The Board of Selectmen met in a non-regularly scheduled meeting. The public portion of the meeting lasted four minutes before going into non-public session. The reason given for non-public session was the RSA for personnel issues.
In the brief public meeting, Chairman Morin stated that the process for the mid-year tax bills had been initiated and that the town would be sending out tax bills soon, amounting to $8.883k.
Selectman Welch spoke to correct a statement he had made at the prior meeting and to apologize to the staff of the Recycling Center for misunderstanding their position on summer hours. The staff wish to discontinue summer hours.
The board has posted the minutes of two recent non-public sessions: those of April 1 and 15. On April 1 they fired a member of the Highway Department, issued two job offers, and discussed an unspecified conflict of interest. On April 15 they discussed a property dispute involving issues related to health, construction, and unregistered vehicles. They also discussed and denied a request to unseal the minutes of their March 23, 2023 non-public session.
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I’m am not comfortable with non disclosure of the minutes of March 23 meeting This was a town meeting ,there are no diplomatic issues that need to be kept secret. I’m a new resident moved here in 2020 . I have recently started following the town politics and hope we can do better, seems like there is too much chaos and fighting and the result is my taxes increasing and I’m not sure of the real reason .
Non public select board meetings happen, often when there is a personnel (HR) issue, which needs to follow normal HR regulations about privacy.
We've had a lot of HR issues recently.