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Town Council Regular Meeting Thursday, May 07, 2026 07:00 PM Council Chamber Bristol Municipal Complex

This meeting is held in the Bristol Municipal Complex is open for in-person participation.

The meeting is live streamed on Town of Bristol YouTube channel.

Livestream link is available on the Town Website

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1.CALL MEETING TO ORDER

2.PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

3.ROLL CALL

4.APPROVAL OF AGENDA

5.APPROVAL OF INVOICES        
     with one additional approval request by the Park Board - Cathy A will share. 

REPORTS

6.TOWN MANAGER

  1. a.Request for Variance to Section 26-248 Town ordinance. 

    "At such time as a public sewer becomes available to a property served by a private sewage disposal system as provided in section 26-247, a direct connection shall be made to the public sewer in compliance with this article, and any septic tanks, cesspools and similar private sewage disposal facilities shall be abandoned and filled with suitable material.

    (Code 1997, § 9-79; Code 2002, § 52.029; Ord. No. 6-30-73(C), 7-5-1973; Ord. No. 10-21-99(A), 10-21-1999)"

  2. b.CF-1 for SLM Management LLC. Exceeded planned RE investment, new employees hired are 16 versus 28 planned in SB-1 submittal. Total employee count is 74 versus planned total count of 76. Employees were apparently hired after the SB-1 submittal and before project was approved. Recommend approval as substantially compliant. 

  3. c.Alliance Sheets CF-1 . The equipment investment is larger than estimated. Employe count is lower. From the company: "The majority of the new equipment was placed in service toward the end of 2025. There were some employee turnovers during the year, the company did not have sufficient time to hire replacement staff prior to 2026."

    Recommend approval as substantially complaint. 

  4. d.Resolution 5-7-2026-10 Establishing a Community Event financial support Policy 

  5. e.SRF disbursement # 50  $32,677   Commonwealth Engineering. WWTP project

  6. f.SRF disbursement #51 for pay application number 21 for Crosby Construction $ 178,910  and $9,416  Retainage fund

  7. g.CCMG 2024-1 Elkhart Street Pay app #1  Niblock   $575,664.30

    CCMG 2024-1 Elkhart Street Pay app # 2 Niblock    $ 63,962.70 retainage

  8. h.Update to approved Change order 6 Contract A water project . Increase $1,000 from CO # 6 to correct error in well field piping parts quantities

    Recommend approval of CO #6a

  9. i.Local income tax distribution agreement - MUST committee 

  10. j.Utility Truck replacement 

7.CLERK-TREASURER

  1. a.a. Motion to approve Additional Appropriation Ordinance No. 5.7.2026-8   $1,629,134

    b. Motion to approve Additional Appropriation Ordinance No. 5.7.2026-11  $772,000

8.TOWN ATTORNEY

  1. a.Ordinance 5-7-2026-12 Amending water and sewer rates 

  2. b.Ordinance 5-7-2026-13  Park Board amendments - cleaning up existing ordinance language to clarify roles and responsibilities. And changing park board member appointments from Clerk Treasurer to Town Council. 

  3. c.Resolution 5-7-2026-11  Establishing park rental rates

  4. d.Annexation amendment ordinance 5-7-2026-14 

  5. e.Ordinance 5-7-2026-15 Public Hearing rules 

9.PRIVILEGE OF THE FLOOR (Public Comments to Council)

  1. a.Please state your name and address | 3-minute guideline for comments

10.TOWN COUNCIL DISCUSSION ITEMS

  1. a.Doug DeSmith

  2. b.Cathy Burke

  3. c.Gregg Tuholski

  4. d.Jeff Beachy

NEXT MEETINGS:

May 19 Work Session

May 21 Council Meeting

11.MOTION TO ADJOURN