Select Board approves warrants, signs grant letters, accepts senior center resignation

The North Brookfield Select Board approved town and school warrants, authorized signing of ARPA-related MOUs, and signed acceptance letters for Complete Streets supplemental funding during its Dec. 30 meeting.

Speaker 1 presented payroll warrant #14 ($369,375.20), school warrant #1048 ($166,882.17), fire/highway warrant #1049 ($304,246.11) and two general warrants (#1050 for $83,107.96 and #1051 for $700,332.75). The board moved and approved the warrants.

The board voted to authorize the chair to sign MOUs documenting how the town expended previously allocated ARPA funds so the town may certify expenditures before year-end. The board also signed an agreement accepting an additional $100,000 in Complete Streets funding (supplementing a prior $400,000 award) to bring the award to the $500,000 maximum for sidewalk work and acknowledged a remaining project balance of approximately $3,986.

The board accepted the immediate resignation of Nicole Eccleston from her position as program and outreach coordinator with the North Brookfield Senior Center; the resignation letter was read into the record and the board voted to accept it.

Other approvals included a cleaning contract for PD Services (Paul Dubey) to clean the senior center, a partial lien release for a Crooks Road property involving a housing rehabilitation lien, acceptance of a $5,250 award from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protectionor recycling dividends under the Sustainable Materials Recovery Program, and authorization to sign a participation letter committing local match hours to a regional Quabog River Valley aquatic invasive species study led by CMRPC.

The board also appointed a select board representative to school negotiations scheduled for Jan. 9.

Ending: Actions were routine approvals and administrative steps; the board recorded votes by voice for routine motions and flagged follow-up items (MOUs, grant implementation and cleaning contract performance) for staff.