Select Board working session

Several items of note from the Select Board working sessions from the past weeks.

The Select Board voted to transfer responsibility and funding for the traffic supervisors, whoo direct traffic at the schools, to the School Committee. This transfer will allow the town to avoid paying $20,000 in unemployment benefits to these employees during periods when the schools are not in session. The Police Department will continue to supervise and train the supervisors and will cover some of the related expenses, such as clothing allowances.

Many town employees have been selecting an HMO plan rather than the full Blue Cross/Blue Shield plan which has resulted in savings on the town's health care access health care providers in RI as well as Massachusetts. This was not possible under the old HMO and was a roadblock to some selecting the plan.spending. The town has arranged to go with HMO Blue NE which allows the employees to......
......access health care providers in RI as well as Massachusetts. This was not possible under the old HMO and was a roadblock to some selecting the plan.

Since the town has established a Solid Waste enterprise fund, the DPW was forwarded bills for trash removal to the schools and municipal buildings.

The South Dartmouth Firefighters Association is soliciting donations for a Labor Day fireworks display at Round Hill. The goal is $20,000. Send donations to:
South Dartmouth Firefighters Association
Fire District No. 1
PO Box 87056
S. Dartmouth, MA 02748
Contact John Foster or Peter Andrade @ 508-990-1786 for further information.

Ms. Doreen Tetrault has resigned from the Dartmouth Housing Authority and the Authority has asked for an interim appointment of Mr. Wayne Whalley to take her seat.

The town has been approached by developers for the moribund Lincoln Park development about building apartments on the site for UMass Dartmouth students.