[Music] All right. Uh, today is Tuesday, July 29th. We'll call the meeting to order. Is there a motion to call the meeting to order?
So move. Second. All those in favor? Motion carries. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. Pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all. All right. Item number one is the ask me contract ratification. Uh Mr. Chairman, if I may, um this is on the agenda just so we can give it to you
guys so you can see it. Um, this is what was recently voted on. Um, there are a couple items in here that I want to review with Jamie. Um, but I also wanted you gentlemen to have a copy of it so you could let me have your views on it. Um, this definitely shouldn't be voted
on today. Um, I would suggest reviewing this. Uh, if you can give, uh, Mr. Kelly your feedback on it to get it over to me um and try to get it on the next meeting um to go over and ratify. And this is what we discussed like
running up to town meeting, but we're right. Correct. Yeah. So, most of it was just some language changes and and base salary stuff, but um this is what you have in front of you is more of an MOA right now. Um and I have told Mr. Kelly to once we look at it, look at the
actual red line so you can see what's come out, what's been added, what's been changed. Um, but I would appreciate your feedback before we vote on this. If there's anything you have that's questionable in your mind, let me know about it and um, we can reassess. Sounds good.
All right. Thank you. Uh, next one is a letter from Sydney Riveros who's interested in helping out with the cultural council. I mean, uh, I think Sydney would be great and I don't know how you guys feel, but, uh, I know she's here during the day, during the dayto day, but this would be off hours. Um,
wouldn't want to get in the way for participating in this. Mr. Chairman, in the past, uh, our administrative assistant, Lisa Leonard, always participated on the cultural council. So, I have no problem making a motion to appoint Sydney Beveris to the cultural council. I'll second. All those in favor? I
motion carries. Next item is asserta appointments representative. Bob, are you doing that for us this year or no? I can. Okay. Motion to appoint Mr. Inkley as a sort of representative.
Uh I'll second that. All those in favor? Motion. Looks like I'll do the uh designate. So uh I'm on the I guess I'm on the list. I guess you are the representative. I'm the designate, which sounds like the back uh the backup person. I I was going to say I'm not sure which one. Right. So anyway, I guess it'll be a
motion to appoint me. Motion to appoint designate. Steve Warner as designate to the sera. So second in favor I next is Bristol County Commissioner Rep. I think Mr. Gasper. Have you done
that in the past? Yeah, I've done it for you know sometimes participation's not great because it's it's a Ponzi scheme, right? Yep. the uh three cities have overruling majority of the budget. So the rest of us municipalities sit there with our thumbs in our mouth and long as the
three cities say this is what it is, that's what it is. So all right, but I'll continue to do it. All right, sounds good. Uh a motion to appoint Mr. Gasper to the Bristol County Advisory Board. So move. All those in favor?
I All right. Next item on the agenda is ZBA clerk. Um I know Mr. Gasp has talked about it. We've got involved trying to sort this out. Um you know part-time people just don't grow on
trees anymore. Uh but anyway, the point of this is we're looking for a ZBA committee clerk uh to coordinate the public hearings, post advertisements with the local press, prepare meeting documents, create meeting minutes. Um Mr. Hankley uh posted on social media
the other day and uh he's got an excellent candidate that he's meeting with tomorrow. Actually, he's good a lot of experience in town government on with this type of stuff. I think even worked for the town many years ago. So, uh if
you know, Mr. Brown is the chair and to the town clerk, it is uh top of mind for us and we'd like to get this squared away. I think ideally if we can get to some one-stop shopping scenario, uh that would be better rather than having like
clerk doing this and clerk staffing this board and you know combine it all into one. Uh that would be ideal. But uh Mr. Hley's agreed to take this on and see if we can uh find this uh suitable person to do this. Excellent. Yeah, Mr. Chairman, if I may.
Um, I was hoping to be able to sit down before tonight. Um, unfortunately due to scheduling conflicts as soon as we could come together with a time to work for both of us was tomorrow. So, uh, we'll be meeting around 3:30 tomorrow here um,
to run over what the necessities are, what the job description is, and see if it's a good fit, and I will report it back to you guys. I mean, it's an important enough position that if you feel I don't know, Mr. Gasper, how you feel? But if we need to get a
meeting on the books just to do an appointment, I I'm I'm open to that. You know, Friday morning, all we need is two of us here. I can make myself available, but I'll leave it up to you to decide how that goes down, but if we, you know, I I would just hate to um wait a couple
weeks. Sure. To get this done. So, um you can report in on that. All right. We'll do. Thank you. All right. Next item is appoint uh Dr. Ivy Krelll is a library technician. Position pays 1813. It's 12 hours a
week. Um this comes for to us from the uh library trustees. Motion to appoint Ivy to the position of library tech 1 at a rate of 1813 an hour and our start date looks like
it'll be 7:28. I'll second. All those in favor? I motion passes. All right. Uh, next item is a letter of resignation from my building commissioner, Mr. Andy Babola, um, effective August 6th. Um, you hate to
see Andy go, but respect his um, his decision and, you know, he served us well and he's got a lot of technical experience, but I understand he's also offered to he doesn't want to see us leave leave us high and dry. Um, is willing to help out. Um but his last day
of employment would technically be August 6th. So is there a motion to accept this uh letter of resignation? So move second. All those in favor? I carries. Mr. Bob, if my understanding would be willing to help us out so that
we don't have any overruns on permitting and things of the like that would be great. He would be able to assist in an interim capacity. He we suggest we also look for an another interim and that we advertise
and see if we can find a replacement ASAP. Okay. All right. Um, so I think we think when we do this maybe the best way to advertise for the position because we don't know what the availability is because we went
through this a long time ago about what building inspector duties versus building inspector commissioner certifications mean. So maybe we put the advertisement out as building inspector and or commissioner so that either or
will be sufficient for the town. Um, we can kind of box it in that way. I think that would probably be in the best interest of the community. The motion to motion to um initiate a posting up to Jamie and we'll
come up with some language on that. So, a motion to do that. So, second Jamie, we've got on here as an agitation, Mr. Chairman. Yeah. Yeah, if if if the board so chooses, also, I think it might be in the best interest when we're advertising
as a one-stop shop, as I just alluded to, building inspector and or commissioner. Maybe we advertise um that the town might be interested in part-time as well. Parttime or fulltime. You never know if
there's somebody out there that's not interested in doing full-time, but they say, you know, maybe they're already working part-time for a community and they say, "I could pick up some extra hours." Um, or I'm looking for a full-time, but the only thing that was available when I took this part time was a part-time, so we could kind of do that as well.
Or a retiree or whatever. I'm just I'm just throwing out all the options for the advertisement so we're not sitting on our hands and without um, you know, we're lucky enough to keep Mr. on board for as long as we can, but I would like to properly advertise the
position and leave, you know, as much flexibility in that advertisement as humanly possible to to fill that void. Yeah, we know what we went through the last time. Absolutely. While we're on the subject, again, I'm just thinking out loud. And I think Jane, we've talked about this, but do do
any commit any communities have a building inspector slashconservation agent or or those two separate entities? I've only heard of one. Okay. I've also heard of uh where
the uh building inspector building commissioner uh office handles the ZBA as we've talked about as far as uh the files are all in the Z from the for the
ZBA are in that office uh and the uh uh application patients, etc. all go to that office. So, that's something to maybe think about from your prior conversation, right? Okay. All right. Well, anyway, we'll see. Hopefully, we'll get some
good candidates or interesting candidates and could be an opportunity to reshape that whole process over there. Uh, good stuff. All right. Thank you. Um, I guess you got it on there as a interim. So you we'll look for see if
we can find some interims either with another community or past uh folks who've done the job and advertise for the Yep. And advertise. All right. Building inspector slash I'm going to advertise for everything inspectors part time full time.
I mean if you're going to put an ad out there just let it encapsulate everything that we just talked about. Shotgun it. All right. Uh, next item is the RFP for police chief and deputy chief police assessment center.
Mr. Chairman, uh, I asked that this be put in so the discussion can start. Uh, you got a originally we drafted an RFP. We sent it to council. He had some suggestions. the
rule for award is definitely a good suggestion from him. Uh there are a number of other corrections suggestions that he put in. Uh I do not
think it's ripe for a vote yet. I think we need like uh selectman Hley said about the previous contract, we need the board's input. Uh
we also need to make sure that the job descriptions form 30 uh that we send in with it. as well as uh I've got a list that
I know of people that or groups that perform the assessment center. I would like the board to look at that too to make sure I've seen one or two that were given to us by civil service that aren't
in business anymore. So, we have uh a little bit of work to do on this, but I would like to also have it on the agenda for the next meeting. Okay. Fair enough. So, this is just for review only.
All right. Good. Um, next items are DPW related. Dan, how's it going? Good. How you doing? Vibing the heat out there? Oh, yeah. Uh, got a couple things that come across from your desk. um is regarding Blueberry Drive. I know that there's
been some issues over there. So, just wanted to give you the opportunity to, you know, if the board, if any of the board members had any questions about it, just kind of talk about that and what you see going on over there and so on so forth. So, again, it's been years and years. Um,
and it the road is broken apart. It's more the bottom section of it from so where elderberry turns and blueberry keeps going down to a cul-de-sac in the back. Um, it's really broken up and a kid just fell the other day and it and like I said, we've been just putting,
you know, little patches on it forever. You know, a little patch, a little patch, a little patch and it's just broken up, you know, the right correct way. Again, if it's broken up would be reclaim it or, you know, dig it out and put it. But I'm trying to get away with that's what I proposed is just kind of I
could overlay that section cuz everything's built up hills. So, I can do like a 900 ft section over there. So, we take care of that and we can all match it to the driveways and that would take care of the problem for now. Um, and again, it's still it's a better base
so when we do do the road eventually and the cost is roughly around 25,000 do was a 900t section. I think it was like 26 wide or something like 20 something wide. I guess I'd be putting a couple inches on it. So, I figured come and come out of that um that $100,000
road paving line item. So that's why I want to come talk to the board and see if that's something you guys would consider or Mr. Chairman. So I did go down when I seen it and I went down Blueberry as you know Mr. Chairman you and I were
instrumental in taking over Blueberry and Elderberry for the sewer problems that they had some two 12 years ago or so, right? Um the unthinkable was done for those individuals and I did go down here. Here are some sections of the road. I know there's one section that's busted up at
the bottom of somebody's driveway. Um, but I I will say this that the road's in better shape than a lot of other roads that we have in this town. Right. So, um, if we need to do something, you're talking about just merely sweeping up the street and then putting over so it's
not we're not reclaiming cuz the 25 grand I know we're not milling. Correct. Not. So, what I what I do with that situation so you don't plow. So, what I'll do is I'll cut out a section just so I can blend the asphalt into it. So, you got I can't just go right over it be like a huge bump like kind of. So, I like to
dig out like four or five ft anyways from the end where we're going to start and stop. So, you can blend the mix into it the overlay. So, it's still going to be a little bump, but it's not. It's going to be you can plow it and you can rip the rip the um the new mix out. If you just left it butted, just rip it out
with a plow. So, so raising the road by what do you put an inch of overlay pretty much. Um, as long as we don't have, you know, that transition with driveways, right? It's Well, it's all, like I said, it's all uphills, all the driveways, so it's actually an easier one to do that. Like I said, this is a kind of a quick fix.
It's not Is it the best scenario? No, Kevin. It's It's Yeah, I know what you're saying. I've I've seen we've done it. We've done it in other places just to uh like Momish Street was one we did several years ago. That was a good And that's, you know, pretty well. So, like Mr. Menard says, I mean,
I know it's from the elderberry down. Um, but it's just a quick patch job to make it a little bit safer and better for the the residents that are down on that section of I think that's a lot of it's crack because of the water. It gets really wet over there in the winter. So, this
actually will help because if you do reclaim and grade it, you should build that up a little bit because obviously it's closer to the water table. It's really wet over there and that's why it's it's really cracking or it doesn't have any base. whatsoever, which again, later on in the future, if you do this type of work and then you reclaim it, it
kind of grinds it in. You get a better base out of just doing that mix anyways, you know what I mean? So, it doesn't hurt by doing that anyways. But is it a a 20-year fix? No. But, I mean, that ain't a main drag. It's going to probably you might 10 years. So, yeah, it's a good band-aid. Yeah. Yeah.
So, I I I have no problem with it. Just I would just um also ask the board that before we expend any other money from road paving that but that that would require a vote of the board of selection like we're doing now. Yeah. Um so I have no problem making a motion to approve up to $25,000 to repair the
900 section of roadway of Blueberry. Mr. Man's proposing here. Second. All those in favor I motion carries. All right. Next item is uh regarding the recycling center labor opening. Jan, just wanted you to just talk about that. You don't have to get into names and all that stuff, but just kind of talk about
the position, what it requires. Uh, so it's strictly, you say, in the fields. It's strictly working at the recycling center. All currently currently now the the employee that runs is now he works three days in
highway and two days in recycling. So it's it goes so he goes from Tuesday to Saturday. So he's different than everybody else. Everybody else is Monday through Friday. So he goes Tuesdays, Saturday. That's part of his regular work week. Okay. Um he can't he's retiring, so it's kind of
we got another month to decide what you guys want to do. But so again, he wants to stay on board for the for he can do I think 1,200 hours or something if he does after he retires. So he could actually still run the recycling center. So that would be
the Friday and Saturday he could stay on there. Um, the problem is I'm missing the the rest of the week and I currently need the help. I'd rather instead of having three days, I'd rather have somebody for 5 days. That's my preference just cuz it's it's tough
to do what I got to do and it's I need manpower. You need workers out there and you need people to I got 10 million things to do. It's like when especially when I'm doing projects like this, it's tough to and you get a guy on vacation or something, it's tough to get other projects done, you know. So
the the recycling center piece of it I understand. So but like when you're out in the field like what are the skill set that you need? You need somebody who can operate mach operators truck drivers there that you know that ain't reality. So I'm just trying to get an understanding
like you get an internal candidate who's expressed an interest. Oh correct. I just want to make sure like that would be you know maximizing the the um you know Yeah. again. Um, you got the skill set to to max the job, right? It's it again, it's it's I need help all
around. It's it's driving a one ton that even like So, I had a guy out today. So, we had to shuttle vehicles cuz I don't I needed three 10 wheelers. So, my three truck drivers are there, but I needed one tons with with uh you know with cement and stuff in it. So, we kind of had to shuttle. We went back to the bond
and we go drop the truck off and so that's how I get the job we had to do today. So, it just running one tons around anything, a laborer, you know, mixing cement or uh doing anything like that, going for pots. Okay, we're out of pipe. I need somebody to go get a piece of pipe or a fitting that we came across. We came across a a drainage
thing. We didn't know it was a 3-in pipe that was coming out from somebody's sub pump today while we're going to drainage, but we had to tie it in. We didn't have nothing to buy. I had to send somebody to go get the fittings to to install. You know, that's stuff you come across while you're out in the field. So, like I said, another person in
general, um, I'd love to, and again, I'm already looking into trying to get even the guys. We get some new guys, and none of them got hoisting license stuff. So, but they do have municipal licenses, which will take care of like the side boom and um, you know, like a loader, stuff like
that. So, they again, you're still going to go take a test and do that. So, I'd like to get some people more involved in doing that at least, too. Syun's a special license. Yeah. 4G. Yep. But again, you can get a municipal one. So they kind of integrate it together with the, you know, loader,
um, side boom and I think forklift or something like that goes in. It's like a multiple license, which is nice, you know, and we advertised for this position. I have not. So again, we've just talked with the board. So Mr. Chairman, yeah. So this is the this been an ongoing
problem with DPW, water, sewer. if we were going to have that conversation because of the budget deficit this year is we Mr. Manard and Mr. Kelly and I, we've all had and Kathy Silver, we've had conversations about the allocation of our work staff um even
water and sewer, right? We're unfairly um putting water and sewer full salaries in water and sewer when I would say nothing less than 60% of their time with Dan doing DPW work. So, we were going to look at reallocating that and taking some of
those expenses out of water and sewer, which would obviously bring up the DPW budget um and just getting staffing more properly organized between inter functionality between water and sewer. So, we can Dan and I can continue working on that figuring out that
that's definitely correct. It just we don't have enough manpower to like separate them. We cannot totally separate. That's where I'm going to go, Dan. Right. So, so I don't even know. I don't even know if we've filled one of the other positions that we've lost. We full staff right now in DPW.
No, we're not. Right. Correct. So, we we have a open vacant position already. So, we're already minus that one. We have one now that works 3 days DPW chew and recycle. So, now we're going to be down, call it a man and a half.
Yeah. So one guy I think we need to hire we need to hire and that that that position is still in the budget. So we need to hire that person the one right now active vacancy we need to advertise for that and then we need to do something to accommodate
this retiree and I think what Dan's saying to us is that individuals interested in working Friday and Saturday only for recycle. I think to help Dan and the the guys quite honestly um out and for staffing
reasons maybe we just have to hire two people Monday through Friday DPW whatever we're going to call them advertise for maintenance you know whatever um with the criteria of you know class truck driver's license or just laborers whatever you need Dan um machine
operator however we're going to advertise the positions but and then we just carry retiree for as long as we and working the Friday and Saturday strictly in recycle. That's fine. Whatever it is, I want I definitely budget it for this year, especially if I do get a thing.
But we're not the what I the way I just described it. We're shot day. Yes. So now So now again, no, he ain't on Monday, so I don't have nobody on Monday. So now that's what I'm trying to say. I'm trying to say fill Monday through Friday with two. We have one open vacancy with this retiree. We're going to have two
vacancies, but that one was a Tuesday to Saturday. What I'm saying is if you let the retirey work Friday and Saturday and recycle, boom, that that's covered. Yeah. And then you hire two full-times for Monday through Friday. Treat treat the recycling thing as a separate entity, get your laborers Monday through Friday. Y
doing what you got to do. And then you have full staff Monday through Friday to help accommodate your situation. Cuz I've been out on way too many projects with Mr. Manard and I've been standing there watching it and it quite honestly um it's a little bit of a
it show for him um and staff like he's saying I've been there where he's sending people out oh I need this go get that and it's slowing down the productivity of the job site. So if we want want to be a little bit more efficient and better at what we do hiring that other person I think is is
an adequate move for the town. Yeah. And again I'd still like again CDL drivers. We get some older guys are going to be retiring. So, I'm definitely want to try to get CDLs or get these people to try to get them. You know what I mean? And I think we should do something like cuz we've had this in the past. They get the CDL through us and
then they left. So, that would have to be something again like this position's been advertised. Nothing yet. No, I want to talk to you. Right. So, we got to get these things advertised. I mean, we got another month. Peter is still here for another month anyway. Yeah, but it's going to take that long
to hire put off for advertising. By the time we interview and and actually get somebody on, we're talking we're probably talking two months. So, you want to get the advertising advertising? I think Mr. Kelly wants to say something. Uh I have to sit down with Mr. Manard.
We just got the form from Bristol County that uh as far as the retiree how many hours he's allowed in this count. They do it by calendar year, not fiscal year. How many hours he's allowed in this
calendar year and how much he's allowed to make. So, we'll have to go over as far as what the retiree can actually work. Well, once we once we're done figuring that out, we could do that in half an hour. Yeah. Don't let them hold this process.
No, but so we we advertise for the two and then he and I will sit down and uh look at this form. It just came in. It was done by the county yesterday. Good. That's from the retirement board, right? Yeah.
Yeah. So, we'll share that information with you, Dan. I'll come in tomorrow and work with Mr. Kelly and we'll share that information with you. We'll figure everything out and then if we need to make some separate contract for one employee working recycling Friday and Saturday, maybe we'll we'll see what the computation comes out at this current
hour. Would the board be cuz I'm probably going to try for one truck driver then and one labor. Is that kind of to go for for now and if I get a truck driver, I'm going to try to I I don't think I'm going to get a truck driver for that for the the money. But um it's worth trying.
I guess you never know who you get. But um if not then I want I kind of want somebody they're going to have to go for it regardless. You know what I mean? The way they So when we hire when we hire laborers in the past Dan we always put this you you've done correct um I don't know what that letter is there
pre-mp employment letter or whatever you you specified in an individual's pre-employment letter that just because you're a laborer you have two years or a year and a half or whatever to get you acquire your CDL license, right? We do the same thing with the laborer. this time he gets an extra buck an hour
to get his license. So, it's it's in his best interest to do so. Y we can figure it out whatever whatever you need. Um Yeah. Well, just I want to kind of gear up for these guys. We're talking to you. Let's get this thing going. Get start
developing a bench. And uh so if we need a motion to advertise the the two positions. Um Mr. and I would give us uh which what titles he wants to give us to hire for. Okay. Right. So,
and I'm sure you have job descriptions on file for those positions. I mean, I'll put them both out if it turns into being two labors or two two labors. You know what I mean? And it doesn't matter. You know what I mean? So, we can put labor or truck driver as the advertisement and see what they see what we come up with. You know, you can you you're going to do two
separate advertisements, right? Do one for labor, one for truck driver cuz depending on the resumes you get for labor up. If you can't fill a truck driver, we'll go back to the pile of laborers and we'll try to hopefully we get at least two good candidates there or whatever. Yeah. And somebody's willing to go for it. You know, somebody's going to willing to do it. You know, I have
people come in and they just don't want to drive, you know, truck. So, so Mr. Gasper, I would ask if sorry for you. I know you're a busy guy, but if you work with Dan on interviews and come back because ultimately we'll have to make the appointment and you kind of Yeah, I'll work with Mr. Kelly and
figure out how we're going to what funding we have and all that stuff to make it work. Cool. Cool. Thanks, Dan. Appreciate it. Also, while I got you, um, thank you for your willingness to help out with the Lake Street Yep. project there. That's the only thing. I'm probably actually going to do that Thursday. I w up getting some of the heat bales. I got
to pick the rest up. Get them all set up. Um, supposedly going to start Monday, so hopefully that's still a go on Monday, but we're going to wait a day. So, they're going to stockpile it on there in the area that we're putting with the with the hay bales and then we're going to haul it out and we're going to put I'm going to put this at the
to like huh opening day. We can do that. Yeah. I thought we were doing like an opening day thing when the boat comes. We're going to We can do that. I think it's Monday, August 4th that they're staging it, right? Staging. Yeah. I'm not sure if they're going to actually give you guys the details.
We're going to I'm going to set up so I'm ready. So, but they can just go. We don't need agendas for these kind of things either. Just so everybody knows, we've done things at the golf course with boards, select board members. We're just going out for a site visit or whatever. No decisions are being made blah blah. I don't know how board's way too where
I'm not going to stockpile the material at the barn. Uh just because it's going to it's going to take up a lot of space for in the barn and I really don't have. So, um I actually had a guys that are probably going to clear a little more at the Quaker um wells in the back there. We got big huge piece of property and
we've kept it mowed and that's something like I usually save for a staging area for if you got a hurricane or something. We got a place to put all of them with brush and all that and I can So that sediment is it dried out? Is it going to smell? Um no. And then plus this is way back. This is you got to go drive in probably half a mile to get these they got these
wide open field areas. It's kind of in it like a pit. So then once it all dries out, you'll then be able to let it rot out. Bring it back to the No, no. I'll I'll screen it right there. I'll let it rot out there and I'll bring a screener down there and we'll screen it right there. Bring our equipment and screen it there. And we should probably monitor it from what Mr. Mona just said.
Oh, as far as the smell, I like I said, I think it's pretty far back. I don't think it's going to be an issue, but um and again, I'm it's going to dry out. So once it dries, before I even move it. So they want me a day or two before it gets moved. So if the only smell would be near Lake Street, which there's really no houses I kind of close to that area.
I know there's just a couple homes like I think at least Well, you got Yeah, you got one across the street there, a couple across the street and up the road, but I don't think it's going to There are plenty of cows in that neighborhood still. Mr. Chairman, if I could just ask Mr. Manard, I've gotten several residents. I
I believe it's Union Street. It's down here off of South Main Street. The road's a complete disaster. Okay. It's a little road that goes across from uh Lawson, I think it is. It crosses through Lawson. Y I think it's Union Street. Y um can we take a look at that road? Cuz
that that might be something that we may be interested in paving or overlay. I don't know if it's an overlay cuz I think that road is like 10,000 years old. Yeah. And that's probably either it's probably chip seal or something like that. The most of them down there are chip seal. I know you're busy right now with
Hanland Street drainage Dan. So, I'm going to take a ride down there, but it's like I can't escape the residence. Not that I'm trying to pick on you because I'm here for all my residents, but when I go to captain's place, it seems like I run into somebody that lives on Union Street, right? And I'm like, okay, I got it. There's three of
them now that have have hit me up for it. So, so this is like the problem with some of them roads because them are probably unaccepted. A lot of them are unaccepted down there. I'm not positive, you know, but so that's when I usually use millings and stuff. I do help everybody that's unaccepted. I paved,
but as far as paving, I think we should take them all over. Tell you the truth, that's my opinion. I love to pave them all and it's less work. It's easier for me. And does that help us with our like funding too? Like Sure does. That's if you accept if you accept all them streets.
Um I mean I we got like 30 something of them that you know again we're maintaining and doing things to them anyway. crazy. Let's go. Let's all go bonkers in one year. But if we can if we should take a look at these things, right, and be a little bit more
proactive instead of reactive. So, let's just let's get a list of ones that we are maintaining and like Union, let's take a look at that one, right? I think we owe it to those folks. I mean, that's been I mean, one of the oldest neighborhoods in in the town. Let's take a look at that and and see
what that get a price together on doing that. And like I said, Mr. going on said I think it's going to be it does help our chapter 9 funding and everything else. I think that's a good thing. So something to think about, you know, in the future. Okay, sounds good. Well, Dan, thank you again for all your work. I know it's not
easy, especially this time of year. All right, you guys have a good night. How many more days on hammer? Well, I got a little bit there. And again, you see the Everything looks good on a piece of paper. Today was another one. So, uh, we got there. The the engineer draw the water man like 5 ft
from where it it is. I know. I have to I have to catch basing right up against the water man. It just fit to get in there. Um, the manhole that was built wrong, but I got the manholes built like over the year two years ago. So, who am I going to go after the guy? The manholes wrong. We had to cut it. And
so, it's just I was there for that one. One of them. Uh, yeah. No, no, the second one the same way. Oh, there's another one upstream now. get used to it then. How's that sound? Thank god you ain't got that much further to go. Like four more houses to go, right? You're you're stopping what? Just below the middle road area.
Yes. Before you cuz there's a sump pump that's there that needs to be tied in the corner house of Hanland in the middle. Correct. There's a sump pump outlet there that needs to be captured cuz And again, a lot of stuff wasn't even on the plan. Like we just went by one. There was a sub pump there. Hey, we had to tie that in there. So, you know, so the stuff that ain't on the planet just
it is what it is. Yeah. But I mean, they ain't going to know where somebody's sub pump drains are. No. No. Well, I mean, they could have told me with water. They didn't get like marked out the water services. So, like I had to kind of go in between the water services that Oh, I know. I see one, too. I know. I get what you're dealing with. But
when I had to lift the news was going right where the water service was, so I had to raise the water. The good news, Dan, is when we're doing it, I'm sure you're updating your records to identify exactly where everything is. And I got like we trying to put stuff on computers as well. So, we do got most of the stuff on computer, but so now I can
have the computer in my thing. So we go to the house and okay it shows us where our services is where for the next guy I don't get screwed. So now I'm trying to tell Eric to take pictures while we're there and throw the pictures in with the with our paper record. So now you record you got a picture of what we got we did
there you know. So we're trying but I tell you a lot of old records. Well not only do we have old records we have a lot of old piping right. Yeah. So some of the stuff that we got a lot of infrastructure work that needs to be done. Crazy. I mean, it's tremendous the amount of
infrastructure that we need to improve in this town, but we'll get we'll get to you. Yep. Take a wait. That's all you can do. All right, guys. Have a good night. Thank you. Cheers. Thanks, Dan. All right. The next item, we do have an
executive session. Go over MOA. Um, any announcements, gentlemen? There was one there's one issue that I want to bring to your attention. Apparently, uh, over the weekend, there was, uh, gentleman who was a level one
offender at the park, um, during the baseball tournament that, uh, our park department, police department, we're all over it. But one of the things I've discovered in this process is apparently um towns are able to adopt bylaws that
would prohibit somebody who's registered as an offender from being at public places with children, whether it be parks or what have you. Uh we don't have a bylaw in place. So it's something that we should look into, make that a top
priority um for the fall town meeting. Um, but you know, we've got the situation under control um, at this point, but I just want to at least raise that issue. That's something that we should think about. Um, and Jamie is going to do some research on on what that is.
Good. All right. Uh, to future business, I guess we can kind of just um figure out when we need to meet again. Maybe we meet on the 5th. We want to get into people like when they're going to be around and not because we don't want to advertise that. But uh you know uh I
think we can kind of call meetings as we need. Yeah. Um if you want to do I sorry Mr. Chairman I had mentioned um you weren't in the office but I was giving Sydney the heads up on my vacation. I had mentioned that I blocked off the Friday before I leave which is the 8th. If you have clean up
that you want to take care of um so we can handle whatever we couldn't get to on the week that I'm gone. Um I do have that Friday available. All right. Sounds good. We'll keep that in mind. Appreciate it. All right. Next, uh so we'll go into executive session and we will not be returning.
Executive session under the general law chapter 3A section 21 subsection A2 to discuss strategy sessions in preparation for negotiations with non-union personnel to conduct collective bargaining sessions or contract negotiations with non-union personnel
fire chief MOA 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. The motion will go into executive session. So move. Second. Mr. Gas roll call vote. Yes. Mr. Hankley. Yes.
And I have a yes. We're in executive session. [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey.
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