Stamford Select Board — 2024-06-06 (Regular)
- Hearing Of Visitors
- Selectboard Orders
- Road Conditions
- County Road Declassification
- Recycling
- Emergency Management
- Delinquent Dog List
- Town Email Address
- Tax Anticipation Note
- Flag Ceremony
- Assignment Of Town’S Interest
- Joint Meeting With School Directors
- Tennis Court
- Lawn Mowing Bid
- Elected Listers/Appointed Assessor
- Town Sign
- Bill H.875
- Reminders
Motions (10, 10 passed)
accept the regular meeting minutes of May 16, 2024 as written Mike Denaultseconded: Kurt Gamaripassed
accept the Local Emergency Management Plan as presented Mike Denaultseconded: John Dunnpassed
establish an email address for the Administrative Officer Kurt Gamariseconded: Doug Wrightpassed
authorize Nancy Bushika to sign the promissory note to borrow money in anticipation of taxes Mike Denaultseconded: Doug Wrightpassed
go back to elected listers and to hold a special meeting for the vote Mike Denaultseconded: Kurt Gamaripassed
attend the next Planning Commission meeting on behalf of the Selectboard to request the Planning Commission to Mike Denault for permissionseconded: Nancy Bushikapassed
find that premature public discussion of a personnel matter would place the town at a substantial disadvantage Nancy Bushikaseconded: Mike Denaultpassed
enter executive session for a personnel matter pursuant to 1 V.S.A. § 313(a)(3) Nancy Bushikaseconded: Mike Denaultpassed
exit executive session Nancy Bushikaseconded: Doug Wrightpassed
adjourn Mike Denaultseconded: Kurt Gamaripassed
Who owes what (2)
| Action | Owner | By when | Note | Where it stands |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nancy Bushika will contact the mowing contractor | Nancy Bushika | — | open no date in the minutes | |
| John Dunn noted that the town has a leash law and people should be following it | John Dunn | — | the minutes phrase this as a report; the obligation is the point, not the statement. | open no date in the minutes ¶ ¶259 |
scripts/action_status.py --done "a phrase".Money (4)
| Road Conditions | SELECTBOARD ORDERS The Selectboard reviewed and approved the following orders: WARRANT #21 $ 9,297.55 payroll WARRANT #22 $17,675.87 accounts payable ROAD CONDITIONS 1. | $ 9,297.55; $17,675.87 |
| The budget was set at $224,000.00 which is a 4.5% increase from last year | The budget was set at $224,000.00 which is a 4.5% increase from last year. | $224,000.00 |
| The town received a $1,900.00 reimbursement check for the funds collected to build the hou | The town received a $1,900.00 reimbursement check for the funds collected to build the household hazardous waste facility in Bennington. | $1,900.00 |
| One from Adams Community Bank for 5.25% and one from Berkshire Bank for 4.6% for a $300,00 | One from Adams Community Bank for 5.25% and one from Berkshire Bank for 4.6% for a $300,000.00 loan which will be payable in November when taxes are due. | $300,000.00 |
Public comment (12)
| Sally Bohl | listed as a visitor; the minutes do not record what they said |
| Debra Burchard | listed as a visitor; the minutes do not record what they said |
| Laura Champagne | listed as a visitor; the minutes do not record what they said |
| Alden Finney | listed as a visitor; the minutes do not record what they said |
| Jedidiah Gramlin | listed as a visitor; the minutes do not record what they said |
| Lisa Gramlin | listed as a visitor; the minutes do not record what they said |
| William Levine | listed as a visitor; the minutes do not record what they said |
| Marta Miller | listed as a visitor; the minutes do not record what they said |
| Thomas Nazzewski | listed as a visitor; the minutes do not record what they said |
| Sheila Pecor | listed as a visitor; the minutes do not record what they said |
| Debra Righi | listed as a visitor; the minutes do not record what they said |
| James Righi | listed as a visitor; the minutes do not record what they said |
Follow-ups named in the minutes
- Deb Burchard said the FEMA buyout program deadline is approaching.
What the extraction was unsure about
- Extracted mechanically from the town's own minutes text (data/minutes/<meeting_id>.txt), which names the mover and seconder of every motion; the audio transcript was not consulted for attribution.
- Town minutes are the (UNAPPROVED) draft as published by the town.
- Agenda items are the ALL-CAPS section headings in the minutes, so their wording is the town's own and their order is the order in the document.
- Public comment lists only what the minutes record; visitors are listed when the minutes name them without recording a statement.
- Vote field is 'unanimous voice vote' when the minutes say 'All in favor', a numeric count when one appears, otherwise null.
Transcript
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Speaker 3: Well, they're waiting on something.
Speaker 4: Most of the conduit.
Speaker 5: I don't like that.
Speaker 7: an average per foot cost you don't know we haven't we can probably try and find out more of that from
Speaker 7: underground conduit is another situation according to most of our pre-survey results because we had a
Speaker 8: yeah that's the thing that's the homeowner i might not want it
Speaker 4: and you need to communicate with the town to do that.
Speaker 11: You, if the homeowner wants to give up their...
Speaker 12: That's correct.
Speaker 14: Do you have another string in there for me? There's a little bit of water in there frozen,
Speaker 15: There was a W-2 in the middle reference.
Speaker 17: We.
Speaker 19: Never came out before, Dennis.
Speaker 20: Less than calcium chloride.
Speaker 20: Okay.
Speaker 21: appellate and i think they pushed the deadline deadline it wasn't necessarily a match for the
Speaker 22: some of them were municipalities as well whatever whatever the one i read the match is gone
Speaker 23: we need to cover them before something took a little pain i was up there uh last night and there
Speaker 23: holding you know it's holding nice now but you know what you do with class four from klondike
Speaker 24: on that park yeah we got yeah okay so last year it was just too wet to even think about doing
Speaker 21: You can make good wine out of them.
Speaker 25: Going up to Gruden's it is, but not the other road.
Speaker 15: Cool.
Speaker 26: I always figured that.
Speaker 15: Maybe you do that too. Into the outdoor. I do profile this. Yes.
Speaker 25: Okay.
Speaker 25: We're getting to it.
Speaker 25: Well, just do a little at a time.
Speaker 19: Well, since he came down.
Speaker 25: The eyewash is straight in the middle.
Speaker 19: Do you work 6 to 2?
Speaker 27: Right. Yeah, right.
Speaker 28: And what was...
Speaker 29: We'll put it...
Speaker 30: So, yeah.
Speaker 30: It's scheduled for it.
Speaker 31: Yeah, I got up there, no problem. Yeah.
Speaker 32: Trio 1, yeah.
Speaker 31: A third one. This would be a third one. It's just a little job. It's not right
Speaker 33: There's a kid for sale right now on the way
Speaker 34: They'll see you in
Speaker 33: Whether it doesn't doesn't want to develop that conversation along and it's not like there's small wax up there
Speaker 24: so they have to plow past where they're currently the other guy across the street yeah
Speaker 35: property cuts right down the trail it cuts down this risky man so it's not because it
Speaker 35: out there so it's not i'm assuming the others in the trail a lot of people all the way out there
Speaker 36: don't say that it's not affected by it no and we're going past
Speaker 24: enough not that i'm trying to be pushing but oh but the snow's gonna fly pretty soon we can get that does it have to be in order to it we can get this out of the way pretty quick right
Speaker 34: what's that a connector i don't think we have that in there to my knowledge you what's that a connector
Speaker 32: so how will this process help you do that that will solidify if you go down to the legal trail
Speaker 15: if we don't either whether it's a legal trailer or a class matter yeah you want to do it because you want to take the liability off yeah that's how that's you want to set the legal trail then there's no liability to the town for anything but if you're
Speaker 34: and this board whatever we do up there you guys have to see your backs of people looking at the
Speaker 37: law what's that it's third day we're looking at the law to post it or today it says the select
Speaker 37: person's interest and give 30 days notice to the petitioners or first people so when they hit july
Speaker 31: recycling.
Speaker 38: town
Speaker 39: It's our people. It's our dog owners.
Speaker 31: and we don't
Speaker 31: Yeah.
Speaker 36: It was a leash law, right?
Speaker 40: No.
Speaker 41: Yeah.
Speaker 5: who are being hurt.
Speaker 42: who the next principal is going to be?
Speaker 5: to my email?
Speaker 42: Send an email asking for a do-it.
Speaker 43: form number list. Appendix B3 emergency numbers
Speaker 44: or if it was part of the
Speaker 45: I think doing all that
Speaker 43: is going to be more than they really ask them for. That's what I think. Like you said you catch something
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's updated
Speaker 43: being drawn by Bennington Network Yeah. There you have it. And what's all the number systems what's the code for it
Speaker 43: basically Road numbers 1, 2, 3, yeah Just a suggestion
Speaker 43: It's 20 years old now
Speaker 46: getting it here
Speaker 3: It's a question that they would like to
Speaker 47: Anything else on the emergency management?
Speaker 39: or just ticket
Speaker 43: Yep She's not
Speaker 48: That's what we came up with
Speaker 49: Lister
Speaker 50: Just a generic email
Speaker 51: I'd rather email
Speaker 51: was this a test
Speaker 15: one of the things I can ask you
Speaker 21: it's not public
Speaker 51: everything
Speaker 36: they can do their own thing
Speaker 21: I agree
Speaker 15: no I don't know that I just took a turn okay that's it I'm alright and again I don't want to
Speaker 36: I don't think that's the only way
Speaker 53: we'll have them set up
Speaker 54: How are we going to do that?
Speaker 50: I was just going to ask if they can do that.
Speaker 43: So, the Bennington Benevolent in Protected Order of Elks every year invites us to their
Speaker 54: It's this Saturday.
Speaker 25: Last I heard, but I don't know.
Speaker 19: Oh.
Speaker 25: I can't say.
Speaker 47: All that cement. Yeah. Clean it up. Do something with it. If we can move that building and use it for storage. Yeah. Use it for storage and ultimately landscape and stuff. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 40: Yeah.
Speaker 31: Have you reached out and asked for that?
Speaker 53: Okay.
Speaker 19: I guess I didn't text that.
Speaker 24: No.
Speaker 25: No.
Speaker 31: I will call him and mention that this hasn't been done is he planning to do it if he's not
Speaker 54: something to think about so we haven't had anyone come forward in five years
Speaker 55: what was his what was his bill last time what did we pay last year twenty six thousand
Speaker 35: he had all this training I think it was twenty six thousand I'm not saying that a lister could have done what he did this time around but for all
Speaker 56: we want to have him be a lister now for $100 an hour thirty five hour whatever if we paid $20 an hour those are savings
Speaker 57: I've learned her name in the past.
Speaker 17: Then they will educate you.
Speaker 39: There's different levels.
Speaker 57: Three.
Speaker 59: What do you mean, people want to get paid?
Speaker 56: I understand.
Speaker 56: I think it was $26,000.
Speaker 60: The state offers the classes.
Speaker 54: So...
Speaker 36: Correct.
Speaker 61: But so then I don't have the training yet, but then I would have to pay for the training.
Speaker 17: Then you're... They become elected by...
Speaker 62: Oh, there's another D.R. thing.
Speaker 51: You still want me to repeat my motion? Yes.
Speaker 56: That was before my time.
Speaker 50: Yep.
Speaker 31: Do you have to put in your paperwork?
Speaker 64: Is it possible for us to get the knowledge of what
Speaker 31: and use it as a stop or something?
Speaker 65: Either way, they could go either way, yeah.
Speaker 43: I'm just saying.
Speaker 43: Yes, everybody. Look at mine, that worked for free.
Speaker 65: No.
Speaker 66: John, you wanted to bring something up.
Speaker 67: Well, that's how I was going to write off the bat.
Speaker 21: So we're talking about the original sign,
Speaker 68: with the original sign hanging on it?
Speaker 69: .
Speaker 43: .
Speaker 70: That's what I'm saying. Think about it. Can we do that?
Speaker 17: Okay. This was mentioned before. If you take Vermont off, it fits in the bylaws.
Speaker 68: That's what we're doing.
Speaker 49: I'm happy to lie down now.
Speaker 56: Can we get a big rock there
Speaker 17: Well, at least everybody needs to read it from both sides. I can't read that from north to north.
Speaker 71: Each sign is legal.
Speaker 15: If it's hanging from a tree, it's a sign. It's a sign. It's a sign. It's a sign. It's a sign. It's a sign. It's a sign.
Speaker 33: It has to be broken so you read both of them.
Speaker 35: Right, right.
Speaker 36: But you can't, we can...
Speaker 51: It's not a sign.
Speaker 72: Can't you ask for an increase in size?
Speaker 17: That's a lie. Everybody will say won't give... Yeah. Churches and people won't get their permits.
Speaker 31: The one thing, though,
Speaker 17: But if you don't have to, they won't.
Speaker 73: That's not true.
Speaker 17: That's Massachusetts.
Speaker 56: I did before. Laura's had her hand up for
Speaker 56: Why can't we do local?
Speaker 54: It's the exact same. It's both. So you don't need to ask them what you can
Speaker 74: He goes, geez, I wonder where his town hall is.
Speaker 40: No, don't feel bad if you brought it up. I agree with you 100%. Yeah, I mean, we just want to follow you. Even if I got to bring in a cardboard cutout of what a
Speaker 75: I mean, I guess the bottom line is
Speaker 33: No. Well, I think if we had
Speaker 15: I don't know what you're saying.
Speaker 33: So we're going to...
Speaker 68: Well, I don't know if we would.
Speaker 76: Well, if people have that
Speaker 65: Somebody has...
Speaker 51: The bylaw can be more stringent.
Speaker 49: I'll bring it there and show them.
Speaker 77: One day you've got to sell them the farm.
Speaker 33: Look into that...
Speaker 65: July 1st.
Speaker 78: Yeah, we've got to hit the nail on the head.
Speaker 54: And then, so he's got five days to veto it,
Speaker 53: What's the name of it again?
Speaker 79: Email the governor, call the governor.
Speaker 15: No.
Speaker 80: No more now.
Speaker 53: Is there a number as a citizen?
Speaker 54: Yeah.
Transcribed 2026-10-12 (faster-whisper large-v3, CUDA; names corrected per data/name_fixes.json). Names corrected against the minutes. Diarization is automated and over-splits one person into several labels. Raw model output with timestamps: SRT.