We are on today is Tuesday July 8th 2025. It's a meeting of the Christian board of selection. Uh there's 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 allegiance 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. First item on the agenda is a
liquor license transfer at Blondville's Market. Notice is hereby given under chapter 138, section 15 of the Mass Journal laws. An open board of selectments meeting will be held at the Christian town hall which is located at 122 Main Street in meeting room on
Tuesday, July 8th at 4 p.m. to approve a transfer a package store all alcohol license from Barnville's Market of Golden Liquors Corp. with the premises consists of one large retail space with storage consists of 2244
square ft located at 142 South Main Street in Kushnet Mass. Uh there's representatives here from the uh applicant. Yes, sir. My name is Christopher Flood and with me today is JJ Shihara. How are you? Mr. Shihara is going to operate the new liquor store. Okay.
Under the name Golden Liquors. All right. Great. Looks like you've uh you have some experience in the business and uh done this before, right? Yes. I think we gave his experience on the um on the application. Yep.
Why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself? Less for us, but more an opportunity. It's like an infomercial, free uh free advertising for you, the the public. Yeah. Yes, I do. My name is is judges. Uh so a little nervous and your English is
or if you sir, if you want to speak on his behalf, that's fine, too. I just wanted to make sure you had a chance. He does have some experience certainly in service with decor and he turned out over his um his financials. So you see he's qualified to own this business. He's under agreement to both purchase the the real estate and the business. Um
we're expecting to close sometime in August on both parcels. It is subject also to the the liquor license being approved by the town. Great. One thing, you know, look, that we expect of all of our applicants and is making sure that absolutely
absolutely no underage sales, you know, and so I'm sure you'll you'll you'll make sure that that doesn't happen. Um, and you know, that's our big expectation. Okay. And he is certainly aware of that. I don't think that the the tips training applies when they're not actually serving the alcohol, but part of what
they often do is, you know, remind you that you can't serve to anybody under under 21. So you can be well aware of that. Make sure check every item. Doesn't matter if it's me, an old man or somebody who looks a little bit younger, you know. So we also spoke about make sure you store the alcohol in a safe place and doors
aren't open to the public except the main doors, you know. So he he is aware of that obligation and the responsibilities that go with presence. All right, gentlemen. Any uh questions, thoughts, or concerns? I do not, Mr. Chairman. All right. Is there a motion to approve? So
moved. Second. All those in favor? car. Congratulations. Good luck. My understanding is from here it gets uh transferred from here to the ABCC. Yes. They conduct their own independent investigation. Yeah. And then someday they let you know when they're done.
Keep keep us posted, you know, on what we've had some of that sometimes things get bogged down. Again, I know that sometimes they're short staff, but if we can help facilitate that, we will. Um, so I had some communications with a representative. I'm not sure if that was you, ma'am, but someone who sort of walked me through getting to the meeting
today. And so what I'll I'll see if I can find out who the investigator is. Okay. Cuz sometimes I have a connection with one of the administrators, find out who the investigator is, and then I'll keep you involved. And Sounds good. Both of us. That's the best you can do with the ABCC. Yeah. Yeah. They they do best they can.
Thank you. Good luck. Thank you for allowing us to come here today. Thanks. All right. Nice to see you. Next item. We got a few uh one-day liquor licenses for the Apple Peach for the Aushnet Lions Club uh for September
6th and 7th. Motion to approve. So moved. Second. All those in favor? I motion carries. All right. Next item is uh from Mark Mitten, the conservation agent. He has submitted his resignation
um in effective July 11th. I know we've we're working with the conservation commission and Mr. Kelly to put together a roadmap moving forward. We had a a meeting with them a couple weeks ago and
um you know confident that we'll be able to put together a structure and something that will serve the residents and people who come into town uh looking to do business uh for the Kushnet. So um it might not look exactly how it is now.
Um but I think at the end end of the day we'll we'll be able to uh take care of this without missing a beat. Jamie, any anything from you at this point? I have a meeting with the chair on Thursday. Okay, good. All right. Sounds good. Is there a motion to accept the resignation?
So moved. Second. All those in favor? I motion carries. All right. We've got some end of the uh end of the fiscal transfers. I'll turn it over to the Jamie and Jamie show. J&J. Uh
we you originally had some transfers before you on the last meeting that was to make sure we were covered. Uh subsequently uh Jamie Lynn did a deep dive on a
number of them and also uh insisted on the proper pro process and procedure. Mhm. where at some uh for the reserve transfer and some of
the transfers it requires both the fincom and this board to vote on it. Other transfers require only this board to vote on it.
uh that has been ignored in the past with the new finance department being the way it is. Uh we are insisting on all the proper process and procedure
and so Jamie will go over uh what uh she has uh put together for you folks and hopefully it will get this train running on the right
track and and down the right direction. All right, sounds good. Good evening gentlemen. Good evening. So as you can see the um we changed the um reserve fund transfers a little bit
after our deep dive into the expenses and transfers that will need to be done. So the fire you know got the fire department the police and then the liability insurance have those amounts there. The 7,300 16,000 1999.
Um, so it was a pretty straightforward reserve fund. The departmental I looked into uh the uh liability insurance was added because of uh when we went into the IOD
on uh the injured line of duty public safety. We felt that that was the best way to do that because uh of the situation where we have someone out on injured on duty.
Okay. I think the board knows. Yeah. Who who we're talking about, but HIPPA precludes us from saying more. We don't need to say anymore. So, would you like a motion to approve the reserve fund transfers now? Please
make a motion to approve the reserve fund transfer request in the amount of $43,200 from the reserve fund balance. Second in favor and Jamie have prepared the form. Uh we
have asked the FinCom to be prepared to meet on it and they're meeting tomorrow night and it'll be presented to them at that point and that way we'll be able to complete this process by the 15th.
Yes. Correct. Anything else? So below that is a departmental request. So these are are departments that had a negative balance in you know the account either could be salaries could be
expenses where they didn't have the funds to cover it in the their you know opposite line. So that's what those are and the funding for those it'll be an interdep departmental transfer. So the funding is the ones listed below and on the second
page for a total of $263,100. Okay. So, Jamie Lyn, I'm I'm a bit confused on what you just said. So, we have we need to request a departmental transfer. We just got these I just got this new
document just now. So, I just blew through all the numbers. Made sure the math was right. Good news. It is. But do you, Mr. Kelly, do you you need us to read these individual line items to amount the cuz the 263 100 that's
I think a motion I think a motion as presented uh as presented with the bottom line amounts instructing the uh finance department to take it from the proposed uh
funding sources funding sources and to transfer to the deficits, the departmental deficits will be tried. Mr. Chairman, I'll make a motion to approve the amount in the amount of $263,100
for the departmental transfer request from the funding sources as presented. Second. All those in favor? I I carries. Now, so and that'll be presented to the FIT count too. And then the last section is the
interdep departmental. This is where if their salaries is overexpended but they have funding and expenses we can transfer it allows us to transfer the funds with just a you know select vote inside of them. Yeah. Anywhere from anybody's budget to supplement somebody else's budget.
No it has to be within the same budget within the same like the council on aging with salaries. Salaries and expenses salaries to expenses with just your vote. Yeah. Okay. So that's what these all are. All right. Do you want us to read this
one line item by line item or do you want me just to say motion to approve the intra departmental transfers between salaries and expenses as presented? That would be nice. That's my motion. Motion second. All those in favor? Motion carries.
I appreciate it, guys. Thank you. Thank you. Before you uh head out, stay there for a second. I know the next item we want to talk about is some of some operational stuff that's going on to close out the books for the end of
the year. Um, so Jamie, if you want to walk us through that for for either one of you because I know Jamie V, you've got ownership of a bunch of things. So I just wanted to make sure that you get the proper recognition for that. Um, you can talk about that a little bit. So Jamie, if you guys can tag me in this.
All right. uh for the FY25 final payroll. Uh there was uh the finance department and the treasur collector's office found some minor discrepancy in uh steel
worker and non-contractual personnel salary rates. They were adjusted so that it was reflected in the final payroll. uh it was within the original budgets
and uh all the correction were done. Uh I met with Todd Hasset on the chart of accounts. Uh as you know there were two town meeting articles that funded it. It will
be this uh start date will be August 1. Uh, we have a munus access fee of $28,000 and Todd says that everything else will be fine and uh we have to do the
scheduling of a commencement meeting with Munice and he says late fall he'll be completed. Okay, Mr. Kelly. Yes. the 20,000 28,000 munus access fee that's coming out of the 50,000 that
we've gone appropriated. Yes. Uh FY closing FY25 closing of accounts. Jamie B is going to be responsible for that. Uh if there are any questions, Todd said he'd be glad to answer them.
Uh we are looking at schedule A recap free cash certification estimated completion September. Before we go on to the next thing. So Jamie, you're you're overseeing that. You're owning that. Just for the general
public, just kind of explain what that process is like. What are things that you're looking for? Um and I know you you've met with the school department, right? To try to make sure that we're all on the same page there. So just give us a little bit of insight on that process and what you're doing to
so it's one it's primarily you know going through the making sure all the budgets are going to balance making sure we get all the journal entries where they need to go with the school it was a lot of the grants moving fund you know moving expense like salaries to appropriate grants when will the grants
funding become you know we know when the money is coming in if it hasn't yet so we can account for that um and minutes is a lot of getting making sure all the bills are paid, making sure the incumbrance is accurate, which is what we're trying to do now.
Like we have like a deadline of July 15th, so you get for our last time we can charge anything 425 unless it's an incumbrance. So we're doing a big push and trying to get paperless for a lot of the utility accounts so that way we can get them sooner and get them processed
as soon as we can. Um, department heads have been great getting us all the information, you know, so we can get through it. Payroll side is done. So, that was, you know, that was a task, but done. Um, so a lot of it's just, you know,
making sure everything's cleaned up and organized and ready to go on for the next year. So, I would just ask, you know, we've talked about it offline, but as you're going through this process, if there's anything that stands out, like how it was done versus how it now should be done. Yeah.
Um, I think it would be good to report back once you have a chance to go through this process. Um, and, you know, connect the dots on what improvements you you've implemented. Y um because I think, you know, it's going to be incredibly frustrating. I just
think over time like there's a lot of creep of bad habits that just kind of like well that's the way it's always been done right so this is a chance to get some fresh set of eyes on this and um hopefully that will then give us a better understanding of where the money's going how it's being spent and
you know ultimately when the school when the finance committee gets into their budget season you know we're able to we can provide them a report of you know what what was appropriated what's being spent and monthly by monthly to see if there's any trends or whatever. Um, you
know, I think that would be really helpful to them. So, now one of the things that with the Munice um start in August, we should be hopefully getting content managers. One of the things that was voted in and that will relieve a lot um a lot of paperwork
and copying. So, what it'll be is everything will be scanned in the invoices will come over just single invoice to our office. will process it, but then we're going to scan into the system. The department, we're going to give access to department heads to see munis. They can look at their own budgets so they can keep track of it.
They can look and see if invoices have been paid. And so that way there's no constant questions to our office. Was this processed? You know, what's taken so long? What's our budget? So that way it'll all be there and then we don't have to store all the invoices. Like
right now we've got file cabinets full of just invoices. It's just crazy where it'll all be in the system. You can look it up anytime you want. Good. You know, so it was streamlined a whole lot. That's great. Okay, keep going. You think your filing cabinets are for you see the seller?
I know. I I did. I took a tour. I've been there just recently. Yeah. No. All right. So, can I ask a question, Mr. Chairman? So, we're talking about what what you are doing in some of your deadlines. Jamie Jamie Lynn and what he talked
about with Todd with the um updating of Munice, the chart of accounts and things of all like it's not going to interfere with how we have to get the schedule a done for and all those deadlines when he's upgrading on one side. She's inputting into the old system. I just don't want to
it converts he's it's it's going to be one falls into the other. Okay. Just making sure that Yeah. and and and the school's already on it, a new chart of accounts. Okay, good.
Yeah. And I've talked to Todd about it and you know, we're going to work together to try and like fix some of you know the account names and you know, it'll it'll be much cleaner, much easier to work with going forward. And have we updated the budgets that
were just voted at town meeting? They're already online and everybody can stop putting things in and see where their budget is and doing the subtraction. They don't have munus access yet. A lot of department heads don't. Um that's something I I going to work on building
kind of like account access for each of the department, but they can see their budget and see where town accountants office is taking monies from, right? From they put in a line item. Some of them don't have access. We have to give them a report every month or whenever they choose.
Oh, really? Yeah. So, like um like police for instance, I think I've sent them a report every every week so they can see where their budget was, you know, so they don't have access. So, that's one of my biggest things is get every department access so they can
control their own budget. They can see where, you know, what they have funding in each line. They can see with their budget lines, you know, how much is available, what's expense, what's been paid, but that's all they can do. They can't do manipulate lines. N
they don't have administrative access. No. Correct. Viewing rights only. Correct. Yep. They don't we don't need anybody and that'll making her job or anybody else in the office jobs more complicated saying. How did that happen? Well, it's almost read only,
right? and and it's going the police is going to inter mesh with the program that you guys have been paying for for seven years and not using for the scheduling and we're going to make sure about the
detail billing too. Uh so uh FY26 accounts I put a date of August. It's already done. Done. Good. All right. Keep going. Okay. Cool. And uh that brings me to
uh starting the discussion on a fall town meeting. I'm looking at September, maybe the be very beginning of October. I'd like to get I've talked to all departments who are uh involved in
setting the tax rate. I'd like to get the tax rate uh set by midocctober. end of October. Uh I think it would be appropriate for
the tax rate to be set and folks to know what's going on before they have to make a decision in the fall on the uh debt exclusion uh on our colony. we'll have all our
financial stuff done before that goes that discussion goes because I don't want to have a discussion on the tax rate at the same time as uh that whole discussions going on. All right. So what do we if you like
last year I remember remember correctly things dragged on. So Jamie, if you can put together a I mean I think late September might be a little ambitious. Maybe early October might be a better time frame for people just cuz you need a little bit of time
to you know recover from why you put together a recommendation. Let let us put together where we are as far as putting all the finances together, right? because we need to have a town
meeting and I want to put have the town meeting after free cash is certified. I checked with the state. We get it in by a certain point. Free cash is certified. We go to town meeting and then you know
where you stand to set the tax rate. Okay. Well, Mark, come up with a What are we going to town meeting for? What are we certifi What's I mean I know you somebody's anticipating spending free cash already. Uh yes.
Okay. That's news to me but uh just in case the fall fall meetings like policy related stuff. Yeah. The issue we're dealing the issue we're dealing with with uh the attorney from New Guford.
Say that again. the issue we're dealing with. Oh, what I know what you're saying. Yeah, we don't need to speak anymore on that. It's be very premature to have that conversation right now, but I want to leave that opening. Yeah, I understand what you're talking about, right? And we also have, you
know, the golf course and the uh you know, the facility over there potentially. So, you know, I think there might be something uh to be deal. All right. Uh, go. Anything else, Jamie, that you want
to leave us with? No, I think we're, you know, we're moving the law right along, getting the everything done and closed up, and 26 will be better. All right. Thank you. Thank you for your work. 25's been pretty good since you've been here. Thank you. Thank you for the work that you do upstairs. You're a very
dedicated employee and I really appreciate your service to this community. Thank you very much. And Mr. Chairman, if I may, Jamie, if there's anything that we can do to make your job easier, I know you're really just jumping in, tackling everything you can, um, just keep giving us information
on what would make your job easier if it's something we have to approve and we'll go for. I know we had a brief offline discussion earlier. Um, but we're all in full support watching the changes happening and you seem like you know what you're doing and you seem like
you're a little bit more less stressed out about it. So, we appreciate you. I appreciate that. Thank you. Go ahead. Both good work. Thank you. All right. Next are assessment center delegation letters and the RFP. Mr. Kelly, what do
you got for us? Uh, you've got copies of the delegation letters. We finally after dancing for a year with civil service and they changed the letters midterm on
us. We got what they say are the final drafts and uh uh I'd like to get board's comments and see if the board wants to vote to uh
sign and send back to human resources division civil service to at least get those done. Uh I talked to civil service and they're still insisting on individual
be the as far as they're concerned be the administrator delegation administrator. I told them they the board would like to be they said the chair they would prefer
the chair of the board but the board can then designate the board as the administrator the chairman can designate the board as the the administrative delegation. Right. So this just shows the type of dosey do
dance we've been going through Mr. Chairman. Yeah. So, you know, I spent a good amount of time comparing the two documents, deputy chief, police chief, and then I was kind of appalled that we had two different documents, and I spoke
on it last time. If the delegation letters are identical, which they are, I I don't know if Mr. Kelly's had a conversation with HR who has held us up for over a year now, which is appalling
after I noticed the changes that they've had, the minor changes they've had. But I still don't if it's going to cost us more money, why couldn't we just do the, like I said last time, a police chief assessment center. First person gets
police chief. Second person highest score after all the rankings would be up for consideration for deputy chief. I don't know what the added expenses for the two seeing on the delegation letters are identical. I don't know what the cost for the assessment center if it
would change at all or they would just put a ranking on them and say okay this is what it is. I really don't know. I'm concerned about the cost because I pulled the 2019 delegation letter I
finally found and after a year of delay from civil service under article 4 there is only three changes and I don't even get what they mean. Review and make a determination of all
makeup requests submitted by candidates. review and make a determination of all reasonable accommodations requests submitted by candidates, provide suitable accommodations for those requests that have been granted. They kind of seem not really in order. Um,
they're there, I guess, and just assume what order they go in, but those are the only three changes to delegation letter that we've been postponing over a year on. I'm appalled at civil services actions
that they've hung us up for a year for three lousy sentences. Period. I've checked the document from 19 to this one as I did each one over and over and everything is verbatim word
for word from the 2019 one that I have right here. And we waited wasted a year. Okay. I mean, it's it's look, it's it's appalling to me. I'm sure it's
appalling to our sergeants that have been waiting and through this process to go through the assessment center um to the town's people. But I again I I it's here neither here or there. It is what it is at this point. But again my big
question comes is can we and what is the difference of cost associated with doing I guess the assessment center if they're going to look at this delegation letter and the assessment center is going to say okay this is what it is there can't be any difference in an assessment
center for police chief and deputy chief what's the difference really there isn't a whole lot of difference in those two rankings the civil service when I discussed it with them when you can find them since they're all remote
and they haven't gone back to the office yet. Uh they said that the board can ask the chosen vendor of
the assessment center to add one or two additional exercises for the deputy chief position beyond the chief position. That sounds counterintuitive because chief is I deputy chief.
That's what I said to them. And they said, "Well, there might be something that you would be giving to the deputy chief that the chief wouldn't do." And I said, "But we can run the assessment
center at the same time." They said, "Yes." What? They said, "But you might have someone also who applies for the deputy chief that's not applying for
the uh chief." And so that type of exercise, I don't know if you could do that because there's a requirement of so many of them to have to take for the chief's exam, right? So there's that minimum quota. Well, so we wouldn't we the board
of selection would have the authority to say that's not going to be acceptable if there was one person that said, "Hey, because now you've fallen below the threshold, so you can't allow it, right?" So, it's just I mean, I'm all set. I mean, I'm all good with the
delegation letter, Mr. Chairman, if that's if that's what we're looking for. It's just a few questions of how much it's going to cost to run the assessment center and could we get away with not depending on the difference it costs. I guess that's what we put it out for an RFP,
right, to maybe talk to these folks. We got that time so they'll approve the delegation letter. I I asked uh civil service. I said to me the most important part of putting the RFP out and getting
the vendors is to have this board interview the vendors not only on a cost basis but on a what they're going to what they're going to
provide in services. to have this board be confident in the vendor they're using. They agreed with me on that concept. Uh and they said that's why you can run both uh
set of applicants through the same assessment center. You can have the same exercises or add exercises to the deputy chief. And I know what you're saying, Kevin, about like just combining them, but I mean, I don't
know, somebody somebody who might say, "I have zero interest in being a chief. I would be totally good with being a deputy chief." And if that person who had that mindset was forced to take the chief's position, you take the chief's test and they scored the highest and was
the best, right? They'd be like, you know, and is that something that would materialize? I don't know. I don't know either. But like I just think going with two separate things and we we deal with the with the company that we hire to make sure we get the best price and let that process go
forward. It's very clear to who you know the candidates. Yeah. I don't pick what they want to do, prepare for it that way. It's very linear and then we just deal with a company. I think if you put the RFP out and say you want a
proposal that includes both options, one just uh you run parallels, right? You see what deputy chief assessment center looks like versus police chief assessment center looks like and then you can see like I did with this document what are the what are the differences cuz the delegation letters are identical. So
thus far nothing's different which is kind of BS, right? But the assessment center they say well we will leave these two modes out of deputy chief those are those modes are left for police chief and then it comes down to again there's a minimum threshold for
how many siders we we are required to put through the chief's assessment I think we only have four so you can only have one that says I'm all set I only want to do 10 you know you might have that case so to be fair to that I guess if it's a valid point um and we'll to see what the
difference is. I don't think at that point if there's one the additional cost I think is minutia rate. So he's the chairman I I get let's let it roll and I given the board a a preliminary copy of an RFP town council and I have
looked at would like the board to look at it and we can sit down and go through it. uh each board member offline with me and or Darren and then you can approve it. We'll send it out and we'll see.
Can we Can we at least do this delegation letter tonight? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Let's just do that then and then and we'll get we got to get like a stamp on the delegation letter. So, we're good. We have to send it back to HR. So, I don't know what the what the board
wants to do. Um I know that we had talked about this that and the other thing but I will tell you reviewing the 2019 document gentlemen it was the chairman of the board selectman in the previous document I'll do it I don't care it doesn't matter
we had some reservations about doing it but when I pulled 2019 it's the chairman of the board of selected so I know Mr. Dley and I had some reservations, but after I seen that document, I'm like, I I think I have a little bit more confidence in the new
chairman than I did that previous chairman. I won't mention names. No, I won't go there, but I'll I'll gladly sign it and take the direction of the board. I won't be doing I won't be going rogue. I can promise you. So, could I have a motion to execute
for the board to approve and execute the delegation letters for both deputy chief and police chief? Yep. I'll make that motion. Second. All those in favor? Motion carries. So then this RFP would like me to hold off on that. I would like to I just put it on the
agenda. So now it's up for discussion and the board can review it. Okay. As I said, town council and I have looked at it, but it's got to be refined and I want the board to uh be involved in that. So, with that, gentlemen,
uh I'd like to propose because we've got some scheduling issues, uh a meeting Friday, July 18th in the between 10 and 2. I don't know if Mr. Gasper, if you're available that day.
Yeah, if you are. I don't book things. I don't know what's changing. My schedule can change. You don't buy green bananas, right? So, I don't know what to tell you, but we can do we can preliminary set that date. It's next week. It's not that far away, but I want to this way we can clean up everything. Yeah, it's not that far.
It's already next week. Next week. I don't think I got anything going on yet. So, so we can do July 18th at 10:00 a.m. Would that be okay? 11. Okay. 11. We can do all we can get this issue done. Any cleanup of things that we got
to do housekeeping wise, internally. Um and then you know we'll we'll pick it back up the beginning of August if need be. Um so anyway uh if you guys are good with that. Um and then we got the fire chief MOA. Uh gentlemen uh Mr. Chairman
if I may. Yeah. Um the last time we spoke uh we had gone over you don't have any information in front of you. Um I have sent language over with Jamie. we were working this morning to get reviewed by town council to address what we discussed in
executive session. Um there was two items that I shared with you guys. One of them we said no. One of them we have to work on some language. Um at this point because we don't have the language. Not going to ask for a motion until we
show what the final MOA is. Um Darren said he would have the language looked at, reviewed by tomorrow and any possible changes. Once we get that back in, um I'll have Jamie give you guys a copy of it and if we have to put it on the 18th meeting, it should be fine by
then. Um essentially what we discussed in executive session, we I did exactly that. I just want to make sure that the language is legal and clear and clear. Um, I was hoping to have it done by today, but Darren couldn't get to it um
before the meeting. So, rather than vote tonight on something you don't have in front of you, Yep. I would request that we do it on the 18th. I normally don't do that. So, I know. All right. Good stuff. Uh, thank you. Uh, gentlemen, any selectman
announcements? We're going to executive session. other than storm drains have not been cleaned after the last storm for all you out in the general public if you may be watching this. So, it's possible we're going to have two to three inches of rain overnight. It's possible. I am not
a weather man, but I do look at the weather um thunderstorms, wind gusts tonight again, so it's possible with the storm drains not being cleaned out from the previous storm, we could experience road flooding worse than what we seen last Thursday night. So, please be
careful if you're commuting through the night hours. I am good, sir. All right. Yeah. Regarding the storm, just wanted to uh you know, call out a few folks. I know DPW is out there and, you know, our police department, fire
department. I know they've been they were in contact with us. Um, you know, we're in contact with Anthony from Eversource. That's that's you know like a really tough job and they don't make anybody not everybody happy but I know that you know Anthony did a great job
keeping me informed um and you know real time what was going on the neighborhoods that they were working on uh so thank you to them uh and all the crew but also a couple unsung heroes uh in my opinion over at the golf course. I don't know if you guys knew this or not, but we were
out we were without power at the golf course for a long period of time and Dana was able to still get people golfing without a cash register and uh you know being able to process stuff. Um, I know Steve Tibbles was doing some work, but we did have also a a town
resident who stepped in, Bob Muna, who knows the Eversource world pretty well. And um, because what the threat was was not being able to run our irrigation and with the heat, we we ran the risk of blowing out our our fairways and greens
in the hot weather. So, uh, shout out to those folks, um, to protect a really important asset, um, and, you know, storms are storms, but, you know, we kind of forget, oh, the golf course. We don't have a generator. We got to get a generator over here. I think, you know,
um, a lot of bad stuff can happen. It's an important um, asset that we've got to maintain and protect over there. So, thank you, Gator and Steve and Mr. Um, okay. With that said, uh, we'll set the next meeting July 18th at 11:00 a.m. and
we'll go into an executive session. We've got some central office stuff that I wanted the board to to talk about. Um, and then hopefully, uh, you know, we'll get things moving in the right direction. So with that, executive session number one, executive session of the Mass General Law, chapter 3A,
section 21A, subsection two, to conduct strategy session in preparation for negotiations with non-UN personnel to conduct collective bargaining sessions or contract negotiations with non-UN personnel, town administrator, board of selectments office, and the chair so
declares that the board will not return to public session at the conclusion of the executive session. Is there a motion to go into executive session? So move. Second. Roll call vote. Mr. Gasper, yes. Mr. Hankley, yes. Yes. You will go into executive session.
Yeah.