Selectboard Meeting 3-18-25
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Tuesday,
March 18, 2025
6PM – 7 PM
Agenda
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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
March 18, 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) Special Selectboard Organizational Meeting of March 5, 2025
2. Public Comments
3. Law Enforcement.
a) Swanton Police Department
b) Swanton Animal Control
c) Swanton Health Officer
4. Presentation by the Friends of Northern Lake Champlain – Swanton Beach Stormwater
5. Expenditures
a) General Orders
b) Highway Orders
c) Library Orders
d) Payroll Orders
e) Library Payroll Orders
f) Special Orders
6. Highway Department
a) Monthly Report on Highway Department Matters
7. Old Town Business
a) Swanton Rec. By-Laws update
b) LVRT Update
c) Update on Local Option Tax
d) Update on Scoping Study – Bushey Road
8. New Town Business
a) Discussion of 2024 Audit RFP
b) Discussion of change needed in Accounting, Auditing, and Financial Reporting
Policy adopted November 7, 2023.
c) Approve Letter of Support for the 2025 Sap Run to be held April 27, 2025
9. Community and Economic Development
RECESS REGULAR SELECTBOARD MEETING AND CONVENE LIQUOR CONTROL BOARD
1. Renewals of Liquor and Tobacco Licenses
ADJOURN LIQUOR CONTROL BOARD AND RE-ENTER REGULAR SELECTBOARD MEETING
10. Any Other Necessary Business
11. Correspondence
12. Public Comment (Reprise)
13. Upcoming Events
a) Thursday – March 27, 2025 – 6:00 pm – DRB – Town Offices and Zoom
b) Tuesday – April 1, 2025 – 6:00 pm – Regular Selectboard Meeting – Town
Offices and Zoom
c) Thursday – April 10, 2025 – 5:30 pm – Planning Commission – Town Offices
and Zoom
d) Tuesday – April 15, 2025 – 6:00 pm – Regular Selectboard Meeting – Town
Offices and Zoom
14. Executive session (Personnel)
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.