Meeting is open. All right. Meeting is open. Okay. So, first we have our public hearing for the poll placement. Is Doris here to run the I am. Oh, you're gonna as the assistant town clerk. Okay. So you have to open the meeting and then
reconvene too. So uh select board meeting is open and it's being recorded but we are going to um also we have another request from uh Dick Gates. Okay. Uh they have someone else. It's on the
agenda. It's on the agenda. Okay. He would like to be moved forward. Okay. We're going to do Nicole first because and then we can do Mr. G. All right. So, we um are going to uh go into the public hearing for poll placement ever source.
Um and then we will reconvene following. Uh do we need to vote? Sure. Cara says yes. KJ says yes. All right. All right. Go ahead, Mary. Your show. Oh, I'm not plugged in. We're here about the poll hearing.
Everybody has seen the material. Um the locations on Noah Street and they would like to have the approval from the board
select them that this is a go. So do you have the wording for the motion that we need? Do you have it? I may I don't believe it was originally in that.
I I think I handed everything I had over last time. So I don't have anything. I'm here tonight. I do not have the verbiage. We're going to use the last. Perfect.
Thank you. Thank you. Uh motion to approve an Eversource poll hearing. Uh I move that the town of Lampford approve the request from Eversource for the installation of a new pole at the location identified in the hearing report. Thank you. Is there a second? Second. Any discussion? All in favor? I
I Okay. Thank you. Um so the select board will now reconvene at its usual meeting. All right. Um so first up we have meeting minutes from March 17th and March
24th. Do you have paper copies? My computer's just turning on. Did you you emailed me the copies, right, Joanne? Of what? The meeting the meeting minutes. They should be in your folder. I wouldn't email that. I see certificates to sign. There's two
folders and then more certificates to sign. Oh, wait. Sorry, Joanne. My bad. You got it. You're right. She usually is. She usually is. I know. Just give it a second. That's not a touch screen. Okay. Um I can't vote on them. I
don't have them. You don't have them? No. Okay. So, we got highway report. Yeah. Okay. Um, so I just have the 24th. So motion to approve the meeting minutes of March
24th as written. Any discussion? I don't have the second one. All in favor? I sign them. And I can't bring the table on the second one for you. That's okay.
All right. You go. Um, next up I have audience participation, public comment. Sorry. Hey, George, you're up. Okay. Just one quick date for the plumber to
put in the piping over the old town hall. Thank you for your comment. It's not in yet, so I was wondering when it's scheduled. Um, you can reach out. We're not um we're just doing comments for public comment, not questions or discussions. Sorry, I can't hear you. We just do public comments, not discussions
or questions. That was a public comment. The work wasn't done. Okay, thank you. Um, all right. Department report. Ray, I just saw him. There he is. Hello. What you got for us today?
Um, while I was gone, the guys did a fantastic job completing the list that I ended up doing. and uh exceeding the list even. So I was happy about that. The guidance of Rainy, everything went smoothly. No issues and
stuff came up and it was addressed and taken care of in a timely manner. Uh I have been putting together some paving for Cobble Mountain Road and South Street Extension. Okay. It's going
to be it's all approved through county bid. uh just needs to be approved for chapter 90. Okay. And then I can end up getting that road taken care of as soon as possible. There is other roads, but right now I'd say let's get this one
taken care of first. Okay. Um that taken care of. What exactly are we looking um for Chapter 90 to do with the road in terms of repairing? We're going to end up uh it's going to be three about $300,000 that I'm going to be pulling from that
to get that done. The South Street Extension, it's dirt. We have one resident at the end of the road, but instead of having to go out there with the grater and fix that road, you know, every year, twice a year, it' just be better to just be asphalt and then during the winter the maintenance would
be a lot easier. Okay. Send someone out with a regular truck and salt and treat the road. And I have to send someone out with sand and ship to make sure that the resin doesn't slide towards Springfield water. Okay. Um, so you're going from dirt to asphalt on that portion. Yeah,
it's just a small portion. Yeah, it's just a small portion, but it's the logistics. It just makes sense. They're right there, you know, they can go right up crux and we want to pay someone to come to a small section, you know. Okay, that would be good to get that done. I'm
going to recap uh Cobble Mountain all the way through from basically Birch Hill to the gate where Spriteville Water has their gate. Okay. So, that whole area will be done. We already have Birchill taken care of all the way up to the culde-sac and back. The two forks on
Cobble Mountain and Birch, those are in great condition. Those got redone. South is in good condition. So, at least if we can get that whole circuit of town taken care of, that's one less headache we got to worry about. doing a lot of work on Hayden. We ended
up doing uh today worked with the guys. We got uh one pipe replaced. Tomorrow we're going to end up getting another one taken care of. We had some other things happening throughout the day so we can concentrate completely on it, but it got completed and it was good learning curve for the new guys. We paid
attention and did well I can say. I noticed the highway fuel before I went on vacation was getting very low, especially since we have automatic refill on that they come out. And that's not just the highway department. That's
the town fuel for fire, police, um, water department. I just wanted to make sure that that was at least not going to go into a deficit. So, I talked with Jackie and I fill out the paperwork and got that submitted, right? And
hopefully uh I got some papers for her she's going to look over and after doing some investigation, hopefully uh we can have a little more funding put into the highway fuel for next year. It would be good so we don't run into this issue in the future. This year we were very
proactive on the roads. You know, there wasn't accidents, people sliding off the roads. So, you know, we were out there a lot more than we were in previous years. So, are we in a deficit in that account or No, I caught it before it did. Okay. Okay.
Um, got a roller getting delivered tomorrow night. I'm going to meet uh Milton down on Hayden Road and Cobble Mountain. Going to have that for two months. so that we can end up taking care of Hayden Road all the way through now the
culberts are done and then move up to Buand and then take care of uh George Mard next. Okay. So, we can get it for longer. We'll get it for longer. Trying to work something out with them. But it's a good uh start at
least getting those taken care of. Okay. Um, also tomorrow morning I'm meeting with Ryan Anderson from Eversource. We're going to go down Gore Road and I'm going to point out some telephone poles that are right on the asphalt before they ended up replacing
the poles previously. I don't know who was here, what supervisor is here, but they put new poles in and they put them right on the asphalt basically. So now if for the future projects if we want to widen that road when we do do the road over those poles are going to be an issue. So I'm just going to walk through
them and see if there's possibility no rush if they're willing to end up getting them moved for us that would be great. Um hopefully no cost to the the town but we'll see what I can do. Okay. And now tomorrow. Yeah, tomorrow morning
I got that I'm going to do and then I'm meeting with the U dirt roads project 2:30 or 3 tomorrow I believe. Set up an appointment for before I left. That's Angela. She's going to be
coming over. So we're going to end up going over some stuff and went over some paperwork. Um, we pretty much got that all covered. One thing I wanted to ask was, uh, has the building inspector reported any inspection report from, uh, the salt
shed by any chance? Um, I'm not sure. I know we talked a while ago about the light situation, but that's the last I had heard from there. Okay. So, nothing. I just I'm going to call him and see. I just wanted to first see if he ended up getting a hold of you guys or giving you the report on the building, the highway
garage and the actual uh building salt shed. So, cuz the wall is starting to pull away from itself on the salt shed. So, uh the trusses are getting it just pulled off of the trusses on the beams that they have and it's starting to go.
So, I just didn't know if he got back to you. It's been close to 6 months now, I would say, since I walked him up there and showed him everything that we noticed. And I'm hoping that he got back to you in a timely manner, but I guess he might be busy.
Um, any questions for me? No. Um, did we ask him for to do complete a report? Is that what the conversation was that you asked him to complete a report? Yeah, I met him up there so he could end up uh doing his inspection and he said he's going to send you guys a report. Okay.
On the inspection. Good. So, I just I'd like to know what came of it. We'll have to reach out. Okay. All right. Thank you. Ray, do you have anything else for us? Um, no. I think that looks really No.
Okay. Right. Um, Nicole, I'm sorry. Sorry, I was supposed to pull you up because I know you have to do some problem. Um, so I would motion to go to um new business C's selection of
architect for Porter Memorial Library project library trustees. Second. All right. In favor? I hi bio. Hi dear. How are you? Good. How are you? Good. Good. Um so uh Scanska who's our opinion
project um put out a RFP they got 40 responses okay which was interesting u and they were very smart they they made um having received these responses they said anybody who's interested in going
further needs to come to a site visit that we are going to have and a walk through of the building and the property all stuff five people came to Okay. So all the the bottom fishers had had been dispersed. Um out of those five
companies we selected three for interviews and we had a series of 90 minute to twohour uh interviews with each of those three companies. There was a subcommittee of the building committee put together to do the interviews. It
was Nicole and me and David and Greg Garfield and else great. So um and uh at the end of a full day of of you know six hours of interviews uh we met did our uh
committee evaluation. The evaluation was um unanimous and by a wide margin. Okay. So the company that we um are looking at it's called DRA which is stands for Drum Rosane and Anderson
uh they have done 58 libraries in Connecticut and then they this is their special they uh they have um uh Ken B is their library special that's all he does is is design libraries. Great. Uh and of
those 58 libraries, they've done 11 of them with the MBLC, which is our funer. So they have a good working relationship with them. They know the guidelines. They know how the process works. Okay. So, uh that's really good.
Um they had a really great team put together. I mean, they they came with the principal of the company, their project manager, and best the library specialist. They brought a landscape architect. It was it was a pretty impressive show. Great and they had done
a huge amount of research including they already had all the setbacks and whatever. So that the preliminary sketches of ideas that they were putting out there were based on real buildable space is a context. It was they were
they were just impressive. So, uh, ultimately the interview committee made a their report and recommendation to the building committee and the building committee last Thursday night made that recommendation trustees. Okay. And the trustees have approved that and are now coming to the select board to ask for
approval. Um, and also that we may need to raise and appropriate uh $210,000 for uh to be put towards the library stabilization fund. Okay. as the first year's uh
process. I think Dave could speak more to the actual ongoing um costs if that's if that's I don't think that's we need to do that at this point. Anything you want to add? Yes. A contract. Yes.
So the select board and Dave Hson as you know did the contract with our um OPM firm through town uh frame and for the process to get the architect on board in order to expedite that. that contract
that the attorney approved for the um process for the architect was added to the RFS initially when the um RFS was submitted for companies submit or not to bid but to um enter into this. Okay. And DRA has taken that market that at the
attorney approved contract from the town and with their attorney have been working on it to uh make sure that it is something that they can work with as well. Okay. um they're still in the process of going through that. They have initially when we had our um OPM come on
board, one of the negotiation tactics we used with our OPM was to have them reach out to different architecture firms to determine what they would charge for the uh work to be done for this grant to make sure that we were staying within the grant funds. and DRA was one of the firms that they contacted and they gave
a softball estimate of $125,000 for the work that would be done in this grant cycle. Okay, which fit within our budget nicely. Okay. Um and also fit within the recommendations for this work by the MBLC. However, when we went back to them and told them that they had a position,
um they actually lowered that to $118,000. Okay, which is um shocking and fantast. So, they gave us an estimate um initially that was higher than their actual um contract price that they're offering us now with no cuts in any of
the items that were required to fulfill that contract. Okay. So, we got a really good deal. Um and they will actually be able to complete this work in six months, which is coming in um underneath the estimated time frame for completing this grant. So, they're going to get it done sooner and for less money than um
what's expected, which is amazing. So we are really happy to have this um you know this working relationship with them. And the only other thing as Brian's really well done introduction and comprehensive outline of this is that the um people at OPM our OPM really adores DRA as well. Okay. They have a
very longstanding relationship with them and with people in the company other than our team as well so that they can reach out to anybody in that company to have answers given immediately if there's anything that goes ary. So they also strongly support this and they were
part of the interview panel as B mentioned and also um felt strongly that they were the best candidate. Okay, it sounds like they're so you just need a motion for us to approve or you don't have the choice. The choice
and then we will bring the contract to you. They expect it to be done on D's end tomorrow. um Wednesday would be considered the latest, but they've been working through it. It just they were hoping to have it ready for today, but it just isn't. Okay. So, if there would be any sort of ability for the select
board to approve once that contract goes back to our legal team and the legal team approves the, you know, any edits that were made for the select board to enter into contract. That would be Yeah, we can do that next Monday at the meeting. You think it'll be ready? Is that an okay time frame for you guys?
Next Monday. That seems reasonable. Yeah, perfect. Okay, fine. Okay, so you you just need a motion for us to approve um the selection um of the architect firm DRRA for the Port Memorial Library
project for the design phase. For the design phase. Okay. As far as that's as far as this contract would go. Okay. Then if everybody's happy with the design and everything, then it'll be another round which the construction. Okay. Did you get that as a motion? Okay. Thank you. Uh, is there a second
for discussion? Just a second. Okay. The other thing that he mentioned was $210,000 for a warrant article. So, I don't know if you want to do that now or as long as for the warrant. I did meet today to talk about that. We talked about the trustee the trustees approve
that request. Okay. It's the first phase of a multi-phase 25% match the town to building project. Okay. So, do we approve that separately or do we just approve it when we're looking at the warrant as a whole? You can approve it when you're looking at
warrant as a whole. Okay. Yeah. So, we'll just do it then, I think. Okay. Um, all in favor? I I All right. Thank you guys. Great work. Glad to see it moving forward. I can't wait to see pictures. Okay.
Okay. Um, was that the thing that we needed up next? Yes, with conservation. Conservation. Yes. All right. Um and that is number where are we on that? Uh it would be under action items letter.
Okay. Wait. Okay. So I would make a motion to go to is he going to Okay. Action item A. Is there a second? Okay. Any discussion? All in favor? I I Hey, Dick.
How are you? Good. So, um I see Shannon is here. We met with Shannon two weeks ago in our meeting. Come on up, Sh. Yeah, come on up. Have a seat. Um so,
after our discussion, we thought was very positive. Okay. Um she obviously has a lot of experience. She's working with four towns now as as conservation agents over in the Birkers. Okay. So, I think it's pretty clear she knows the drill.
So, we we'd like very much to bring her on board. Okay. And I think you mentioned that you were going to be speaking to her last time you were here. Yeah. Okay. Um do you have any questions for us about joining on with Not that I can think of right at the moment. No. Okay. I know we've got a
couple things going on with the um the battery things coming up, so those are going to be a bit of a of a challenge. Yeah, we gave her a primer on all that. Good. There's things there's things coming at us. Um motion to Yes, that's motion to
approve u I'm sorry. Motion to appoint Shannon Hulen as conservation agent for the term April 28, 2025 through June 30th, 2026. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? I I welcome aboard. Um, so
that's not a sign in a you don't have to get sworn in position, right? That's a higher people who might know. I think that's a hire. That's not a swearing, right? It's an appointment appointment. So that is a swearing position, right? That feels wrong. That's a question for
Mary. Mary, we're not I have her paperwork for her. We don't swear in a conservation agent, do we? It's more of a higher position, isn't it? We swear her in just to be safe. Okay. Cover all the bases. Okay. Perfect. Then you can see um Mary the town clerk to do
that. Repeat all those things, all those words that you have to do. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Nice to meet you. Nice to you. Do you want to do you want to do the agricultural thing while Dick's here? Oh, sure. Thank you. Good point. Excuse
me. All right. have. Oh, you don't have to be here for it. Which one? He already answered me and told me he he Oh, do it again. Never mind. It's just a It's just an appointment. Never mind. You're free to go. Good. Thank you. Thank you, TJ.
All right, we're going to go back to Christina. What do you have for us? Uh, okay. So, I have been speaking with Jonathan Gould from Senator Mark's office in regards to the battery energy storage systems.
uh he emailed me and let me know that he contacted the executive office of energy and environmental environmental affairs as well as the department of public utilities in relation to the questions that I had posed to him during our conversation as far as what is the state
prepared to do uh to assist small communities with with this process and with any mitigation of emergency management or things of that nature. we don't really have the equipment or the manpower to deal with a lot of these
things and since the state is taking the regulation away from small towns you know what is the state looking to do in order to help us so he did reach out um one point of interest is that
obviously in Westfield the Jupiter power uh battery energy storage system the public really spoke out about their concern concerns regarding it. And because of that, um, Streamfield, which is the company that was looking to install the battery
energy storage, um, have has decided to focus their development efforts elsewhere. And Mayor McCabe made a comment that he attributed the public's involvement in the voicing of their concerns to that decision. So, I think that's important to keep in mind as we
move forward. Um, Senator Mark also wanted to let us know that he is going to be in support of um, Senator Peas and Senator Sabadosa's bill for legislation to establish buffer zones for battery energy storage facilities. Okay.
Um, however, he will not be able to attend our May 5th meeting. Uh, but, uh, Jonathan Gould is supposed to get back to me with his answers. um once he hears back from the DPU. Okay.
There is supposed to be a meeting tomorrow that was specifically in relation to this Jupiter power project. Uh I haven't heard any update yet if the Yeah, it was the sighting committee through the state that was going to address you know some issues and
concerns. I don't know if since Jupiter has um rescended their intentions if the meeting is still on. Wasn't that April 29th? That's tomorrow. Um, no, no, no, no. That's tomorrow. Yeah, April 29th. Tomorrow. I thought it was April 29th.
Tomorrow's April 29th. It is. Yes, sir. You're confusing me. Oh, well, let go. Okay. Um, so at the May 5th meeting that we have, we will be giving residents information if they want to reach out to
Yeah, I will provide as much information I as I can. certainly contact information um for residents to reach out to um senators and and even the DPU if they would like to. Uh I'll try to put together as much information as possible for the May 5th meeting,
although I don't know how much additional information we have at this point. Um what time is the meeting tomorrow? Where is it online or It's online. It's supposed to be online. I did I sent you the link. Yep. But whether or not it's
still on, I'm not sure. I'm still I've sent an email, but I haven't gotten a response yet. Okay. Um Okay. The planning board had submitted revisions to uh the flood plan bylaw, and I sent that to legal and they sent
it back with their revisions. So, I have now given it back to planning and zoning. Uh and I'm waiting for the revised final copy for submission on the meeting board. Okay. And I spoke with the plumber for the post office on April 17th and gave him
the okay to perform the work to install the wall hydrant. Uh he on April 17th he said he will order the materials and get started. But as of this afternoon, no permit has been pulled and no work has started. So that's pretty much it for me. All
right. Thank you. You're welcome. Uh, Jennifer, come on down. Last Wednesday, this is on Maple Lane. Last Wednesday, Highway came, they were working out there and there was an issue. Brett and I went out Wednesday
night, checked it out. Um there is um what we feel sewage coming in through one of the pipes going down into the culver pipe. So we sent out a registered letter first thing Thursday um and haven't gotten a response. What
we'd like to do is have Jen hand deliver a letter Yeah. to them. Absolutely. Okay. And at the same time I'd like Jen to be able to hand deliver to 16 and 18 Brookman Drive as well. Okay. Yeah. regarding the other of those. Yes. Okay.
Yeah, we won't put a stop to that. Okay. And then that's really it. So, do we do I just call Jen that? Yeah, absolutely. So, it's going into the culvert. It's not going into any water source obviously or shut that down. Okay. I reached out to uh Gordon Avery to see if
he could test the water coming out of one of those covert pipes or drain pipes that empty into that. and uh he said he didn't have the testing ability to do that and he shouldn't be doing it anyways because
we're talking about hazardous waste here find out if it was actually sewage TJ he can't do it okay all right you can't have people start doing other people's jobs no I I realized that I was
just out of curiosity okay because if he doesn't do it the right way. Yeah. And something happens or somebody gets sick or it gets contaminated or there's just a zillion things. So, you're already sure that it's sewage. So, yeah. Okay.
Okay. Okay. Sorry. Um, will you just keep us updated on Yes. the progress there? I am. Thank you, Jennifer. All right. So, we've got action items. We've got some Do we have the payroll? Oh, you've already signed this. I need a
motion. Okay. I had to I had to have She didn't get it to me in time. I had to have it signed for everybody. That's right. So, I don't They're They're physically in the warrant already. I just need a motion to show that you've done that. Um motion to approve payroll warrants number
21 and 22. Is there a second? Second. Any discussion? All in favor? I I and then is does that also go for the warrant 22 the AP and wired motion to approve warrant number 22 um for town of
Blford and Wired West? No. Um any discussion? All in favor? I All right, we got some appointments. Um motion to appoint Dave Hopson to the Agricultural Commission for the term July 1st, 2025
through June 30th, 2028. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Motion to appoint Richard Gates to the Agriculture Commission for the term July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2028.
Second. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Motion to appoint Margaret McCuskkey to the American Disabilities Act Commission for the term July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2026. Second. Any discussion? All
in favor? I. Motion. Oh, how are we going to do this? Motion to appoint Theodore Kazno, otherwise known as TJ, to the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission as alternate for the term July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2026.
Uh, I have I'll second it. I don't I don't know how that works. I second. I can't make a motion and second. Just we'll just have to ask them how to write that up. Do you know Dave? Yes. Because there's only two of me on the commission. PJ would just state that although he is
the person being appointed because there's only two of you that you can go for. There's a process that Yeah. What's it? I forget there's something the term for it. Okay. Did you say that? Okay. You said that although I agree with
David. All right. All in favor? Thank you. All in favor? I I um motion to approve Mary to appoint Mary Carlin to the American Disabilities Act Commission for the term July 20 July 1st 2025 to June 30th 2026.
Second. Any discussion? All in favor? I motion to appoint Robertman to Council on Aging for the term July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2026. I second. Um any discussion? All in favor? I motion
to you're making a motion to appoint me Carol to the Franklin Regional Transit Authority Board from the term July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2026. How much money you got? I'm I don't I don't want
it, but uh I'll second that. I'll make the motion. Okay. And I'll second it because I have to. Um yes. Same words that he said. Yeah. I say that all in favor. I
I um we already Shannon, uh we have new business. We have um two letters of resignation. Mary, did you receive or did the town clerk receive both of these letters? No, not yet. Okay. I don't have a letter there. We don't have the
letters from either one for the one for Jeff. Okay. Okay. Do you have one for Kevin? No. No. I thought Kevin just didn't want to be reappointed, right? Oh, so he's not resigned. Just for information yet. Okay. So then I'm just going to motion
to approve the resignation letter from Jeff Allen um from select board as of April 15th, 2025. Second. Um any discussion? All in favor? I I All right. And then we have old business review the
highway department. Can I can we stay on new business for a minute? Sure. Uh oh, you didn't know. You didn't give it to me. Sorry. Uh under new business, I talked with uh
David Hopson and Christina and uh we had little discussion and I would like to appoint uh Tommy Aley as liaison to the highway department. Do we have liaison? I don't know that he
He to after Rainey is done, we're going to need someone that knows highway stuff to help uh Ray continue. And uh I think Tommy would be a perfect Yeah. Oh, you know, later on. So, I would I would that's what I'm
asking if you know we could appoint him. Um I don't disagree with um Tom helping. Absolutely not. I just don't think that we actually have those positions to appoint. I don't know that we can. probably have to create it. Yeah, I don't think we have a le do you know what I'm saying? How long does it take
to create? We used to we used to we used to have select board members were liaison to specific um departments. Yeah. But seeing that on the select board we don't have anyone really qualified. I'm I'm suggesting Tommy
because he is qualified. He he has worked the highway department. He's worked construction and he had his own business. I think it would be an asset to help right through these beginning years. I don't disagree with you. Be great, but I don't think we can just create a position and then appoint
someone in the same night. I can find out. I can find out the proper way to go about it and then maybe at the next meeting if I have the paperwork um we can go through with it. Yeah. Yeah. cuz I I would like that to happen because I
think you know we're we got a big learning curve coming up here and we need to have people in the null to be able to help him. Okay. And he's affordable. Yeah, he is. Um will you just let Tom know if he should be here
for the next meeting if the paperwork ready? Okay. Thank you for volunteering. We appreciate it. He looks thrilled. He does. You look like you're having second thought. Can I put my head into guillotine first before you cut it? All
right. Um, so now we're moving to old business. Um, review the highway department goals. So I would start that off with a discussion. I Why do I have so many sets of agendas? I don't know where they are. Um, to
um motion to what was the word I'm looking for? accept the highway department goals as written. Is there a second for discussion? Second for discussion. Okay. All right. Uh I would like to say this should be
used as a template. Uh there's a lot of questions that I have I still have even though I had a meeting with Dave and uh Christina. Okay. And uh I think it's a good template for helping with the learning
curve, but I don't think it should be law. I think uh you know as the guys progress their raises they have the base race that's guaranteed but I think you
know like as they uh work toward their uh endorsements for CDL or hydraulics or whatever else they need as they're moving forward I think that uh they should get their merit
raised. because they are they are you know moving forward but I don't think I don't think they think this is something I would like to see in further contracts tell you the truth I and you know I may not be able to know when the next contract comes out but so you're
referring to the union contract huh it's it's in the contract the union and I what I'm saying is just for the sake of discussion I I don't think that that's you're putting one against the
other, you know, and uh if Ray doesn't perform well, the way I'm reading it, and we discussed it, I discussed it with Dave, is as the the people move forward and getting their raises once they have all their endorsements, where do you go from
there? I think that this merit race well the was a good idea but I I think in one end like if if Ray doesn't perform well do the guys still get their merit raise because they did or if the guys don't perform well but Ry
does he get his merit raise or whatever. So it's still very confusing to me. So I think we're turning in brown. So just could help or not. Confusion about connecting merit-based pay and these goals is not on the table for
discussion. That is already part of the union contract. So that's not but for the sake of discussion this this paper. So right now we're talking about this. All right. I'm suggesting that we don't do it again.
I'm suggesting that we use as a template for the highway superintendent to be able to set his goals. I don't believe we should be setting goals for the highway department only because they
they are they're they're people with families and you're pushing them to do things that they may not be prepared to do and I don't want to see anyone hurt. I think this is a good template for the highway superintendent to to show how to
set his goals. Well, these are highway goals that were worked on. These are highway goals. Yes. Highway department goals. Okay. Who heads the highways department? Us or the highway superintendent? Yeah, these
were these were created the highway superintendent was working with. Well, he wasn't in a sit down meeting when these roles were come. Yeah, that's No, he was there after the goals were set. I don't think that that because the goals
that he set were very broad of course weeks into this. The list that was submitted were not full had two hours to to digest two hours. Okay. All right. So are you the contract with the highway department for the highway
workers took months. All right. Two hours to digest all this and understand it when a guy's just six weeks into the the role is not appropriate. That's what I'm saying. So
I would suggest yes we will accept this until August but I don't think we should go in any past that with more goals. All right let's let the highway superintendent make his goals. He has a template on what we're looking for. Yeah
that's the goal is that that's the goal. All right% so after August 15th this is not going to happen. No, these are tied until the union contract is up and then they That is what it says here. It says here to write the right in the dates
there because those are quarterly goals. These are quarterly goals. So that means the next quarter you're going to have different goals. No, he'll have different goals. He will. Yes, that's the point. He will, not us. So he needed some help this time. So he needed some help. Nowhere does it say here that this
is help. This is what I'm saying. I understand this is necessary. Okay. But I said what I'm saying is this is going to be a template for Ry to learn. That's what All right. That's the purpose of this. I don't want to see another one. Well, we will see another
one because we're going to see next quarter. Yes. And nobody else. No, that's the idea. They're coming. That's the idea. Okay. That's what I want to get straight. He was because nowhere in this doesn't say that. Yeah. No, the whole idea is that they're from right.
Okay, then I'll approve. Okay. All in favor? I fantastic. I'm sorry, Dave, but could you I'm not going to go there again, TJ, because I already explained it to you once. I know. And and I do have my like I said, it takes time to
digest. We're done. You did it. We're good. Okay. Okay. Um All right. That's it for us on our agenda. So, oh dear. Are you Board of Health. Board of Health. What do you what does board of health May 3rd we I had said a
couple weeks ago May 3rd we were going to do the opening for the transfer station for it's not the third that 15 I think it's Saturday the 17th. Okay. So if you could put that because we need to sign and our sign is
not in yet. Okay. So 17th is going to be the opening shop and I'll let you know. So change it in my calendar. the 17th. When can we start bringing stuff in? On the 17th. I got a solid point.
All right, I will change it. Thank you very much. All right, okay. Meeting is closed. All right, swap shop opening changing to the 17th. Um, were you looking for something
on the agenda that's not there? Yeah, that's we did the Eversource poll hearing as soon as we opened and approved.