Alexandria Board of Selectmen
November 13, 2008
NOTE: The following minutes are composed from notes taken by the TA; the tape broke toward the end of the meeting.
The meeting came to order at 6:00 p.m. with all members present.
Pledge of Allegiance was given
No minutes were distributed; the minutes of October 23 were approved by a vote of 3-0.
Department Heads:
Christie let the selectmen know that a notice has been received from Waste Management indicating that the contract price will increase by 4.7%; the CPI for Boston/Manchester. A revised scheduled of payments to the school district has been received. A notice of CERT meeting was read. The tax rate setting is scheduled for Friday, November 14. Other towns within the district will also be coming to Alexandria for their rate setting as the DRA rep prefers not to have to go from town to town. Interviews need to be scheduled for the maintenance worker position. A notice of deficiency was received by the office in connection with Maxam. The personnel policy is in need of updating. Christie will be making suggestions for changes. The co-mingled container cannot be put in place at this time as the market has tanked. As soon as vendors are ready to take on new customers, Alexandria will get its container. Dump stickers will be placed in each of outgoing tax bills that contains a local zip code.
Jeff Cantara, the road agent, explained that rather than having a locked gate, he would like to look into the cost of cameras that would record anyone entering the highway garage site. There are signs up that tell people where to get sand. The decision on not using an automatic gate is made in order not to close out vendors or persons who have need to visit the road agent or other crew members.
Signature Items:
Intents to cut were signed for William Corbeil and Thomas Crouse
Old Business:
It was decided that the inspection of properties would take place on
November 22 rather that the 20th. The selectmen will meet at town
hall at 10:00 a.m.; Christie will leave copies of the property cards for them to review.
New Business: at 7:00 p.m. the selectmen met with the budget committee and the road agent to discuss the 2009 request for the highway department.
The regular meeting was adjourned at 8:15 with the selectmen taking a roll call vote of 3-0 to go into non-public session in order to discuss a personnel matter.
Respectfully submitted,
Christie Phelps,
Town Administrator