Phippsburg Select Board Approves Fire Rescue Hire, Committee Appointment

[2:43] Select Board Chair: Right there. Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to the select board meeting for September the 23rd. As you probably notice, Evan Gutkowski is out of the office today. We're accompanied by Alyssa Giroux, the assistant to the town administrator, and we will move right into adjustments. Do we have any? No. Going right into new business. Maine Municipal Association voting credentials for the annual convention, which is October 7th and 8th this year, and we will be asking Evan to be our proxy voter, our delegate. Just in case one of the three of us select persons do not make it, I would entertain a motion. [3:35] Select Board Member: Please, I make a motion that we allow to allow Evan Kowalski to be our voting representative to MMA. [3:44] Select Board Chair: Second. Any other discussion? No. All those in favor? Number two, moving on to a committee appointment for Katie Moran, Wildlife Community Wildlife Protection Plan Committee, for a two year appointment. We have her application here and she lives here in town and she is looking into potentially interested in [4:13] Select Board Member: joining other committees as well, so I make a motion that we point anymore to the community wildlife protection plan committed for two-year appointment. I'll [4:27] Select Board Chair: second. All those in favor. Thank you very much, and moving on to number three, Municipal Resolution for Emergency Medical Services Transport Plan. This is a document outlining the fact that the major transporter for medical services in the town of Phippsburg is the Phippsburg Fire and Rescue. In the event they have to go past that, they will get outside transporters, but the major transporter for an emergency medical situation will be Phippsburg Fire and rescue, unless we have been mutual aid, if they're like I said, unless there is need for [5:07] Select Board Member: mutual aid, correct. So at this point make the motion that we sign the municipal resolution emergency management services transport plan. I'll second, and all those in favor. [5:20] Select Board Chair: Thank you very much. Moving on to unfinished business. Seeing none, moving on to department and committee reports. Ellis Reid is currently available on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2 to 5 for plumbing and septic permits. John Bean will be available Fridays for code enforcement and building permits, and our fresh CEO Josh Hursom is training for several weeks and he is in the office as CEO and he is working with John Bean and Ellis Reid and doing great things down there. So, any other department and committee reports? No. Moving on to correspondence. We do have a thank you note from Life Flight of Maine. And it says, it is here at Town Hall. You can read it anytime you like. Thank you for your meaningful gift of $600 to Life Flight Foundation as access to healthcare across Maine feels less certain. They are working harder than ever to be there when you need it. [6:26] Select Board Member: So lifelike thank you and they're thanking us what we voted on tell me it [6:33] Select Board Chair: Is the town meeting vote moving on to courses meetings and seminars main Municipal Association Convention annual convention is October 7th and 8th up at the Augusta Civic Center Evan will be there as our representative if one of us doesn't attend as well. Any other courses needing seminars, ma'am? No? Moving on to administrator and select board comments and announcements. Evan is out of the office until the 28th. Also, main obsolete pesticide collection events, you have to register before October 5th and this is a state collection, not the town. So please go online, register before October 5th if you have obsolete pesticides that you're trying to get rid of. [7:26] Select Board Member: They have to be taken to Augusta. Yes, I believe it's Augusta. [7:31] Select Board Chair: Okay, Home Energy Assistance Program applications are now open at Midcoast Main Community Action. That's your LIHEAP. Get your applications in there if you are looking for some aid. Anything else? Select board members. Nothing? No. No comments? No. [7:55] Select Board Member: Here comes Chief. Okay. Chief's got something. Okay. [8:00] Select Board Chair: Moving on to review and sign. Payroll and accounts payable warrants. Payroll warrant number 26 for $24,175.12. Accounts payable warrant number 27 for And the select board meeting minutes of September 9th. [8:21] Select Board Member: 26. Make a motion that we sign payroll and account fail warrants and select board meeting minutes. I say it. [8:29] Select Board Chair: As presented. All those in favor? Thank you. Does the chair have to sign first? [8:46] Select Board Member: This is her meeting, so. [8:49] Select Board Chair: I was going to say, I don't mind if you, Gary, if it's closer to you. You can make [8:56] Select Board Member: Make the decision on however you want to run the meeting. That's right. That's it? That's your idea, right? That's right. If you say, go ahead and sign first, guess what? I'll sign first. Next time, you have to sign first so it can be, you know, I come from a teaching background, so the nice single file. Oh, I know. This is how we... Yeah. I'm a bad shot. I didn't want to hit Anna. Yeah. Yeah. Right on to you. We'll just have to fill in Evan's name on that. [9:32] Select Board Chair: I didn't sign that one, I don't believe. I signed this. [9:35] Select Board Member: Freddie has to sign that one. There you go. I thought there was a second page to this. There isn't. Yeah, I designed it that way. So I can run faster. Right, it's all about the dynamics. Exactly. There you go. That's just the copy? [11:49] Select Board Chair: We're moving on to public forum. And we have some public. Carry on. What's this weekend? [11:58] Select Board Member: Emergency. Northeastern. They're saying Massachusetts is going to get hit 60 to 70 mile an hour winds and the closer it comes into Maine the more our coast is going to get it. So batten down the hatches is what you're saying? They said it could go through all the way until Monday. [12:16] Select Board Chair: Everyone out there put your lawn furniture away put it step away from your windows run off your [12:23] Select Board Member: water your brothers might want to take them down this is going to be our first severe storm Think emergency situation anything else I just want to add one more thing we've had a lot of people ask about absentee voting and when they can vote in person that will be starting on October 5th but you can apply prior to that to get an absentee ballot we just won't have them here until October 5th okay so thank you happy voting all do [12:58] Select Board Chair: You have anything else you'd like to say Ally I kind of skipped you over when I said you know administrator stuff no make a motion we go into executive [13:07] Select Board Member: Executive Session, one per MRSA 4056A. Aye, second. Discuss personnel matter. [13:13] Select Board Chair: All those in favor, move it into Executive Session. And will we be making any decisions that we need to... [13:22] Select Board Member: Possibly. We'll turn the camera back on. [13:24] Select Board Chair: Okay, we'll turn the camera back on. It was, and it just went back on. Yep, now it is. [40:47] Select Board Member: It's showing on there. Don't touch anything. Is there anything shut off? Yeah, you do. I think so. Welcome [41:03] Select Board Chair: back everyone to the select board meeting September 23rd we have exited executive session and we are continuing our meeting now we have had a recommendation from Andy Hart the fire chief for a hire for our full time position and he has requested that we hire from within in and the candidate's name is Rebecca St Pierre she's already part of our fire and rescue [41:36] Select Board Member: Department and I will entertain a motion please make a motion we hire Rebecca St Pierre as our full-time EMT firefighter I will strike it all those in favor thank you motion to adjourn [41:53] Select Board Chair: Second all those in favor 539 thank you and good night have a good one