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Select Board Meeting – Aug. 31, 2024

Select Board Meeting Agenda
10 am August 31st 2024 at Town Hall

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  • Approval of Minutes from August 19th SB meeting
  • Approval of Vendor and Payroll warrants
  • Discussion and signing September 17th Special Town Meeting warrant for highway employee wage increase
  • Appointment to Mount Washington Historical Commission
  • Support letter for Community Compact Best Practices Grant
  • Broadband matters
  • Highway Dept Matters, including Gang erosion issue
  • Logging issue at DCR Cattle Barn Lot follow-up
  • Ad hoc Invasive management committee
  • Status update on implementation of PermitEyes
  • Town Communications – follow up
  • New business
  • Citizen Speak Time

Special Town Meeting – Sep. 17, 2024

WARRANT
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
September 17, 2024, at 7:00 PM

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Berkshire, ss.

To: David Whitbeck, Constable of the Town of Mount Washington, in said County.

Greetings:

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town, qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall in said Town on Tuesday, the 17th day of September 2024 at 7:00 p.m., then and there to act upon the following articles:

Article 1: To see if the Town will vote to authorize the transfer of $1,605 from Stabilization Fund to Full Time Highway Employees for a cost of living raise of three percent for town highway employee.

This article requires a 2/3 majority vote

You are hereby directed to serve this warrant by posting an attested copy at the Town Hall and Town Transfer Station of Mount Washington, at least fourteen days before holding of said meeting. Hereof, fail not and of this warrant and your doings thereon, make return to the Town Clerk at or before the time of holding said meeting.

Board of Health Meeting – Aug. 22, 2024

Agenda for Mt. Washington Board of Health
5 pm August 22, 2024
Mount Washington Town Hall
2 Plantain Pond Road
Mount Washington, MA 01258

  1. Review of past meeting minutes
  2. Glyphosate regulations
  3. Discussion of more comprehensive pesticide and herbicide regulations
  4. Short term rental regulation update
  5. 40 Club Grounds Rd – Request for 1250- gal septic tank due to site restrictions
  6. 42 Club Grounds Rd- Request for consideration of a tight tank for seasonal property
  7. Agent Update
  8. Thank you letter to former member Chris Ryan
  9. New member search
  10. Citizen speak time

Board of Health Meeting
August 22, 2024, at 5pm at Town Hall and Zoom
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Conservation Commission Meeting – Aug. 20, 2024

TOWN OF MOUNT WASHINGTON
CONSERVATION COMMISSION
Meeting August 20, 2024 7PM
Hybrid In Person and Zoom
Town Hall, 2 Plantain Street, Mount Washington, Massachusetts
See Zoom Login Information on Town Website Calendar at mountwashington-ma.gov

Agenda

  1. Welcome new member Eleanor Tillinghast
  2. Review and approve prior meeting minutes and vouchers.
  3. Request for Certificate of Compliance – 596 East Street – Nash
  4. Distribute Becker Pond Trail Management Plan – September discussion
  5. Reorganize Commission
  6. Citizen Speak Time

Scott A. Miller Chair

Virtual Meeting Link
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Select Board Meeting – Aug. 19, 2024

Select Board Meeting Agenda
7 pm August 19, 2024, at Town Hall

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  • Approval of Minutes from August 5 and August 12th SB meetings
  • Approval of Vendor and Payroll warrants
  • Discussion and signing Special Town meeting warrant for highway employee wage increase
  • Broadband matters, including discussion of subscriber rate increase
  • Highway Dept Matters – includes gravel road project, additional compensation for damage caused to tires
  • Logging issue at DCR woodlot
  • Tree at 399 East St
  • Ad hoc Invasive management committee
  • Status update on implementation of PermitEyes
  • Town Communications and Emails
  • New business
  • Citizen Speak Time