Coordinator Report
June 5, 2014

At the 4/17 Selectboard meeting the board voted to support the line
items to increase police wages.  At the annual town meeting the FY15
budget was adopted. Since this is not salary and is in excess of the
1.5% applied to most employees, the town accountant is going to want to
see the new police hourly wages voted by the Selectboard. The new wage
rates are: $14.37 officer; $15.81 sergeant; $17.39 chief and should be
effective July 1, 2014.

Erving firefighter Ryan Betters would like to purchase the L900 surplus
fire truck and with his wife's permission has offered the town $500 for
it. I've had the vehicle on craigslist for a few weeks and had one
inquiry for scrap. Scrap is currently $100 - $125 a ton and would have
to be prepped and delivered to wTe in Greenfield. Since the Town of
Erving gave the truck to Warwick at no charge I recommend the board accept
his offer. He will attend to tell his story.

John Bradford and possibly Reva will be in to discuss a letter that
WiredWest requests that the Warwick Selectboard send to reinforce that
WW is our partner in bringing "fiber to the home" to our residents.  A
draft is included in the board package.

Axia the operator of the 123 fiber says the build to the cell tower will
be done by 20 June.  That will be a milestone and bring our customers on
that tower up to the level experienced by Mt Grace Tower served
customers. 

Next Tuesday will be the fuel bid opening (second try).

Planning board chair Cady has developed extensive testimony for the ZBA
hearing of Wagon Wheel's appeal of the Building Inspector's order. My
favorite factoid is that "trailers" and mobile home parks have been not
allowed since 1970 and the former owner of the campground was on the
Planning Board when the ban was established.

You've had the appointments list since the prior meeting. It is time to
make the FY15 appointments.

Let's talk about the timeline and strategy for pursuing Green
Communities. Components include the zoning change, the adoption of the
"stretch code" and finally the energy use reduction plan.
I bid the labor for stripping and replacing the school roof. Bid
packages are available beginning 6/11 with a bid opening at 1 pm 6/26. 
Before the award is made I will have had an exploratory of the gym
insulation done. If there isn't a rot problem we may be able to simply
apply two or three inches of foam and a new deck on top of the leaking
existing insulation and roof.  Resident and builder Bruce Carr has
agreed to undertake this survey for us on an hourly basis. He is really
busy and joins us in being concerned that we do this job right and only
once.

USDA says we are getting $20k grant toward the new highway truck. The
paperwork isn't ready so a site visit meeting with them will happen
sometime next week.

I am continuing to take Fridays off to catch up on use it or lose it
vacation time.