Select Board approves prior minutes, hears emergency preparedness and service updates
Select Board · Meeting of February 23, 2026
Alford Select Board approved prior minutes and heard emergency preparedness and service updates. Board of Health reported tabletop exercise progress; Highway reported salt delivery delays; Southern Berkshire Ambulance Service presented assessment of $74,757 operating and $8,624 capital for ordered ambulances. Select Board member Bruce Schreiber objected to the service's use of equalized property valuation as sole assessment driver, stating smaller towns are disadvantaged; Patrick White agreed to explore alternative models after budget season.
Planning Board will shift Stream and Pond and Flood Plain Overlay authority to the Conservation Commission, which the board endorsed.
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Source: the Select Board meeting of February 23, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
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