Date:  May 23, 2005
Time:  7:00 pm
Place:  Town Office
Present: Selectmen Jerry Greene, Daniel Donovan, III and David Glines and  Recording Secretary Peggy Arn

1) Carl Anderson attended the meeting to ask the Board to reconsider the time that the Main Street could be closed for the Art Festival.  Carl explained that they needed to put up two tents in the evening and start the layout for the others.  There will be a person at each end of Main Street to direct traffic if needed.  Parking for the theater will be available on Main Street.  The Street will be closed to the Melting Pot until the second movie.  There will be a 13’ right of way kept open on Main Street for emergency vehicles.  The Board and Chief Hautanen were agreeable to this plan.
2)  Stanley Schultz attended the meeting to inform the Board that the MACC Base had ended the year with an excess.  The inter-municipal agreement with MACC Base states that any excess would be returned to member towns and that 5 to 10% be retained for MACC Base.  Stanley stated that they would like to use $25,000 for training and an air conditioner.  The Board was agreeable to this expenditure and will write a letter to the Director.  The surplus was a result of understaffing and less expenditures than planned for.
3) Chief Hautanen attended the meeting and Police Department issues were discussed.  He stated that the Department could possible receive money as a result of drug seizures and that it could be used for drug enforcement operations.  He also told the Board that he was changing the color of the new police cruiser.  It is going to be silver and white.  He also asking if it would be possible to have the 2003 cruiser repainted in the same color.  Mr. Greene suggested he look in to someone donating a paint job for advertising.
4) Chief Hautanen informed the Board that the hand railings were going to be installed this week.
5) The Board discussed the status of the work being done at Carnival Hill.  The Board requested that a letter be sent to Don Wheeler Construction Company stating that the work should be completed to the satisfaction of the Project Engineer, Dawn Tuomala, by May 31st.  If it is not, they will have to involve the Bond Company for the project.
6) It was agreed that letters should be sent to the homeowners on Holt Road and to include the study completed by Monadnock Survey Company concerning the issue of runoff water.
7) The bills and payroll for the week ending May 21, 2005 were reviewed and approved.
8) Correspondence and informational material was reviewed.
9) David Glines was appointed as the Board’s representative to the Ambulance Board and the Heritage Commission.
The meeting was adjourned on a motion at 8:15pm.

Respectfully submitted;
Peggy Arn, Recording Secretary