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BRPC - Executive Committee Meeting - Oct. 10th, 2024

When:
Thu October 10th 2024 at 04:00 PM
Where:
Virtual/Teleconference only

This will be a virtual meeting as allowed by Ch. 2 of the Acts of 2023 extending certain provisions of the Open Meeting Law, G.L. c.30 sec.20 until March 31, 2025.

To participate virtually join the Zoom meeting at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3926128831?omn=89184817799
Meeting id: 392 612 8831, Phone: 646.558.8656, 646 931 3860, 312.626.6799, 301 715 8592

Meeting materials are on BRPC’s website: www.berkshireplanning.org. Click the calendar of events, then the meeting name, and follow the link to materials.

Agenda

  1. Call to Order & Open Meeting Law Statement (4:00)
  2. Roll Call of Executive Committee Members Attending the Meeting
  3. Vote to Approve the Minutes of the Executive Committee Meeting of September 12,2024*
  4. Financial Reports (4:05)
    1. Vote to Approve the September 3, 2024 – October 3, 2024, Expenditures Report*
    2. Report on the Aged Receivables – September 2024
    3. Report on the Line of Credit
  5. Open Comments from Berkshire Regional Planning Commission Delegates and Alternate
    Delegates, not to be further discussed at this meeting by the Executive Committee (4:10)
  6. Items Requiring Action* (4:15)
    1. Vote to Approve the BRPC Use of AI (Artificial Intelligence) Policy*
    2. Vote to Approve the Submission of a Grant Application to the U.S. Environmental
      Protection Agency’s, Healthy Communities Program*
    3. Vote to Approve the Submission of a Grant Application to the RIZE Massachusetts
      Mosiac (Mosaic Opioid Recovery Partnership) Municipal Matching Grant Program*
    4. Vote to Recommend Thomas Matuszko as the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission
      Appointment to the Seasonal Communities Advisory Council being Convened by the
      Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities pursuant to the Affordable
      Homes Act*
  7. Committee Reports and Discussion (4:30)
    1.  Commission Development Committee
  8. Executive Director’s Report (4:40)
    1. Report on New Contracts / Agreements
    2. Berkshires Tomorrow Inc. (BTI) Update
    3. Staff Updates
    4. Rural Policy Advisory Commission (RPAC) Update
    5. Passenger Rail
    6. 2024 Moving Together Conference
    7. Central Berkshire Habitat For Humanity Community Partner Award
    8. Federal Matching Grant Funds
  9. Old Business (4:45)
    1. Update and Discussion about the Proposed Energy Siting Legislation
    2. Discussion about the Terms for the BRPC Chair, Vice-Chair, Treasurer, and Clerk
    3. Discussion about the BRPC Annual Meeting
  10. New Business (4:55)
    1. Vote to Approve the Executive Director’s FY 24 Performance Review and the Executive
      Director’s FY 25 Salary Adjustment*
    2. Discussion of Topics for the November Commission Meeting
  11. Adjournment* (5:05)

BRPC has adopted the BRPC website www.berkshireplanning.org as its official posting
method as allowed by 940 CMR29.00 section 29.03 (3) (b) since November 2010. The
Meeting Notice, Agenda and meeting materials are on BRPC’s website:
www.berkshireplanning.org. Click the calendar of events, then the meeting name, and
follow the link to materials.
* Items Requiring Action