Selectboard Meeting

Monday, November 17, 2025, 5:30 pm
2nd Floor Gill Town Hall
A meeting of the Selectboard

Location: Town Hall, 2nd floor meeting room, 325 Main Road, Gill

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)

5:45 PM Utility Pole Hearing Request by Eversource and Verizon to install one pole at 182 Main Road to provide electricity to an existing home

6:00 PM Nuisance Dog Hearing for dog “Taco” licensed to Chad Powling, 13 West Gill Rd

Old Business

  • Review of Minutes: 3/24/25, 4/7/25, 4/22/25, 5/5/25, 5/20/25, 6/2/25, 6/16/25, 6/30/25, 8/11/25, 8/18/25, 9/8/25, 9/17/25, 10/6/25, 10/16/25, 10/20/25, 11/3/25
  • Board of Assessors
    • Hiring recommendation for Assistant to the Assessors position
    • Request to use Diane Sumrall as temporary part-time employee to provide training

New Business

  • Police Department topics
    • Appointment – Darren Gale as a part-time police officer through 6/30/26
    • Department policy updates (based on POST Commission’s model policies)
    • Request to use Administrative Clerk for clerical assistance in PD, time to be paid from PD’s budget, total hours for all departments not to exceed 19 hours/week
    • Replacement of 3 cruiser Mobile Data Terminals – 2 are funded by $11,409 Byrne Justice Assistance Grant, 1 funded by ~$4,700 from CONNECT grant account and $1,000 requested from NMH Donation account
  • Highway Department topics
    • Project approval to transfer bucket assembly from 1995 GMC Sierra bucket truck to 2005 Ford F550
    • MassDOT Unpaved Roads grant – application ideas
  • Appointment – Bonnie Bloom, 147 Main Rd, to Energy Commission through 6/30/27
  • Conservation Restriction (CR) for land along Mountain Road owned by Richard French & Emily Samuels – Alain Peteroy, Deputy Director, Franklin Land Trust – Selectboard vote to approve CR is requested
  • Other business as may arise after the agenda has been posted.
  • Public Service Announcements, if any
  • Warrants
    FY26 #10 – Vendors ($108,542.81) & Payroll ($37,504.93) – reviewed/signed on 11/03/25
    FY26 #11 – review & sign

Adjournment

Other Invitations/Meetings:

Date

Time

Event

Location

Thur 11/27

Thanksgiving Day holiday

Mon 12/1

5:30 PM

Selectboard meeting

Town Hall

Mon 12/15

5:30 PM

Selectboard meeting

Town Hall

Mon 12/29

5:30 PM

Selectboard meeting – Sen. Jo Comerford to attend

Town Hall

Gill Selectboard 2025-11-17 Agenda with handouts (2025-11-14 at 3:50 PM)