Select Board Minutes - 2024-08-13

Town Of Durham Selectboard Meeting Minutes Fire Station Meeting Room, 6:30 pm August 13, 2024

1. Call to Order & Establishment of Quorum, Pledge of Allegiance

The meeting was called to order at 6:32 pm by Joe Roy, Selectboard Chair.

In Attendance: Joe Roy (Chair), Josh Klein-Golden (Vice Chair), Heather Roy, Deb Oliver and Jerry Douglass (Town Manager)

Guest(s): George Thebarge (Town Planner), Lois Kilby-Chesley and Members of the Historic District Commission and Members of the Conservation Commission.

Absent: Joe Tomm (excused)

2. Amendments to Agenda:

Old Business: Add a review of the Fee Schedule

3. Public Comments: Limited to 3 Minutes Per Person

Lois Kilby-Chesley (Runaround Pond Road) – Question about SB Meeting Minutes

4. Old Business:

a. Review of Fee Schedule

The Board will review the edits and the Fee Schedule will be added to the following SB Meeting Agenda (August 27, 2024).

5. New Business:

a. Resource Protection Update to Selectboard - Town Planner

• The Conservation Commission formed a joint working group and they are looking for direction from the Selectboard on one aspect of the project.

• They have been looking at the latest State data beginning with habitat, natural resources that serve as the basis for the rezoning that occurred on the zoning map in 2023. The State has released new data that brings into question some of the data that was included in the Comprehensive Plan that is no longer accurate.

• Looking into updating the Resource Protection District Boundaries to reflect the latest State data.

• The working group is comfortable with continuing to bring options two (2) and three (3): 250-foot development buffer or the 100-foot development buffer around those homes and buildings affected by Resource Protection boundaries. The group is uncomfortable with the concept of having a much broader removal of all developed areas beginning with the habitat maps from the resource protection.

Josh Klein-Golden motioned to have the working group continue forward on the property evaluations exploring options two (2) and three (3). Joe Roy seconded; motion carried 4 – 0.

6. Manager Report

• Push Notifications

o Go Gov - $3900 per year, pro rate if we started right now

o Text My Gov - $4000 per year

Josh Klein-Golden motioned to allow the Town Manager to sign up for Push Notifications through Text My Gov. Heather Roy seconded; motion carried 4 – 0.

• Financial Advisor and the Town Manager have been looking into an alternative to TRIO.

• Issue with the Server at the Fire Station – at full capacity – Data Defined installed an external hard drive to address the issue.

7. Board Member Reports

• Deb Oliver – Working on the law enforcement fact finding fact paper, looking for feedback. Will be meeting with Ryan McGee to go over things with him and rewatching the video so we can discuss this at our next SB Meeting.

• Heather Roy – The school has been scheduled for the September 10, 2024 Information Session on Law Enforcement. Regular Business Meeting will begin at 5:30pm and followed by the Public Hearing at 6pm. Contacted Roberta Brezinski, member of the Conservation Commission, about the Aging in Place. New Website has no search engine. Would like to have the Solar Powered Light on Dead Man’s curve have dedicated power to the light.

8. Consent Agenda

a. Approve Minutes from July 23, 2024 Selectboard Meeting

Josh Klein-Golden motioned to approve the consent agenda as amended with the approval of the June 11, 2024 meeting minutes added - Item C. Heather Roy seconded; motion carried 4 – 0.

9. Upcoming Meetings and Town News

• Selectboard Meeting, August 27@ Fire Station, 6:30pm

• Planning Board Meeting, September 4th @ Fire Station, 6:30pm

• Selectboard Meeting, September 10 @ Durham Community School, 5:30pm

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10. Ordinance Workshop, Section 5.14 and Article 12

The Board moved into the Ordinance Workshop at 7:30pm to look at the Historic District Commission recommendations concerning Article 12 and Section 5.14. The Workshop concluded at 9:00pm.

Josh Klein-Golden motioned to extend the meeting by 30 minutes. Deb Oliver seconded; motion carried 4 – 0.

The Town Planner reviewed some of the information that was discussed during the ordinance workshop. He recommended if you were going to stick with historic districts to go through the process of creating them and have a proper quasi-judicial review of the projects within that, with qualified personnel.

11. Adjourn

Josh Klein-Golden motioned to adjourn. Deb Oliver seconded; motion carried 4 – 0. Meeting adjourned at 9:30pm.

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