Selectboard Meeting June 2, 2008

Selectboard members gave Town Coordinator David Young a highly favorable
performance evaluation.  "We wouldn't have been able to do without you
on the finance committee," Nick Arguimbau said of the budget work Young
did for the May annual town meeting.  

Noting that in most of the six months he's been on the job Young has
worked more than his assigned 20 hours per week, board chair Patricia
Lemon moved to appoint him for the fiscal year beginning July 1 an
ending June 30, 2009, and to increase his hours to the 30 per week for
which the budget was approved at town meeting.  "You won't just be
paying me for what I've done in the past," Young promised. "You'll be
buying more." Young will continue to have office hours for town
residents three hours each weekday, but the new arrangement will allow
him time to work undisturbed for some of the allotted time. The
coordinator asked the board for "continuous feedback on what the
priorities are." Without direction, he warned, "Being a hard-charging
guy, I'm likely to just move ahead."

Selectman Rick Abbott presented an employee evaluation form somewhat
different from the one used to rate Young's performance. That one used a
five-point scale (higher is better). All of Young's ratings were either
4 or 5.  Future evaluations will be on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory
basis, following Abbott's recommendation.  Evaluations will continue at
the next board meeting. In preparation for the tax collector's
evaluation, Lemon asked Terry Kemerer to draw up a list of his
accomplishments on the job, and to include a list of things he'd like to
do but hasn't had support for in the past.

Warwick will have an official town flag to be placed in the Hall of 
Flags at the State House, thanks to the initiative of children at the 
Community School.  A group of students went to the State House to 
receive an award for efforts at energy conservation. While there, they  
noticed that there was no Warwick flag on display in the Hall of Flags. 
The result was a request to the selectboard for a town flag.  
Townspeople and the school children who voted on the suggested designs 
agreed to adopt the one showing Mt. Grace.

In other business, selectmen appointed board of health member Rita 
McConville as the town's recycling coordinator and representative to the 
Franklin Solid Waste District for the new fiscal year.  She replaces 
Reva Reck, who had asked to be relieved.

Andrea Woods told the board her husband Dale had made the event sign 
that now hangs below the "welcome to Warwick" sign in the town park at 
the intersection of Hotel Road and Route 78. She said he made it for the 
Metcalf Chapel and "whoever else wants to use it." Selectboard members 
put Young in charge of the set of letters that make up the event 
announcements, and coordinating the sign's use.

On a motion by Lemon, the selectboard asked the finance committee to 
release $1,365 to pay the wiring inspector for work done.  The amount 
reflects inspection fees received that were deposited directly in the 
general fund.  A future town meeting will be asked to establish a 
revolving fund for electrical inspection fees, similar to other 
revolving funds set up at the last town meeting.

The board meets Monday, June 16 at 6 p.m. 

Miryam Williamson, reporting