Selectboard Meeting

Monday, June 7, 2021, 5:30 pm
Town Hall 2nd Floor
A meeting of the Selectboard

Location: Gill Town Hall, 2nd Floor

Face coverings required if not fully vaccinated for COVID-19

5:30 PM Call to Order (If the meeting is being videotaped, announce that fact. If remote participation will occur, announce member & reason, & need for roll call voting)

COVID-19 Topics

  • Updates from Gill’s Emergency Management Team
  • Recommendation to end Gill’s State of Emergency effective June 15th 12:01 AM (concurrent with lifting of the State’s emergency declaration)

Old Business

  • Review of Minutes
  • Gill Elementary School Floor Replacement Project – report on any new information or updates

New Business

  • Highway Department topics
    • Purchase order for $$2,585.02 to CN Wood to replace rear fenders on 2010 Komatsu loader
    • Declaration of surplus equipment: two (2) plows from the 70s, 2005 Tenco sander, three (3) oil-and-stone boxes
    • Town Meeting article to repurpose $10,000 for repair of a snow plow to also include purchase of a new snow plow (originally voted 6/19/2018 town meeting)
  • 2021 COPS Hiring Program (CHP) competitive grant application (deadline is June 22, 2021)
  • Town Meeting article to accept Massachusetts General Law c. 64N, § 3 to impose an excise (a.k.a. local option sales tax) on the retail sales of marijuana for adult use at the rate of 3 percent (maximum allowed)
  • Debt exclusion questions for July 12th ballot election
  • Juneteenth holiday – new Massachusetts legal holiday June 19th – municipal offices must be closed that day (or Monday when 6/19 is a Sunday); paid/unpaid is not addressed by state law that created the holiday
  • Request from Agricultural Commission to use Town Common & Town Hall for Autumn Festival, hopefully Saturday, September 25, 2021
  • Correspondence – David McGrath, possibility of sidewalk from Stoughton Place to Route 2
  • Other business as may arise after the agenda has been posted.
  • Public Service Announcements, if any

Warrants
FY21 #24 Vendors ($49,041.14) & Payroll ($30,314.83) – reviewed & signed by Chair on 5/26/21
FY21 #25 – review & sign

Adjournment

Other Invitations/Meetings:

Date

Time

Event

Location

6/21

5:30 PM

Selectboard meeting

Gill Town Hall, 2nd floor

6/26

10 AM

Annual Town Meeting

Gill Elem School

Sun 7/4

Fourth of July

Mon 7/5

Fourth of July Holiday

Tues 7/6

5:30 PM

Selectboard meeting

Gill Town Hall, 2nd floor

Gill Selectboard 2021-06-07 Agenda with files (2021-06-04 at 5:38 PM)