Select Board packet for January 12th

Contents of the packet received Friday, January 9^th for the Monday, January 12^th meeting:

The on-line version of the packet is evolving.  Instead of being one big PDF, it is divided into separate PDFs per agenda item.  (Note: not all agenda items have related documents.)  Click here for this week's packet contents.

•  The agenda

•  The motion sheet

•  Information related to a new taxi business license application and a new taxi driver's license application

•  A memo from the Town Manager to the Select Board describing Amherst's emergency management preparations

•  A memo from the Town Manager to the Lieutenant Governor, summarizing the Town's list of projects submitted for possible Federal stimulus money, with a list of project descriptions

•  A memo from the Town Manager to the Select Board, written as a response to his recent performance evaluation   

•  A memo from me to the Select Board with an attached list of draft goals for the Town Manager for FY09, and a list of collected management ideas submitted by Select Board members

•  Lists of meeting times for the committees to which each SB member is a liaison

•  Information about the proposals that will be voted on at the Massachusetts Municipal Association's Annual Meeting in Boston, January 24th

•  A packet of information with the formal motion language the Select Board will vote on regarding the dog decision, and a complete (I think!) collection of supporting documents from this case, including (last page) an e-mail from the dog owner saying that she has decided to surrender the dog to a good home out of Amherst.

A bunch of mail:

•  The Planning Board meeting agenda for January 7th

•  The Conservation Commission meeting agenda for January 14th

•  A postcard from the Town Counsel's law firm, about its booth and planned activities for the MMA meeting

•  A letter and DVD from WMECO regarding work safety around electric lines (this was clearly meant for DPW, not the SB, even though it was addressed to the SB Chair, so I'll be passing it along.)

•  A letter from Mass Highway, sent to the SB Chair, but to the attention of the DPW Superintendent (I'll be passing this one along too) regarding new price adjustment requirements for work covered under the State's transportation bond bill

•  The January issue of the MMA's newsletter, The Beacon

•  A copy of the letter sent to the Planning Board, and cc'ing the SB,  from the Chamber, urging expeditious acceptance of the Master Plan (this was n my packet last week; I returned it to the SB office so that it could be copied for all the SB members.)

•  A letter and attached report from Northeast Utilities to the Springfield office of the Department of Environmental Protection (and cc'ing the SB Chair) regarding the status and remedial monitoring of the former Amherst Manufactured Gas Plant site on Pelham Road