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October 1, 2026
Regular meeting
64 minutes · 3 motions · 2 tasks assigned
Hearing Of Visitors Selectboard Orders Highway Update Recycling
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March 2024 – October 2026
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| Last raised | Task | Who was told | Where it stands |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-01 | The treasurer will begin the vehicle loan process | The treasurer | open |
| 2026-10-01 | The board will review the price list and discuss in depth at the next meeting | The board | open |
| 2026-09-17 | Nancy Bushika reminded the board that one of them will need to join the Alliance | Nancy Bushika | open |
| 2026-09-17 | The Fire Department will be contacted for traffic control | The Fire Department | open |
| 2026-09-03 | Nancy Bushika will check to see when school vacations are scheduled | Nancy Bushika | open |
| 2026-09-03 | Nancy Bushika reminded anyone mailing their payment to plan ahead since payments received after the due date will be charged an 8% penalty | Nancy Bushika | open |
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Find a specific meeting →202625 meetings · 26.0 hours of recording
| Date | Session | Minutes | Motions | Tasks | What was on the table | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-01 | Regular | 64 | 3 | 2 | Hearing Of Visitors, Selectboard Orders, Highway Update and 6 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2026-09-17 | Regular | 44 | 7 | 2 | Hearing Of Visitors, Selectboard Orders, Highway Update and 8 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2026-09-17 | Regular | 119 | 7 | 2 | Hearing Of Visitors, Selectboard Orders, Highway Update and 8 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2026-09-03 | Regular | 118 | 4 | 3 | Hearing Of Visitors, Selectboard Orders, Highway Update and 13 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2026-08-20 | Regular | 76 | 4 | 7 | Pledge of allegiance, roll call, agenda adjustments (errors-in-omissions form moved ahead of tax rate), Hearing the Visitors (public comment: zoning/shed fees, gravel bank and water grant, GMP power lines, farm dogs, dirt bikes, debris burial complaint), Reading and approval of records and orders of minutes of August 6 and 8 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2026-08-06 | Regular | 54 | 7 | 12 | Pledge of allegiance and roll call, Adding or removing agenda items, Public comment (visitors, including school board representatives) and 11 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2026-08-06 | Regular | 68 | 7 | 3 | Hearing Of Visitors, Selectboard Orders, Highway Update and 8 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2026-07-16 | Regular | 43 | 4 | 7 | Roll call / welcome (open bids and correspondence added to the agenda), Open bids — culvert project (Capital West Construction vs. Neil H. Daniels), Reading and approval of records and orders; July 2 minutes and 12 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2026-07-02 | Regular | 34 | 1 | 7 | Pledge and opening; roll call (4 present, John Dunn absent), Agenda changes (additional correspondence), Hearing of visitors (none) and 8 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2026-06-18 | Regular | 37 | 4 | 7 | Pledge of allegiance, Roll call, Agenda changes (grand list extension mentioned; no changes) and 12 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2026-06-04 | Regular | 33 | 4 | 6 | Pledge / welcome and roll call, Agenda changes (add truck loan information; correspondence), Public comment: Bob Briggs - Local Emergency Management Plan and 10 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2026-05-26 | Special | 2 | 1 | 0 | Opening: Pledge of Allegiance, procedural instructions (visitors may address the chair and state name and address; five minutes of comments per visitor and 15 minutes per topic; meetings recorded to aid minute summarization), Roll call / attendance: Mike Denault, Nancy Bushika, Jed Gramlin, John Dunn, Kurt Gamari, Agenda changes: none (no items added or removed) and 3 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2026-05-26 | Special | 9 | 1 | 2 | Appointment to the planning commission to fill Stephanie Shelburne's four-year term (expiring 2029), Discussion of how to handle a near-future planning commission vacancy (re-advertise / re-interview vs. reuse the already-interviewed candidates), Announcements: Saturday walking tour (noon) and follow-up meeting (1:30); survey letter going out to residents | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2026-05-21 | Regular | 41 | 4 | 7 | Executive session report (no action taken), Hearing of visitors (none; discussion of absent water-testing witness Rodney Holland), Reading and approval of minutes (May 7 and May 5) and 10 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2026-05-07 | Regular | 74 | 5 | 6 | Welcome, roll call, and agenda changes (open to the public for a non-agenda item), Hearing of visitors: 347 Mill Road property dispute; County Road trash / Risky Ridge; town plan survey & visioning session; village center / Act 181, Reading and approval of records and orders: special minutes 3/30, regular minutes 4/16, special minutes 4/23 and 6 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2026-05-05 | Joint-School | 95 | 1 | 5 | Shared use of the school/town building - recent library closure for state testing (stated reason for the special meeting), Whether to create a written agreement (MOU/MOA) between the boards or keep the arrangement informal, Superintendent's authority and chain of communication (school board, principal, supervisory-union central office) and 4 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2026-04-23 | Special | 2 | 2 | 1 | Discussion and appointment of a Green-up Day coordinator (Pam Torg) | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2026-04-16 | Regular | 60 | 8 | 8 | Welcome / roll call; meeting recorded (Jed recording for YouTube), Agenda changes / visitors (Bradney Howland absent; asked to speak at May meeting after consulting school board and superintendent), Acceptance of minutes: special meeting of March 30, 2026 (met with library trustees) and regular meeting of April 2 and 9 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2026-04-02 | Regular | 81 | 1 | 9 | Call to order, Pledge of Allegiance, roll call, Agenda changes (additional excess weight permits added), Public comment and 6 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2026-03-30 | Regular | 55 | 2 | 5 | Pledge of allegiance, Discussion limited to library use: superintendent's demand to close the town library for student state testing during the next three weeks (12-3 on Tuesday and Thursday), Other business and 1 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2026-03-19 | Regular | 145 | 4 | 9 | Adding/removing items and correspondence, Hearing of visitors: Allstate Paving; group presentation (Martina Barnes); US Forest Service delegation; resident comments, Public letters: conflict-of-interest complaint (Sheila); open-meeting-law complaint (Dave) and 9 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2026-03-05 | Regular | 122 | 20 | 10 | Opening (pledge), roll call, agenda changes (none; correspondence noted; meeting recorded by Jed Gramlin for YouTube), Reorganization of board and appointments (officers, liaisons, Solid Waste Alliance, ZBA, emergency management, planning commission 9-to-7, conservation, county regional, RTAC, Green Up Day, community projects committee), BCRC town plan update contract and municipal planning grant (presented by BCRC staff) and 10 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2026-02-05 | Regular | 28 | 3 | 7 | Opening, roll call, and agenda changes (none; 'Jeb is recording tonight's meeting for his YouTube video'), Hearing of visitors (none), Highway update: plow maintenance, #19 Freightliner transmission repair, salt supply and 8 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2026-01-29 | Regular | 82 | 7 | 6 | Opening: Pledge of Allegiance and welcome, Roll call and hearing of visitors, Agenda changes: move finalizing budget and review/finalize of Select Board report to end of meeting; note possible executive session for personnel and 17 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2026-01-08 | Regular | 76 | 5 | 14 | Pledge of Allegiance / opening (led by Laurie, who is not otherwise in the room); board members present announced, Agenda changes: add executive session for personnel (two items, 'for Sally and Dave Tetra. Separately.' as transcribed) and delinquent tax sale, Executive session: personnel and delinquent taxes and 12 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
202527 meetings · 32.9 hours of recording
| Date | Session | Minutes | Motions | Tasks | What was on the table | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-18 | Regular | 59 | 2 | 14 | Additions/removals or reordering of agenda (none; joke about adding an executive session), Highway department update (welding repairs, paving figures, January budget sessions, wood stove, temporary oil/gas furnace, weather), Recycling update (wrong dumpster, school compost pickup) and 16 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2025-12-04 | Regular | 40 | 2 | 8 | Pledge of allegiance, Roll call, Agenda changes (add correspondence) and 12 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2025-11-20 | Regular | 36 | 5 | 4 | Opening: pledge, welcome, rules of order, roll call (Denault, Bushika, Wright, Gamari), no agenda additions or removals, Public comment: Peter Greenbush (Planning Commission) - Poppin resignation and Deb Bouchard interest, Accept Dan Poppin's resignation from the Planning Commission and 10 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2025-11-20 | Regular | 3 | 2 | 2 | Report from executive session: litigation settled in favor of the town, Appointment of Nancy Bushika to the assessor clerk position, Assessor clerk pay and lister position discussion and 1 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2025-11-06 | Regular | 73 | 3 | 9 | Pledge of allegiance, Roll call, Agenda changes / correspondence and 12 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2025-11-06 | Regular | 0 | 2 | 0 | Come out of executive session (no action taken in executive session), Adjournment | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2025-10-16 | Regular | 16 | 2 | 5 | Opening remarks / rules (recordings, public comment limits), Roll call, Agenda changes (none offered) and 8 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2025-10-02 | Regular | 122 | 7 | 12 | Call of the roll; agenda changes (hearing of visitors moved to end of agenda, after new business), Hearing of visitors: Callie Fishburn, Bennington County Regional Commission (ACD municipal planning grant for town plan update), Hearing of visitors: resident at 61 Boulder Road (road runoff into basement, foundation damage) and 13 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2025-10-02 | Regular | 1 | 2 | 1 | Confirmation of executive session decision: three members to attend meeting with the attorney, Motion to adjourn | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2025-09-18 | Regular | 61 | 5 | 9 | Pledge of allegiance, Roll call, Agenda changes (add correspondence; add a dog update) and 14 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2025-09-04 | Regular | 99 | 11 | 12 | Approval of August 7 minutes, Approval of August 25 minutes, Highway update: 2025/26 aid project signing, chip-sealing plans and 13 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2025-08-21 | Regular | 86 | 4 | 13 | Opening, roll call, attendance (Kurt Gamari called in unable to attend; no word from John Dunn), Agenda changes (none; Jeff recording for YouTube), Public comment - planning commission municipal grant application (BCRC as agent) and 9 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2025-08-21 | Regular | 1 | 3 | 3 | Motion to compensate the road commissioner one hour per day during the on-call season, Motion to call both applicants for the road position in for interviews, Interview logistics (Dave Tetro to contact applicants; interviews at 5:00 and 5:30 before next meeting; job description for interviewers) and 1 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2025-08-07 | Regular | 73 | 9 | 11 | Hearing of visitors, Reading and approval of records and orders from the regular meeting of July 17, Update (highway: moving 43-728-15 for East Road paving, gravel roads, garage overhead doors, mud-season funding, recycling/refrigerators) and 6 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2025-07-17 | Regular | 113 | 9 | 18 | Opening: report of earlier executive session (no action taken); public comment / request for agenda changes (none), Reading and approval of records and orders: June 12, June 19, June 24 (June 24 = special selectboard meeting), Roads: East Road bridge grant (AOT) and alternative project, chip seal program, Jefferson/County/Mill Road paving, third road worker job offer and 17 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2025-06-19 | Regular | 93 | 9 | 11 | Hearing Of Visitors, Select Board Orders, Financials and 50 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2025-06-05 | Regular | 104 | 10 | 7 | Hearing Of Visitors, Financials, Select Board Orders and 11 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2025-05-15 | Regular | 63 | 6 | 3 | Hearing Of Visitors, Select Board Orders, Road Conditions and 5 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2025-05-01 | Regular | 98 | 8 | 3 | Garage Door Bids, Green Up Day, Second Annual Resiliency Fair and 17 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2025-04-17 | Regular | 127 | 12 | 3 | Paving Bids, Green Mountain National Forest Update, Green Up Day and 18 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2025-04-03 | Regular | 126 | 16 | 5 | Mowing Bids, Green Up Day, Second Annual Resiliency Fair and 19 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2025-03-20 | Regular | 122 | 6 | 4 | Hearing Of Visitors, Select Board Orders, Financials and 15 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2025-03-06 | Regular | 103 | 30 | 8 | Reorganization Of Board, Appointments, All Boards Meeting and 21 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2025-02-20 | Regular | 75 | 7 | 5 | Conservation Commission Letter, Select Board Orders, Road Conditions and 9 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2025-02-06 | Regular | 69 | 9 | 2 | Select Board Orders, Road Conditions, Joint Meeting and 13 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2025-01-16 | Regular | 94 | 8 | 4 | Bennington County Regional Commission (Bcrc) Liasions, Postmark For Tax Payments, Select Board Orders and 11 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2025-01-02 | Regular | 116 | 2 | 0 | Hearing Of Visitors, Select Board Orders, Budget Work Session and 6 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
202420 meetings · 30.5 hours of recording
| Date | Session | Minutes | Motions | Tasks | What was on the table | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-12-19 | Regular | 109 | 12 | 10 | Hearing Of Visitors, Select Board Orders, Road Conditions and 23 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2024-12-05 | Regular | 59 | 6 | 1 | Hearing Of Visitors, Select Board Orders, Road Conditions and 12 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2024-11-21 | Regular | 56 | 3 | 1 | Hearing Of Visitors, Select Board Orders, Road Conditions and 9 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2024-11-07 | Regular | 65 | 9 | 3 | Hearing Of Visitors, Selectboard Orders, Road Conditions and 11 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2024-10-24 | Special | 103 | 7 | 3 | The St. John Bosco Church Building, Reminders | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2024-10-17 | Regular | 49 | 7 | 3 | Hearing Of Visitors, Road Conditions, Recycling and 7 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2024-10-03 | Regular | 58 | 9 | 2 | Stamford Resiliency Fair, Selectboard Orders, Road Conditions and 9 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2024-09-05 | Regular | 123 | 6 | 13 | Pledge of allegiance, Roll call, Agenda additions/changes and 15 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2024-08-15 | Regular | 125 | 8 | 13 | Pledge of allegiance / call to order and hearing of visitors (agenda changes: possible additional correspondence only), BCRC Hazard Mitigation Plan presentation and adoption (Dara Zink, Bennington County Regional Commission), Fire truck loan terms discussion (Bill Brown) and 10 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2024-08-01 | Regular | 42 | 7 | 10 | Pledge of allegiance and opening remarks, Agenda changes: added Clean Water Act grant agreement (correspondence); noted tennis court and garden item, Public comment: Michael Murphy (Sportsman's Road / stream project) and 13 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2024-08-01 | Public-Hearing | 18 | 1 | 3 | Public hearing: proposed declassification of the 0.3-mile County Road stretch to a trail for an ATV connecting trail, Discussion of legal authority, maintenance duties, and grant eligibility (Class 4 road vs. trail), Motion to adjourn the public hearing | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2024-07-18 | Regular | 102 | 4 | 12 | Hearing of visitors - WAMC News question about the school principal's resignation, Reading and approval of records/minutes from the June 20, 2024 meeting, FEMA subgrant agreement - Klondike Road damages (culvert mitigation) and 14 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2024-06-20 | Regular | 109 | 7 | 5 | Hearing Of Visitors, Selectboard Orders, Road Conditions and 14 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2024-06-06 | Regular | 134 | 10 | 2 | Hearing Of Visitors, Selectboard Orders, Road Conditions and 15 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2024-05-16 | Regular | 75 | 9 | 0 | Hearing Of Visitors, Local Emergency Management Plan, Selectboard Orders and 10 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2024-05-02 | Regular | 124 | 7 | 0 | Mowing Bids, Green Mountain National Forest, Hearing Of Visitors and 16 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2024-04-18 | Regular | 59 | 6 | 0 | Green Up Day, Hearing Of Visitors, Selectboard Orders and 15 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2024-04-04 | Regular | 97 | 10 | 5 | Hearing Of Visitors, Selectboard Orders, Financials and 17 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2024-03-21 | Regular | 166 | 22 | 3 | Hearing Of Visitors, Appointments, Selectboard Orders and 18 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
| 2024-03-07 | Regular | 158 | 19 | 7 | Reorganization Of Board, Appointments, Judicial Bureau Appointments and 25 more | page · transcript · recording · minutes (town PDF) |
About this archive & its coverage
What is here, and what is not
- 72 meetings, 89.4 hours of recording, all of it transcribed.
- 476 motions and 419 task mentions, taken from the town's own minutes rather than inferred from the audio — 406 separate tasks once the same task raised again at a later meeting is merged.
- 183 meetings appear in the town's inventory with minutes but no recording, so they are listed on the dashboard and not transcribed here.
- 6 Planning Commission and Zoning Board of Appeals sessions have recordings but are outside this archive's scope; only Select Board sessions are transcribed.
- 6 names are proposed from direct naming evidence. Every label marked “inferred” is unverified and may be wrong. Speaker numbers are local to each recording; ambiguous words remain explicitly uncertain.
- 63 transcripts carry no name at all, and are left unattributed rather than filled in.
Every number on this page is recomputed from the files on disk at build time. The dashboard carries the full completeness check.
An independent archive of Stamford’s published minutes and recordings. The town’s minutes are the source for decisions and attendance; transcripts are automated and may contain errors. Each meeting links to the original records so you can check the source.