Courthouse Needs An Upgrade

Valley News Letter to Editor
Courthouse  Needs an Upgrade

To the Editor: For too long the Windsor County Courthouse and its services have been inaccessible to anyone with a physical disability. Windsor County voters finally have an opportunity to fix this inequity. Built in 1855, our beautiful and historic courthouse has been renovated several times but never to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Whether you have a temporary disability (hip or knee surgery) or a permanent one, you cannot serve on a jury, participate in a trial or access the courthouse for any of its services.

The proposed $2 million bond will not only help make this treasured centerpiece accessible, but also vastly improve the security of the building with updated metal detectors and an integrated security system. This will cost about one-quarter of one cent per $100 of property value for 10 years. For example, every owner of a property valued at $200,000 would pay $5 per year to support this project. A million-dollar property would pay $25 per year for 10 years. This is a cost-effective use of our tax dollars as a new courthouse would cost a great deal more than this thoughtful renovation. We urge all Windsor County residents to vote and support the proposed bond on the ballot at Town Meeting.

Alison Clarkson

For the Woodstock Area Accessibility Task Force 

VTel Placed On Hold

Norwich Holds Off On Tower

By Sarah Brubeck, Valley News Staff Writer
February 28, 2013 
Bowing to political reality, the Selectboard chose to put off a decision to finalize a controversial communications tower agreement and instead will wait until after residents have a chance to weigh in at Town Meeting next week.
For the past six months, the Selectboard has been divided 3-2 in favor of allowing VTel, a Springfield, Vt.-based telecommunications company, to construct a tower on New Boston Road in exchange for letting the town use it for new emergency communications equipment. But last night, Selectman Keith Moran, who previously supported the plan, leaned in favor of public outcry.
“I think the voters have spoken,” Moran said after last night’s meeting.
Town Manager Neil Fulton had placed items on last night’s Selectboard agenda that would have finalized a site lease agreement with VTel for a communications tower. At the same time, there is a bond vote scheduled for Tuesday’s Town Meeting that essentially asks residents if they support the VTel agreement or would rather assume the cost of building the tower themselves.
If the board would have voted to finalize the VTel agreement last night, it would have made next week’s Town Meeting vote moot.
But much to residents’ surprise, the Selectboard chose to put off the decision. At the start of the meeting, before many of the 40 attendees had a chance to sit down, Selectman Stephen Flanders made a motion to delay any decision until a March 13 meeting and others agreed.
“My opinion hasn’t changed, but I think it makes sense to wait and give people a chance to vote,” said Selectman Ed Childs, who has historically voted in favor of the VTel agreement.
About an hour later, Moran gave residents even more hope by telling them that he would switch his vote. If Norwich voters are willing to bear the financial costs and risks, then that’s their decision, Moran said.

Read the rest of the story. 
LINK: 
http://www.vnews.com/news/4743931-95/vtel-tower-residents-town

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Is VTel married to Norwich or just shacking up?

Last Friday, the Brattleboro Reformer reported that a signed contract  between the Windham County Sheriff and VTel was no more. Not much detail was provided about the break-up, other than VTel had found a different site and had made a $15,000 donation to the Sheriff. The deal was similar to the proposal the Selectboard has under consideration  -- at little cost to the taxpayer, VTel agreed to replace an aging tower next to the Sheriff’s office, with a taller tower that VTel and the Sheriff would share..    

That led me to ask: how legally committed is VTel to Norwich to deliver a tower by Fall 2013.  The answer is: not much. Under the Lease, the company is not required to act with any kind of dispatch. At present VTel may be highly motivated  to build the tower, but it isn’t married to the idea.  

The Lease contains no general timetable.  VTel has TWO YEARS under the Contract to obtain the necessary permits to build the Tower. [§3, page 2.]   Admittedly, the company must use “commercially reasonable efforts”  to obtain the necessary permits.  [§2(g), page 2.]  But that is far from the “all deliberate speed” that Norwich would exercise if it was pursuing permits to assure the safety of first responders and residents.

Worse, section 20 allows VTel to terminate the Lease at any time, if the company “determines that it will be unable to attain optimal use of the Facility within its communications network.” [§20(a), page 9.]  I am not sure what this means but it seems as if the company can end the arrangement if the site is no longer fits the business plan.  That is a huge LOOPHOLE.  The decision is in VTel’s “sole and absolute discretion“.  

[As an aside, I am not even sure VTel is obligated to build a tower.  Once permits are obtained, VTel must pay rent, but we are not charging any.  That is a topic for another day.]

These provisions protect VTel, but not Norwich.  They make more sense to a landowner who is passively collecting rent.  I accept that permitting is something of an unknown.  But if VTel needs two years, perhaps we are better off going it alone.  Also, the loophole noted above gives great pause. 

These contract terms seems hardly the stuff of a public/private partnership or the way to assure that a much needed tower gets built.  There may be “understandings” about a timetable but if not the “definitive agreement”, then they are unenforceable.

I am not a telecommunications lease expert.  To me, the Lease gives far too much wiggle room to VTel to say that the company is committed to build the tower PROMPTLY.  Is VTel married to Norwich or just shacking up?

LINK: 

http://www.reformer.com/ci_22642405/vtel-finds-alternate-newfane-site-cell-tower

Photo Op: Norwich Police Train

 Officers Frank Schippert, left, and Mike Scruggs of the Norwich Police Department practice responding to a hypothetical shooter in a Woodstock Union High School classroom. (Rick Russell Photo)

Police, Emergency Officials Training At WUHS

Vermont Standard

February 22, 2013
Law enforcement personnel were at the campus of Woodstock Union High School on Friday for a training session, practicing their response to emergencies, including an active shooter situation.

LINK: 
http://www.thevermontstandard.com/2013/02/police-emergency-officials-training-at-wuhs/

Is The Tower FOREVER?

posted on listserv on February 24, 2013 

Does VTel have the right to buy the land at the end of the 60-year lease.  If so, then the Tower could be a landmark in Norwich FOREVER.  

There is some odd language at the end of section 3, that I think may give VTel the right "to purchase the Property at fair market value," at the end of 60 years.  Obviously that would be a disaster.  Town Manager Fulton should converse with the lawyer advising us on the LOI (please say we had a lawyer)  because the lawyer failed to advise the Town Manager on a vital term.  

My detailed analysis is after my signature.  I fear the Town is in over its head. 

Why give VTel a right of first refusal at all.  The company gets a rent-free lease for 60 years.  That is it ... done. 

[I am not a fan of the economics of the VTel deal.  We need a consultant with expertise in the industry. That is for another post.]

I'm hoping to be wrong about the right to buy and labelled an alarmist.  My advice: Sign no contract with this type of language in it. 

Thank you for reading.

Chris  

My detailed analysis is as follows.  Be forewarned, it is a snoozer.  If your kid wants to go to law school, this should help dispel the notion

Here is the pertinent text of section 3 of the LOI

"If at any time during the 60 year term the Town should seek to sell all or a portion of the Property, or should VTel exercise all renewal options for the full 60 years, VTel shall have the right of first refusal to purchase the Property at fair market value, as determined using an independent appraiser. The mechanics of the right of first refilsal will be set forth in greater detail in the Definitive Agreement."

A quick read of the provision suggests that VTel simply has a right of first refusal, if Norwich decides to sell.  But, there is an oddity.  In a typical right of first refusal, VTel has the right to buy the land on exact same terms as the proposed buyer. Here, the price VTel pays is set by an "independent appraiser".  Very strange, until looked at in the context of the clause "should VTel exercise all renewal options for the full 60 years." Stripped of non-essential terms, the right VTel has reads as follows:

"Should VTel exercise all renewal options for the full 60 years, VTel shall have the right to purchase the Property at fair market value, as determined using an independent appraiser."  The Tower is forever.

Weekly Roundup - Norwich News, for week ending February 23, 2013

Norwich, VT Man Gets 30 Days; Police Chief Not Happy
“I think he pretty much got away with it,” [Police Chief] Robinson said. “When a guy has a lot of marijuana, thousands of dollars of stolen property, (acted inappropriately) with a little girl and possessed 40 guns, a 30-day sentence is ludicrous. I was in disbelief.”
Chief Questions Norwich Man’s Sentence
By Mark Davis, Valley News Staff Writer
February 23, 2013
A Norwich man was recently sentenced to 30 days in prison on a slew of state and federal charges, including weapons possession and lewd conduct, in plea deals that the town’s police chief says were overly generous.
A federal judge last week ordered Jeff Bogie, 50, sent to federal prison for 30 days for unlawful possession of a firearm. Days later, state prosecutors finalized a deal that called for the same sentence — which will run at the same time — for charges contributing to the delinquency of the minor, prohibited acts, marijuana possession and possessing stolen property.
Bogie was initially charged in 2010 with lewd and lascivious conduct with a child, for allegedly engaging in sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old girl after providing her alcohol. During that investigation, police searched his home and found more than a half pound of marijuana, pills and 44 firearms, including machines guns, rifles and pistols, according to police affidavits.
Federal authorities prosecuted Bogie for being a drug user in possession of firearms: The rest of the case was handled at the state level.
Norwich Police Chief Doug Robinson said that he believes Bogie should have spent at least a couple of years in prison, and was disappointed in the leniency.

Read the rest of the story.
LINK:
http://www.vnews.com/news/police/fire/courts/4632593-95/federal-bogie-state-charges

King Arthur Flour Voluntarily Recalls Flour
Press Release
February 22, 2013

King Arthur Flour has initiated a voluntary recall of a limited number of its bags of flour due to the possible presence of small (7-9 mm) blue polyurethane balls that are used in the sifting process. The balls have a smooth surface and no sharp edges and are made from food grade material. Because of their bright blue color and size (about half the diameter of a dime), they are easily seen in the flour.

Only 5-lb. bags of King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour and King Arthur Unbleached Bread Flour that have a Best Used By Date and Lot Codes noted below are affected. This information is printed on the side of the bag beneath the nutrition panel. If the Best Used By Date and Lot Code number are printed on the TOP of the bag, then the product is NOT affected.


Read the rest of the story.
LINK:
http://www.kingarthurflour.com/voluntaryrecall/press-release.html

Preview Of School Vote

Summary of issues on the ballot on March 5th for Norwich and Dresden schools.

Elementary Schools Plan Renovations

By Sarah Brubeck Valley News Staff Writer

February 22, 2013 

Both the Ray School and Marion Cross School are proposing to upgrade aging facilities in the coming years, and residents Hanover and Norwich residents will see the impacts at this year’s district meeting.

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Across the river at Marion Cross School, voters will be asked to approve borrowing $450,000 to pay for a gym roof replacement and energy and ventilation improvements.

Three school budgets are in play in the Dresden towns: the Hanover budget, which covers the Ray School; the Norwich budget, which accounts for Marion Cross School; and the Dresden budget, which covers the cost of the Richmond Middle School and Hanover High School.

Additionally, a negotiated contracts for Dresden and Hanover teachers are on the ballot after voters rejected a contract last year, and there’s a contested Hanover School Board race.

Read the rest of the story.

LINK: 

http://www.vnews.com/news/schools/4556299-95/hanover-budget-dresden-board

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Percent Increase In Wages

This Chart shows the increase by percent in wages for each of the stated positions.  Benefits are not included.  

Position	Last Yr. Increase %	Proposed Increase %
Town Manager	16.5	8.77
Town Manager Asst	18.35	7.79
Town Clerk	3.50	15.25
Finance Director	5.00	18.52
Finance Asst	108.00	23.97
Planning Director	3.50	13.90
Planning Asst	3.50	26.12
Recreation Director	3.50	26.51
Police Chief	3.00	4.00
Fire Chief	6.28	1.76
Director of Public Works	3.50	3.16
Social Security	3.60	1.70

All "Proposed Increase %" numbers are as reported in the recently released Town Report for 2012.  The numbers listed in "Last Yr. Increase %" are from the 2011 Town Report.  Social Security numbers are from SSA.gov/cola.

Selectboard Agenda - February 27, 2013

Agenda for the Selectboard Meeting of Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 6:30 PM

(Times Are Approximate)

1)    Approval of Agenda (Action Item) 2 minutes

2)    Public Comments (Discussion) 10 minutes

3)    Town Manager’s Report (Discussion) 5 minutes

4)    Finance – Board to Sign Accounts Payable/Warrants (Action Item) 5 minutes

5)    6:45 pm – Meeting with Norwich Energy Committee (Discussion) 15 minutes

6)    7:00 pm – Meeting with Norwich Finance Committee (Discussion) 15 minutes

7)    Approval of Communications Site Lease Agreement (Ground Lease) with VTel for Tower (Discussion/Action Item) 30 minutes

8)    Approval of Lease-Purchase Agreement to Fund Norwich Portion of Radio Communications Project (Discussion/Action Item) 10 minutes

9)    Approval of Burlington Communications Service Center Purchase Order for Communications Systems Upgrades (Discussion/Action Item) 10 minutes

10) Correspondence (Discussion/Possible Action Item) 5 minutes

a)    Email from Claudette Brochu Re: Meeting Minutes

11) Selectboard

a)    Approval of the Minutes of the 1/16/13, 1/23/13 and 1/25/13 Meetings (Action Item) 5 minutes

b)    Review of Next Agenda (Discussion/Possible Action Item) 5 minutes

Tidbit: Sonic Boom or Dr. Zoom?

Did You Hear It? Loud Noise Thursday Morning May Have Been Sonic Boom

By Maggie Cassidy, Valley News Web Editor
February 21, 2013


Did you hear it?

An extremely loud noise that was heard from Norwich to Vershire — and perhaps beyond — shortly before 11 this morning may have been a sonic boom, according to an official at the Lebanon Municipal Airport air traffic control tower.

Air Traffic Manager Braxton Freeman said he couldn’t say for sure whether the noise was indeed a sonic boom, the loud noise produced by the shock wave from an aircraft traveling faster than the speed of sound.

But after he received an inquiry from the Hanover police dispatch and a curious resident, he put in a call to the Federal Aviation Administration traffic agency in Boston.

“They informed me that there were some F-15s working in the military operating area,” he said, “and they could have produced the sonic boom sound, but they can’t be positive.”

Read the rest of the story.

LINK:
http://www.vnews.com/opinion/featuredvoices/maggiecassidy/4606666-95/class-body-text-noise

Weekly Roundup - Norwich News, for week ending February 16, 2013

CoreValue Software Helps Small and Medium Businesses Find Value

CoreValue Software in Norwich, VT, co-founded by Chuck Richards and Lisa Kable, creates web-based software to help owners of private companies build valuable companies. A profile of the firm appeared on February 10, 2013 in the Valley News.

Finding Hidden Value: Norwich Firm Helps Small Businesses Figure Out What They're Worth 
By Warren Johnston Valley News Staff
February 10, 2013
The mission of CoreValue Software is easy to see, although it’s not readily apparent.
Clues — large photographs of aged, closed factories, steam locomotives, rusted, discarded machinery — populate the office walls of the global company that operates in the back of a two-story building with no sign on Main Street to announce its presence.
However, even the poster-sized black-and-white photos don’t give a clear picture of what CoreValue is about. The bright office, functionally furnished with sensible desks and chairs, computers, an occasional dog bowl under a desk and bags of canine treats covering an entry shelf, could house any number of businesses — perhaps a real estate firm that sells off shuttered or dying factories or an equipment brokerage that finds buyers for obsolete machines.
But instead of hovering over the decaying carcasses of outmoded industries, CoreValue’s plan is to swoop and save them with a software program that makes closely held small- and medium-sized businesses look deeply at their operations with an eye on the future.
“The photographs are a reminder of what we do, and what we’re trying to prevent,” said Lisa Kable, the president of CoreValue, who co-founded the company with Chief Executive Officer Chuck Richards.
“We feel like we’re reaching and helping business owners, and when they transfer their business, it will be a net job generator — that the business will do well and jobs will be created,” Kable said.

Read the rest of the story.
CoreValue Software Web Site
LINKS:
http://www.vnews.com/home/4102921-95/business-corevalue-businesses-companies
http://www.corevaluesoftware.com/

Former Chef at Carpenter &  Main In Minneapolis

"Man, this guy can cook" reports the Star Tribune

Lynn on Bryant: A neighborhood gem of a restaurant
By Rick Nelson, Star Tribune
February 14, 2013

REVIEW: A transplanted Vermont chef sets up a great-looking shop in south Minneapolis. Are there more chefs like him?

The Twin Cities area has more than its share of local-chefs-made-good stories, but the culinary scene has also prospered from the fresh perspectives and enviable skills brought here by gifted out-of-towners.

Including Peter Ireland. The Vermont native cooked for big-name chefs in Chicago, New York and France — then ran his own acclaimed restaurant, Carpenter & Main, in his hometown of Norwich, Vt. — before relocating to Minneapolis (where his wife, Rebecca, was enrolled in law school) and opening the Lynn on Bryant.

The name is a reference to the surrounding Lynnhurst neighborhood. That only seems right, since the Lynn is billed as a neighborhood restaurant, and its breakfast-lunch-dinner format bears that out. But with Ireland at the helm, it’s also so much more.

Man, this guy can cook. The menu is tightly focused. At dinner, it’s just six appetizers and as many entrees, which could feel limited, but doesn’t. What makes the Lynn such a remarkable dining experience is Ireland’s intrinsic ability to subtly manipulate and balance outcomes up and down the continuums of flavor and texture: bitter-sweet, tangy-mellow, crispy-silky; all masterfully exploited.

Read the rest of the story.
LINK:
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/taste/191058101.html?refer=y

Preview Of Town Meeting

Sarah Brubeck of the Valley News nicely summarizes the big topics for Town Meting 2013

Cell Tower On Warning In Norwich

By Sarah Brubeck Valley News Staff Writer
February 14, 2013

Norwich town and school budgets will be discussed Monday, March 4 at 7 p.m. in Tracy Hall. Voting for town officers and all warning articles will be done by Australian ballot on Tuesday, March 5 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Tracy Hall.

Norwich — This year’s Town Meeting warning isn’t lacking for controversy with one nonbinding article that would authorize the Selectboard to spend $275,000 to build a new communications tower, undercutting a deal the Selectboard struck with a private telecommunications company.

Voters will also decide whether an assistant town clerk who has been working full time will have her hours reduced to part time.

The tower flap started last fall when the Selectboard authorized Town Manager Neil Fulton to sign a letter of intent with VTel, a Springfield, Vt.-based telecommunications company, that would allow the firm to lease property on New Boston Road in order to build a communications tower to provide high-speed Internet service to the area. In return, the town could freely use the tower to upgrade radio communication among the police, fire and public works departments.

Norwich residents petitioned the article that calls on the town to build and own the tower itself. Proponents said passage would show the Selectboard that there is widespread opposition in town over the deal with VTel. The article is not legally binding, however, and if it does pass ... .

Read the rest of the story.
LINK:
http://www.vnews.com/news/townbytown/norwich/4397511-95/town-budget-selectboard-increase

Town Manager Wants To End-Run Bond Vote And Sign Contract With VTel

Town Manager Fulton will ask the Selectboard at its February 27 meeting for authority to sign a contract with VTel regarding the Communication Tower.  This would seemingly moot the bond vote warned for Town Meeting.  Backers of the bond want the Town to build and own the tower itself.  The option would be foreclosed once a binding agreement is in place with VTel.  Mr. Fulton does not believe the bond will raise enough money to build the tower, although the amount is the same that the Town said it needed in a prior bond vote that was defeated in the Summer.

Should make for robust discussion at Town Eating Day the evening before.

See: Background Information on Bond Vote at Town web site.

LINK: 

http://norwich.vt.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Communications-System-Background-Information-01-29-13.pdf

Architecture Award To King Arthur Building

Review: Excellence in Vermont architecture

February 10,  2013

Donald M. Kreis
vtdigger.org

Norwich, Vt., is not Freeport, Maine. For that, someone deserves a medal.
And, as it happens, the Vermont chapter of the American Institute of Architects gave out that very medal a few weeks ago – or, at least, a merit award that was among its annual honors for excellence in Vermont architecture. The award in question went to the Burlington architectural firm of TruexCullins and its client, King Arthur Flour.
King Arthur could devour Norwich much as L.L. Bean ate Freeport, which was once a real Maine village until the catalog retailer headquartered there slowly crowded everything else out except for other national retailers and souvenir shops. Instead, the expansion of King Arthur’s retail store, bakery, school and café, pulls off a small miracle of site planning.
Using King Arthur’s existing building and its round timber-framed atrium as the centerpiece, the architects created a campus of interconnected monitor barns. They embrace a courtyard and entryway that faces away from the street. To reach the entrance, and the adjoining parking lot, visitors must navigate a sufficiently long and curved driveway as to render any aspect of the complex that might shout “tourist destination” a non-issue from the street.
If you think that’s no big deal then perhaps you have never driven through Waterbury Center. There, the Ben & Jerry’s factory and the Cold Hollow Cider Mill presumably do wonders for the local economy but tend to give the impression that servicing tour buses is the reason Vermont exists.
Cynics might deem it a cliché of contemporary Vermont architecture to appropriate the monitor barn, whose distinctive fenestrated rooflines provided light and ventilation for traditional dairy operations. But it’s an honest theft; the monitors are desirable and energy ...

Read the rest of the story. 

LINKS: 
http://vtdigger.org/2013/02/10/review-excellence-in-vermont-architecture/
See also:
http://truexcullins.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-spirit-of-vermont-in-norwich.html
http://www.vpr.net/episode/55299/kreis-aia-vermont/

Towns in Salary Study [Revised]

This table is the population, density and municipal budget of the seven towns used in the Condrey and Associates report, as well as Norwich. 

Municipalities	Population	Density pop/sq mile	Current Budget approx
Charlotte	3569	70.9	$2,800,000
Dorset	2036	42.6	1,300,000
Hanover	11,331	229.7	22,400,000
Hartford	10,367	225.9	19,100,000
Hartland	3223	71.4	2,200,000
Lebanon	13,643	326.2	35,700,000
Norwich	3,544	79.2	4,300,000
Woodstock	3,232	72.5	4,000,000

Population and density from government sources.  Budget numbers culled from various internet sources and are APPROXIMATE.  Budget numbers revised 334 PST.

All municipalities are in the Upper Valley, except Dorset (Bennington County, VT) and Charlotte (Chittenden County, VT).

Cahill of Norwich Under Consideration By Governor For State's Attorney

Two names in the ring for next Windsor County state's attorney

February 12,2013
By Christian Avard, Rutland Herald Staff Writer

Gov. Peter Shumlin will take a hard look on who to select as the next Windsor County state’s attorney. That’s because the Windsor County Democratic Committee endorsed both candidates for the job.

The Windsor County Democratic Committee passed a resolution on Monday advising the governor that David Cahill of Norwich and Michael Kainen of Hartford, are qualified for the job. Cahill and Kainen are seeking to replace outgoing State’s Attorney Robert Sand who was recently appointed by the governor to develop a new DUI court system.

The Windsor Democratic Committee acts in an advisory capacity and can only make suggestions to the governor. Windsor County Democratic Committee Chairman William Kuch was surprised by the delegates’ decision at the special meeting.

“There weren’t any ‘nays.’ I expected people wanted to make a choice and vote for one or the other,” Kuch said.

Cahill is a Windsor County Deputy state’s attorney who graduated from Dartmouth College with a major in history and German. He received his law degree from the University of Minnesota and has filed thousands of charges in a variety of criminal, civil and investigative matters in Windsor County.

Read the rest of the story.

LINK:
http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20130212/THISJUSTIN/130219979

Selectboard Agenda February 13, 2013

Agenda for the Selectboard Meeting of Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 6:30 PM

(Times Are Approximate)

1)    Approval of Agenda (Action Item) 2 minutes

2)    Public Comments (Discussion) 10 minutes

3)    6:45 pm – Meeting with Capital Facilities Planning & Budgeting Committee (Discussion) 15 minutes

4)    7:00 pm – Windsor County Budget (Discussion) 15 minutes

5)    7:15 pm – Meeting with Norwich Historic Preservation Commission (Discussion) 15 minutes

6)    Town Manager’s Report (Discussion) 10 minutes

7)    Finance – Board to Sign Accounts Payable/Warrants (Action Item) 5 minutes

8)    Town Meeting Presentation Strategy (Discussion) 10 minutes

9)    Request to Expend up to $2,000 from the General Administration Reserve Fund for a Computer Purchase (Discussion/Action Item) 5 minutes

10)Request for Proposals for Planning and Architectural Services for Fire, Police and Public Works Facilities (Discussion) 15 minutes

11)Correspondence (Discussion/Possible Action Item) 5 minutes

a)    Letter from Town of Lyme Board of Selectmen Re: Wilder Dam Relicensing

12)Selectboard

a)    Approval of the Minutes of the 1/9/13 Meeting (Action Item) 5 minutes

b)    Review of Next Agenda (Discussion/Possible Action Item) 5 minutes

c)    Labor Relations Agreement (Executive Session May be Required)

Next Regular Meeting – February 27, 2013 at 6:30 PM

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