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The regular meeting of the Lenox Select Board was held on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, at 6:00 PM at Town Hall. The board approved a consent agenda, granted an outdoor dining license, adopted the state's PACE financing program, and continued discussions on liaison assignments. Key announcements included a thank-you note from the Berkshire International Film Festival and the introduction of a new after-hours drop box for town hall.
Good evening everyone. Welcome to the regular select board meeting. It is Wednesday, June 17th, 2026 at 6 p.m. here at Town Hall at Six Walker Street in Lennox. I'm gonna call the meeting to order. I have a couple of announcements. First of all, we get a lovely thank you note from the Berkshire International Film Festival. They celebrated their 20th year of having the film festival. Thank you. Excellent. They celebrated their 20th year here in uh lovely Berkshire County. Um they had their festival from May 28th to May 31st. They had over 600 patrons and dozens of filmmakers, and they nearly sold out all the screenings that they held here in town hall. We appreciate them bringing people to town so that people can enjoy our restaurants and our um our merchants, and we wish them all the best uh in the coming 20 years. Now, one more thing, I'm going to let you know that uh CTSB is recording this evening, as is our friend Clarence Fantau from the Berkshire Eagle. Um other than that, I have um some information about a new town hall after hours drop box that is now available. And Deanna Gardner's gonna say a little bit about that. Um the after hours drop box um is located under the bulletin board in the Central Station Courtyard. Um, so our new posting location outside the building. Um, when the building is secured for the evening, 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. That box can be used and it will only be emptied on business days once a day, 8 a.m. So if it is after 8 a.m. and you are dropping off your taxes, please come into the building to do so. The drop box in the building will still be there and usable any time if you just want to pop in and drop it in the slot and not actually come in and get everything stamped, so that's still available during business hours. Great. Are you gonna leave some kind of a message on there to tell people that's yeah? We're just finalizing the language on that message. There'll be like on the door instructions and when it gets picked up. Um, you know, just that if you put it in um on you know a holiday or something, it's gonna be picked up on the next business day, so that'll all be listed there. We use the school department's got a nice final. They have a printer, which we're hoping that we can even make a designated parking spaces and things like that out there. Nice. Nice, that'll be great. So on the code. So another option for folks. That's great. Okay, that's all for announcements from the chair. Does anybody else have anything they want to add? All right. Uh we have the citizens open forum where Lennox residents are welcome to address the board for up to two minutes. And they see that we have no one here tonight that wishes to address the board. So we'll move on to the approval of minutes from June 3rd. Madam Chair, I'll move that we approve the June 3rd 2026 minutes. Second it. All those in favor. All right. I'm going to abstain. Thank you, gentlemen.