Board of Selectmen - Minutes - 03/05/2024

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WATERFORD, CT 06385-2886
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MINUTES
BOARD OF SELECTMEN REGULAR MEETING
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
5:00 PM
Waterford Town Hall (Appleby Room)
(Procedural Action: Check register to be signed by the Board of Selectmen in
accordance with CGS 7-83)
1. Call to Order & Roll Call: 5:00 pm
In attendance: Rob Brule & Rich Muckle
Absent: Greg Attanasio
Pledge of Allegiance
Public Comment: None
2 NS:
4. Information Technology — Bid Award: Bid #24-100 Cisco Switches: To
consider and act on a recommendation from Shea Davy, Purchasing Agent,
on behalf of Jeffrey Robillard, IT Manager, to award the bid to Total
Communication, Inc., inthe amount of $18,441. Funds will be available from
line #20560-57842 (School Security).
MOTION by Muckle, seconded by Brule; VOTING IN FAVOR: 2-0 PASSED
5. Youth anid Family Services: To consider and act of a recommendation froin
Dani Gorman, the Director of Youth and Family Services and David Campo,
the -Waterford Town Clerk to allow the Director in’ agreement with the
committee chair to reduce seats on the Advisory Committee as terms expire to
a manageable number of no less than eight (8) required, per Chapter 2.96.060
ofthe Waterford Code of Ordinances. :
MOTION by Muckle, seconded by Brule, VOTING IN FAVOR: 2-0 PASSED
6. Fire Services: To consider and act on the following request for a FY24 In-
Series Transfer from the Director of Fire Services, Michael Howley, in the

amount of $3,197 to cover staff and cost increases.
MOTION by Muckle, seconded by Brule, VOTING IN FAVOR: 2-0 PASSED
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Fire Services: To consider and act on the following request for a FY24 Out-
of-Series Transfer from the Director of Fire Services, Michael Howley, in the
amount of $500 to cover staff and cost increases and forward on to the Board
of Finance if approved.
MOTION by Muckle, seconded by Brule, VOTING IN FAVOR: 2-0 PASSED
8.
Fire Services — Surplus Assets: To consider and act on a recommendation
from Shea Davy, Purchasing Agent, on behalf of the Director of Fire Services,
_ Michael Howley, for surplus disposal of 48 SCBA Bottles as they’ve outlived
their usefulness.
MOTION by Muckle, seconded by Brule, VOTING IN FAVOR: 2-0 PASSED
9.
Public Works Bid Waiver ~ through Cooperative Purchasing —
Guardrails, Milling, Paving, Line Striping, Catch Basin Cleaning on
“Birdville Roads & Old Norwich Roads”: To consider and act on a
recommendation from Shea Davy, Purchasing Agent, to seek a Bid Waiver
through Cooperative Purchasing through several vendors (listed below), from
line #33023-55890 (Road Resurfacing Eversource) and line #20530-57886
(Old Norwich Road Paving) with the following breakdown:
Atlas Fence-Guardrail-DAS Bid #18PSX0147 (expires 10/24/25)
Rafferty-Milling-DAS Bid #22PSX0197 (expires 2/27/25)
American Industries-Paving-DAS Bid #22PSX0196 (expires 4/4/25)
Safety Markings-Line Striping-CROCG Bid #755 (expires 12/31/24)
American Pipe & CB Cleaning-Catch Basin Cleaning-CROCG
Bid#757 (expires 12/31/25)
MOTION by Muckle, seconded by Brule, VOTING IN FAVOR: 2-0 PASSED
10. Additional Appropriation — Oswegatchie Fire Building Improvements —
To consider and act on a request for a FY24 additional appropriation, from the
Chairman of the Oswegatchie Building Committee, Robert Tuneski, in the ©
amount of $306,650, line #20523-57792 (Oswegatchie Fire Building
Improvements), and forward on to the Board of Finance if approved.
MOTION by Muckle, seconded by Brule, VOTING IN FAVOR: 2-0 PASSED
11. Appointments & Resignations: None
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12. New Business: None
13. Old Business: None
14. Correspondence:
14a, Recreation & Parks Thank you letter
14b. Youth & Family Services Thank you letter
14c. Emails from Betsy Ritter & Thomas Sheridan - Quaker Hill Sign
14d. Email from Katherine and Jordan Scott — Quaker Hill Sign
14e, Email from Christine Johnson — Pay Equity
14f. Email from Clifford Grandjean — Non Union Pay Increase
14g. Letter from Mallory Marshall — Great Neck Elementary School
14h. Letter from Narciss Greene — Great Neck Elementary School
14i. Letter from Jennifer & James Nicholas & son, Carter Nicholas — Great
neck Elementary School _
15. Consent Agenda
15a. Tax Refund - None
15b. Board of Selectmen Regular Meeting Minutes February 20, 2024
MOTION by Muckle, seconded by Brule, VOTING IN FAVOR: 2-0 PASSED
16. Adjournment: 5:36 pm
MOTION by Muckle, seconded by Brule, VOTING IN FAVOR: 2-0 PASSED

Shannon Withey
From: Kate Church-Scott <harperandbrandy@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2024 1:33 PM
To: 
First Selectman
Subject: Electronic sign
Follow Up Flag: Follow up
Flag Status: Flagged
Categories: Rob Brule
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Hello. We're Quaker Hill residents, and we do not think a bright electronic sign is necessary on our little teeny
green.
We believe the elementary school would be a much better spot for such a sign.
Kindest regards
Katherine and Jordan Scott.

Haye
From: Christine Walters <cwalters@waterfordct.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2024 1:41 PM
To: Robert Brule <rbrule@waterfordct.org>; Nicholas Kepple <NKepple@sswhgg.com>; Kristi D. Kelly
<kkelly@sswbgg.com>
Subject: FW: PRB Pay Equity Question
Christine Walters
Director of Human Resources
Town of Waterford
860-440-0517
From: stephanebrowder819@gmail.com <stephanebrowder819@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2024 1:33 PM
To: Christine Walters <cwalters@waterfordct.org>
Subject: FW: PRB Pay Equity Question
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Good Afternoon, Christine,
| apologize for the delay in responding to your voicemail. | was in meetings this morning. Please see
below the email sent to me from Christine Johnson. If you would, please confirm for me that you
received this.
Thank you and have a great day.
Stephane
From: Christine Johnson <cjohnson@waterfordct.org>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2024 3:53 PM
To: stephanebrowder819@gmail.com
Subject: PRB Pay Equity Question
Hi Stephane —
Vm reaching out to you in your role as a member of the Personnel Review Board. As you may, or may
not, know, the library is actually a separately governed town agency which reports to an independent
library board of trustees and not directly to the First Selectman. The Town does pay all employee and
town-owned building expenses, as well as a portion of our other operating expenses. We self-fund the
rest via an annual fund drive, a conservatively managed perpetual endowment fund and grants.
At the request of the Town, a number of years ago, our board agreed to have the Town manage our
payroll and classify our staff to align with union classifications. We have 5 staff members, including
myself, in the Non-Union Management Professionals (NUMP) group, 12 full and part-time staff in the

non-union Administrative Staff (AS) category and 1 FT and 2 PT custodial staff in the non-union Technical
Craft (TC) category.
As documented in the attached minutes of the May 21, 1984 PRB minutes, and cited in our library’s
personnel policies (also attached), it is our understanding that the Town of Waterford adheres to a pay
equity principle whereby staff receive equal pay regardless of union status. Past practices have been
that NUMP staff follow the GGA salaries and non-union AS/TC follow the 1303 contract salaries.
It has come to our attention that this precedent and PRB principle has recently been broken with the
disparate increases that were approved by the RTM at its December meeting for the current 2023-2024
fiscal year whereby GGA union staff received a 2.75% increase, and, | believe, each awarded a one-time
$1,500 payment, and the earlier approval of the last 1303 contract which also provided a 2.75% increase
while our three non-union categories, NUMP, NUAS and NUTC, were awarded 2.25%. A difference of
5%.
Our board is seeking to right this wrong, and the reason why | am reaching out to you is for support
from the PRB. | had raised a similar question to the Human Resources Director last year when we
learned of the discrepancy with the 1303 contract but was told by her, in consultation with the Town’s
labor attorney, that staff increases were determined by the First Selectman and that there was/is no pay
equity policy in the Town. Our documentation seems to prove otherwise.
Are you able to advise if this is an issue that the PRB can review and address on our behalf? I, and my
trustees, are happy to meet and/or provide additional information if needed.
Thanks for your consideration,
Chris
Christine M. Johnson
Library Director
Waterford Public Library
49 Rope Ferry Road
Waterford, CT 06385
860-444-5805
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From: Clifford Grandjean <cgrandjean@kennedyiohnson.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2024 3:10 PM
To: tedolynciw@yahoo.com
Ce: Robert Brule <rprule@waterfordct.org>
Subject: Non-Union Pay Increase
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As your friend, constituent, and fellow former Waterford Library Board President, I am writing to register my shock and
disappointment that you recently (at the December RTM meeting) voted in favor of the First Selectman and Human
Resource Director’s non-union pay increase schedule which provided for a lower rate (2.25% v. 2.75%) than the increases
for union personnel in the same classification (but also kept the same health insurance cost-sharing). How on earth, after
40 years of working with and caring for the Library personnel, and knowing that the non-union employees are
disproportionately Library personnel, could you support this differential, which I understand included not only a smaller
increase for non-union people but also eliminated a bonus which I understand union personnel of the same classification
received.
We spent decades assuring that the Library personnel (both 1303 and GGA classification) got the same increases as their
union counterparts, through the First Selectman, the HR Director, and Personnel Review Board. What changed? Where
were you on this important issue?
Outrageous.
Clifford J. Grandjean, Esq.
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Mallory Marshall 3 | Uf 6
112 Great Neck Road
Waterford, CT 06385
maflorydevona@ yahex: com 860-857-4769
March 3, 2024
David Campo, Waterford Town Clerk
15 Rope Ferry Road
Waterford, CT 06385
CC: First Selectman Bob Brule, Superintendent Thomas W. Giard lil, Members of the Board of Education, Members of the
Board of Finance, Members of the RTM
Dear Superintendent Giard, Members of the BOE, BOF and RTM:
As you may or may not know, Great Neck Elementary School students have been given extremely limited outdoor recess
muitiple times this year due to flooding on the fields. The fields and playground area at the school do not drain properly,
which is resulting in decreased outside playtime. The parents, guardians and, most importantly, students at Great Neck
Elementary School are urging you to work together to address the issues affecting the playground area. Unless the
underlying issue is solved, the rubber matting under the play structures will have to constantly be replaced, and students
will continue to have days without a proper recess.
General Statute of Connecticut Section 10-2110! states that, in addition to lunch, “each student enrolled in elementary
school time devoted to physical exercise of not less than twenty minutes in total.” When students are sequestered to a
small indoor area such as the gym, they are not given enough space to meet this requirement of “time devoted to
physical exercise.” Additionally, when the grass is too wet or is covered in snow, children are not allowed to be on the
grass nor the playscape. This leaves them to the very limited play area on the blacktop/basketball courts. Students are
forced to use this space to walk in circles around the perimeter of the black top for their recess because play space is so
limited. Kids also must wait in long fines to shoot a basketball,
Natural sunlight helps reset our eyes, increases focus, and brightens our moods. tn addition to the benefits of natural
light, students greatly benefit from moving their bodies. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?,
without a proper recess, students are more likely to become restless in the classroom which will result in lower student
outcomes and an increase in disruptive behavior.
We are urging you to take steps in addressing this issue and see what can be done to permanently fix the field’s drainage.
These muddy conditions are posing a safety hazard to those walking around the school grounds and are reducing our
children’s ability to engage in physical activity to their fullest potential. We are requesting a vote on adding this cost to
the next budget cycle.
Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Mallory Marshall
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Narciss Greene
29 Trumbull Road
Waterford, CT 06385
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27 February 2024
David Campo, Waterford Town Clerk
15 Rope Ferry Road
Waterford, CT 06385
CC: Superintendent Thomas W. Giard Ill, Members of the Board of Education, Members of the Board of Finance,
Members of the RTM
Dear Superintendent Giard, Members of the BOE, BOF and RTM:
As you may or may not know, Great Neck Elementary School students have been given extremely limited outdoor recess
multiple times this year due to flooding on the fields. The fields and playground area at the school do not drain properly,
which is resulting in decreased outside playtime. The parents, guardians and, most importantly, students at Great Neck
Elementary School are urging you to work together to address the issues affecting the playground area. Unless the
underlying issue is solved, the rubber matting under the play structures will have to constantly be replaced, and students
will continue to have days without a proper recess.
General Statute of Connecticut Section 10-2104 states that, in addition to lunch, “each student enrolled in elementary
school time devoted to physical exercise of not less than twenty minutes in total.” When students are sequestered to a
small indoor area such as the gym, they are not given enough space to meet this requirement of “time devoted to
physical exercise.” Additionally, when the grass is too wet or is covered in snow, children are not allowed to be on the
grass nor the playscape. This leaves them to the very limited play area on the blacktop/basketball courts. Students are
forced to use this space to walk in circles around the perimeter of the black top for their recess because play space is so
limited. Kids also must wait in long lines to shoot a basketball.
Natural sunlight helps reset our eyes, increases focus, and brightens our moods. tn addition to the benefits of natural
light, students greatly benefit from moving their bodies. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?,
without a proper recess, students are more likely to become restless in the classroom which will result in lower student
outcomes and an increase in disruptive behavior.
We are urging you to take steps in addressing this issue and see what can be done to permanently fix the field’s drainage.
These muddy conditions are posing a safety hazard to those walking around the school grounds and are reducing our
children’s ability to engage in physical activity to their fullest potential. We are requesting a vote on adding this cost to
the next budget cycle.
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Jennifer & James Nicholas
15A Shore Rd
Waterford, CT 06385
jnicholas517 @gmail.com RECEIVED FOR RECORD
(860) 460-1882 WATERFORD, CT
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David Campo, Waterford Town Clerk ATTEST: 4 Le Loughe
15 Rope Ferry Road TOWN CLERK
Waterford, CT 06385
CC: First Selectman Bob Brule, Superintendent Thomas W. Giard Ill, Members of the Board of Education, Members of the
Board of Finance, Members of the RTM
Dear Superintendent Giard, Members of the BOE, BOF and RTM:
As you may or may not know, Great Neck Elementary School students have been given extremely limited outdoor recess
multiple times this year due to flooding on the fields. The fields and playground area at the school do not drain properly,
which is resulting in decreased outside playtime. The parents, guardians and, most importantly, students at Great Neck
Elementary School are urging you to work together to address the issues affecting the playground area. Unless the
underlying issue is solved, the rubber matting under the play structures will have to constantly be replaced, and students
will continue to have days without a proper recess.
General Statute of Connecticut Section 10-2110! states that, in addition to lunch, “each student enrolled in elementary
school time devoted to physical exercise of not less than twenty minutes in total.” When students are sequestered to a
small indoor area such as the gym, they are not given enough space to meet this requirement of “time devoted to
physical exercise.” Additionally, when the grass is too wet or is covered in snow, children are not allowed to be on the
grass nor the playscape. This leaves them to the very limited play area on the blacktop/basketball courts. Students are
forced to use this space to walk in circles around the perimeter of the black top for their recess because play space is so
limited. Kids also must wait in long lines to shoot a basketball.
Natural sunlight helps reset our eyes, increases focus, and brightens our moods. In addition to the benefits of natural
light, students greatly benefit from moving their bodies. According to the Centers for Disease Contro| and Prevention’,
without a proper recess, students are more likely to become restless in the classroom which will result in lower student
outcomes and an increase in disruptive behavior.
We are urging you to take steps in addressing this issue and see what can be done to permanently fix the field’s drainage.
These muddy conditions are posing a safety hazard to those walking around the school grounds and are reducing our
" children’s ability to engage in physical activity to their fullest potential. We are requesting a vote on adding this cost to
the next budget cycle.
Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Jennifer & James Nicholas
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