Stamford Select Board — 2024-10-17 (Regular)
- Hearing Of Visitors
- Road Conditions
- Recycling
- Highway Ordinance
- Fire Truck Loan
- Insurance Renewal
- Delinquent Dog Update
- Dvfiber Internet
- School Grounds
- Reminders
Motions (7, 7 passed)
accept the regular meeting minutes of October 3, 2024 as written Mike Denaultseconded: Kurt Gamaripassed
designate Nancy Bushika to sign the loan paperwork Mike Denaultseconded: Kurt Gamaripassed
accept the proposed insurance renewal figures as presented Mike Denaultseconded: John Dunnpassed
find that premature public discussion of an attorney/client/civil action would place the town at a substantial Mike Denaultseconded: Kurt Gamaripassed
enter executive session for an attorney/client/civil matter pursuant to 1 V.S.A. § 313(a)(1)(F) Mike Denaultseconded: Kurt Gamaripassed
exit executive session Nancy Bushikaseconded: Doug Wrightpassed
adjourn Mike Denaultseconded: John Dunnpassed
Who owes what (3)
| Action | Owner | By when | Note | Where it stands |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bill Levine noted that there have been many executive sessions and asked if the board will let the townspeople know when the matter has been resolved | Bill Levine | — | the minutes phrase this as a report; the obligation is the point, not the statement. | open no date in the minutes |
| the board will let the townspeople know when the matter has been resolved | the board | — | assigned to a town office, not to a named person. | open no date in the minutes ¶ ¶238 |
| The board will continue to gather information on the first legal matter | The board | — | assigned to a town office, not to a named person. | open no date in the minutes |
scripts/action_status.py --done "a phrase".Money (1)
| John Bosco Church for $175,000.00 and the offer has been accepted | John Bosco Church for $175,000.00 and the offer has been accepted. | $175,000.00 |
Public comment (9)
| Debra Burchard | listed as a visitor; the minutes do not record what they said |
| Carol Ethier-Kipp | 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 |
| 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 |
| James Stimpson | listed as a visitor; the minutes do not record what they said |
Follow-ups named in the minutes
- Mike Denault recommended that the Planning Board discuss this change to the By- laws at their next meeting.
- The suggested changes will be reviewed at the next meeting.
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 2: whatever else you want exempt yeah we would i think we would have to create some language
Speaker 3: in this particular case so i'm going to leave it to you so what
Speaker 5: We should not be denied. Seriously.
Speaker 7: Are you telling me that,
Speaker 8: Well, I don't want to argue back and forth.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 10: well, I thought you mentioned the,
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I think the ZBA and the AO went by what was written in our bylaws.
Speaker 12: What we know now, so I don't think we can
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 13: Right, right, right. Lisa, I have a question. I just want to say that 50 feet comes from the letter that you sent to the lawyer. I think that she was using the letter. Right. So I think the lawyer's just going on trusting that you said that we had 4.4 was a 50 foot second.
Speaker 14: One of the reasons I voted to go
Speaker 11: and be done with it the whole time.
Speaker 13: Lisa, I just want to say that we do have a 12 square foot by-law ceiling plates because under the sign law it says residential or any other building. So we are still constrained through the 12 square feet.
Speaker 15: That, I have no problem with that.
Speaker 16: But for the sign,
Speaker 13: It's 12 square feet. So there's no square foot by-law ceiling. Which is So in all extent, Jim and I, we've talked for hours and we disagree with one another. But I don't see that that's what's so important. Yeah. I don't think that I don't think that it represents us as a town. I think we need to make the ordinance. Yes. We need to do right to by-law. And I think to both opinions, I think we need to have another sign. Because I think the canon word we're talking about, if you put up John, no offense to John, this person, he took down the sign. John denied the new sign. John puts up the new sign. You're going to have the same situation in town for a third time.
Speaker 17: So John,
Speaker 18: come in front of us.
Speaker 19: But at least one similar to it.
Speaker 7: the only reason
Speaker 22: if we go through
Speaker 13: that would help. Well,
Speaker 23: it says any sign
Speaker 13: and maybe lower limits of signing. It doesn't say
Speaker 13: and all it says is anything that's not residential 12 square feet. And that's basically
Speaker 24: to take up
Speaker 13: as a planning commission and spell it out. I've spoken to the Department of the LCT and we can only go by with the state if you think it exempts us if we didn't have a by-law.
Speaker 25: We do have
Speaker 26: I'm not going
Speaker 27: No.
Speaker 28: then we approve
Speaker 29: and then it has
Speaker 30: 60 days.
Speaker 13: it's not anybody who should contest.
Speaker 31: Oh.
Speaker 26: October 3rd.
Speaker 29: you can ask dave and yeah yeah i'm sure you guys have all seen it yeah i just think it would present
Speaker 27: help 10 buildings are they get scratched and rusted yeah yeah so it would be
Speaker 26: recommended but that's why you look at it to review our borders
Speaker 32: product it's all under that same family
Speaker 33: word informational or directional all that stuff all the other signs would probably be
Speaker 11: fine there was something real special about this it was yeah yeah yeah okay um that's all we have
Speaker 34: um so that error was hot we could use that money to pay for the fire truck
Speaker 29: records so planning commission also now has a file yeah yeah i know they've been wanting yep
Speaker 35: documents that would be motion to make nancy dashika designated signer
Speaker 13: so i'm writing on your truck now
Speaker 36: should have possession the first week of december all lettered up and everything or not yet yeah
Speaker 36: spell stamford correctly how did that happen we didn't they never failed before so right
Speaker 37: you hate to give them back the door and ask them to realize why this is the um
Speaker 37: course if you go out look at building supplies for the cost of a house and the lct has set these
Speaker 36: No.
Speaker 26: No more.
Speaker 12: New business. You want us to sign for this break?
Speaker 10: That's a different person who did twice the amount of work that he was contracted for on a volunteer basis.
Speaker 38: I don't know if anything's got to be done.
Speaker 11: I mean, you can cut them down for something.
Speaker 33: Yeah.
Speaker 12: You're going to die. You're going to die. You're going to die. Yeah. Look, as long as you don't get juniper ash. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah.
Speaker 33: Do it. Do whatever it takes to get through this.
Speaker 37: 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.