Representative Town Meeting (RTM) - Minutes - 01/04/2021

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REPRESENTATIVE TOWN MEETING :
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Special Meeting
January 4, 2021
The January 4, 2021, Special Meeting of the Representative Town Meeting was called to order at 7:00
P.M. by Moderator Thomas Dembek.
ROLL CALL
PRESENT: Greg Attanasio, Jennifer Bracciale, April Cairns, Thomas J. Dembek, Susan Driscoll, Timothy
Fioravanti, Miriam Furey-Wagner, Nick Gauthier, Paul Goldstein, David Lersch, Valerie Metivier, Richard
Morgan, Richard Muckle, Liam O’Leary (7:12 P.M.), Theodore Olynciw, Sally Ritchie, Michael Rocchetti,
Danielle Steward-Gelinas, Robert Swansen, Baird Welch-Collins.
ABSENT: Mike Bono, Timothy Condon, Steve Elci, Kathleen Kohl.
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS PRESENT: First Selectman Robert Brule; Chair of the Board of Education Craig
Merriman; Chair of the Board of Finance Ronald R. Fedor.
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS ABSENT: Selectwoman Jody Nazarchyk; Selectman Elizabeth Sabilia.
ALSO PRESENT: Town Clerk David L. Campo; Town Attorney Robert Avena.
AGENDA ITEM D — CORRESPONDENCE
NONE
CALL ITEM 1 — Executive Session
MOTION by Baird Welch-Collins to discuss strategy and/or negotiations with respect to collective
bargaining units in executive session, said action to be taken without prejudice to the Representative
Town Meeting’s right to discuss said matters in a private meeting pursuant to Connecticut Statute § 1-
200.
MOTION withdrawn.
MOTION by Muckle, seconded by Driscoll, to discuss strategy and/or negotiations with respect to
collective bargaining units in executive session, said action to be taken without prejudice to the
Representative Town Meeting’s right to discuss said matters in a private meeting pursuant to
Connecticut Statute § 1-200 at 7:09 P.M. and to invite Superintendent of Schools Thomas Giard,
Assistant Superintendent of Schools Craig Powers, and BOE Director of Finance Joseph Mancini to
attend.
VOTING IN FAVOR: Unanimous
MOTION by Muckle, seconded by Rocchetti, to include First Selectman Robert Brule as an invited guest.
VOTING IN FAVOR: Unanimous with one member against. (Driscoll)

MOTION by Welch-Collins, seconded by Muckle, to come out of executive session with no votes taken at
7:45 P.M.
VOTING IN FAVOR: Unanimous
Driscoll was unavailable after the executive session.
CALL ITEM 2 — BOE and Waterford Administrators’ and Supervisors’ Association
MOTION by Gauthier, seconded by Muckle, to approve an agreement between the Waterford Board of
Education and the Waterford Administrators’ and Supervisors’ Association for July 1, 2021 through June
30, 2022 and to request the funding thereof, pursuant to Connecticut General Statute §10-153d pending
finalization of contract.
VOTING IN FAVOR: Attanasio, Dembek, Fioravanti, Furey-Wagner, Gauthier, Ritchie, Welch-Collins
VOTING AGAINST: Lersch, Olynciw
ABSTAINING: Bracciale, Cairns, Goldstein, Metivier, Morgan, Muckle, O’Leary, Rocchetti, Steward-
Gelinas, Swansen
MOTION PASSED: 7-2-10
MOTION by Muckle, seconded by Steward-Gelinas, to adjourn at 7:51 P.M.
VOTING IN FAVOR: Unanimous.
Respectfully Submitted,
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David L. Campo, CCTC
Waterford Town Clerk