Notes for Tuesday, December 9 2025

5:30 p.m. Call Meeting to Order (This meeting may be recorded.)
Review Agenda
Welcome to incoming Town Coordinator, Mia Francesconi
5:30 p.m. Appointment: MTRSD Representative—Budge Litchfield, updates

• We still need capital improvements at the schools due to health and safety issues such as lighting, fire alarm systems. There has been a decrease in funding of $4 million. 
• Hawlemont and MTRSD consolidation makes sense. 
• Moving of 6th graders to MTRSD allows staff to coordinate and work well together.
• Regional agreement must be amended to make these changes
• We have a 250 square mile school district and a complete consolidation would cause students to be traveling too far.
• Towns with the highest level of low income families may end up traveling the furthest.
• Preschool concern - parents not close to a consolidated Mohawk Trial school would have considerable driving time  and parents may not choose to enroll their children in preschool.  

 Resident—Ken Rocke, 2D8T considerations

• Ken would like the SB and FinComm to take a stand on some of the considerations and communicate those to the other towns and the the district in a timely manner and not be put into the position being a spoiler.
• If the regional agreement comes forward with none of Heath's issues addressed then 
• Feels that we should regionalize.
• Hawlemont and Rowe should regionalize and remain open, and they should be our schools due to proximity.
• The plan to be brought forward will be to close at least two schools, but Ken feels it is unlikely that Rowe would regionalize if they are required to close their school. 
• Is there a way to keep our small schools and still regionalize?
• Keep the current methodology for calculating choice students is important 
• Base capital improvement assessment based on students who actually attend the school, not those assigned to the school.
• We are limited because we only  have one person on the school committee. 

6:30 p.m. Special Town Meeting Article Votes
1 - Petition the state to allow Nick Anzuoni to continue past 65 as Fire Chief - passed unanimously.
2 - Petition the state to allow Will Emmet to continue as volunteer fireman past 65 -  passed unanimously.
3 - Transfer $40,000 from School/Town Buildings Improvement Stabilization account to new JRMC Roof Repair account.   - passed with 2 or 3 nos.
4 - Transfer $2,871 from IT Stabilization Fund account to the IT Equipment Upgrade account - passed unanimously.
5 - Transfer $10,000 from Free Cash to Fire Chief Vehicle Purchase account -  passed unanimously.
6 - Zoning changes to add a definition of "street", and amend definitions of "Exterior Architectural Features", "Frontage", "Lot", and "Lot-line".  Requires a 2/3 vote for passage - passed unanimously.
Review Minutes: 11/17/2025, 11/19/2025
JRMC Roof Repairs—vote to select contractor

• SB voted to accept the $35,015  bid from Titan Roofing for the repair vs the one that was over $50,000 from Vermont Roofing.

Mail

• Quite a bit of mail the most significant being the retirement letter from Town Nurse set for a future date when her license expires.  She will continue the Bones and Balance class after retirement since this does not require a license.

Next Meeting, December 16: Highway Dept. winter road care update (weather pending)
 Hilltown Youth Performing Arts review of use
Other business that could not be anticipated 48 hours in advance.
NOTE: Any of the items of business listed above or other business that could not be anticipated at
the time of posting may involve decisive action on the part of the Select Board.
Adjourn