[Music] Today is Friday, May 16th, 1:30 p.m. It's a meeting of the Aushnet Board of Selectmen. Is there a motion to call the
meeting to order? So moved. Second. All those in favor. Motion carries. As a reminder, this meeting will be audio and video recorded. Please rise for the allegiance. I 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. Um, we've got a pretty pretty beefy agenda, but I'm going to go out of order. Uh, we've got our town moderator here. Uh, so no sense in him waiting around for us to do our other business.
We'll go over the the warrant and the articles. Um, so with that, if you could turn to that in your book, turn it over to Mr. Kelly to walk us through this. We do have a number of these that are sort of consent items that are proform. Um, but go ahead. Uh, yeah, this is, uh, the
articles in the warrant. We do the budget at another meeting, Mr. Chairman. Article one, uh, is the typical receive reports. Article two is to pay prior year bills.
We don't have any. It'll be in the warrant, but it will not probably be moved. Article three is the peg uh cable access. Uh four four and five. Well,
article three through article 10 is the consent agenda. It's in the uh warrant every year and it's just various articles to allow the town to spend
chapter 90, the fair share amendment, etc. Uh article uh 11 is going to be taken care of in the budget. So I ask that that be removed.
So moved. Second. All those in favor? I motion carries. Article uh 12 here will be renumbered of course and I ask that the fire EMS vehicle repair fund line be
taken out of the table. Uh that'll be taken care of in the budget. Okay. That's what we just voted on, right? Yep. So that was article 11. So, article 12 has it listed as one of the revolving funds,
which we're just removing that as a revolving fund. Just Kelly said, it'll be part of the budget. All right. And we'll just assume as far as the numbering of the articles, we go through it. Uh, I'm going to
ask that article 13 be changed to $30,000 for the MS for consulting services. Okay. and article 14 be increased to
70,000 for the storm water MS4 stabilization fund. Is there a motion? So moved. Second. Uh the net's going to be the same, but it's just putting it in uh various changing it to stabilization
more. uh article 15 compensated absence 50,000 that is to take care of buyback and to build up the fund because we know in 3 to four years there's going to be major retirements
at the schools and there very likely will be some in town. Okay. Uh health insurance stabilization fund. I ask that that amount be decreased and it be 150 total.
Motion to approve. Second. All in favor? Okay. Motion carries. Uh the OPED trust account articles should be 100,000. Y Okay. the general stabilization fund. I ask that that be
decreased to a 100,000 from 200,000. Okay. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Second. All those in favor? I. I ask that the capital expense stabilization fund which is now 100,000 be increased
to 200,000. Motion to approve. Second. All those in favor? the opioid settlement fund transfer article $9,1928 is something that has to be done every year with the opioid settlement
funds. Okay. Uh there's an article here for the acceptance of Mass General Law chapter 59 section 5 and veteran tax warroff program. It's the acceptance of the
statute. It does not cost anything. I'm going to probably renumber that and put that elsewhere in the budget. Okay. Uh veterans tax workoff program funding through this article and the senior tax
workoff program funding through this article. I'm going to ask that they be removed. That'll be taken up in a different manner through the overlook removed from the whole are we looking it's funding
Mr. Chairman we're not abolishing the programs. No no absolutely not. It's a senior program in the veterans program. When we get to that later on we'll have that discussion about how they're funded. Um and it's not through free cash. Okay. Uh youth employee service program
$30,000. that will remain. Okay. School roof ban repayment $275,000. That'll take care of half of the remaining 250 here. Is that We're bumping it up to 275. Mike says 275.
It's 275. Oh, it's wrong inside. So, he's in the different parties. So, he's in the table. Where's the table? I got the table right here. Yeah. See, it says 275 there in your thing. It's
wrong. We description. That's going to change on a bunch of different ones. Jamie, you just got to mark that up. Right. Dave bought that. And for the
capital item that I'm asking to increase to Uh 665. Thank you. I have a lot 665,000. Mr. What is that? You jump into article 26.
Correct, Mr. Kelly? Yep. So that table cumulative balance is 665,000. What's the reason? Uh some of those articles on 26 change. So it changes this. That's a that's a the one that we're on the table on page 22 of the bottom
t this number is cumulative from 26. You got to jump that up to code 26 which change the cumulative total. Okay. Got it. Just some rearranging with 66500 0. uh
the article verbiage up to article 26 will be changed and the numbers uh for what's in the various stabilization accounts will be the numbers that we get
off Munice exactly when we go to printing that way town meeting will have current figures of what's in all the stabilization accounts. Okay, it changes month to month, week to week
depending on interest. Article 26, purch this is the general free cash capital funding article. uh purchasing an installation of a new
compressor for filling SCBA bottles requested by the fire department not to exceed $80,000. Motion to approve. Second fir.
Update hardware, software, printers, and copers requested by the IT department not to exceed 40,000. Motion to approve. Second. All in favor? Motion carries. Two police cruisers, purchase of two
police cruisers and retrofit from the police department not to exceed $150,000. Motion to approve. Second. All those in favor. I. Motion carries. services to
update chart of accounts from the accounting department. This will be combined with an existing article. This article itself is not to exceed 30,000. The prior article was 20. The reason for this is we're not in
compliance with the uniform Massachusetts accounting system. Motion motion to approve. Second. All in favor? I motion carries. Uh uh the next is installing 4
HAC units to complete the HVAC repair and updates at the COA. And this uh is requested by the COA. It's not to exceed $40,000. That's a change. Motion to approve. Second. There
is some grant money available on this. Okay. To purchase a used truck for the maintenance and plowing town buildings. Uh has requested it not to
exceed 45,000. Motion to approve. Second. Those in favor? I carried. uh general code compilation update not to exceed 5,000 requested by the town clerk.
Motion to approve. Second. All those in favor. To purchase a street sweeper requested by DPW not to exceed $275,000.
Motion to approve. All those in favor I uh article 27 in this packet but it'll be renumbered to see if the town will vote to transfer 200,000 from EMS re receipt reserve account and to borrow
the sum of 650,000 to fund the purchase of a fire truck. And then the rest of the language is the authorization for the borrowing. Motion to approve. Second. All those in
favor. Car. The next article is the CPC article. What you see up front as far as appropriations are what is mandated by the Commonwealth on a year-to-year basis. However, the actual
expenditures are in the table that follows. The administration uh is $13,000 and that is mandated. We rarely spend it. Then it reverts to undesated
uh re uh relocation of historic memorials at the Russell Library from the undesated balance. 60,000 Mr. Chairman. Yes, sir. Mr. Kelly, correct me if I'm wrong. I just want to
verify. So 60,000 because we don't know an official price on this. I still don't believe it's going to cost 60,000. We don't have to spend the 60 just so people know that goes back to undesated expend all of it. It it's up to Okay.
You would have to you would have to whatever is not expended on moving that memorial. You would have to dissolve the article in a future town meeting for it to land back and it would be available the following year. Actually it uh everything that we don't spend in a
particular year goes into it undesated on CBC articles they can like they actually can dissolve themselves out they just it goes in because that's why when you see the 13,000 for administrative cost we never come even
close to spending anything. So it doesn't take a Tommy vote like regular articles do with CBC but regular articles. Yeah. Okay. Then answer my is going to hold on that one as well. So, thank you, Mr. England. Uh painting renovations for the rear fence of uh
Lawn Plane Museum. Historic funds 5,830. This completes the uh four sides requested by the historic commission. And then 8,000 from uh the park department that
would be under the open space and recreation heading and that is to complete some work around Pope Park. We just got to check We got to fix that box. Yeah, it's not historic. Yeah, I I
recreation right on it. So, yep. Hey, what what do we just quick question? We're talking about paintings. painting for the long plane. What are we doing with parting ways in the paint? You know, we've got the front painted, but the side is not. Have we? So, I think
when Jim Mars on that, I don't know if there's something else that I'm missing on the north side of the building, but that building was all recclap board from the existing shingles. And I don't know if it's just because the kids left when Meritt left and it just never got
completed. But I don't believe there's any outstanding article left. We had something for renovations and parting ways. You probably have to side it. There's a bunch of siding in the cellar. I think for safety purposes you'd have
to side it, right? So, okay. Something that we would have to explore after this. Let's maybe we can figure out what we need to do with that building. attack it in the November town meeting or something. So, okay. All right.
Uh the next uh three [Music] articles are placeholders for approving collective bargaining agreements. Okay.
The next article is from the schools. It's the uh annual article concern concerning the school special education reserve fund and keeping it at an appropriate level. Okay.
Uh Mr. Chairman, the next article concerns the energy savings. Uh, and you had a meeting with the school committee today. So, yeah, I can uh give you a little backstory here. So, I met
with superintendent uh Ron Hood, the chair, and Pat Patrick uh the outgoing business manager. And this original the article that was originally submitted is the wrong one. But essentially what the the new language would be to see if the town will vote to authorize the select
board to enter in a energy savings performance contract with train in accordance with mass journal law for a term up to 20 years for defined energy management service projects and a cushion elementary and Ford middle school into which the energy savings resulting from the installed energy infrastructure and efficiency projects
will be guaranteed by train for the term of the contract. The way this was explained to me is and also what we've done they they've struck out any language about fund how much it would cost or two and a half overrides but what this does that all of the work that
has been done with train it would allow that contract or that relationship to exist. So if the town decides to move forward with phases of the project or there are other things that could be potentially self-funded, this would
allow the school department or the board through you know school department through the board of selectment to engage with train. Um it doesn't hold us to anything. We are going to verify with town council on both sides from the school and with us to make sure that
this doesn't lock us into anything andor if we can get out of it if we find another route. Um I did say um and I wasn't speaking on behalf of the board but I was just speaking on behalf of myself which is um with a new business manager coming in two new school
committee members I would encourage them to run parallel tracks which is yes you have this train option which we know what that's all about but also to consider looking at an RFP for um you
know another company uh another method to solve the problem, what have you. Um, and you know that we may arrive at the same conclusion after going through that process. But I do feel um that given the
the how the vote went down that we owe it to the taxpayers to look at it again running a parallel track. We may end up at the same end conclusion, but that was my ask of the the uh school committee chair. Um, and you know, he agreed in
principle to that and would take that message back to the board, but I don't I personally don't believe it'd be an issue to put this forward. Um, so long as it doesn't bind us to anything um, and the town councils, the respective
councils would give us that guidance. Mr. Kelly, do you have anything on the golf article? Pardon? the golf article. I was going to bring that up next.
Okay. Thank you, Mr. Yeah. Any I'm fine with changing the article to whatever language we need to accommodate that agreement. And Mr. Just to add in a little bit of context that I actually spoke with Patrick on to this will actually help them finalize. They had a
refrigeration project that they were funding selfunding um that this falls under. So they won't have to go out to rebid for that as well. And as long as town council's okay with it and we're not, like you said, tied to anything. And I think, look, as I as I
mentioned to the to to the superintendent and to Ron, I don't think anybody's minimizing the issue over there. Um, it's how do we how do we fund it as a town? You know, is it we try to take a run at it with uh going to the
voters and asking for additional money. Um, they said no. So we have to look at it differently. Is it through a 10 year? Is it a ban? Is it through existing funds? Is it through stabiliz? I don't know. But anyway, I think there's still a little bit of work to be done on this. And um but I think we owe it to
everybody at least go through an exhaustive process and not just say, well, they said no, we're not doing this anymore. So um the door is still a jar. Excellent. All right. Uh there also needs to be an
article to transfer $125,000 from Golf Course Retain earnings uh to ensure the bunker
renovation slashreplacement uh because when we reviewed all of the articles and looked at uh their plans, we cannot use funding from this fiscal year and the works being done in
the next fiscal year. So, it has to be authorized through an article. Okay. There was someone said to me about some other article. I don't know anything about that other one, but I had the concern after I started thinking about when it was brought up about some other article and I don't know something about
a piece of equipment or something like that, some crazy number. I'm like, we we need to stop spending money on on stuff like that. But I did ask Mr. Kelly to try to fund, we need to fund at least 125 because when I looked at the golf's existing article that when Mr. Tibbles
came in, there was $101,000 left in the article and now there's $30,000 left because they bought the sprayer for $71,000. So that took it down to 30 grand. I said the problem is is they were thinking that they you could use whatever remainder they had in their budget to supplement that bunker renovation of 135. The problem is it's
totally impossible because you're not going to get invoiced until the new fiscal year and you can't carry those funds over because we close out July 15th. So, we're the way I see it is you're roughly $105,000 short. Mr. Kelly said you might as well throw a little bit more at it because of change orders
come in or just just other matters come up. So, um regardless of the fact we need an article to fund what we've already committed ourselves for in bunker renovations. So, that's and anything further uh
cut repairs, all that type of thing. I think that would be appropriate maybe for the fall, but I think you need a comprehensive plan to be brought forward to this uh board to look at the all of
the expenditures that are coming in. And I I agree. I mean, look, we we've we've got a committee working on a plan to come back to us on a a new facility. So, I think that's going to be a big piece of that. So, I would hold off on any major expenditures until we
know what all of that looks like and how it fits in. So, we've done well, they've done a number of requests with this board, Mr. Chairman, and as you know, I alluded to it a year or two ago. Their run rate um is $189,000 above what they budgeted, right, from article money. You
can't sustain that. Um we've bought a ton of new equipment. They're busting at the seams. Now, they're talking about a new maintenance building. You know, we need to take a hard look at what we have for equipment, start getting rid of some of the old stuff and figuring out what we do have and what, you know, can't be just spending
$200,000, $150,000 a year. So, cop path work and stuff like that. We just authorized 135 in bunker work, free bunkers they're getting done this fiscal year. So, we'll talk about the next one, next round of bunkers. I don't know all this stuff's coming to a head, but again, like you just said, they got like
1.9 million in a stabilization. We're talking about a clubhouse. We want to put down a big down payment out of that out of stabilization. We can't burn have that kind of a cash burn rate. So, we need to come up with a better plan, right? If that's going to come to fruition. So, correct. Right.
And uh there are three articles from uh that are zoning articles. Uh as you know, that's under the purview of the planning board. They look to be clean up things, right? One
is to clean up the zoning map to take the changes and put them all on one map. There is a clean up as far as the uh solar bylaw.
Uh further clarification uh relating to the setbacks and security fences. And then there is one in reference to the accessory apartments. Okay. So, so Mr. Kelly, I do
see that article. It's article 35 in his book. Oh, reading a table article 35. Yeah, I there's a motion to a table 35. Well, I I I No, I asked that we changed the amount and the wording for to 125
supplement that. Yep. And then it's the budget and the two articles for sewer and uh golf enterprise funds which I consider part of the budget. Okay. and we can do that at a a further
meeting because the chair was able to get us a week from the permanent. Okay. Uh Mr. Dacon is the moderator. Do you have any questions about this uh document? And we you're good. No, Mr. Chairman, I just want to thank you and
uh town administrator, Mr. Kelly, and the the rest of the board for your diligent work, and I'm good to go. All right. So with that, is there a motion to I guess to accept the the warrant as presented with the relevant changes and we'll format it and everything and have
a document at the next meeting. Okay. And uh we will also have the uh I'll ask the finance committee for their letter to the citizens and the board will draft
their letter to the citizens. All right. Sounds good. So, you call for a motion. Um, did you make that motion? The chairman did mention something. I mean, it was just a motion to accept what we've just did on the warrant, right? I'll do I'll
do that, but there's a lot of changes and edits to be made. So, we can't just say motion to accept the warranted, right? Can I can I uh He just started talking. Can I get a motion uh that this is the extent of the article? Closing it
then. Well, the article that was closed, but let's memorialize this meeting and then we'll have a final final when we meet next week. Okay. So, there's a motion to accept the changes as presented in the individual motions and close the Lawrence. Close
the Lawrence. So, move second. All those in favor? Motion carries. Good. I got a ball around it. We're good. Um, one other item I guess again Brad, I don't want to have you hanging around so we go in there. We're talking about the Hero Act and the different exemptions. At the last meeting, I feel like we've
discussed this already, but just to get some further clarification from you on what we should be accepting or what would be in our best interest that a little more info as much as we
want to provide as more info. Huh, Brad? Yeah, we want to provide as much for everybody, but there's only so much that you can do. So, I I redid it again at 3.5, which is the actual increase for the state of Massachusetts. Okay. So, where before I had it at 3%, I
was just given a guesstimate. All right. This is a little bit more exact and I only did it for 3 years. Got it. So, the one that we're accepting or would be approving would be it's 3% 3.5 3.5% above inflation, right? Okay. Versus the That's the doubling it. Yeah. We don't
want to double it. Yeah. Cost a lot of money. I think that's helpful. Do we need a for the Heroes Act we're talking about? Yes. Yeah. No, I'll make a motion to accept the proposal by the Veterans Agent for the Heroes Act at 3.5%. I'll second. All those in favor? Motion
carries. Thank you, Brad. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Brad. Brad, do you need Do you need a motion? So, we just did it for this calendar year. Would we need to do that every year based on CPI because it's the inflation rate. So would you need for us to do it or can we just make a motion to approve the
current CPI at 3.5? I think it has to be done every year going according to Mora Healey at whatever it is. Okay. It kind of stinks cuz if it's at 5% next year it's at 5%. You know what I mean? I don't think you can just set a a a number to it like 3.5 just cuz that's
what it is this year. Got it. Okay. I mean I can I'm going to I'll research that tomorrow. We all we all kind of hope for the cost of groceries. cuz we don't have CPI at 5%. We did experience a period that was up to 9% but I would argue in some cases 18% but
good. All right. Sorry to drag you in. All right. Good. So now we've got a couple executive sessions. Mr. Mr. Yeah, cuz we we have to we have a veterans property tax abatement program in the warrant and that's something that we
also need to vote, but there's some after printing out some off the municipal law. I talked to Mr. Fish about this. There's some things that we need to have and we need to consider. Um so can I just take a moment veterans? So I I I have this um this Kelly Costa
actually um when we were going back and forth about the funding source as you know we took out the funding source for the senior program from free cash in the veterans program. So there is some things that we really need to know and I really want to make sure we as a community get this right. So as far as acceptance goes, general law chapter 59
subsection 5K which is for the senior program or general law chapter 59 subsection 5N veterans is by a vote of the municipalities legislative body sub charter general law 4 subsection 8. So first thing we need a municipality may either both or neither of the two
statutes effective date we have to vote the effective date the acceptance vote should explicitly state the fiscal year in which the program under the particular statute will first be available. So I would make a motion to have it um the first fiscal year the
program to be available calendar year fiscal 2026. Okay. So move a second. All those in favor? I I motion carry. Um there isn't a notice of acceptance and and um revocation. We don't need to get into that. But as far as the veterans go, an
individual must be a veteran for everybody at home in the general law chapter 4 subsection 6 clause 43 to earn a property tax abatement under a program for veterans established under the general law chapter 59 subsection 5N. If the veteran has a service connected disability or is deceased, the veteran's
spouse or surviving spouse may earn the abatement instead. So, I think that's important for some of the veterans um at home. Um under ownership, we have to do this as well. Um more than one more than one qualifying owner of the parel may
earn an abatement unless local um program rules limit multiple abatements on a possible. I don't know if the board has any interest in saying, you know, only one abatement um from one. So, if you have two spouses, I don't know if Brad, you want to talk about that. You said something to me on the phone. So,
what they're getting at is I'm a veteran, my wife's not. So, for me to go up and go, hey, I'm going to get the $1,500 and go to the workoff program. My wife's going to do the same thing. Well, now that's $3,000 for household. And I don't think that's what we're looking at here. We're looking at the same as a senior workoff, which is $1,500 a year
and that's it. So, I don't know if you need wording in there so people don't take advantage of it and try and get $3,000 out of it instead of $1,500, you know. I don't know. So, the cost talked about magnified dramatically, right? So, I think we should um just say pick and
choose which one you want. One one person one person per household is eligible for the veterans work or the household in general is only good for 15. I I'm going to get to that. It it'll kind of go to this. I'm I'm sorry. I'm just trying to when I got this it was kind of crazy and there's another thing
that we need to do on on the demonile the volunteer does not have to be demoniciled on their property to qualify for either volunteer work off abatement program unless the municipality adopts a local rule requiring doicile. So my question would be to the board is do we
want to require doicile rude meaning living in the home? I personally say yes. Absolutely. So there you go. I'll make a motion to have the doicile requirement for the veterans workoff program. Second. In favor.
Um so I agreed. Multiple employers. There is an an opinion issued by the state. Oh, this goes to you Brad. There was an opinion issued by the state ethics commission EC-I-04-04.4 for that indicates municipal employees
may participate in the property tax workoff abatement program under certain circumstances and the opinion could be assessed at and it gives you a w.mask page municipal I'll I forwarded Brad you this document so you can give it to municipal employees seeking to
participate in the program advised to check with municipal council or the state ethics commission before doing so the person performing the worst must have a legal obligation to pay the tax A city or town by vote of its legislative body subject to its charter may vote to
allow approved representative to perform the services for an eligible taxpayer physically unable to provide services to the city or town. So if somebody is a disabled veteran, we need to make a I'll make a motion to allow somebody in the
household to work on behalf of that disabled veteran that lives in the same household. Second. All those in favor? Right. Right. The trust. I talked to um Mr. Fish, our veterans agent, and I told him he had mentioned something about our senior
program. So, I think the people that do do our senior program, you want to listen to this because again, this is from municipal finance law. and he said it's not being done as a trustee, but being a trustee of the property on which the tax to be abated is assessed and s
is sufficient for the senior or veteran to participate in property tax workoff programs under general law chapter 59 subsection 5K or general law chapter 59 subsection 5N because the trustee is under legal obligation to pay tax on the
property. So that's something that Mr. Fish and I had a conversation on it and he was led to believe that the seniors if they if their house is in a trust they can't participate in this program. They absolutely can participate in the program. I just wanted to make sure that misinformed
everybody understands that. So uh volunteer employment limitations. Eligible taxpayers must provide service to the city or town to which they owe taxes in order to earn the property tax credit under either program. Eligible taxpayers may not provide service to a
regional school district since they do not owe taxes to the district which will employ them or to a nonprofit organization. Um I read only comment. All program expenses are budgeted in the overlay rather than through appropriations. Therefore, the amounts
needed to operate the program should be considered when the municipal budget is developed. The assessor should factor in the amounts needed to fund the programs when determining overlay needs for each year. Got it. So we voted the eligibility date and any limitation on eligibility to tax deduction for
volunteers demonic. We would require them to be residing the property we did to be abated not more than $1,500 per household. So I'll make that motion just to make sure that's standing. Second payment. I um and that's pretty much it.
Brad, I don't think I I think I touched on a there are things, but it doesn't pertain to the people in the general public. As I said, Mr. Chairman, I did forward this over to Mr. Fish. So, he can I he can go he can post this and it's important for
everybody to understand even as a senior workup programs for our department as there are some tax liabilities and how these are payments do take effect. So if you work in the if you started working in the calendar year fiscal 2026 that credit for the whole year gets applied to your first tax bill committed for
fiscal year 2027. So it's like a forward looking thing. You work in this year you get tax credit in the following year. So I think there was some confusion around all that. I'm glad that I could work with Miss Costco assess her on this and get this information out to everybody as soon as possible because the last thing I want to do is have a veteran come in
or seniors come in and start working for us and end up blindsided at the end of fiscal year. So, I'm glad that we got this information put out to all you folks. And I think we need to Mr. Kelly, if we can circulate this document, Mr. Fish has a copy of it in a PDF. If we can circulate this document, treasurer
needs to have a copy of it, but circulate it to all department heads. So, anybody that's going to take advantage of our senior veteran workout program, there's information in here on how they do that. Keep track of ours. And since we administer it down at the COA for the senior program, we'll have
it down there, too. I'll make sure it gets out to everybody. Thanks. Thanks, Brett. All right. Did you have your hand up for anything else, Brett? No. Oh, okay. You were just waving to me. Okay. Thank you. Hi, Brett. Thank you, sir. Tom. Yeah, Tom.
Uh, yeah, I guess with his uh is it for the buyback thing? Okay. Yeah, chief since you're here. Is that what you want to chat about or uh um I I was just asked to be here in case there were any questions on any of my articles or on the budget. Did you want to just wrap up the rest of open session or you Well, I
guess we're pretty done. You got a few other things like the town assistant treasurer MOA I think right. It's not kind of part of the old overall conversation. So, I don't have anything for the fire chief. I don't even um answer those questions if you have
them on that request, but other than that, I think it's pretty straightforward. So, just just in case there were questions on the budget or on the articles. Class dismissed. Very good. All right. Thanks. All right. We've got two executive sessions. Executive session 1 under Mass General
Law Chapter 38 section 28 subsection A3 to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining police contract if an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the bargaining position of the public body and so the chair and the chair so declares and the board will
return to public session at the conclusion of the executive session. Is there a motion to go into executive session? Roll call vote. Mr. Gasper, yes. Mr. Hley, yes. I am a yes. Executive session number two, executive session under Mass General Law Chapter 30A section 21 subsection A3 to discuss
strategy with respect to collective bargaining. United Steel Workers ask me fire EMS. 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 return to public session at the conclusion of the executive session.
Roll call vote. Mr. Gasper, yes. Mr. Hinckley, yes. And I am a yes. We are now in executive session but we will return. Motion carries. First item is uh assistant treasurer collector after much deliberation. Uh gentlemen is a motion
to start Tinus of Tvas at the salary of 62,000 per year which the board has determined is necessary to fill the position of assistant treasurer collector with her as the best candidate. So move second. All those in favor? Motion carries. She can start on
Monday. Uh, next item we have is department vacation carryover/byback requests. Mr. Chairman, if I could, I could get through this pretty quick. I'll make a motion to carry 5 days for council on agent director as a reser request. Second. All those in favor? I
motion carry. Next request is from the the treasurer collector to carry 7 hours. I make a motion to approve 7 hours for the treasurer collector. Second. All those in favor. Motion carries. to be used by August
1st. And the next one is from the golf course for superintendent and the assistant superintendent. I'll make a motion to buy back on both or the option to carry over a week but to be used
before August 1st. Second uh all those in favor. Motion carries. And we have one from Mr. Bola building department. Motion to buy back 5 days and motion for 5 days carryover to be used by August 1st. Second. All those in favor? I
motion carries. And then we have a request from the fire chief because all the shifts he's been covering, he's been unable to take some time. So motion to buy 36 hours of the chief's time. Second. All those in favor? I motion carries. All right, that
is it, gentlemen. We have um we still have some unfinished budget items to do. I propose that we meet Thursday morning. Is that or afternoon? What would be better for you, gentlemen? So, I'm still up in the air. I have an appointment in Dubberry at 11:00. Okay. Um but I'm
trying to get it covered right now. Okay. Um I think we have a little wiggle room if we had to go to Friday with the printer. Um would that be better? You just you we just need to post by Monday night and Tuesday. the th I'd say Thursday just in case we have to have we
can go a little later Bob like so so getting back from I'm not available after 3:00 p.m. What's the date? 16th. I apologize. I have a previously worries scheduled
um Yeah. See, I won't be able to get back into town. If it if this appointment stays, I can't get back into town until two on Thursday. It should be pretty quick. Can we do two? Yeah. And that I can do I I I I'm
good. I mean, I got an hour. I can have a little flexibility. I have to get out of here by 3:30 to leave. All we're doing is budget. Now, we can do the uh the sheet that goes into the warrant and if there's a question, then we can pull
the individual sheets for the line item. So, we can go department by department. We just We're going to The way we've been doing it with you, at least with you, Mr. Kelly is we just go through with the spreadsheet that we actually print in town meeting, right? Because you salaries, expenses, and we just do
cumulative or whatever. We can just say total amount, bang, and then read the budgets off and then we just built the revenue sheet. Right. That's right. Okay. So, if it's all right with you guys plan, if you want to plan for two, but since we don't have to post until Monday, I if I can somehow get this
changed so we can free up the day and get it a little early, I'll make sure I let Sydney make you guys. That's entirely up to you. Sounds good. And if the chairman's fine with flexibility, yeah, of course, whatever. 1:00 if you want. Whatever you can do, whatever you want to do is fine. All right. There will be I don't know if there will be
anybody even though what we're going to do. I know there was some comments about some cost and stuff like that that we have to have a conversation with. So there may be some people to talk about their budget, the ones that are impacted by I would say indirect cost. Right. Right. All right. Very good. All right.
Thank you, gentlemen. There's no further business. Is there a motion to motion to adjurnn? Second. All those in favor? I motion carries [Music]