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The Great Barrington Select Board met on September 2, 2026, at 4:30 PM to vote on calling a special town meeting. The board unanimously approved holding a special town meeting on October 19, 2026, primarily to consider a $3.9 million grant opportunity for sewer plant renovations.
Okay, I'll call the meeting to order. It is 4 30. Pursuant to MGL 7C 30A section 20F after notifying the chair of a public body. Any person may make a video or audio recording of an open session of a meeting of a public body or may transmit the meeting through any meeting. Beginning of the meeting, the chair shall inform other attendees of any such recordings. This meeting is being recorded by the town of Great Barrington, CTSP, and the Birchure Edge. Any member of the public wishing to speak at the meeting must receive permission of the chair. The listings of agenda items or those reasonably anticipated by the chair, which may be discussed at the meeting. Not all items listed may in fact be discussed. And other items not listed may be brought up for discussion to the extent permitted by the law. So first we'll take a roll call vote. Garfield. Eric? Here. Bill? Here. And Steve is here. I do not see Ben. I the one and only topic is to call a special town meeting to be held October 19th. Do I have a motion? I make a motion to uh call a special town meeting held on October 19th at 6 p.m. at the Monument Mountain Regional High School Auditorium. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Garfield. Eileen's got her hand up. Yes, Eileen. Why? Why are you? I was getting to that. That is to vote. Liz, how would you word that? We want to vote on the uh on the grant. So yeah, the special town meeting, that's the agenda item for tonight is to call it. It was determined by the sewer commissioners at last week's meeting. There was a need to have um to call a special town meeting to approve or consider a grant opportunity of $3.9 million, which $350,000 would be paid for from a grant of the an energy grant. Now it also ties in with a larger capital project of $20.7 million that could be tied in, and we have a grant application in for the SRF loan uh funding for it. And there's some other grant opportunities, but this is to get the project up and running and have the appropriation authorized at town meeting in anticipation for all of those other funding opportunities. Okay, I think nope. I'm confused. Um spell out the proposed warrant. We're not setting the warrant tonight. The warrant will be set at a later date. It's it's it's basically concerning the sewer plant renovations. The reason for the town meeting, the special town meeting is for the sewer plant, which is an enterprise fund. There may be other items if we choose to bring that up, but the reason we're calling this is to uh have a town meeting vote on the grant and other sewer-related items. All right.