Brattleboro Selectboard Special Meeting

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The Brattleboro Selectboard will hold a special meeting on Friday, August 18, 2023 at 5:15pm. They will convene in the Selectboard Meeting Room at the Municipal Center (230 Main Street) and are expected to enter immediately into executive session to discuss contracts. Invited into the executive session are Town Manager John Potter and Assistant Town Manager Patrick Moreland.

Jessica Sticklor (she/her/hers)

Executive Assistant

Town of Brattleboro

230 Main Street, Suite 208

Brattleboro, VT 05301

(802) 251 – 8115

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BRATTLEBORO SELECTBOARD
FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 2023
SPECIAL MEETING – 5:15PM
SELECTBOARD MEETING ROOM, MUNICIPAL CENTER
The physical location for this meeting will be the Selectboard Meeting Room at the Municipal Center at
230 Main Street.
If you join the meeting from your computer, tablet, or smartphone, please use this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86067892659
The “Meeting ID” for this meeting is:
860 6789 2659
Passcode: 12261753
You also can call in using your telephone
by dialing any of these toll-free numbers in the United States:
833-548-0282
877-853-5247
888-788-0099
833-548-0276
(*6 Mute/Unmute – *9 Raise Hand)
The meeting also will be carried live on BCTV:
On Cable TV: Channel 1079
Streaming Online: https://www.brattleborotv.org/channel-1079-livestream
Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/brattleborotv

AGENDA
(please note that all times are approximate)
1. CONVENE MEETING
2. CONFIRM MEETING OFFICIALLY WARNED
3. EXECUTIVE SESSION (5:15 PM)
4. ADJOURNMENT (TBD)

Comments | 3

  • Submitted by cgrotke on August 18, 2023 at 9:20 am

    Wonder what this is

    Seems mildly weird for this time of year/week. Contracts are already done; not budget season yet.

    ???

  • Submitted by SK-B on August 21, 2023 at 12:25 am

    Will we ever know?

    There is no law preventing the members of a public body from disclosing publicly what occurred during an executive session.

    I am not suggesting that selectboard members violate confidentiality; but what I am suggesting is that later on when whatever had been discussed is no longer sensitive, they tell us about their discussion. Surely that would be interesting, informative, and would honor transparency: but I cannot recall when that was ever done.

    • Submitted by cgrotke on August 21, 2023 at 9:05 am

      Training

      They often seem to be under the impression that they can NEVER discuss what happened in Executive Session which, as you point out, isn’t true.

      The confidentiality requirement is before and during the meeting(s) and sometimes a little bit after. A board member COULD certainly tell us all about the executive sessions of years gone by if they so choose.

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