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Selectboard Meeting 1-21-25

  • Tuesday, January 21, 2025
    PM – 7 PM

Town Selectboard

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AGENDA

TOWN OF SWANTON

REGULAR SELECTBOARD MEETING

Town Office Building

1 Academy Street, Swanton, VT 05488

In-Person & By Zoom

TUESDAY

January 21, 2025 – 6:00 pm

Members of the public are welcome to attend this meeting in-person. There is ZOOM public access also for this meeting. Anyone desiring to participate & listen in on the meeting by cell or landline phone should dial 1-929-205-6099 and enter the Meeting ID# 353 203 4083 when prompted & announce your name (charges may apply). To join the ZOOM meeting online on a computer, click on this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/3532034083?pwd=4KPJGahm9WvBymkaeBWhjbk7Y3oPel.1 Please state your name prior to speaking so that other participants will know who is speaking. Note that this meeting is being recorded and that when you are unmuted every sound in the range of your microphone can be heard by other ZOOM participants. The Selectboard meeting agenda is also posted on the AGENDA page of the Swanton Town website. Please make a copy of it for reference during the meeting: www.swantonvt.gov

A. Call to Order

B. Pledge of Allegiance

C. Agenda Review

D. Meeting Topics

      1. Minutes

            a) Regular Selectboard Meeting of January 7, 2025

            b) Special Selectboard Meeting of January 16, 2025

    

2. Public Comments

4.  Law Enforcement.

       a)  Swanton Animal Control

     5.   Expenditures (December 2024 and January 2025)

             a)  General Orders

             b)  Highway Orders

             c)  Library Orders

             d)  Payroll Orders

             e)  Library Payroll Orders

             f)  Special Orders

  

       6. Highway Department

  1. Monthly Report on  Highway Department Matters - Mr. Joel Clark

        7. Old Town Business

               a)  Swanton Rec. By-Laws update

               b)  LVRT update

               c)  Swanton Public Library Attic Insulation Project update

               d)  2024 Audit Request for Proposal

                         

         8. New Town Business

               a)  Review of Town of Swanton Purchasing Policy

               b)  Municipal Code of Ethics Discussion

                                              

         9. Community and Economic Development

                             

        10.  Any Other Necessary Business

                           

        11. Correspondence

        12.  Public Comment (Reprise)

          

        13.   Upcoming Events

                 a)  Wednesday – 1/22/2025 – 5:30 pm – Joint meeting of the Planning Commission,

                       Selectboard and Village Trustees – Swanton Village Complex – 120 First St.

                 b)   Thursday-1/23/2025 – 6:00 pm – DRB Meeting – Town Offices – 1 Academy St.

                 c)    Tuesday-2/4/2025 – 6:00 pm – Regular Selectboard Meeting – 1 Academy St.

                                         

        14.   Executive session (If needed)        

        15.   Adjourn

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    MOTIONS FOR ENTERING EXECUTIVE SESSION

MOTION #1: I move that we find that we enter executive session for the Selectboard to receive confidential contract & personnel information for which the premature disclosure of it to the general public would clearly place the Selectboard & others at a substantial disadvantage. Roll Call Vote on Motion.

MOTION #2: I move that based on our just made findings that premature disclosure would place the Selectboard & others at a substantial disadvantage, we enter executive session. Roll Call Vote on Motion.