0:00:08 – CALL MEETING TO ORDER

0:23:17- CONFIRM PROPERLY WARNED

0:01:46 – ADDITIONS/AMENDMENTS TO THE AGENDA

0:14:51 – EXECUTIVE SESSION:
Contract issue; discussion under Vermont article 1 V.S.A. § 313(a) (2).

0:15:44 – APPROVAL OF MINUTES
December 5, 2022 Selectboard Minutes
December 12, 2022 Budget Minutes

0:16:26 – ROAD FOREMAN’S & ROAD COMMISSIONER’S REPORT
Moving the monument located on Jail Street further back to protect it from snowplows.
Route 30 construction planned for summer 2023 and impact on parking for swimming hole
Open bids for Town Office Renovations

0:25:16 – ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT’S REPORT

0:34:41 – TREASURER’S REPORT
Tax sales update

COMMITTEE REPORT
0:38:10 – Carol Hesselbach – New Appointments to Board of Civil Authority
0:39:43 – Traffic Calming Committee Updates (Johnson-Aplin/Chevalier)

0:03:11 – • SCHEDULED MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC
State Senator Nader Hashim

Social Appropriation Requests
0:42:34 – Tammie Putnam -Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc.
0:48:30 – Vickie Sterling – Women’s Freedom Center
0:55:09 – Katie Alberghini – Green Up Vermont
Tabled – Anthony Knox – Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire
Tabled – Linda J. Meleady- Vermont Center for Independent Living
0:59:27 – Maya Richmond – Windham County Humane Society
1:03:20 – Hillary Farquhar- Brattleboro Area Hospice
1:10:02 – Becca Schaefer- Valley Cares Inc
1:14:34 – Gloria Cristelli- Senior Solutions
1:21:37 – Elizabeth Erickson – NewBrook PTO

None – UNSCHEDULED MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC

OLD BUSINESS including items carried over from Budget Meetings
1:34:52 – ARPA Updates: (Golob)
1:35:22 – Cannabis Updates: (Johnson-Aplin)
1:35:41 – Town Beautification suggestions (Chevalier)
1:36:12 – Does the Selectboard want to consider how to spend the $500 in the budget for board compensation? Tabled from previous meeting.
1:37:12 – 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.
1:37:34 – Discuss ideas for a 250-year celebration of Newfane’s founding. (Johnson-Aplin)

None – NEW BUSINESS

1:38:08 – CORRESPONDENCE
State of Vermont Department of Taxes
Commissioner of Taxes Releases FY 2024 Education Tax Rate Letter

1:42:21 – PAY ORDERS

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