Select Board packet for August 11th

Select Board packet – received Friday, August 1st for Monday, August 11th meeting:

•  Agenda for 8/13 Conservation Commission meeting

•  Agenda for the 8/6 Planning Board meeting

•  The form Select Board members will use to do our individual evaluations of the Town Manager

•  A draft calendar and checklist for Fall Town Meeting, with a proposed first session date of 11/5

•  A copy of the 1975 U.S. Court of Appeals decision from the Walgren v. Board of Selectmen election date case

•  A letter from the Town Manager to the PVTA administrator regarding the Select Board’s appointment of the Town Manager to serve o n the PVTA Advisory Board

•  An abutters notice for an 8/14 ZBA meeting with public hearings on a Special Permit request for outdoor seasonal dining at Delano’s; and  a Special Permit request for flag lots, supplemental apartments, and waivers of certain driveway requirements for parcels on Owen Drive

•  Draft minutes of the 7/7 and 7/21 Select Board meetings

•  An August calendar and committee assignment list for the Hampshire Council of Governments

•  An invitation from the new UMass Chancellor to attend the 8/28 Community Breakfast

Select Board packet – received Friday, August 8th for Monday, August 11th meeting:

•  Agenda for the 8/11 Select Board meeting:  6:30 – Public Comment; 6:45 – Installation of conduits under a public way for Amherst College; 6:55 – Change of Manager for Panda East; 7:05 – Vote Special Town Meeting calendar; 7:15 – Discussion of Committee System Management; 8:00 – Town Manager’s Report:  Report on Lawsuits, Status of pending litigation; Untimed items:  consent calendar – special liquor licenses, approve minutes, committee appointments, executive session (none,) liaison and representative reports

•  Motion Sheet for the meeting

•  Information about the proposed conduit installation, including the request from Amherst College, the DPW’s recommendation for approval, and information about abutter notification

•  Change of Manager application for Panda East and the Police Department’s recommendation fro approval

•  A draft calendar and checklist for Fall Town Meeting, with a proposed first session date of 11/5

•  Special liquor license application for an 8/25 Cruise Night event at Atkins

•  Memo from the Town Manager to the Select Board with a recommended appointment to the Board of Health

•  A sheet with the 2008 calendar

•  The ZBA’s Special Permit, Decision and Notice of Filing for the Town to lease part of the landfill site for a “wireless communications facility” – a cell phone antenna tower; and Notice of Filing of a Special Permit for converting a single-family residence to a two-family residence on College Streeet

•  A memo from the Town Manager to the Public Works Committee regarding proposals for traffic calming in the Lincoln-Fearing-Sunset neighborhood

•  A packet of information from the Chamber of Commerce, including:  The July/August issue of the Chamber newsletter, a 2008 “Relocation Guide,” and a 2008 “Buy Local Guide and Chamber membership directory