Stamford Select Board — 2025-03-20 (Regular)
- Hearing Of Visitors
- Select Board Orders
- Financials
- Road Conditions
- Recycling
- Ethics Commission Update
- Conflict Of Interest Policy
- Job Descriptions
- Fema Update
- Mowing Bids
- Tennis Courts
- Dog Reserve Fund Guidelines
- Highway Ordinance
- Municipal Energy Reciliency Program (Merp) Grant
- Uniform Municipal Excess Weight Permits
- Withholding Taxes
- Planning Commisison Bylaw Revision Public Hearing
- Reminders
Motions (6, 6 passed)
accept the regular meeting minutes of March 6, 2025 as written Mike Denaultseconded: Kurt Gamaripassed
accept and sign the Conflict of Interest and Ethical Conduct Policy with the proposed revisions John Dunnseconded: Doug Wrightpassed
approve the Transfer Station Monitor job description as revised Kurt Gamariseconded: Doug Wrightpassed
accept and sign the Dog Reserve Fund Guidelines with the proposed revisions John Dunnseconded: Doug Wrightpassed
approve the Uniform Municipal Excess Weight Permit applications from West Oil Company and Camp Precast Concret Mike Denaultseconded: Kurt Gamaripassed
adjourn Mike Denaultseconded: Doug Wrightpassed
Who owes what (4)
| Action | Owner | By when | Note | Where it stands |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kurt Gamari will attend the site visit on March 27, 2025 and bids will be due by 4 p | Kurt Gamari | — | open no date in the minutes | |
| The Select Board will prepare a letter | The Select Board | — | assigned to a town office, not to a named person. | open no date in the minutes ¶ ¶755 |
| The board will also have to adopt an ordinance | The board | — | assigned to a town office, not to a named person. | open no date in the minutes |
| The Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on March 24, 2025 at 7 p | The Planning Commission | — | assigned to a town office, not to a named person. | open no date in the minutes |
scripts/action_status.py --done "a phrase".Money (4)
| Financials | SELECT BOARD ORDERS The Select Board reviewed and approved the following orders: WARRANT #11 $7,316.56 payroll WARRANT #12 $53,767.29 accounts payable FINANCIALS The Select Board reviewed and approved bank statements for the months of January and February. | $7,316.56; $53,767.29 |
| Fema Update¶ ¶517 | FEMA UPDATE The town has received the remaining $64,000.00 in FEMA reimbursement funds from the July 2023 flooding damage. | $64,000.00 |
| There is still an outstanding $4,800.00 that FEMA needs to pay in Category Z administrativ | There is still an outstanding $4,800.00 that FEMA needs to pay in Category Z administrative costs. | $4,800.00 |
| The new dog license fees for 2025 are $16.00 for spayed/neutered dogs and $20.00 for real/ | The new dog license fees for 2025 are $16.00 for spayed/neutered dogs and $20.00 for real/intact dogs. | $16.00; $20.00 |
Public comment (10)
| Jon 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 |
| Tammy Elias | Tammy Elias stated that the heavy rains flooded her yard and driveway. |
| Thomas Elias | 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 |
| Peter Greenbush | Peter Greenbush recorded the meeting for Jed Gramlin’s YouTube. |
| William Levine | listed as a visitor; the minutes do not record what they said |
| Michael Murphy | 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
- The policy will be finalized and signed at the next meeting.
- The description will be finalized and signed at the next meeting and copies will be given to the Recycling Monitors and hung up in the shed at the transfer station.
- Kurt Gamari will attend the site visit on March 27, 2025 and bids will be due by 4 p.m.
- The guidelines will be finalized and signed 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 5: And the mud came up to the basement.
Speaker 5: Tom. Oh, Tom.
Speaker 5: The mud came up to the basement into our well. So I am concerned about a drink of water now. Mm-hm. The mud is packed up against the foundation, and the water came into our basement.
Speaker 7: Changing a culvert at that intersection doesn't guarantee anything, because if you're not
Speaker 8: registry inaudible
Speaker 9: angle it's almost a 90 degree turn didn't we see years ago and then you're going to have to put a
Speaker 7: yeah i think that drawing okay they want to realign and have it yeah
Speaker 11: because it's so it's a 90 degree turn yeah right turns from so what happens is that culvert on
Speaker 12: but you're you're talking about brook is over for them yeah that's basically a brook
Speaker 9: we put a fire under this kind of like yeah it's like everything else you know the more
Speaker 5: That's why.
Speaker 13: You're on the left. So is there something, is there a ditch that could keep going down to the dead end?
Speaker 14: Well, I need to make one.
Speaker 13: You know, like John said.
Speaker 15: We'll keep going to water from our first ditch.
Speaker 13: Like a temporary.
Speaker 16: It's not jumping onto your.
Speaker 18: If the, okay, say we go through with this, say we go through with this project, put the
Speaker 9: We're saying.
Speaker 9: This is the way they work.
Speaker 9: We've been through this.
Speaker 5: No. And excavate all the mud.
Speaker 19: So we didn't call that a ditch line.
Speaker 20: What do they do?
Speaker 21: They don't ditch the road? Nope.
Speaker 22: They just pull it all up.
Speaker 24: Yeah.
Speaker 24: 300, and we need to fix many more.
Speaker 25: Yeah.
Speaker 27: of, I supply gravel to them, I try to help them out in emergencies, and just, yeah, he's
Speaker 28: We have a ditch right here that needs to be dug out.
Speaker 29: Yeah, I saw that in the 60s and never touched it.
Speaker 30: All right.
Speaker 7: Been out dealing with some muddy spots.
Speaker 33: In the event we're not able to get stuff from him, where would the next option be?
Speaker 34: Propane?
Speaker 29: Oh, okay.
Speaker 24: It definitely is a lifestyle.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 35: Yeah.
Speaker 34: Yeah.
Speaker 12: They're like new.
Speaker 12: They're new.
Speaker 34: And I'm like, why aren't we connecting that?
Speaker 34: I'm not saying.
Speaker 9: Sure.
Speaker 36: It's right around two miles.
Speaker 24: And you just clean it up off the pavement instead of the dirt.
Speaker 37: Not bad.
Speaker 39: Are you in the roads?
Speaker 40: What do you mean by a while?
Speaker 24: Right.
Speaker 41: And if it were, I live in Poundville now.
Speaker 41: Yeah.
Speaker 42: Although he would still get, you know, some water down through there.
Speaker 9: No.
Speaker 24: You're talking that 250.
Speaker 40: Thank you all.
Speaker 43: Yep, yep.
Speaker 44: Yep.
Speaker 44: interested raise your hand I'm a lame duck I'm lamer than you so if anybody
Speaker 45: mention another name I thought might be yeah right so Doug is the we appointed
Speaker 44: we appoint one as needed can you explain to me the process so I know we talked
Speaker 46: you go and you're gonna investigate what well I would think that the state would
Speaker 46: that would be a law enforcement but we don't that's what I'm saying we just
Speaker 46: violation it's a violation of what if there's what if there's a violation like
Speaker 44: have a better way there is no timeline we've never seen the timeline I'm not
Speaker 46: trying to argue about it it just bothers me something I want to explain here I
Speaker 46: would say give it give it maybe we should have a three-man committee well i don't know about
Speaker 47: that's just the same pete i think you're just you jump the gun just a smidgen
Speaker 48: investigate that complaint that's again that's what we're trying to do that's what we're trying to do we're trying to figure out who's going to investigate my point is is that if you if you
Speaker 49: they've dealt with investigations, really, for sure.
Speaker 50: I think, so, go ahead, Deb.
Speaker 51: So, we have to.
Speaker 52: I would, I would, no.
Speaker 12: We're also not making these laws for perception.
Speaker 53: Should we ask for, I say we take whatever three show up with all Jim's not here on her own.
Speaker 54: We know Jim has expressed interest.
Speaker 16: Then we appoint three.
Speaker 51: That's what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 55: You really want a pool of potential investigators.
Speaker 45: That's a good way of doing it, yeah.
Speaker 56: They can be different ones every time.
Speaker 16: Right, because why would we appoint somebody that is friends with me?
Speaker 18: Okay.
Speaker 57: you um
Speaker 50: Yep.
Speaker 58: Yeah.
Speaker 59: or town office because should we call them all patrons or townspeople can we pick one
Speaker 60: second homeowners that have buy the punch cards can you get a uh punch card if you're not a
Speaker 24: taxpayers right this isn't fully fun it should be you're right if you just don't land then
Speaker 61: people will do that stuff that's called you don't want to so it could happen though so is it townspeople or patrons
Speaker 24: You know, they could just leave it up there.
Speaker 9: Do you ever have old people that use it too?
Speaker 44: You've never had any big problems, I know.
Speaker 44: Yeah.
Speaker 44: No.
Speaker 61: Rich did.
Speaker 62: Yeah, it's not the only one in town, man.
Speaker 12: They'll probably get it Monday.
Speaker 30: I don't.
Speaker 24: I think John said it's the first place we've been paying.
Speaker 7: 6?
Speaker 24: But then you're going to have another janitor.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 29: Yeah.
Speaker 62: You know the things.
Speaker 25: Say, he's hard to do.
Speaker 18: I don't do a janitor.
Speaker 18: They strip and wax all the floor.
Speaker 12: They hire somebody to strip and wax all the.
Speaker 58: them yes
Speaker 44: that's gone we don't have that dedication okay did you were you able to
Speaker 39: on can you work on it this summer let's get it clean up and out of there yeah
Speaker 9: there's third me and again you know give a third man third man yeah okay I told
Speaker 54: is there
Speaker 29: how much money did we end up spending last year
Speaker 44: cost
Speaker 44: too specific here yeah
Speaker 44: Right.
Speaker 16: 200?
Speaker 34: Mm-hmm.
Speaker 13: You know? Who are you responsible for the therapy, the cure to the dog?
Speaker 63: Well, I, you know, I, like I said,
Speaker 16: Right, but then so he had it quarantined
Speaker 64: According to Luke a lot of Massachusetts places won't take an out of state dog
Speaker 34: They changed their mind So does he still have the dog?
Speaker 16: I wanted to say goodbye to my dog
Speaker 60: Right
Speaker 60: We don't want to keep it more than the allowed days
Speaker 60: Kind of
Speaker 18: And then do..
Speaker 64: clinic we get up we start making good money on it we can there's enough places around where you don't
Speaker 65: That's nice of them.
Speaker 66: Yes.
Speaker 16: Drop them an email.
Speaker 16: What's going on?
Speaker 54: We're going to add a lot more duties on it.
Speaker 54: Tennis court, lawn care.
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.