The Brattleboro Select Board convened on December 16, 2025, to conduct regular business, including a reconsideration vote on a previous bag pricing decision, budget presentations for all town departments, and the approval of consent agenda items. The meeting featured updates from the Town Manager regarding the $1.7 million disaster recovery grant and retirement announcements for Town Clerk Carol Cologne and Fire Department Officer. Board members provided guidance on town-owned land development, emphasizing the need to balance financial needs with environmental conservation and housing goals. The budget presentations highlighted significant restructuring of personnel costs and benefits, with ongoing discussions about filling the vacant full-time Finance Director position.
I'll call the Brattleboro Select Board meeting of Tuesday, December 16th, 2025 to order. We had an executive session at 5 15, and here we are at our regular meeting at 6 20. So this is a regular meeting. John, was it properly warned? Yes, Liz, it was. Great. Are there adjustments to the agenda? I have one adjustment to the agenda. Great. I would like to move to rescind um the bag decision that we made, I believe it was on December 2nd, unless it was the meeting beforehand. To bring up at a warr as a warned item for January 6th. All right. Amanda has made a motion to rescind to seek to rescind the uh bag motion from December 2nd. All those in favor of uh revisiting the clarification. Yeah. What are we rescinding? Um Amanda I can go into more detail if you want. Go ahead. Yeah. So you know it's come to light that our tiered pricing system that we voted in on the December second meeting could in fact cost staff time and order. Yes. Yes. I'm not sure you can discuss something. Uh you make a motion like this because this is something that was done. Uh it's done by the affirmative, and so this is strictly, isn't it a yes, up and down vote without discussion? Except Dick, that Peter doesn't know what Amanda's talking about. So in order for Peter to be able to vote, Amanda has to tell him what she's talking about. But but that's a good point. So do you have enough clarity on what I'm talking about now? If it's possible for me to have less clarity, I do now. And and um uh Amanda, you use the word rescind. It's really a motion to reconsider. And that has to be made by somebody who voted in the on the winning side of the prior uh vote. And so long as Amanda was on the one of the people who voted for it, so she is eligible to raise this issue. And then if the board votes to reconsider, then it would be reconsidered at your next meeting. Historically that's what we've done, so that anybody who may have been at the last meeting who showed up for that topic who might not be here tonight that would be there for the next meeting when it's reconsidered, if indeed the board votes to reconsider. So from a procedural standpoint, I hope that helps from a so this is a motion to reconsider. And then on the January sixth, is it six? Yes. Meeting, then we will in fact reconsider. And is there a discussion of a motion to reconsider or no? I don't have my Roberts Rules with me right now, but I think generally it's not. It's it's up or down on that. And it's only reconsidered on the sixth if you have a majority vote tonight to reconsider. Thanks, Paul. I'm about four words away from a nosebleed. I don't know what's going on right now. So I'm I Amanda wishes to reconsider. Okay. The the adding the extra 15 and 10 cents to the bag pricing.