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•   CALL MEETING TO ORDER

• CONFIRM PROPERLY WARNED   

• ADDITIONS/AMENDMENTS TO THE AGENDA
• EXECUTIVE SESSION:
  Contract issue; discussion under Vermont article 1 V.S.A. § 313(a) (2).
• APPROVAL OF MINUTES
  December 5, 2022 Selectboard Minutes
  December 12, 2022 Budget Minutes

• ROAD FOREMAN’S & ROAD COMMISSIONER’S REPORT
  Moving the monument located on Jail Street further back to protect it from snowplows.
  1. Route 30 construction planned for summer 2023 and impact on parking for swimming hole
  2. Open bids for Town Office Renovations                                                                                                                                                                                            
•  ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT’S REPORT 
• TREASURER’S REPORT                                                                                                                                 Tax sales update
• COMMITTEE REPORT                                                                                                                                       Carol Hesselbach – New Appointments to Board of Civil Authority
  Traffic Calming Committee Updates (Johnson-Aplin/Chevalier)
• SCHEDULED MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC
  State Senator Nader Hashim
• Social Appropriation Requests (5-7 minutes per speaker)                                                          Tammie Putnam -Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc.
  Vickie Sterling – Women’s Freedom Center
  Katie Alberghini – Green Up Vermont
  Anthony Knox – Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire
  Linda J. Meleady- Vermont Center for Independent Living
  Maya Richmond – Windham County Humane Society
  Hillary Farquhar- Brattleboro Area Hospice
  Becca Schaefer- Valley Cares Inc
  Gloria Cristelli- Senior Solutions
•   UNSCHEDULED MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC 
• OLD BUSINESS including items carried over from Budget Meetings
  (10 Minutes per topic) 8:55 P.M.
  1. ARPA Updates: (Golob)
  2. Cannabis Updates: (Johnson-Aplin)
  3. Town Beautification suggestions (Chevalier)
  4. Does the Selectboard want to consider how to spend the $500 in the budget for board compensation? Tabled from previous meeting.
  5. Evaluate whether we should put oil purchases for heating out to bid to lock in a lower price.
     Tabled previously until Wilson can give highway fuel usage information.
  6. Discuss ideas for a 250-year celebration of Newfane’s founding. (Johnson-Aplin)
• NEW BUSINESS 
• CORRESPONDENCE
  State of Vermont Department of Taxes
       Commissioner of Taxes Releases FY 2024 Education Tax Rate Letter
•    PAY ORDERS 
•  ADJOURN