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The Select Board met at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, at Six Walker Street, Lennox. The meeting included the approval of prior minutes, a consent agenda approval, and a public hearing on National Grid's underground conduit petition. The meeting was recorded by CTSB and Clarence Fantau. The chair announced that in-person voting begins that weekend and reminded residents about nine referendum articles and the availability of informational booklets at the Town Clerk's office.
No public comment was offered during the citizens open forum.
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Good evening. It is Wednesday, October 7th, 2026, and welcome to the 6 p.m. regular select board meeting here at Six Walker Street in Lennox in the Select Board meeting room. I'm gonna call this meeting to order, and I'd like each person to introduce themselves for the record. Jay? Jay Green, Town Manager. Jared Webber, Max Sheriff. Mary Beth Metz. Ed Lane, Neil Maximilian. DNA executive assistant. Thank you very much. CTSB will be recording this meeting live, and um Clarence Fantau is also recording the meeting as he usually does. With announcements from the chair this evening, uh in-person voting starts this weekend. If you don't yet, you might want to pick up a copy of this if you did not receive it in your mailbox. You can get them at the town clerk's office downstairs. There's plenty of copies available. There are nine articles of um on the referendum. And you might want to educate yourself. It's it's a little bit of late reading, so if you can't sleep some night, this is gonna do a really good job. Um we also have uh Lennox food pantry donation box located downstairs in town hall in the uh in the Fourier. As always, we have toys for TOTs that we're also taking uh collection items for. So um we thank you in advance for uh your generosity with regard to all of those things. And one more notification uh our zoning board of appeals will be meeting this evening at 7 p.m. downstairs in the town hall auditorium. If any of you are here for that, that'll be in just an hour. Okay, citizens open forum. Lennox residents are welcome to address the board for up to two minutes. Would anyone like to speak? Um people should have been signing in if they'd like to speak, but if you haven't, I see that it's sort of empty. If there's anyone who'd like to speak, please go to the microphone, introduce yourself, give us your street address, and feel free to address us for two minutes. Hearing none, we'll move on to the consent agenda after if we do the approval of minutes for September 18th. I would move to approve the minutes of the off-cycle meeting on September 18th, 2026. I'll second that. All those in favor? Aye. Abstain. Thank you, Max. Um, the other two uh meeting minutes for September 23rd and August 19th will be tabled uh for another meeting. Now on to the consent agenda. We have several items on the consent agenda. The first is a special license request for a one-day all-alcoholic liquor license submitted by Melanie Satan and Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum for October 14th from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum, 10 Willow Creek Road. A certified bartender will be present. Next, we have a special license request for a one-day all-alcoholic liquor license submitted by Jacob Vander for October 11th from 1 to 11 p.m. at Ventford Hall, 104 Walker Street. A certified bartender will be present. Then we have another special license request for a one-day all-alcoholic liquor license submitted by Jacqueline Donovan, Ventford Hall for October 24th from 7 to 11 p.m. at Bentford Hall, 104 Walker Street.