What was said

Select Board, June 24, 2025

the recording · 0:02 long, about 369 words spoken · captions carried this meeting moderately well

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The town published an agenda for this meeting. No minutes have been published; the recording is the only record, and what follows is a guide to it.

The short version

▶ 1:45Select Board voted to enter executive session on collective bargaining strategy with the police union.
▶ 0:42Board unanimously ratified the town manager's appointment of a new assistant administrative for planning.

Why it matters — our reading

A change in planning department staffing can affect how quickly permit and project reviews move for residents and developers.
Executive session on police union bargaining touches contract terms that eventually show up in the town's public safety budget lines.

Watch next

Outcome of collective bargaining strategy session with NEPBA Local 353, if disclosed in future minutes

contracts and unions executive session hiring personnel planning and zoning public safety staffing town departments

Present: the chair (chair); the town manager (town manager); Glenn McLeod (member); Amanda (member); Brian Lehtinen (member); Renee (member). 2 of 6 matched to the board’s posted roster; the rest, in italics, are the caption model’s hearing and may be wrong.

Votes

▶ 1:24Ratify the town manager's appointment of Jennifer Dagel as assistant administrative for planning, effective July 1st, 2025passed

And 1 procedural: enter executive session and not reenter open session, per mgl c.30 s.21a(3), to discuss collective bargaining strategy for new england police benevolent association local 353 (▶ 1:45).

The money

Nothing touching money was heard beyond the transfers.

Where the time went

Minutes of recording by subject, from the topic spans below. A topic with two subjects counts toward both.

hiring1 min · 50%
personnel1 min · 50%
planning and zoning1 min · 50%
executive session0 min · 17%
contracts and unions0 min · 17%
public safety0 min · 17%

The whole meeting, in order

▶ 0:00Call to order, pledge of allegiance, open meeting law noticeinformational · 0:42 long
▶ 0:42Ratification of town manager's appointment of Jennifer Dagel as assistant administrative for planning, replacing Logan O'Connellvoted · 1:03 long · hiring, personnel, planning and zoning
▶ 1:45Motion to enter executive session to discuss collective bargaining strategy with NEPBA Local 353voted · 0:21 long · executive session, contracts and unions, public safety

What the captions could not carry

Captions end as the board enters executive session at 126 seconds; no record of what followed.
The transition/replacement detail around 'Logan O'Connell' at t=42-62 is somewhat garbled in the captions.

These are ours, and they are not the record

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