Stamford Select Board — 2025-05-15 (Regular)

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Michael G. DenaultDouglas WrightKurt Gamariabsent: Nancy L. Bushikaabsent: John Dunn

Session: Regular · **Duration:** 63 min · Audio · Minutes

Regular meeting of the Stamford Select Board (2025-05-15, 63 min). Present: Michael G. Denault, Vice, Douglas Wright, Kurt Gamari. Absent: Nancy L. Bushika, John Dunn. The minutes record 6 motions (6 approved, 0 with another outcome). Items on the agenda: Hearing Of Visitors; Select Board Orders; Road Conditions; Recycling; Election Results; Employee Policy Handbook; Fy26 Grants-In-Aid; Reminders.

On the agenda

Hearing Of Visitors
Select Board Orders
Road Conditions
Recycling
Election Results
Employee Policy Handbook
Fy26 Grants-In-Aid
Reminders

Motions (6, 6 passed)

accept the regular meeting minutes of May 1, 2025 as amended Kurt Gamariseconded: Doug Wrightpassed

“MOTION by Kurt Gamari to accept the regular meeting minutes of May 1, 2025 as amended.”

All in favor. Motion APPROVED. 2 SELECT BOARD ORDERS The Select Board reviewed and approved the following orders: WARRANT #19 $ 7,565.28 payroll WARRANT #20 $27,443.12 accounts payable ROAD CONDITION

Vote: unanimous voice vote

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sign the Grants-in-Aid Letter of Intent to participate in next year’s project Kurt Gamariseconded: Mike Denaultpassed

“MOTION by Kurt Gamari to sign the Grants-in-Aid Letter of Intent to participate in next year’s project.”

All in favor. Motion APPROVED. CODE OF ETHICS INVESTIGATION AND ENFORCEMENT ORDINANCE The board discussed the fact that there is no longer an Ethics Commission at the state level. The board decided t

Vote: unanimous voice vote

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find that premature general public knowledge of a personnel matter would place the town at a substantial disad Mike Denaultseconded: Kurt Gamaripassed

“MOTION by Mike Denault to find that premature general public knowledge of a personnel matter would place the town at a substantial disadvantage.”

All in favor. Motion APPROVED. MOTION by Mike Denault to enter executive session for a personnel matter pursuant to 1 V.S.A. § 313(a)(1)(B). SECONDED by Kurt Gamari. All in favor. Motion APPROVED. Th

Vote: unanimous voice vote

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enter executive session for a personnel matter pursuant to 1 V.S.A. § 313(a)(1)(B) Mike Denaultseconded: Kurt Gamaripassed

“MOTION by Mike Denault to enter executive session for a personnel matter pursuant to 1 V.S.A. § 313(a)(1)(B).”

All in favor. Motion APPROVED. The Select Board entered executive session at 7:00 p.m. MOTION by Mike Denault to exit executive session. SECONDED by Doug Wright. All in favor. Motion APPROVED. The bo

Vote: unanimous voice vote

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exit executive session Mike Denaultseconded: Doug Wrightpassed

“MOTION by Mike Denault to exit executive session.”

All in favor. Motion APPROVED. The board exited executive session at 7:22 p.m. Action: an executive session for personnel matters will be planned for the next meeting and Dave Saldo will be invited t

Vote: unanimous voice vote

where it was said out loud ¶3

adjourn Mike Denaultseconded: Kurt Gamaripassed

“MOTION by Mike Denault to adjourn.”

All in favor. Motion APPROVED. The meeting ended at 7:23 p.m. Kurt Gamari Clerk /las 3 REMINDERS 1. Townspeople should sign up with the state’s free communications network, VT-Alert. You can sign up

Vote: unanimous voice vote

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Who owes what (3)

Action	Owner	By when	Note	Where it stands
Dave Saldo will be invited to participate	Dave Saldo	—		open no date in the minutes
Mike Denault agreed that the town should have something in place	Mike Denault	—	the minutes phrase this as a report; the obligation is the point, not the statement.	open no date in the minutes
Tom Nazzewski stated that the local ATV club will be cleaning Klondike Road and Risky Ranch Road this Saturday	Tom Nazzewski	—	the minutes phrase this as a report; the obligation is the point, not the statement.	open no date in the minutes ¶ ¶105

Statuses come from data/action_status.json, which only a person changes; "overdue" means the minutes gave a date and that date has passed. Mark one done with scripts/action_status.py --done "a phrase".

Money (2)

Road Conditions	2 SELECT BOARD ORDERS The Select Board reviewed and approved the following orders: WARRANT #19 $ 7,565.28 payroll WARRANT #20 $27,443.12 accounts payable ROAD CONDITIONS Jim Stimpson said the highway department did a great job on Collins Road.	$ 7,565.28; $27,443.12
The new dog license fees for 2025 are $18.00 for spayed/neutered dogs and $24.00 for real/	The new dog license fees for 2025 are $18.00 for spayed/neutered dogs and $24.00 for real/intact dogs.	$18.00; $24.00

Public comment (18)

Debra Burchard	listed as a visitor; the minutes do not record what they said
Theresa Denault	listed as a visitor; the minutes do not record what they said
Eleanor Derby-Kilfoyle	Eleanor Derby-Kilfoyle said a few years ago she let the town know that there was a container of used oil buried in a ditch near Klondike Road and she discovered that it is still there.
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
Peter Greenbush	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	Marta Miller thanked everyone who participated in the Resiliency Fair.
Thomas Nazzewski	listed as a visitor; the minutes do not record what they said
Natalie O'Neil	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
David Saldo	listed as a visitor; the minutes do not record what they said
Diane Saldo	listed as a visitor; the minutes do not record what they said
Stephanie Shelburne	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
Pamela Tworig	listed as a visitor; the minutes do not record what they said

Follow-ups named in the minutes

EMPLOYEE POLICY HANDBOOK Discussion was tabled until the next meeting with a full board.
Action: an executive session for personnel matters will be planned for the next meeting and Dave Saldo will be invited to participate.

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: I just can't give no reason.

Speaker 7: I don't know.

Speaker 8: You're close to having to rip the front of the school off,

Speaker 8: So here.

Speaker 9: And I'm just saying, but the rules are-

Speaker 5: I said you were right.

Speaker 9: It shouldn't talk to me.

Speaker 5: These are kind of important things you guys can just let me wrap it up.

Speaker 9: I need to wrap it up, I'm a member of three boards in this town.

Speaker 11: Adjacent property owners. Yeah.

Speaker 12: Yeah.

Speaker 14: You're asking for standards that, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, that would be, I mean, we can, we can update, but I don't think there's any standards.

Speaker 16: Yeah.

Speaker 17: Yeah.

Speaker 18: Yeah.

Speaker 12: I was actually, because we...

Speaker 12: Yeah.

Speaker 12: So cameras make a difference, and then follow-ups are good.

Speaker 11: Well, I did.

Speaker 12: Yeah.

Speaker 12: I just want to make sure.

Speaker 11: Something.

Speaker 12: Okay.

Speaker 20: Go ahead.

Speaker 21: If not Sunday, we clean up, find like...

Speaker 21: yeah you're right you're right there's a few check our signs I don't know why they

Speaker 23: It had nothing to do with...

Speaker 24: I'm not referring to the sign at all.

Speaker 16: Yeah.

Speaker 21: Right

Speaker 25: selling out from the board yes you know I'm a slut board member it's okay to ride up

Speaker 27: I want to thank you, that's, I'm sorry.

Speaker 28: but I don't want to just keep going back and forth, right?

Speaker 29: So, they can get the education and all that.

Speaker 30: I think I- That's not what I was doing.

Speaker 31: It was a different motion I was making, and I was not raising my hand.

Speaker 32: sign this or do we wait for do we have time to wait or no you really need to sign we can sign

Speaker 24: an email

Speaker 23: no longer an ethics commission in the state oh well we can bring that up now this is our town

Speaker 29: and call the state correct because you have a couple of weeks ago signed your conflict of interest

Speaker 16: It still needs to be handled.

Speaker 33: Right, right. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 16: If that complaint comes in to the select board, whoever receives it. Which I always wanted to. Somebody's got to answer for it. And I think it addresses some of people's concerns tonight. Yeah. As to who takes responsibility and what their responsibilities are. And at least most of what's outlined in that. There's pretty good guidelines for you to bring up at the all-boards meeting as well.

Speaker 32: That's it.

Speaker 34: Hi. Hi.

Speaker 34: this was old business so sure bringing into your attention yeah so i don't think i ignored you i'm

Speaker 36: sorry if i did i'll be like him and hold my hand up as long as i can well i didn't i'm sorry i did

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.