Selectboard Meeting 6-17-25
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Tuesday,
June 17, 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
June 17, 2025
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 June 3, 2025
2. Public Comments
3. Law Enforcement.
a) Swanton Animal Control
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
b) Discussion of Paving Quote – Maquam Shore and County Road
7. Old Town Business
a) Adoption of Updated Purchasing Policy
b) Adoption of Whistleblower Protection Policy
c) Signing of 2025 Contract for Missisquoi Valley Rescue, Inc.
d) Ratification of appointment of Vaugh Comeau to represent the Town in Tax Sales
e) Discussion of State Drive
f) Promote Swanton Update & Graphic Design Selection
8. New Town Business
a) Mr. Chris Goulette of A. N. Peisch & Co, LLP – Town Audit of 2023
b) Mr. John Kaczkowski – Swanton Cemetery Commission
9. Community and Economic Development
10. Any Other Necessary Business
11. Correspondence
12. Public Comment (Reprise)
13. Upcoming Events
a) Thursday – June 19, 2025 – Juneteenth Holiday – Town Offices and Operations
Closed
b) Thursday – June 26, 2025 – DRB – Town Offices – 6:00 pm
c) Tuesday – July 1, 2025 – Regular Selectboard Meeting with Public Hearing with
Planning Commission on Zoning By-Law Update - Town Offices – 6:00 pm
d) Friday – July 4, 2025 – Independence Day Holiday – Town Offices and Operations
Closed
14. Executive session (Legal/Real Estate)
15. Adjourn
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.
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.