installation of two (2) jointly owned poles on 50 Hillside Drive

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Department Reports
  1. Planning Department
  2. Department of Public Works
  3. Town Administrator

                    

  1. Action Items
  1. Consideration and comments on the proposed parking lot expansion at 420 Main Street (The Board of Selectmen sitting as Water Commissioners).
  2. Consideration and possible action on a temporary Dock Permit for the property at 288A Clarke Road Extension.
  3. Consideration and possible action on a Taxicab/Livery License for Jeremi Bustamante at Charles River Service, Inc. (d/b/a Sturbridge Car Service)
  4. Consideration and possible acceptance of a donation of two pallets of PPE from Ocean State Job Lot to the Sturbridge Fire Department.
  5. Consideration and possible acceptance of a gift of $250.00 from The Federated Church of Sturbridge and Fiskdale to the Sturbridge Fire Department.
  6. Consideration and possible action on the Manager for Caregiver Patient Connection, LLC.
  7. Consideration and possible action on a license for a private water line under a public way at 116 Wallace Road.
  8. Consideration and possible action on a sewer and water rate study.
  9. Consideration and possible action on the appointment of Police Chief Earl Dessert to the Betterment Committee.
  10. Consideration and possible action on the waiving of site plan application fees for the 501 Main Street parking lot project.
  11. Consideration and possible referral to the Planning Board  proposed amendments to Chapter 3 – Establishment of Districts of the Sturbridge Zoning Bylaw.

 

 

  1. Old Business
  1. COVID-19 Update

 

 

 

  1. New Business

 

 

 

 

  1. Correspondence

 

 

 

  1. Approval of Minutes
    1. February 1, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Citizen’s Forum

 

  1. Adjourn

The list matters are those reasonably anticipated by the Chair to be discussed at the meeting. Not all items may in fact be discussed, and other items not listed may also be brought up for discussion to the extent permitted by law.

Pursuant to Governor Baker’s March 12, 2020 Order Suspending Certain Provisions of the Open Meeting law, G.L. c. 30A Section 18, and the Governor’s March 15, 2020 Order imposing strict limitations on the number people that may gather in one place, this meeting of the Sturbridge Board of Selectmen will be conducted via remote participation to the greatest extent possible.  Specific information and the general guidelines for remote participation can be found on the Town’s website at https://www.sturbridge.gov/town-administrator/pages/how-access-virtual-meeting.  For this meeting, members of the public who wish to listen and or watch the meeting either online via the Town’s on demand video broadcast, on cable television on channel 191, or dial into the meeting at 774-304-1455, enter 1428# for the meeting number and 12345 for the access code.  (This phone number is only active for the public during public meetings).  No in-person attendance of members of the public will be permitted, but every effort will be made to ensure that the public can adequately access the proceedings in real time, via technological means.  In the event that we are unable to do so, despite best efforts, we will post on the Town’s website an audio or video recording, transcript, or other comprehensive record of the proceedings as soon as possible after the meeting.

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