TOWN OF NORTHFIELD

BOARD OF SELECTMEN

The governing body of the Town of Northfield is the Board of Selectmen, whose members are directly elected to three-year terms by all voters residing in Northfield.

The Town Selectboard’s primary responsibilities include overseeing the operations of the Northfield Emergency Services (Fire, Police, and Ambulance), which provide service to all Northfield residents.  The Selectboard also is responsible for the various recreational facilities in Northfield.

In addition, The Town Selectboard oversees the operation of the Town Highway Department, which maintains the roads outside of Northfield Village.

The current members of the Northfield Board of Town Selectmen are:

 

Kenneth I. Johnson, Chair	Kenneth W. Goslant
Gregory S. Sanders, Vice-Chair	Charles L. Morse
Melvin E. Adams

In 2010, the Selectboard will hold its regular meetings twice each month on the 2nd and 4th Mondays at 7:00 p.m. in the Community Room located in the Brown Public Library (93 South Main Street).

Please contact the Town Manager’s Office at 485-6121 by 4:00 p.m. the Thursday prior to the next regular meeting if you or your group would like to be scheduled under “Public Participation.”  Please click here to see the “Procedures for Public Participation” adopted by the Boards of Town Selectmen and Village Trustees in July 2005.

Listed below is the Selectboard’s Regular Meeting Schedule for 2010 (click on the underlined links below for the minutes of past regular meetings).  Please click the links immediately below to access the minutes for all Selectboard (and Village Trustees) meetings, including Special Meetings and Joint Board Meetings,  from 2009 and 2010.  Minutes from previous years are available through the Town Clerk’s Office.

 

Note:  The background image is from an early twentieth-century postcard depicting the “Old Mill” in South Northfield.  To see the whole image, please click here.