town of Air Select Board meeting for Tuesday April 15 2025 This meeting/hering of the Air Select Board will be held in person at the location provided on this notice Members of the public are welcome to attend this in-person meeting Please
note that while an option for remote attendance and/or participation via Zoom is being provided as a courtesy to the public the meeting/hering will not be suspended or terminated if technological problems interrupt the virtual broadcast unless otherwise required by law Members
of the public with a particular interest in a specific item on this agenda should make plans for in-person versus virtual attendance accordingly This meeting will be live on Zoom and Channel 8 The public may access the proceedings by joining Zoom virt um
meeting ID number 978-772-8220 or by calling 9292056099 For additional information about remote participation please call Carly contact Carly Antineellis the assistant town manager at atmair.mma us or
978-7728220 extension 100 prior to the meeting If we all please stand for the pledge of allegiance I pledge algiance 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 I do have a couple announcements this evening Um first uh Earth Day will be April 22nd 2025 There will be an Earth
Day celebration on April 20 Tuesday April 22nd from 2 to 6:00 p.m on McFersonson Road which will be closed to vehicle traffic This is a car-free event and come by bike scoot roll skate and stroll along
McFersonen Roll Road in the Nashville River There will be a guided nature walk at 3 p.m This event is sponsored by the town of air Devon's Enterprise Commission and the US Fish and Wildlife Our town meeting is on April 28th at 700 p.m The annual town meeting
will take place on Monday April 28th at 7 p.m in the auditorium of the Air Shirley Regional High School Uh pocket forest planting days on May 3rd and May 10th Volunteers are needed for the pocket forest planting days to be located at the Sandy Pond
Schoolhouse at the corner of Sandy Pond Road and Westford Road Bring gardening tools if you have them water and a friend to help There will be two planting days The first will be Saturday May 3rd from 10:00 to 1:00 p.m The second will be Saturday May 10th from 1 to 4:00
p.m Then the annual townwide cleanup will be May 10th at 8:30 a.m Uh due to the snow this past Saturday the annual townwide cleanup was postponed It'll take place Saturday May 10th at 8:30 a.m and volunteers should meet at the Sandy
Pond Beach to pick up supplies Um any changes to the agenda or amendments i have none None Take a motion I'll make a motion to approve the agenda as submitted Seconded
All those in favor i chair says I Okay Um is there anybody here or online for public input okay not seeing or hearing anyone Um continue on to the uh continuation of the public hearing for a poll petition
from National Grid and Verizon for Shirley Street Um I believe I think it's good now Okay All right We have um Evan is back Good evening Evan Good evening Um since
we're continuing from the last time the um Chief if you would like to come up good evening Um so uh from the last meeting we tabled the poll petition uh because we uh brought up several of the fellow polls
Um so uh between myself and Miss Anteneellis we've um been in contact with National Grid and Verizon to try and figure out what's happening Um so uh we ended up coming up with I understand the process a whole lot better right now
So National Grid as they suggested are the ones who start the process I put in the pole and then they swap over their equipment because they're at the top and then they chop off their pole and then it goes into a system where all the utilities get notified as to who's next
on the pole and who's going to do the next work Um so we I was a I was provided a list of uh the polls So right now we have approximately 53 double poles in town throughout the area and they're in various stages of
uh swap overs Um so the ones that we brought up um are are basically waiting for Comcast not grid nor Verizon So Comcast in the middle has been the the it's going to where these polls have been kind of hiding out So uh I think
that uh I we there is a um utility rep for this area that we can reach out to and kind of put some uh pressure on uh getting them to move But um you know it's evident to me that you know National Grid only has one pole on
here that's on a double pole status So they're they're doing what's required of them in in in getting into the system and notifying the next in line Um but uh uh you know and then in Verizon only has one poll on here as well So they're you
know the two big ones in the room are kind of doing what they're supposed to be doing Um my suggestion is that we use our our liaison to Comcast to kind of put the pressure on them and Mass Broadband's actually got a bunch on there that are are waiting for they're they're in they're next in line Okay All
right Great Thank you Um any other questions i don't have any So I'll go ahead and take a motion unless there's any public questions Sorry there's a public hearing No Okay
I'll make a motion to approve um the poll petitions as submitted Seconded All those in favor i Chair says I Thank you Evan Thank you so much to all of you Have a
wonderful afternoon You too Thank you All right Uh moving on Next is going to be a joint meeting of the select board with the town moderator and the air members of the Air Shirley Regional School Committee U for the reappoint of Chris Prell to the NHoba Valley Technical High School
Committee Um our moderator is online and if there's any members of the school committee would like to come up So Mr Mr Chairman good evening Just to um just to frame the issue for everyone's benefit um per the agreement with the NOVA Valley Technical uh school
district Um our representative is due for reappointment to a three-year term uh from April 1 2025 to March 31st of 2028 Mr Chris Prell Uh per the agreement uh there's to be a joint meeting um
chaired by the moderator members of the select board members of the uh school committee um to make that appointment Um there are no other candidates and this is a candidate for reappoint So I'll turn it over to you to the moderator
Okay Mr Moderator Thank you very much Mr Chair Thank you very much Mr Pompy I'd like to call um to order the meeting for the appointment of Mr Pel to the Ashoba Valley Technical School District School Committee um this evening at the air select board meeting
Um in attendance um I'm going to ask you Robert we have everybody in attendance who needs to be here and I can't really see on the screen I'm sorry to say So Mr Moderator we have you chairing we have all three select board members and we have Mr Breahan uh representing the Air Shirley Regional School Committee Is
that enough or do you I think Erica had responded that she could join to text her need We do have a quorum of the joint group Yeah So that that's who's present Thank you very much Mr Point I just couldn't I couldn't recognize who
was sitting at the table from here Um I we are here to appoint Mr Prell Um do we have a motion to that effect well how would you like how I'll make a
motion that Thank you Chris Prell be reappointed um to a three-year term commencing on April 1st 2025 through March 31st 2028 as heir as member of the Nshoba Valley Technical School District School Committee I'll second Thank you
I'm sorry Is that uh Chris was that your second name yes Thank you very much We have a mo move in second Do we have any discussion on this appointment just want to say I think he's done a nice job Yes appreciate it And thank you Thank you Select Select Member Livingston I
probably should have started with I understand Mr P has done a very good job in his current role there and I'm very happy that he has chosen to uh resubmit for reappoint to the um technical school district school committee Thank you Um
uh hearing no other objection Is any other discussion i have not Hearing none I'm going to have to do this by roll call And I'm going to start with Mr Breznahan How do you vote i Thank you Miss Livingston How
do you vote i Thank you Mr Copelan Hi Chris I'm blanking on your last name Tavaris Thank you I'm sorry Mr Devar No not a problem I
um and uh I'm sorry Who is the other person sitting at the table it's very hard to say No it just you Mr Moderator Thank you And the moderator votes I Okay Thank you very much Thank you Chris Yes Do we need to stay in um for any
other um items on this uh agenda this evening mr Preon stay in session Okay I will uh entertain a motion to uh adjourn the joint meeting of the uh select board the members of the Ashley Regional School Committee and the moderator So
moved Second Moved and seconded And uh again we'll go around Mr Breznham I Miss Livingston I Mr Copeland Hi Mr Davarus I chair Waltz
I congratulations Mr P Thank you very much Was touching you on there for a moment Yeah Thank you Jeeoff Thank you All right Um going to move on to our next item Um Chris
um it's the Noba Valley Technical High School school committee member and Charlie Ellis from the No Shopa Valley Technical High School uh committee chair This is a discussion on the opposition to proposed vocational school admissions lottery Gentlemen thank you Mr Chair
Chris would you like to go first you want me to go right there Charlie thank you Um currently I am the chair of division 8 of the Massachusetts Association of School Committees We have 2400 members and I represent 29 vocational schools across the
Commonwealth and agricultural schools Okay Um I've been the chair at the Shoba Tech for the last four or five years and I'm very proud to say that The last bit of my history that I'll give you is I'm a member of the first graduating class Oh cool So you have to give back
Uh we did some research and I think it's important that you folks have some research behind this So some of the history was in the mid60s when towns were all talking about forming a vocational school and the Chsford town voted minutes of a town meeting They had
discussion of what the town's people expected students to have to have to get into They didn't want to see excessive absenteeism excessive tardiness behavior issues and they wanted to have grades
that represented an interest to do this And they also this was done to meet the industry standards at the time in the 60s So those have been prevalent and we've used those right up until the early 2000s
June 11th 2021 the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education known as Essie uh was petitioned about uh our entrance requirements being critical of certain
subclasses At the time the uh Commissioner of Education of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Jeffrey Riley did an eight-month study And during the eight-month study he found that with every school district having their own
uh district agreements some have allocations some don't uh with the makeups of the towns and everyone involved in this but also with the needs of industry he decided to do
nothing except change a few things and one was he asked school committees to think about collapsing the grade points So grade points we have no A's and no B's when you apply now it's you need to have a C average So we collapse
that The other thing that he suggested quite strongly was that um we change our interview process So now it's a personal interview whether on Zoom or in person and that's to judge
the interest of the student some of the uh uh you don't I don't think you have this data but some of the data that uh the department of education used last year was based on statewide standards and the show supports eight towns and
those eight towns amount to 186,000 people and that comes down to about 1.69% 69% valued across the state So that 16.9% is exactly what we should be graded on as far as our entrance
standards and who comes After a lot of work uh we realized that there was one or two schools that was questionable and these were inner city schools gateway city schools
For the last year and a half we have asked for that information on what do we have to do to correct that problem We finally got it by asking for a u a full records request from the public We finally they had to give it to us so
that we understood After reviewing that there's really one or two schools out of the 29 that are questionable but they've been working for the last two years to rectify any problems as far as entrance And when I say entrance this this reflects
um there's some some protected classes One is uh IEPs 504s Are you familiar with IEPs and 504s students of color and low income So just to clear the field I want everyone to understand that at NOA Tech
we have 54% on IEPs and 504s 54% about 38% of our population and that goes across the board is low income We meet or exceed every single data point on the state and federal government has put out
for making sure that we're taking care of all people all students They still have decided to go forward and at this point they're they're holding uh open questions from the Department of Education There's a website you can go
to I think Chris passed out cards before and you can say exactly what you feel about having a blind lottery or a blind weighted lottery And that's where we're going So a blind lottery would be everybody's
names put into a hat I'm told that I'll have to stand before a camera and pull a number out give it to Chris he'll read it and it'll be logged into the register the student picked uh it's just not going to solve the problem The real problem is we have
about 4,500 students across the state that don't have a seat By implementing the blind lottery you're not going to fix that problem We still have students who don't have a seat The other part of the blind lottery which is really concerning they're calling it CTE which
is career technical education They're they're talking about putting a career technical program maybe computer programming computer web design a very soft program into a comprehensive high school like Air
Shirley Now the word here is CTE because if they put a CTE program in there it's just like a vocational school It's a blind lottery in your comprehensive high school The problem with that is that this is not going to be a a three credit course
It's going to be a two credit course and it's going to be a course that a junior or senior takes because they need to make up two credits It's going to meet once a week But you still have to have a blind lottery because it's a CTE program
and listening to what's being said The scary part is if the blind lottery goes into effect or a blind weighted lottery and when I say a blind lottery they're they're changing the standards There are no standards Right now you
have up to 10 days of excused absences They're willing to give 27 days The only behavioral problem will be is basically if you pulled a firearm out and shot somebody you wouldn't be able to get into a book school Noting full
well that we put cars up on lifts We have knives blowtorrches saws I mean this is fullon real world And so they've taken that away They want no grades whatsoever to be looked at and they want no personal
interview And in doing so they're not going to still solve the problem of 4,500 kids without a seat They're just going to exasperate it And more parents will be upset We have parents upset now about some of
this So when they go to a C comprehensive high school and they do a CTE program with a blind lottery do you know where the blind lottery is going to go next sports AP programs music dance
This is a new thought process coming out of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education This is I believe being championed by the governor and the attorney general of the Commonwealth and Secretary Tetweiler 29 vocational schools are
against this We've stood strong and we've been trying to have negotiations and talk like adults but that just doesn't happen Um so our last hope here is to get people to respond to the Desi inquiry of
you know how you feel about a blind lottery Uh I took it a little further and I actually approached the town of Littleton and I explained to them just what I said to you folks tonight And I know you have a copy of the letter that Littleton signed
Um Littleton's huge huge problem with all this and and it's mine also is that Littleton sends 14 to 15 16 students a year in the show tech I'm not sure how many we're nine to 9 to
12 maybe 9 to 12 14 was our highest So let's go 14 on a blind lottery any given year the town of air may have no students picked to go to the show tech number one are you still responsible for capital expenses because those that that
freshman class will follow through for four years so you get a free ride for four years nobody seems to be able to answer that question number two what happens if one air year has 28
kids picked The impact to your budget would be huge And I can't I can't predict that It would be the same to Littleton It would be the same to Groten and the same to Shirley because we're small smaller towns and we have smaller kids applying to the
tech But for Littleton to face going from 14 to 28 would be devastating to that budget out of the blue Think it would be the same here there'd be budget cuts all over the place to to accommodate that So not only is it going to have a
financial impact on the towns it's going to change the way your comprehensive schools are are running And because they're going to do a blind lottery to be quite honest with you you don't need Chris and you don't need me and the gentleman that was here during the vote You don't need him
because our job is to make policy and to make sure the schools run fiscally responsible and to take care of that That's what we do And if this goes blind lottery we will have no no say at all on anything Neither will the town So even
though you're part of the district agreement So I think what we're really looking for is um that the emissions decision must remain under the local control of elected and appointed school committees These committees are best
positioned to understand the specific needs and the priorities of their communities and to tailor the admission policies accordingly In 2021 the regulations would recognize the necessity of locally tailored admission
policy must be upheld This is Desi statement A quote onesizefitsall approach is detrimental to the system Desi itself claimed that back in 2021 now the exact words that I use is from
Desi They want to change the game and um it's just not a good game for the students for the town the sending towns for everybody Um there's no winner in a blind lottery Like I like we said we could all apply at this table today I
could be the only one that get picked We could all get picked You know it's just like going down and buying a lottery ticket There's no guarantee And the problem is right now we don't have enough seats the state needs to
grant more money for building expansions or to hire more teachers so we don't have weight lists Voced has had weight lists for the past four years So that's one our way to solve it is give us more money so we can afford everybody that's
interested should have a seat And and when I say give us more money I'm not asking the towns I'm not doing that Nope So we had the millionaires tax They raised $400 million They're sitting on $400 million sitting on it We've asked them
to disperse it That money was for transportation as well as education So hund00 million I know that they plan to give some to the MBTA I get it you know trains have to run And uh they're giving a lot of money to
secondary education to upgrade the college buildings that the state owns but we don't have enough seats And the money that they're trying to allocate $75 million will not do it Recently we put on an addition uh a
modular that we we paid for We put on 7 7200 square feet and we had a grant for that And that grant was for 3.75 million and we put another 25,000 into it to finish it off 50,000 into it to finish it off
We're able to move three programs in there In doing so we were able to open up other shops and give them more room This is the first year that Nishoba Techch has been able to guarantee every single freshman their first pick Nobody went home sad because they didn't
they're not going to be an electrician or a plumber or an IT person or any they all got their first pick this year and we we were able to add our for the first time the fourth electrical teacher because electrical is one of our that is
the booming program So there's a lot of interest in in technical education and the problem with staff is that peressi's regulations and I did say that we do have a lot of dangerous things there that kids work with Um so in a lot
of these shops it's you know it's the law that you have to have 10 students per one instructor because of what what they're dealing with and what they're working with Um that's not to say the kids's not going to get a splinter or accidentally cut themselves but that can
be fixed The big stuff we don't we don't see too much of because of that teacher student ratio So that's my two cents I appreciate your time and would appreciate your support um with what we
have informed you of and standing strong with us in opposition of a blind lottery and keeping with the admission policies as per the 2021 DESIE standards Yeah And I would suggest that if you can do this and you decide to take a vote and do it
that you send it to every single state senator that represents air and every single state rep as well as the chair of uh the board of ed secretary Tatweiler and you might as well throw the governor in on top
We're in Vermont Is she in Vermont right no we are Oh thank you very much Thank you Thank you very much folks We appreciate your support Thank you Thank you
Mr Chairman Yes So in the board's packet is a letter um from the select board for your consideration for a vote with opposition to the proposed vocational school admissions lottery And as you can see on the second page up there it is
copied to the governor and all of the appropriate folks So if the board is um willing um to vote and sign that letter we would get that off to them Any questions on the letter i'm a firm
belie I'm pragmatic I'm a firm believer that if you fix the lower level stuff infrastructure education and everything a lot of the other issues get solved Mhm So I think that this is a good idea I think that uh you can't just have a one-sizefits-all on everything And if
we've got $400 million I'm all for a rainy day But I think we could loosen up 300 million and still have a little money for a rainy day because quite honestly if you got if a rain comes and and 100 million ain't enough you got bigger problems you know
so I think it's time that some of all this surplus money that we keep hearing about Exactly loosen the po purse strings So but she doesn't listen to me So you know what um Chris any questions on the letter or
No it looks good Just Yes same Okay I'll take a motion Okay Uh then I make a motion to um support this um letter by the um air
select board opposing the um lottery for the Nishopa Valley Technical High School Seconded All those in favor i chair says I Thank you gentlemen Thank you very much Thank you guys Okay our next item is um Dan Kimberly
Welcome our uh DPW um public works Good evening How are you great How are you good thank you So I'm here to review a couple of items The first is a re-evaluation I'm sorry
Pauline has her hand Yes Pauline I'm sorry to interrupt Kimberly but I wanted to say make a statement regarding the letter you're you have endorsed which I support but I think it will be interesting to see how the governor reacts to funding the technical school
versus Noa Valley So please keep that in mind I I'm sure you will but I just want that out there Let's keep that in mind Thank you Thank you Thanks Have a good night What so
what no she's done No she's not mute though Oh she There we are Okay thank you Okay go ahead So the first item is the re-evaluation of local limits I was here back in November because our one of our
um consulting firms Hoy Tanner I'm Hil Hy Tanner and Associates they drafted a re-evaluation of local limits and the EPA has reviewed it We um voted you
voted to approve it The EPA has since evaluated it and made these comments that they would like these mils males to be listed as pounds per day instead of milligrams per liter So I'm
I've come today to ask that you um make a motion and approve that this edit that the EPA is requesting I don't know if you have any questions So it doesn't fundamentally change It doesn't fundamentally change even like
the quantities or anything like that It's just in how they're listed in the in the report Okay Questions um no I'll make a motion um that the is it the re-evaluation of local
limits uh based on the US EPA comments be changed from millimeters Is that what you said or concentration to mass [Laughter] Uh I'll second Okay All those in favor i
chair says I Thank you Um the next item is about our cross connection control program This is really forformational purposes Since I've been here it's kind of come to our my attention that we're not exactly in compliance with our cross connection control program And so what
I'm trying to do is get our community and our water supply system up to compliance with the D um and our own regulations So um one of those requirements is that we have everybody
all commercial institutional and industrial buildings surveyed for the for the need for a cross connection device And just so you know what a cross connection device is is where potable water which is the water that we supply
meets non-pottable water So a a good example is your boiler has water in it that's non-pottable So you have to have a cross connection device that doesn't allow that non-pottable water from entering the potable water system and contaminating the the water
supply So these cross connection devices are are needed in a lot of places And so getting back to the point all of these businesses need to be surveyed for cross connection needs and devices And
um it we haven't had a a comprehensive survey done in some time So we're overdue Um we're contracting with a a company called Operation Works to do a survey throughout the town but I anticipate that there's going to be some
push back from some businesses that they're going to have to install devices that they didn't know that they had to install I'm planning on working with the plumber inspector the building inspector board of health um even the assessors on
trying to get me lists of buildings that need that are considered commercial industrial institutional Um so that's where we're at Um I think the biggest um push back is going to be a a there's
a line in our own local ordinance our own local regulation that says all industrial and commercial establishments attached to the town water system will be required to install at the service entrance and
immediately downstream of the meter a reduced pressure backflow device So that right now I can tell you that there's a lot of buildings that don't have that So there I do feel that there is going to be push back So I just wanted to inform you of that But this is a regulation
It's a requirement It's our own regulation I'm just trying to get us up to compliance Yeah I can I add to Kimberly's done a good job of writing the ship on this program and and really what you know she's getting it protects our water system by having these devices in place
and it's required by by D regs and our local bylaw So very important and um so we're just writing the ship and making things right So it's going to be new to some that haven't been doing it right Any questions
okay Thank you The last item is a update on the water supply and a drought update and also just uh information about the standard water ban that starts May 1st So I don't know if you're aware but we are in a drought according to the state
At the time that I wrote this memo we were in critical drought but now we're in a significant drought We've been downgraded to a um stage two critical drought or significant drought I'm sorry And so things are getting better It's
snowed We're getting some rain Um but we're still in drought However um we aren't forced at this time to implement drought restrictions based on the state requirements but we are required do part
of our um water management act permit to implement these these odd even days of watering starting May 1st through September 30th Um so I just request that um you're
aware of this and that um you support this and would make a motion to to implement it Questions no I like how you bolded the um per the water management act permit right it's
get that out there you know first and foremost Yes It's not uh you know kind of hey we just feel like doing it or any other reason That's the reason Well there's still a sign It says you know mandatory water restrictions It's been
going on for a decade or more So you know Yeah Um I think the biggest thing that people need to remember is when you're when you're watering on your day and in during the time that you can water is when you're starting to water the road you you really should turn it
off So that that I think is a big problem is that you know people will be watering and they get to doing something and next thing you know there's they're watering the road you know so and and you really can water quite well with a
handheld Um so but that that's always been my biggest thing It's like why are you watering the road so um now I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to power wash my deck so that I can stain it So you're still allowed to do that I know I
know I'm going to have to do it I'm an odd number So you know you up at 8:00 a.m get part of it done and then after five the best time to power wash is at like two when it's really hot So you know by 5:00 it's just have to bundle up a little bit Yeah
As a veteran of doing this All right Um I'll go ahead and take a motion Uh I'll make a motion uh to vote to implement the outdoor water use restriction effective May 1st of mandatory no outdoor water use between
9:00 a.m and 5:00 p.m on mandatory uh and mandatory odd even outside water restrictions even numbered street uh addresses water on even numbered dates and oddnumbered addresses on oddnumbered dates Seconded All those in favor i say
I Thank you Thanks Thanks Thank you guys Brings us to our next topic the town manager report Mr Pumpreand Mr Chair members of the board uh good evening You have in your packet the town
warrants that were reviewed and approved since the board last met on April 1st I will get right into my um action items unless there are any uh questions from uh the board on any administrative matters
The first item is appointments uh to the air sustainability uh committee as the borders are where you authorized recently the creation of a a new town of air sustainability uh committee uh of which there are to be um three uh
resident representatives uh for three-year terms Uh we had three applicants um by the deadline Uh Mr Dan Budrris Miss Christine Goule and Miss uh Faith Salter who I believe all are here
this evening Uh you have their letter of intent um in the packet Um we're looking forward to having them uh appointed and looking forward to uh the air sustainability committee will begin to meet and our conservation agent Heather
Hamson will be uh leading that effort uh with that committee So uh the candidates are here if the board wants them to come forth for for any questions Um or we'd be recommending for appointment
Any questions i have one question So everybody's going to get a three-year term which means we end up in that little problem that we keep creating that we had to straighten out so that it had you know like a three and a two and a one So if everyone's getting
a three-year term means everybody's done at the same time Okay So that that's my only question Now as far as who would get what I would probably pull a name out of a hat you know at that point a
lottery a blind lottery you know or or if somebody wants to say "Hey you know I'm willing to because let me just preface this with you know for example if someone had the one-year term they can get reappointed next year." Okay But it keeps that you know because we we bothered to try to straighten out that
mess last year and now we're creating it again So that's my only observation Okay I mean but however the board would like to to proceed Yeah I mean it makes sense because you don't want to have in three years
everyone's just done you know and you might have interest but now you have three brand new people without that continuity So right So that just that we you know so that's my only observation but I don't yeah
um that I don't know how we want to handle it though Do you guys anybody want to volunteer for the 321 Y please come up Absolutely So for the record hands of the conservation agent um because it's
being a new committee I I just have a little warrant of like weary of having a one two three for the first goound Did it with the cemetery commission which was a brand new committee and we gave him a 321 because my thought was be to maybe do a two and then two threes and
then going forward and then this was for the first reappoint then maybe altering at that point But um I'm with a full this is this is your guys's decision I just wanted to make that observation that maybe because it it is going to take us at least the first obviously a few months to figure out what it is this
comm this committee is actually going to be doing and what their warrants are And I would hate to see somebody just get in the thick of it um and have that appointment already ling over their head knowing farewell that it's probably going to be fine but I don't want to see that there without the committee even getting up and running 100% and rather
see it to be a a full twoyear term instead of having a one year for the first go around Well I mean there there's no cloud over anybody you know Um and all committees have been with the
321 Um I don't know you know I mean I understand what she's saying but I I don't necessarily agree But there is no cloud because there's no work that the individual would have to do Everybody gets an email when their appointment comes up to say "Hey do you want to
reappoint?" They go "Yeah they don't even have to show up." Yeah No I understand I I understand that I'm just just as an observational as someone that's going to be sitting on the you know running it And again it's totally up to you guys That was just my thought Wanted to bring it to you fully after your decision And I understand that to
make reappointed on a number of boards and always been like that's and then it would just be to start It's just start because the question for whoever gets the one year they're
reappointed for three the year gets reappointed for three So after that but it's always that rotation Okay Yeah Just to kind of make it so that you don't empty a committee all at once So that that's really the purpose of it and and understand too that the um the committee
will have to town departments on there These are just the representatives for the this is just the citizens Yes That's it Okay Thank you Thank you All three me potential members are
here Yeah Does anybody care the one two three Let's say the one could be good for anyone that's not really sure about commitment levels and you know that it could be a a plus Yeah I have a one-year-old son so maybe one is right
for me Okay we'll see how this sounds I think that's great So we we can go see that That's down the list as it's presented in the packet Dan you do the one and then Christine will do the two Faith the three Does that work
[Laughter] she was fine with the three until I brought this up three times Three years of work That's so good Well you know if things didn't work out you know then we would just reappoint
somebody with the remainder of the term But you know but this kind of straightens out that potential mess that we were about to create Yeah So all right Um excellent See I already love these people They're so easy to work with right
going to do good things So Mr Chairman yes So for Mr Budris is that correct dan Butress Butress I'm sorry Um it'd be a for him it'd be a one-year term to expire June 30th of 2026 Okay It'd be a
two-year term for Miss Christine Goule to expire June 30th 2027 and a three-year term for Miss Faith Salter to expire on June 30th of 2028 Okay
Perfect Any other questions no No Now we got that squared away All right I will Should be three motions Okay Separate motions I'll make a motion that Mr Dan Budrris be appointed to the Air
Sustainability Committee for a one-year term Uh second I got Thank you so much I just I had awful an allergies this weekend and now it's just Thank you so much
Um for one year I finish that motion One year term expiring expiring June 30th 2026 I'll second All those in favor i I chair says I I'll do the other ones for you Okay Thank you Uh I'll make a motion that uh Mr Christine Glette be
appointed to the air sustainability committee for a two-year term expiring June 30th 2027 Second All those in favor i chair says I And I'll make a motion that um Miss Faith Salter be appointed to the Air Sustainability Committee for a
three-year term expiring June 30th 2028 Second All those in favor i chair says I Thank you guys for being will and good luck with a one-year-old son All right
So um the next item item number three um the board has in the packet um continued from the discussion on April 1st of the proposed town policy on the use of second generation anti-coagulant
rodenticides on town property Um there was a good discussion on April 1st um on the policy uh the one takeaway which has been incorporated in the final draft was to have a section on public education So
if you look at the in the packet um added a section 6.0 O public education that reads the town of Ashell periodically provide public information and education for town personnel and the general public about rodenticide hazards
to the ecosystem and human health as well as information and education on integrated pest management IPM alternatives and we've already received a lot of great information from uh Marian Stoddard and Anne Gagnon and
others So that was the only change um to the policy Um on approval by the select board um the board will sign and the policy will be transmitted to all town departments to go into effect and to the
board of health Great Any questions on the addition no Looks good I'll make a motion that the select board approve the town policy use of second generation anti-coagulant
rodenticides on town owned property as proposed Second All those in favor i The chair says I Great Thank you Thank you Christine And then Mr Mr Chairman just lastly
members of the board on the town meeting um update as the chair mentioned in the announcements Monday the 28th of April at 7 p.m is town meeting Uh the warrant uh has been publicly posted and is available on the town's website It was
also sent uh last Friday uh for printing and to be mailed uh to all households in advance of town meeting We've started the articles of the day where each day summarizes um one of the articles and give some uh links to additional
information on the town's web page If you go to the town meeting uh page or just type in town meeting it'll take you to a page that has uh the warrant as well as all of the articles and any of the supporting uh materials um that
support those articles If anybody wants hard copies of anything um come to the uh my office during normal hours at town hall and be happy to give um hard copies of that um material So I think we're in good shape I also just want to highlight
in the packet uh and I did transmit this uh to the moderator as we've done in past years recently which I think has worked well um is the use of a consent agenda where articles that are standard
the standard business articles of the of the town meeting in other words the state some articles come up every year they're non-controversial they're relatively straightforward can be moved by consent And and the advantage to that is it frees up more time and focus of
for town meeting on the more substantive um articles or the more um if there are controversial articles So in this case more time can be focused on the budget the school budget uh the zoning articles
and the citizens petition the home rule petition So no action required by the board you know tonight Um usually uh the moderator will announce that at the beginning of the meeting and a motion will be made by the board These are just the articles that are sort of the
standard ones for consent Again if a member of town meeting has a question of course through the moderator we'll answer that question on that So I believe we're in good shape uh for town meeting So um unless there's any questions from the board um that
actually concludes my report tonight Okay Yeah Uh two weeks Yeah To our next item which is uh new business or select board member questions Didn't have any I have
none Okay Um and then approval of meeting minutes from our April 1st meeting I didn't have any changes or edits No I think so good I'll make a motion that the meeting minutes from April 1st 2025 be approved
as submitted Seconded All those in favor I chair says I And if there's nothing else Mr Chair yes I'll make a motion to adjurnn Second All those in favor i chair says I Great Thank you everybody could ever be