Selectmen Meet Tonight: Rodenticides, a Fire Marshal Grant, and Three Appointments

The Board of Selectmen meets tonight, Monday, November 2, at 7 p.m. in Town Hall Meeting Room 133, at 100 Pocono Road. The posted agenda is a working meeting rather than a headline one, but it touches a few things residents will recognize: pest control, fire safety funding, the town's finances, and three board appointments.

Under new business, the board takes up the status of rodenticides, and considers authorizing the Fire Marshal to apply for a Connecticut Fair Plan grant fund, up to $500. The Fair Plan item is a grant application, not a grant award: the board is being asked to let the Fire Marshal apply, and the amount named in the agenda is the maximum.

The monthly items include a financial update from Marcia Marien, and announcements that include a Coffee with the First Selectman on Saturday, November 28, from 9 to 10 a.m. at Angels Deli, 470 Federal Road. The consent agenda covers routine matters, including the board's minutes from October 5, driveway bonds, excavation items, and employee changes.

Three appointments are listed under additional business: Caroline Cowles to the Capital Planning Commission, for a term running November 2, 2026 through November 1, 2031; Kevin Sheehan to the Municipal Building Committee; and Robert Fischetto to the Retirement Committee. An update on the Iroquois Gas Compressor is also on the agenda, along with correspondence from late October.

One item readers may look for is not on the posted agenda: it contains no appointment to fill the Board of Education seat left vacant earlier this fall. The board's vacancy piece from Sunday explained that the appointment now falls to the Board of Selectmen under the town charter, but tonight's posted agenda does not take that appointment up. A supplemental or later agenda could change that, and the meeting itself may still be worth watching for any mention of it from the floor.

The meeting is open to the public, with a public comment period on the agenda.