Coordinator report - January 16, 2013

This regular meeting of the Selectboard is on Tuesday because MLK Day,
observed, is on Monday.

Paul Daniello of MGLCT will attend to have the board approve and sign
the CR assignments for the Jay and Manring projects. I was contacted by
DCR regarding extending the contract between the Town and DCR as it
expired at end of 2012. I had chair sign the extension so we can get the
contract entered into the state financial system without delay and based
on prior approval by the Selectboard.

Reva Reck, our WiredWest representative has submitted a draft letter to
increase responses to the WiredWest survey for the board's consideration
as signatories.  She will explain why she wants the Selectboard to sign
the letter. Note that I made a change to her draft to say that fiber is
the best Internet solution. Her draft says it is the only one, a
debatable point.

Fire Chief Ron Gates will report on his department.  He will report on
their compliance with CORI checks.  He will also discuss flu shots and I
hope give us an update on the progress on construction drawings for the
public safety building. I have been contacted by the Tech School who
continue to express their willingness to assist in the drafting of
construction plans. The electrical class has visited the Turners Falls
fire station and have developed an estimate for wiring our proposed
facility based on the conceptual drawings for the project. There are 75
days to April 1 which is conventionally the start of the construction
season.

Concurrent with the Selectboard meeting will have a meeting with the
Finance Committee to kick off the FY14 budget process.  The current
draft budget is included in the board meeting package.

The next meeting of the 250th anniversary committee is Thursday January
17th at 7 pm at the town hall. I am requesting the Selectboard issue the
250th committee a one day beer and wine license for the grand ball on
February 16. The online planning calendar for Town events is found at:

https://cid-c0dbb3e127216945.calendar.live.com/calendar/Warwick+Calendar
/index.html

I met with Diana T regarding getting something going in the "gathering
place" department. She has agreed to host a weekly mid-morning coffee
followed by a noon soup and salad lunch each Thursday during February.
No infrastructure needs are anticipated. We may drag out a few card
tables in case a game of Scrabble or cards breaks out. The lunch at noon
will feature her corn chowder on the first Thursday. No need to reserve
and the cost is $3 for lunch. I have suggested that Diana offer her
baked goods for the morning coffee time on a donation basis.

Since our attempt to contract with the City of Greenfield for CDBG
program income administration and housing rehab relending and
administration has been negated by DHCD, I propose the board rescind the
vote to contract with Greenfield and that Warwick sign up with Franklin
County Housing Authority with the provision that all unrestricted funds
be returned to the town. Housing authority issued a check for $11,784 of
unrestricted funds to the Town this week. See attached letter from Robin
Sherman.

On Tuesday night, January 15, our downstream Internet provider changed
as a result of corporate mergers. Some customers lost service for
several hours until a routing problem was corrected. The outage was not
widespread because our customer's get a 24 hour IP address lease and
many had not expired.