This week’s meeting of the Select Board will provide Reading residents an update on the town’s solid waste contract. There will be a tax classification hearing, an update from ReCalc that will include some preliminary survey results, and a possible extension of the service of the committee. Town meeting Article 19 will also be discussed, with a potential option to table the warrant article to a special town meeting in February. In addition, the RAAC recommendations for allocations of ARPA funding will be discussed and voted on by the Select Board.
- 7:00 Overview of Meeting
- 7:05 Public Comment
- 7:10 SB Liaison and Town Manager Reports
- 7:20 Update and Discussion on Solid Waste Contract
- 7:30 Hearing – Tax Classification
- 8:00 ReCalc Update
- 8:20 ReCalc Preliminary Survey Update
- 8:50 Discuss and Vote to Extend ReCalc past the sunset date of November 30, 2022
- 9:00 Discuss and Vote Town Meeting Article 19 Background for Warrant Report
- 9:20 Presentation on Pay Class Study for Non-Union Employees
- 9:40 Vote on Revised Classification Plan
- 9:50 Discuss and Vote on RAAC recommendations for ARPA spending: 1. Reading Garden Club – $4,000 2. Reading Rotary – $25,000 3. Reading Chamber – $29,000 4. First Congregational Church – $4,000 5. Due Diligence on a Potential Purchase of 17 Harnden Street, the former Walgreen’s site – $25,000 6. Premium Pay – $900,000 7. Water Enterprise Support/Capital Costs – $930,314
- 10:00 Discuss future agendas/ office hours
- 10:10 Approve meeting minutes
The meeting will take place in the Select Board meeting room at Town Hall at 7pm. The public can attend in person or watch via several options: via a broadcast on RCTV’s YouTube channel at this link or on the RCTV Government Channel (Xfinity ch 22, Verizon ch 33). The Zoom link for this meeting is: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86446295124
