Coordinator report March 1, 2012

Regarding the Jay and Manring conservation restrictions, Mt. Grace
hasn't yet forwarded a contract for review yet and has acknowledged that
one is due us. I referred the liability matter to counsel including the
recreational exemption summary provided by Karro and photos of the
bridge. Fred is tied up until Tuesday in court. We could talk by phone
but I don't perceive the rush and it will require he have the paperwork
in front of him.

Chief Shoemaker omitted Dan Kimball, the DARE officer from earlier
appointments and wants the board to correct that. He will attend the
meeting.

Dawn requested employee evaluations be on the agenda so we can begin to
address this. One suggestion is to start from job description and note
areas that need improvement and recognize strengths. Chief Shoemaker has
provided an evaluation tool for us to use to review him.

Kyle W is due before the board to report on status of licensing his
pets. As of Monday the 27th this hadn't occurred per Town Clerk.

Worked with Janice K of building energy committee to assist with her
letter to the public describing the energy performance contract proposal
we are advancing for the elementary school. I emailed school
superintendent our intent to seek Town Meeting approval of member towns
to undertake the improvements and pay for them from the savings.

FRCOG received funding to provide technical assistance to Warwick in
development of the disaster mitigation plan.  Pat Smith is our staff
person and she will shepherd the process and expects to be here on site
for two meetings.

I have drafts of the ATM Warrant and budget for your review. Once the
Finance Committee has had its initial meeting I will schedule a joint
meeting with the Selectboard.  Both the Fire and Police budgets are
significantly increased. They are still, on a per capita basis, far
lower than neighboring towns. I don't have the WCS roof in the documents
yet. It would be borrowing and might get grant assistance. There is an
article to change the status of Tully Brook road in the draft that has
the support of the Planning Board and highway superintendent. Counsel
agrees that the unsigned complaint against me does not warrant action as
no specific complaint is made and generally unattributed complaints are
not heard.

Last year we contracted for 4000 gallons of fuel oil. We are bidding
3600 this year as we will be paying to store some of the current
contract fuel until next year and I am trying to bid less than we will
use in case a fixed price turns out to be lower. Our contract is at
$3.57 this year.

The Selectboard received thanks from a parent for the recognition of
students on the outdoor event board saying they thought it meant more to
their kid than other accolades received.

The new licensed 3.65 WIMAX gear requires a radius server and
certificates to authenticate. I have our consultant Access Plus working
on configuring this new gear. They had Berkshire Wireless climb the cell
tower and install the cables and other upgrades recently. Once the new
base stations are working for us on the bench will be installing them on
the Tower.  Access Plus is also working on our 700 MHz radio gear which
will extend the signal to folks like Reva and Keith without undoing our
900 MHz radio layer. We are still waiting on DCR counsel for approval to
put the MBI funded upgrade on the Mt. Grace. They are treating this as a
contract renewal and there are new players.  Our FCTS intern, under the
direction of Mr. Weed, is working on the solar power packs for repeater
sites. We have 126 Warwick connections to the broadband system and 27
out- of-town connections (the latter generate $560 in monthly income).