Selectboard chooses state police for law-enforcement
GUILFORD — GUILFORD - After reviewing the proposed contracts from the Vermont State Police and the Windham County Sheriff's Department to provide law-enforcement services for Fiscal Year 2018, the Selectboard unanimously voted to choose the state police at their April 10 regular meeting.
State police will provide Guilford with 8 hours per month of service at a rate of $68.35 per hour, with a maximum annual charge of $6,561.60. The town budgeted $7,000 for law-enforcement for FY18.
Although the sheriff department's hourly rate was lower, the state police are able to offer savings in cases that take more than an hour of a trooper's time.
In extended calls, the first hour of the case is billed to the town. After that, hours that a state trooper spends on the call are billed to the state. The sheriff's department, which doesn't receive that kind of state funding, can't offer that deal to the town.
Commons is selected as newspaper of record
GUILFORD - At their April 10 regular meeting, the Selectboard unanimously voted to designate The Commons as the town's newspaper of record.
Board Chair Sheila Morse noted the town switched to The Commons from the Brattleboro Reformer last year, and “we determined The Commons satisfied the requirements for the paper of record.”
Morse explained the purpose of choosing a newspaper of record: It's where the Town Meeting warning and other official business is published.
The Selectboard agreed to post notices in the Reformer if The Commons' deadline presents a conflict.