Erica Jordan addressed the Board relative to the above captioned. Ms. Jordan noted that she had called various vendors the previous day and was able to have the Music Factory bid for provisioning the audio services for the deliberative session. The quote price was $699, which were significantly less than two other quotes received by Mass AV ($1,850) and New England Audio Tech ($1,800). Mr. Childs noted the company owner, Mr. Goselin, once rented space in his Salem plaza. Therefore, Mr. Childs recused himself from the deliberations. Mr. Sapia made the motion to accept the bid from the Music Factory pending Mr. Sullivan’s interview with the company. Mr. Sullivan seconded. Mr. Childs abstained. The motion carried.

Mr. Sapia spoke to a need to have a records inventory completed by a company that specializes in records management and archival systems as a means of better defining the current space needs for the Town’s records storage. The Board agreed to bring it up at the deliberative session.

The Board also discussed having a graduate student from UNH’s civil engineering program collect the data for the road surface management system for Atkinson roads and highways. The Board discussed the idea and agreed to bring it up at the deliberative session.

Mr. Childs noted that the bookkeeper was looking for clarification with respect to expensing town details to either the operating budget or the revolving account recently set-up for police details. Ms. Levallee noted that the auditor’s indicated that the town details should be expensed out of the operating budget and not from the revolving account because no revenue for town details went into the revolving account. Mr. Sapia made the motion to have the Police Department’s Town Details expensed from the operating budget. Mr. Sullivan seconded the motion. The vote was unanimous and so moved.

The Board briefly discussed the employee handbook and noted that the number of hours that define a full-time employee is forty - (40). The Board debated the merits of the library’s intention of adding a full-time position. Mr. Sullivan made the motion that the Board of Selectmen do not support adding a full-time employee to the Library payroll. Mr. Sapia seconded. The vote was unanimous and so moved.

Several other minor items were briefly discussed. The Board next discussed the necessity of including a non money warrant article that would allow the BoS the authorization to enter into a three-year lease agreement with the option to renew with American Medical Response (AMR), to lease space to AMR within the Fire Station, for the purpose of allowing AMR to house and operate their ambulance service pursuant to 41:11- a. The Board agreed that the arrangement will enhance medical response times in the Town of Atkinson. Mr. Child also noted that the Recreation Commission had asked for the BoS to have their own article with respect to the conservation recreation land swap. Other Board members noted that there was already a petitioned article covering the issue, and that a duplicate article was redundant.

There being no further business to come before the Board Mr. Childs made the motion to close the public hearing and adjourn the meeting. Mr. Sapia seconded the motion. The vote was unanimous and so moved. The public hearing and meeting adjourned at approximately 1:30pm.

Respectfully,

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Fred Childs, Chair

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Jack Sapia

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Paul Sullivan