Okay. Make a motion uh to approve the agenda as presented. Seconded. All those in favor? I I. And chair says I. Any announcements? Okay. Anybody here for public input?
Okay. All right. Then moving along. We have an application for a commonicular license. Listen up. I knew I was going to mess it up. Uh JRK Pizza LLC doing business as Domino's Pizza on 22-2 Fitchburg Road. Is there
anybody here representing Domino's? Yes. Hi, my name is Robert Keen. Um I'm the R in the JRK Pizza organization. Um, I'm I I couldn't attend in person, but I jumped on the Zoom.
Is it possible for you to turn on your camera? If not, I mean, it'd be great if you could. It's fine. I'm just sitting in my car, so it's a little not super great, but let's see what we got here. Ah, perfect. Thank you so much.
All right. So, this is uh is everything up to date? Does he need anything to do? Uh, he's all set except he needs uh one final inspection with Bridget, the health inspector. Okay. Other than that, he's good. So, I
would uh respectfully recommend that you uh like we typically do approve it conditional upon final inspections. Okay. And I have a very important question for you. Uh when do you expect to open?
Well, a couple months ago, since it's uh that didn't happen, uh we're hoping for next week. Um but we're we're waiting I believe we're waiting for the gas to get turned on. Um that's essential so I can then get the health
inspection because you can't get a health inspection without hot water. So, all right. Well, hopefully that'll move along because I do know some people who want to be first in line. Yes, it seems to be a popular a popular thing happening. So,
so all right, any uh questions? No, my only question would just be um your delivery radius. Where do you plan on delivering to? Uh I have a map in front of me. So, we do have a map that's, you know, fine
drawn, but it's essentially about nine minutes away from the location. Okay. Rough answer. Okay. Thank you. It's pretty good radius actually. So, all right. Anything further? No, that's it for me.
Okay. I'll take a motion. I'll make a motion that the board approve uh the common victular license for um JRK Pizza LLC doing business as Domino's Pizza on condition
on condition of um passing a health inspection. Seconded. All those in favor? I I chair says I congratulations and hopefully an inspection will be done soon and uh we can expect you to open up. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you.
Bye-bye. Okay. Next up, we have a Shrivever JobCore presentation. Madam Chair, I don't see anyone here for the Shrivever JobCore presentation. They knew, right? They did. Ra Rachel had confirmed it.
Rachel was on the There's Rachel. No, different Rachel. Oh, I'm sorry. Wrong Rachel. Our Rachel's on vacation this week. Um, so which Rachel was supposed to be here? R. Rachel. Yes. Freedom. Yes. Okay.
So, she had put it together, Madam Chair, and we had confirmation uh they were coming because we have the previous um citation that the board did. Um I would suggest perhaps we maybe maybe they're running behind. We we could move
on if they and if they show up. If not, um, apologies and we'll we'll regroup and notify the board. That's fine. We'll do that. Okay. Uh, so if they show up, we'll we'll squeeze them in. All right. All right. All right, then. Moving on.
Chuck Schultz, facilities director for approval of air library roof replacement. Come on down. Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Madam Chairman, thank you for having me. Um, I'm here to recommend the award for the library asphalt should go roof
replacement to JJS Universal. It came in at a fantastic price at $42,560. Came back with some really good references from the uh city of Roxberry, Barnesville Housing Authority, River Fire Station, and um everyone said they
do good work quick and uh get the job done right. So, uh, we're excited to move forward with, uh, hopefully move forward with working with them. And, um, if approved, when do you expect them to start? Within the next 30 days. When's coming soon? We got to finalize that once we
sign the con, uh, once if they're awarded, we'll finalize the time, but it's a 30-day window we put in the contract for them to get the work done. Okay, good. So, they should be hopefully before the first snow hits, hopefully. It's New England. Good snow tomorrow. The word is is they
do it pretty quick work. So hopefully it's just a three or four day thing. They get in and out and get it done. Now, is this a whole brand new L roof or is this like a second layer of shingles? What are we doing here? We're tearing off the sha layer of asphalt shingles. We're putting a whole
new layer of asphalt shingles on, new underllayment, a couple new valleys where it needs to be. Second part of the project is the flat roof, the rubber membrane roof. for doing that on um after we get the asphalt shingle done. Why? Because the rubber roof, they don't
want to get damaged by the work with the asphalt shingles. You can't really damage the asphalt shingles with the rubber roof. So, we're doing that first. Then, right now, we're starting to work on the pressure washing, painting of the trim, all the uh cleanup around the roof and stuff to uh get it looking pretty
nice. Know it had a rubber roof. Yeah, it's like a 40% rubber roof. Never even heard of a but it's at the great part is at a about a two to three pitch. So we're able to salvage and not have to completely replace it because the water is always
ran down it really well. About 2 years ago we put about $20,000 into redoing the seams. So we're able to actually put a new rubber membrane over the existing rubber roof. give it the same warranty that we would have with a brand new rubber roof that costs about 40% more
than what we're doing. Yeah, it's pretty exciting. It'll be nice once we get all done. Um, we had budget $136,000 and that's off of for the shingle part of this roof. That was off of three quotes off of combis and the state bid list. Um, and it came in at 40 $42,000
and some change. So, that's that's going to save some money. Okay, sounds good. Yeah. Anybody have any questions? No. No. Um, then I'll make a motion to award JJS Universal the 26F1
library asphalt sing uh shingle roof replacement project. Seconded. All those in favor? I I. And the chair says I. Congratulations on the new roof. Thank you guys. Thanks, Chuck. Chuck, good job. All right.
All right. I don't see Danny here, Madam Chair. Yeah. So, the um town planner, who, no pun intended, planned to be here um is was not um in today. Um so, I'm I'm prepared
to just um speak to the board on this this matter. As as the select board is aware, uh zoning bylaw amendments um follow a a specific uh process towards approval. And as the board is aware, the
first step is for the board to vote to send the proposed bylaw articles to the planning board. The planning board is required to review. They're also required to have a public hearing and then they send back the recommendations
to the select board in the form of the approval of the warrant and then if approved by the select board at town meeting. Uh the planning board is required to report on the zoning bylaw um articles at town meeting and then
town meeting um has to take a vote on each of the articles by a twothirds uh vote. So, for tonight's purposes, um it was just to do an initial um brief presentation uh to the select board and
respectfully as in the memo, I'm looking um for you to vote to send um the four zoning bylaw um articles to the planning board for review. Just to be clear for the public, your vote is it's a procedural vote tonight. Um it's not a
vote of approval. There are four proposed um zoning bylaw amendments um for consideration um as put forth um in the memo and the reasons for each of the amendments um in the memo were from the
town planner. Uh the first one has to do with the calculating the number of units and developments approved through the site plan um review um the bylaw. This was originally put into the open the open space residential development, the
OSRD. Um it was used on two OSRD projects that were approved through the planning board. The planning board um felt um through that experience that they were not getting enough protection for the wetlands and open space. So they
implemented um a yield plan which is now currently used as the OSRD application. Um it has not been used since the Shaker Pond uh road development was approved and the planning board is looking uh ultimately for town meeting to amend uh
the zoning bylaw to remove this section so that the dimensional requirements are used um for how many units um on any property to get to the proposed site plan. The second one is actually an amendment
to the floodplane bylaw. The flood plane bylaw, as the board is aware, was approved by the annual town meeting in April. Unfortunately, at no fault to the town um based on what u FEMA had sent us, there was a clerical error on two
sections in the model bylaw. And so FEMA wants that the two clerical errors to be corrected. Um we were able to have the flood plane bylaw go into effect for July 1st uh by having the conservation
commission adopt all of the uh regulations um as set forth in the bylaw. we need to correct um those two clerical issues and we will require um a warrant article to do that. So no, we
call it a ministerial clerical issue. The next one um seeks to amend on the zoning bylaw the issue of off- streetet parking and loading. And as the town planner has put in here and I know that the planning board has discussed uh this
um to a degree as has the the working group um the building department previously. Um the one of the challenges with the downtown is the issue um of of parking and in in many cases many towns are starting to get rid of minimum
parking requirements altogether um and going to a maximum space allowed and in doing that they haven't seen any um negative impacts and so the amendment seeks to just target the downtown area
um to see what the effects of it are and if they were are positive they would be looking in the future to expand it to the west uh air village formbbase code district on west main street. Um so this would uh reduce in the downtown park
street area the the the one um minimum requirement for one space to to half for development. The last one proposed is to amend section 10.1.5
has to do with density um bonuses. Um there is some confusion and ambiguity on the calculation of the density bonuses. So the the way that it was um written, not a criticism, but it has played out
um at the planning board and um the building department that there is a it's there's ambiguity as to how the density bonus is calculated and they're looking to um clean that up um through this
zoning amendment. So again, that's just a brief overview based on the the memo. Um I am not the town planner but in interest of moving the process forward be happy to try to answer any questions the board may have again for tonight
looking for the board to just advance these to the planning board which will have to review in detail. They have to hold a public hearing and then they have to come back uh they will come back with the warrant articles and any
recommendation and then town meeting obviously has to to vote by twothirds. Any questions? Ken's here too from the planning board just FYI. I don't have any questions. No. Okay.
Oh yes. Yeah, I just have Come on down. I just have one quick question. Okay. Could you please state your name? Y Julian Govang, 34 Grten Harvard Road. Okay. My question is only on number one, the calculating the number of units uh in a
development during the site plan review. Is that to clarify um a minimum of open space versus how they can compile open space to benefit everyone as opposed to them just adding up feed footage and
what have you is my question. Okay, Ken, can you come up and answer can you come up here and just answer the question? I think that I think the thing that's important tonight is that the planning board has not had a hearing on this project on
these articles yet. The way I understood it and I the reason I came tonight is because I thought Danny was going to be here and I was interested in what his comments were. But I'm not here to answer any questions because I would be misrepresenting the planning board if I did that. So, the idea tonight, I thought, was simply to
procedurally let the select board know that there's going to be the potential of four articles. I believe the first advertisement has been taken out for next week's meeting. I think there's already a hearing to start talking about this. So, her questions or any questions will be dealt with at the hearing. The
precision of the the hearing in front of the planning. Okay. I thought you were waving your hand out of I could see you waving your hand. I thought it was to answer the question. No, I can't I can't answer the question. Well, no, that's fine. That's fine. It's more It's more of just a kind of a clarifying. Robert, Madam Chair, Julian, good to see you as
well. What I will do is I will connect with the town planner with your question. Um, so it responds and to Mr. Disc's point. This is just to procedurally so that the planning board, the public hearing and so forth will be able to get the detailed answer.
Excellent. But I will get your question to Yeah, I was just looking for the clarification like what does this mean having dealt with the whole thing recently? Yep. We want to make sure we understand completely before it gets to you guys so we don't drive them crazy with crazy. I can give you a quick answer to this. This will not does not apply to the
No, I do I understand that. Okay. Yes, I understand that. Yeah. And the any OSRD, right? Okay. Yeah. The um separate section just when I was taking notes, I wrote down uh not enough protection of OSRD and wetlands. Mhm. Yeah, that was part of the discussion,
but y site plan review a little different, but it's good. Now your question's on file. Awesome. So, you'll get your question answered. Sorry. Thank you. And the public hearing is no uh posted for next week with the planning board. Yep. That's on the 9th, right? Yep. The 9th at 6:15.
All right. Okay. Anything else? Oh. Oh, she just waved at me. Oh, she just waved. Oh, I have a question, but it's like I I don't know if it's appropriate. Well, you can ask if you want, but
you'll have it on the record, but we're probably not going to be able to answer. It's okay if you can't. But my question, Faith Salter, Ten Winthrop, my question is um and maybe this is too broad for this meeting is just how when talking about these kinds of bylaws, how does the open space recreation plan fit into
the consideration for the bylaws? That's the like those goals that are in there, how are they weighted in a conversation about changes to bylaws to protect open space, which again may be beyond the perview of this group. That's a great question, but now that it's on record,
we'll make sure it gets there so that you'll get your answer. Anything else? Don't anybody wave unless they mean it. I just Everybody's like, "Whoa, whoa." All right, then. Um, we have a motion.
I'll make a motion that the select board um approve sending the proposed zoning bylaw articles to the planning board for review and for the planning board to hold a public hearing on the zoning by articles. Seconded. All those in favor? I I chair says I. They're moving
forward. And if I heard you correctly, September 9th, 6:15 p.m. here in the meeting room will be the first discussion on these bylaws. Correct. All right. Okay, Robert,
Madame Chair, uh members of the select board, uh good evening. I hope everyone had a wonderful Labor Day, uh weekend, and fall is soon upon us. I have in the packet are the warrants that were reviewed and approved since the select
board last met on August 19th. Uh in terms of the administrative update, just a couple of key points that also tie into some of my items for this evening. Uh we are at that time of year when the preparations are underway uh for the
fall special town meeting uh which will be held on October 27th and also in the very beginning phases of developing um the FY27 uh budget. Uh the as part of that, the rate review committee will have a
meeting on Tuesday, September 9th at 4 PM to just begin an initial discussion of the transfer station rates as well as an update on the implementation of the stormwater fee and any other business that the committee may take up on its uh
posted agenda to be posted. uh the fall special town meeting and this sort of check off number three on my report as well I guess would be that just to remind uh the folks that the warrant closes on Friday October 3rd at noon. That's also the same deadline for any
citizens petitions to the town clerk and the town clerk's office um handles citizens uh petitions. Uh the select board is scheduled to review and approve the town meeting warrant at the October 7th uh select board meeting. It is early
uh yet as the board just opened the warrant on August 19th. So in terms of town meeting warrant articles as of right now and this could change and this is just potential uh there's potentially nine articles as of right now. The four
zoning bylaw amendments uh that we just discussed. Um still have to go through that process. Uh the national grid uh easement for 12 Newton Street which we'll talk about in just a moment. There are potentially two CPC articles. One
having to do with some funding from the housing category for Devon's Crest and the other has to do with funding for generators uh for the air housing senior housing under the housing category. The CPC is currently reviewing those applications
and they have to have public hearings as well. So, more to come on that. And then as discussed uh potentially um the borrow authorization and capital stabilization uh funding for the senior center building um would require uh town
meeting approval. Um as we get more information as the development of the warrant is a process. We'll keep the board um updated but as of right now that's sort of just a snapshot. Just wanted to mention on the town's IT
transition plan at this time. So, as of right now, the facilities department is overseeing um the town's hardware software network. Um along with the town's IT service consultant, which is
Worldband, uh we also have some other great resources. Chief Gill's IT knowledge on the public safety side um has been very helpful. Um the assistant town manager for right now is handling the website website postings and social
media postings and the town clerk's office is handling the posting of all meeting agendas and meeting minutes as we put together um a transition and a plan um moving forward. So has the job been posted? Um we are just in the process. It has
not been posted yet because we're just making looking at some changes to the job description. It shouldn't be too many changes. I mean, it was a fairly new job description, so um if we can get that posted right away, that'd be great. So, okay. Thank you.
And then, um in terms of uh the senior center project uh preparations, um we've been spending a lot of um time on that. I just want to point out that the finance committee uh per the select board is scheduled to meet on September
10th at 6:00 p.m. The capital planning uh committee uh per the select board is going to meet on September 11th at 5:00 p.m. Uh the finance manager and I have been working on the financial uh
dimension for both of those presentations and of course that information will be uh shared with the select board. I understand from the from the senior center building committee just want to point out that there's a public information they have two public
information sessions for September. One is on Monday September 15th at 700 p.m. in the great hall of town hall and there is another one on sa Saturday 20th at 10:00 a.m. at the senior center.
Lastly um the Newton Street Festival. This will be the fifth annual Newton Street Festival. I thought it was the fourth. I did too, but it it's just it um will take place on Saturday, October 4th, uh from 10:00 a.m. to 300 p.m. rain day,
but it's not going to rain. Um October 5th, 10 to 3. And uh for the select board's meeting on September 16th, uh Main Street Bank, which has been our premier and generous sponsor for all five years, including this year, would
like to come to present a check and take a picture with the board. So, more to come um on Newton Street. So, unless there's any questions from the board on any administrative or personnel matters, I just have a couple of uh actually
really one action item tonight for the board. Okay. Um the second so the second item is the approval of a license agreement uh with National Grid for 12 uh Newton Street, the Habitat uh for humanity
house. Um so the board will recall so the project is underway um and the issue has come up to get power to um the habitat house. the formbbased code
which was adopted which allowed the house to be constructed allowed the house to be constructed as it is right up to the up to the street. Unfortunately, that's raised issues with the power lines that go across because
they're within a certain um distance of the building and pose an issue as far as finishing the work, but also the overall power um to the to said building um required some additional work. Um
originally, uh Habitat, um originally National Grid, uh was going to um charge Habitat for Humanity in excess of $50,000 to do this. Make a long story short, um the town working with Habitat,
Carolyn Reed, the executive director, and National Grid, which we appreciate, have come up with, um a solution um that will not only get the power to the house, resolve the clearance issue, and
allow um the work to continue at no cost to Habitat. National Grid will absorb that. They need to and it's in your packet. Uh if in your packet you'll see where there is an existing pole, they
have to put in another pole next to on 12 Newton Street and then a pole that would be behind the town hall right before the employee parking, hence the easement. and then they would run the
power um over to um 12 Newton Street. So that normally that does require an easement and an easement uh has to be approved by town meeting. But in order to move this forward and we have done this before, National Grid does this a
lot with other municipalities in the Commonwealth. um that we can enter into a license agreement um which will enable this work to get scheduled and start because it's about a fiveweek um lead time on this the grant uh the license
agreement uh the select board has the authority to enter into and to approve and then we would have an article at town meeting that would allow the permanent easement for that pole that would go in the back um for any um
service uh requirements and so forth. Um this will allow everything to move forward. The license agreement, I want to thank the DPW director and the town engineer for their work on it as well as it's been reviewed by um town council
and approved uh to form. So that's sort of an overview. We'd be happy to answer any questions and we'd be looking for board approval for signature by the board. Okay. So board approval, we'll set it up. doesn't get power town meeting will
just approve it into per perpetuity. Correct. Okay. Any questions? No. Nope. Okay. I'll take a motion. I'll make a motion uh to approve the license agreement with National Grid at 12 Newton Street for signature by the
board. Seconded. All those in favor? I. I. Says I. It's approved. They can have power. Thank you. Very important. Um so madam chair already did the fall town meeting update in my report which was number three and number four as we discussed at the
August 19th meeting um we will keep this on the FY27 draft budget calendar uh for discussion again we're ultimately looking for the schedule to be approved finalized and approved by uh the first meeting in October by the board I don't
know if there's any initial questions I did on The draft that's in there now did remove the assumption of dates on the public hearings. We know that they will most likely occur in certain months, but we removed that removed anything with
respect I believe to the by board pending reconstitution there. I know for example like the rate review committee is meeting on Tuesday which we will probably they'll probably discuss their schedule of capital um infincom a
meeting next week and discuss their schedule so we can begin to to populate it. But I don't know if there's any questions for tonight. Um if not uh that concludes my report and I thank the board for your time. Questions?
No questions. Look good. All right. Thank you, Robert. All right. Next up, new business select board member questions. Nothing was submitted, but do you have any? No. No. Okay. I got nothing. All right. Next up is approval of
meeting minutes from August 19th, 2025. I didn't see any issues. No, I saw no issues. Um, nope. I'll make a motion that the board approve the meeting minutes from Tuesday, August 19th, 2025 as presented. Seconded. All those in favor? I. I. Chair says I. Meeting minutes are
approved. Since nobody showed up, make a motion to adjurnn. Seconded. All those in favor? I. I. Chair says I. Good night everybody.