Votes at a glance: Tamworth Select Board, Jan. 2, 2025

At its Jan. 2, 2025 meeting the Tamworth Select Board recorded and approved multiple administrative and budget items by roll call.

Key votes recorded in the meeting minutes:

- Office of Highway Safety grant amendment: The board approved acceptance of a grant amendment for grant 25-181 (Office of Highway Safety) to allow purchase of e-ticket printers; the amount recorded in the minutes was $3,315. Vote: approved by roll call.

- Unanticipated FEMA emergency management award: The board moved to accept an unanticipated federal Emergency Management award in the amount of $8,147.78 as 2024 revenue (for costs from the April storm). Vote: approved by roll call.

- Encumbrance amendments: The board amended a prior encumbrance to reflect $4,000 for the hazardous mitigation plan (previously misstated) and amended an encumbrance for energy improvements on town buildings to $8,810. Vote: both amendments approved by roll call.

- Abatement: The board approved an abatement for Map 214, Lot 154, Sub-Lot 13 (amount not specified in discussion). Vote: approved by roll call.

- Accounts payable and payroll: The board approved accounts payable and payroll warrants for the close of fiscal year and the start of the new year, including a payroll warrant of $57,815.64; the full accounts-payable figures were read into the record and approved by roll call.

- Cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) and wage timing: After discussion the board voted to implement the COLA for eligible employees effective the first pay period of the year; employees still within probationary periods or who had recent wage adjustments are excluded from the COLA. The motion carried by roll call. Meeting participants noted that the 3% COLA had already been budgeted for 2025.

The board also approved minutes, moved to and from nonpublic sessions under RSA 91-A:3 II(a), and completed routine municipal business during the meeting.