Harrietstown Town Hall is seen in March. (Enterprise photo — Griffin Kelly)

SARANAC LAKE — The Saranac Lake Village Board of Trustees will meet in person again Monday, for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March.

The board will meet in the auditorium of the Harrietstown Town Hall, 39 Main St., starting at 5:30 p.m. Entrance will be through the side door at the back corner of the building near the stage, down the alley from Main Street. The handicap entrance is from the back parking lot on the LaPan Highway side of the building.

Masks and social distancing will be required. Restrooms will not be available.

The village did not say anything about video-streaming the meeting online. Since March, the village board has met by videoconference on the Zoom platform. At least one person said he will miss the online meetings.

“As a parent with two children and no childcare the online meetings were wonderful,” Jacob Vennie-Vollrath, who lives outside the village on the Bloomingdale road but pays taxes on property he owns in the village, wrote in an email. “The accessibility of the meetings allowed me to listen in while I worked on the farm and looked after kids. It also appeared like a lot more folks were taking the opportunity to learn about the village workings, what is happening, and voicing their opinions on how it can be improved. I hope the village’s decision is not an indication on the direction for our other local governments. We need more accessibility in our local governments. Not less.”

Business on Monday’s meeting agenda includes a sand screening bid, a contract with Scooters, an agreement with BOCES, the appointment of Elaine Taylor-Wilde to the Arts and Culture Advisory Board, and an update on repairs to the former village office building at 3 Main St.

As usual, anyone may attend and may speak for up to five minutes during the public comment portion of the meeting. The board’s rules for public comments include asking for speakers to give their names and addresses, requiring that remarks be directed to the board as a whole rather than an individual member. The rules say that the mayor may ask a group to limit itself to two speakers.