The Springfield Select Board met on March 24, 2026, to address a wide range of business, including liquor and tobacco license renewals, updates on problematic properties, approval of special events, a 10-year contract for police body and in-car cameras (Axon), and a state loan for snow removal equipment. The meeting also covered committee appointments, a grass mowing height discussion, and citizen concerns about the Wall Street one-way implementation and sidewalk project.
Underground indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, everyone for that. I'll make that correction. I'll no, I saw that when we read the max plus Barbara caught that one. We plus is the right one, but no, it was all staff at the top of the just ran around and pre-posted it. Okay, we'll continue on with roll call this evening, starting on my far left. Steve perhaps with word later on. Doug Johnston. Christy Morris. Tara Chase. Michael Schmidt. And visiting with us on via Zoom this evening is Heather Fram. There you go. Thank you. See uh first order of business is due to local control for purposes of liquor and tobacco license renewals. So we will move into local control. And Barb, do you want to uh take the lead or that's me for tobacco license when you'll just roll in first two or we are um or two of you read them individually? Sure. So you've got um three second classes uh spirit LLC the business of age amina and lc doing business as mean a marks and penguin LLC doing business as penguin L C and then for tobacco it's the same three Chabora spirits LLC doing what is this for this time coverage aminaha and rehan LLC doing them besides meaning marts and penguin market LLC doing this LS and all of those entities have the tobacco substitute as well very good so I would entertain a motion from the board to approve the licenses for the three different organizations. I make a motion that we approve all three uh core spirits amina and rehand and penguin market for all three um classifications I'll second it okay we do have a motion seconded to approve the three sets of licenses for Agora Spirits LLC doing business as Joe's discount beverage a minor and rahan LLC doing business as Minamar and Penguin Market LLC doing business as Penguin Market LLC and that is for the second class license the tobacco license and the tobacco substitute are there any corrections excuse me any any discussion from board members regarding the three sets of licenses for the three companies not seeing any comments from the audience not seeing any attempts to speak or hands up and the uh you you saw this licensing renewal online correct with uh secretary of statements or it all um when the applications come through uh just present them as they uh paid for one for the town speak first, and it works pretty well, it has its hiccups, but for the most part it works pretty well. Licensees are notified through that email system set up with the state 150 days in advance. You need to be gonna need to renotes um most of the entities be a little more timely about the minimum so they all ask me then perfect, and thank you for that effort. There isn't any further discussion or comments. I'll call for the vote, starting on my left with Doug Johnston. Yay, Krista Moore says aye, Tara Chase, aye, and Mike Schmidt, aye, and finally Heather Fram. Hi. There we go. That is five in the affirmative, and they are so approved. Can I just mention that there's a a definite lag time? Can you guys hear me? Yes, yep. Okay, there's a lag time in the audio and the video. I don't know if you can do anything, but FYI. Okay. Now thank you for that. We'll uh we'll just pause a little bit between call for the vote or the approval of the motion and call up on the vote and give you time to chime in. And I can see the video is lagging a little bit as well, the on our end. Not bad, but a little bit. Do we already also have a couple of other documents within our local control? Right. So the next item is a special event permit. It's our application request from Silo Distillery doing business as Mercurious LOC. And they're requesting uh approval of all the tasting events at Vermont Studios on Friday, March 27th. And that's in the studio that's located at um 25 minutes, please. And I did ask that about eventually if you're either in person online, so that we can talk about the event. I mean answering any questions. I haven't had any content other than the board. So let's see. Oh, I see Josie's motion. Yeah.