Select Board

Meetings are on the second and fourth Thursdays at 6:00PM unless otherwise warned. To be added to the agenda, please contact Nick Morgan, nickselectboard@gmail.com prior to the Monday before a meeting.

Upcoming Meeting: Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 6:00 pm.

Should you wish to attend the meeting via Zoom (or use the phone-in option) a link is available below right above the “minutes” listing.

Agendas are posted by 6:00 PM on Tuesdays (48 hours prior to meeting):

Currently, due to the the current status of the Covid-19 situation, the Select Board will be returning to Hybrid meetings, with the Board meeting in person at the Town Office, however there will still be the option of attending via Zoom (using the link below – including the phone-in option) should you wish to do so.

Meetings will continue to be available on Zoom should you wish to attend in this fashion.
Use this link to join Zoom Meetings or join by phone at 1-646-558-8656 

2022 Select Board Minutes:

2021 Select Board Minutes

Archived Minutes:
Some videos from Zoom calls are on our YouTube channel.

Marlboro Select Board
P.O. Box 518
Marlboro, VT 05344

marlboroselectboard@gmail.com

Current Select Board Members:
Aaron Betts, Chair                         abselectboard@gmail.com   
Jim Agate                                      jimselectboard@gmail.com 
Molly Welch                                  Mollyselectboardmarlboro@gmail.com    
 
Nick Morgan (SB Assistant)         nickselectboard@gmail.com                                                                                                                                     

Some Select Board Responsibilities
From Select Board Handbook, Vermont League of Cities and Towns

Select Persons are responsible for general supervision of the affairs of town and must cause to be performed all duties required of the town not committed by law to the care of any
particular officer.

The select board may enact ordinances and rules in many areas including traffic regulation, regulating nuisances, managing solid waste, dogs and recreation, and establishing bike paths.  Many of these are listed in 24 V.S.A. § 2291, but others are scattered throughout the statutes.

The select board warns all town meetings and specifies business to be conducted at the meeting, including proposing an annual budget. If the town does not set the tax rate, the
select board must set a tax rate that will raise the specific amount voted at town meeting.

The select board is responsible for hiring, directing, and firing almost all town employees (unless the town has a Town Manager form of government, which Marlboro does not); and for establishing and enforcing personnel policies.

The select board must authorize all town expenditures by signing orders for the treasurer to draw town funds.

The select board supervises the expenditure of the highway fund and has charge of keeping town highways in repair. It also is responsible for laying out, classifying and discontinuing
town roads.

The select board is responsible for animal control.

The select board may borrow money for periods of less than a year in anticipation of taxes.

The select board must fill all town vacancies until an election is held.

The select board may license many operations within the town (e.g., liquor sales, restaurants, junkyards and entertainment).

The select board appoints several minor town offices (e.g., pound keepers, inspector of lumber and tree warden).

The select board appoints and removes planning commissioners unless the town has voted to elect them. The select board adopts the town plan unless the town votes to adopt
it by Australian ballot. It also holds public hearings on proposed zoning bylaws and may, in some circumstances, adopt zoning bylaws.

The select board purchases all insurance for the town.

The select board controls cemeteries if there is not a cemetery commission. (No cemetery commission in Marlboro).

Assistant Treasurer 2022

Select board members serve as members of the Board of Civil Authority.