Board of Selectmen Meeting
Notice & Agenda
June 10, 2020

Notice is hereby given that the Westport Board of Selectmen, Traffic Authority and Water Pollution Control Authority will hold a public meeting on Wednesday, June 10, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. Pursuant to the Governor’s Executive Order No. 7B, there is no physical location for this meeting. It will be held electronically, live streamed on www.westportct.gov, and broadcast on Westport’s Optimum Government Access Channel 79 and Frontier Channel 6020. Emails to the Board of Selectmen prior to the meeting may be sent to selectman@westportct.gov. Comments to be read during the public comment portion of the meeting may be emailed to BOScomments@westportct.gov. We will use our best efforts to read public comments if they are received during the public comment period, include your name and are brief; no longer than 3 minutes. Agenda shall include but not be limited to the following (subject to revision):

1. To take such action as the meeting may determine to approve the minutes of the Board of Selectmen’s Public Meeting of May 27, 2020 and the Local Traffic Authority’s Special Meeting of June 2, 2020.

2. To take such action as the meeting may determine upon the request of the Executive Director of the Westport Library to approve a temporary encroachment agreement for an office container to be installed on the town owned parking area adjacent to the existing Library Annex building for the exclusive use to quarantine book returns.

3. To take such action as the meeting may determine to approve the Agreement between the Town of Westport and MySeniorCenter as it relates to a software program for managing clients, registrations, meals, programming and inventory at the Westport Center for Senior Activities. 

4. To take such action as the meeting may determine, upon the request of the Finance Director, to approve the appointment of the Town’s Insurance Consultant, Lockton, and the law firm of McAfee & Taft to represent the Town of Westport in a claim for damages due to Oxycontin and Opioids produced by Purdue Pharma, L.P. 

5. To take such action as the meeting may determine, upon the request of the IT Director, to approve the Saltbox Platform Services Agreement between the Town of Westport and Vision 33 Inc. 

7. To take such action as the meeting may determine to approve the use of town-owned property known as the Imperial Avenue Parking Lot, for a period of time to be determined, for the purposes of organizing a drive-in movie theater as described in the application submitted by the Remarkable Theatre, dated June 4, 2020, and contingent upon compliance with recommendations from relevant Town departments and in accordance with the Town Policy on the Use of Town Property, Facilities and Public Roadways, as amended.

6. Acting in its capacity as the Local Traffic Authority, to take such action as the meeting may determine to review and approve the request to temporarily suspend or extend current parking time limits in certain town-owned parking lots and on certain town roadways, for a period of time to be determined, to allow for increased consumer activity in the downtown area during implementation of phased reopening plans in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. 

James S. Marpe
First Selectman

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