##VIDEO ID:H8_vymotl3s## e e e e e e e e e e good morning everyone today is Thursday January 16th 2025 it is 10:30 a.m. this is a meeting of the board of selectman is there a motion to call the meeting to order so move second all those in favor I this meeting will be audio and video recorded please rise for pledge Al pledge allegiance of the United States of America stand indivisible and jice for right gentlemen should be pretty straightforward today um we have master plan committee letters of interest um this should finalize all the appointments for the master plan committee uh quick note before we do the rest of the appointments after a long discussion with the town clerk yesterday based on the composition of the NASA plan committee um just so it's known every internal Town board or committee that has a member on this rather than just be listed as their board capacity should be listed as representative of that board capacity so in other words the planning board members should be listed as planning board Representatives um with that being said she said it would just be as easy as saying that and updating that and we' be good to go Mr chairman before we get into this yes sir just like a point of uh Personal Privilege at our last meeting I think some comments that I made regarding uh Mr rend's appointment might have were misinterpreted by him um by no means was it meant to be uh as a um uh lack of confidence or his ability or or dissing him publicly that was not the case at all I think Ryan be a fantastic contributor to this process he served the town great um apparently you know he took exception to that reached out to me um I told him I would clarify that in public um So for anybody or for Ryan was not the point at all it was more of a process um so I'm but I'm going to let that die and uh but it did Tell Ryan that I would publicly try to clean that up sure thanks Mr wmer and I I had to clarified some stuff with Ryan afterwards as well um and I'm sure he appreciates that all right gentlemen have you had time to review the letters of interest and do you have any motions we're just doing the citizens at large now right that's where we're at three at large members and three alternates I have uh I think we have Mr Paul Sullivan that we all kind of agreed that he would be a great individual for input on the master plan most familiar with the current master plan that is out there um he wants to be appointed as Citizen and LGE I make a motion to appoint Paul Sullivan there a motion second there's a second all those in favor all right all right going through these um I would accept the motion to appoint Jesse St G as citizen at large so mooved second all those in favor I and also make a motion to accept I would also accept a motion to appoint Melissa Cordo as an atlarge member of a master plan committee so second is she at large or is it she would be at large okay not as a member of the school committee correct there's a motion in a second all those in favor all right and we have three names Les uh left that we can appoint as alternates is there a motion to appoint Jessica Bry Jacob arino and Kelsey janick as members of the master plan committee as alternates so moved second all those in favor and just for clarification um if we can get the appointment Letters Out no later than tomorrow um I know planning is really hot to get going and they already have some meetings scheduled for February and some workshops at the end of the month uh and we can get everybody sworn in and just as a reminder anybody that was appointed as an alternate uh it is imperative that you still attend all these meetings just because you don't have a vote if there's a full committee it could be a time where they call on an alternate to sit in place of somebody that can't make it and your input is still valid and accepted so please make sure you show up to these meetings and if you have a problem with that let us know and we will find somebody that can all right selectman announcements anybody don't have anything for you Mr chairman other than goodbye JB um Mr chairman I do have a question though sure with some of these folks who are um submitted their names to serve um especially the alternates like Mrs bra uh Miss Miss brilley like I'm looking at concom has two vacancies I don't know if she'd be an interesting candidate to serve on that committee ni as a member um you know Mr St J is offering to serve in other committees as well so I think Mr ballerino I think you know we should let them know that there's there are other opportunities to serve the town um you know so anyway somebody can do that that'd be great that was actually going to be my S announcement but not not exactly worded like that I just wanted to say um I posted something online a couple weeks ago to drum up some interest in various committees and we ended up getting a couple letters of interest for fincom a couple letters of interest for the Conservation Commission some for the golf committee um so we're actually going to be dealing with a decent amount of um appointments next meeting but that doesn't mean that you should stop sending in letters of Interest by all means send them in um it gives us more of an option and to choose the best candidate for the position CPC that's a that's a really important one there's a lot of uh vacancies there Mr chairman if if if we're going to be doing those appointments for any committees and open vacancies on these committees or boards um the letter of interest should get here by Friday for us to have it for Tuesday's meeting correct so if you're actually there's a holiday Monday so it needs to be here by today if they want to get appointed Tuesday though right Tuesday meeting y but Monday is a holiday so yes sir we got to post the day all right we do have a couple of executive sessions have executive session under Mass General Law chapter 30A subsection 21 A2 to conduct strategy sessions in preparation for negotiations with non-union Personnel Assessment Center or to conduct collective bargaining sessions or contract negotiations with non-union personnel and the board will not return to public session at the conclusion of the executive session an executive session under M General Law chapter 30A subsection 21 A3 to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining police second in command if an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the bargaining position of the public body and the chair so declares and the board will not return to public session at the conclusion of the executive session is there a motion to enter executive session so move second all of those in favor roll call vote Mr wner yes Mr Gasper yes and I am a yes we are now in executive session oh