Select Board approves $2.08 million in accounts payable, payroll items and signs fire-department MOU

The Select Board approved a set of routine fiscal measures and a memorandum of understanding to support fire-department reimbursements during the meeting.

Payments and payroll: Chair presented accounts payable for July 2 totaling $2,083,929.90, noting two principal items — a roughly $60,000 commercial loan payment and about $62,300 related to a Crown Point escalation. After brief questions from board members, motions to approve accounts payable and multiple payroll runs were made, seconded and carried.

Fire-department MOU and financial oversight: The board reviewed a proposed memorandum of understanding to clarify accounting and reimbursement flows for fire-department matching funds and agreed to sign the MOU. Committee members described the arrangement as a technical reconciliation because the town is the holder of funds and accounting must proceed through town procedures. The dollar figure read into the record for the MOU (as spoken during the meeting) was $968,995.

Appointments: The board also approved a motion to confirm the local fire warden role structure — Craig will continue as fire warden with Jeff Miller and Jeff Madison deputized — as part of routine personnel actions.

Procedure and follow-up: Board members asked for clarification on certain line items and requested detailed numbers where the transcript record showed uncertainty; the animal-control mileage discussion was deferred for staff to produce exact figures to be considered at the next regular meeting.