Um, no. I think this one first. It was done while I was there. Okay. Thank you. Okay. If anyone notices someone on the waiting room, if you want to just let us know. We don't have Joanne here tonight. usually lets people in the waiting room.
So, if you notice someone and you want to just point to it, we'll try to pop in and let them let them in. All right. Are we good? Yeah. One minute. We really don't have much to say.
We don't have anything executive. No. That's what this is partial. I'm just trying to remember why. That's right. Thank you. All right, I think we're good. Six o'clock meetings within. We are being recorded a
couple times. All right, so we're are joint meeting tonight uh with water commission. Thank you guys for coming. Um we had a couple things to discuss tonight. Our first one is um oh I should
say a motion to uh table the meeting minutes from May 12th till next week. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? I um so first thing on our agenda was the um refunding the water department for the hydrant repair.
We had talked about that. Yes. From and we found out that we had not completely paid it. So now it is paid now. Okay. Oh, it is those two both of them. Yeah. Both of them paid. There's one for 3500 and it was 1500. Well, I didn't know
about the second one. I knew about the first one. I signed the first one. Okay. Okay. So, one of them is paid the 3500, you know, 35 3500. Can you just give us the invoices and that way we can make sure the right money is transferred? Sure.
Okay. Definitely. I I'll put that on for Jasmine to send over to you and then you guys will push through the second invoice, the 1500. Yes. Okay. And you need a refund on that, right? And they were both done by the highway. Both
damaged by the highway. Yes. Um, and then we are going to talk about the interim superintendent appointment. So, one of the things that we brought up last week was we asked you guys um about how we wanted to do the pay breakout.
Jackie actually came up with a real good scenario and we accepted that and actually paid him off of that particular scenario. What was it? Where we took a percentage of the uh the four the right pay the 19 hours at X and the rest of it
at Y and that was kind of what we talked about too, right? Same thing. Yeah. And he's accepted it. Okay. And uh we pretty much accepted it because Mike signed off on it last payroll and he got his back pay. Great.
So the treasure is where Yeah. You'll be seeing that crossing your desk probably tonight. Yeah, we got a payroll warrant here. Okay, excellent. How did that work out? Well, that's all set, too. Okay. And you guys were working on a job description for that. Well, there's an old one here, but unfortunately, we
haven't had enough time for us to be able to get together because everybody's going different directions. So, we have a meeting set forth for the 24th of this month, okay? that we'd like to go over this piece by piece, break it apart, and then get back to you with a ASAP as soon
as we get done with it. Okay? With the findings that we have, and this is our recommendation going forward. Plus, the other thing is Pete and I were talking that it's the other idea is is it we got to look at how many hours we're actually going to need. Yeah. Is it going to have
to be a 40hour or can it be a smaller amount? Because let's face it, we all realized that we were Gordon was saving us a little bit of money in that pack cuz he wasn't taking the full, as you've seen in the thing, he wasn't taking the full statement on that. So, we're going
to try to figure out what's going to work best for us. Uh we he hasn't actually got to read this yet. Okay. And I was just able to Stephen helped me pull this out of the computer because he knew where computer was for that. So I managed to get this out. I knew it existed but I hadn't had a chance to
really look at it yet. Okay. So we will have something for you on that. All right. So if you want to um in the posting too as far as the position goes. We'll do a joint meeting again. I guess once you and then we can Yeah. Can we let you know like two weeks ahead of time or a week ahead of time or
whatever? Um when we get to that part. Okay. And then the other thing you wanted to discuss was the property on Chester Road. Yeah. Yeah. Well, should we go back to the settlement for Yeah. Have to do an appointment, too, I think. Um,
depending on how many hours, right? Right. Would be we'd have to relook at the budget and maybe even go to Mintown. Well, that was the thing that we were talking. That's the thing that but we didn't have do we do I mean we got to get the right person and I'd rather do
that than not. Well that's why we don't want to just say okay we'll do this this and this tonight. You know what I mean? That's why we'd rather sit down and take a look at it. Okay. And really go through it and make sure that we got all of our stuff right. I don't want to do anything half again. I want to make sure
we're doing it right. Nice. Sorry. I didn't mean that. Um, so are you recommending an appointment um for Steve I'm say Grandon. Is that right? Am I saying it right? Okay. Um, as interim superintendent. That would be our recommendation at the moment. Okay. So, I would make a motion to appoint um
Steve Grounden as interim water superintendent. Second. Any discussion? And that would be at the rate that we discussed. Correct. Yeah. All in favor? I I All right. Congratulations or apologies. Thank you.
All right. Um, and then departmental strategies. Remind me what exactly we were talking about. Uh, I missed that one. I don't have that one on my list. Well, we did have the um, we were gonna Let's talk about that couple's house.
Yeah, let's do that. Right. What's the outcome of that? Well, did we get a signed off? We'll have to check with Christina to see if we got a signed off. Yes. infrance agree at the entrance. Now, uh Joan signed off
on it. Okay. Okay. But she also said that part of they that uh the previous superintendent agreed that the uh they're going to have the driveway resurfaced and supposed to uh take part
of it. We're going to replace it. It's small. It's small enough. That driveway is small enough. We'll just take the whole thing out and replace it. Oh, okay. All right. So, that has to be in that agreement that she signed it. That was the problem. Yeah, that was the problem. Oh, okay. So, we write it. We'll rewrite the agreement.
Yes. Yes. Tell her to be like I said, we looked at it and it was small enough and short enough that I think I think it's better than trying to patch it. Uh, especially with all the stuff that they've gone through with this whole thing. Yeah. I think the best thing that we can do is just replace the whole
thing and be done with it. Okay, that sounds good. I think that's going to be the best outcome for everybody, right? So, I'm just going to send a message to Christina to include She won't throw rocks at you when you go home. That'd be nice. What do you want me to
word it as for replacing the driveway? Just you're just doing a research. Uh, no. We're going to actually just take it out and replace it. Yeah. Because it's it's thin enough. It's a thin and it's been patched three times by the water department before. Oh, wow.
Yeah. So, at this point, Yeah. Yeah. I can't see add I can't see. Yeah. It's not even that. It's probably the width of this room. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, I can't see happy with that. No, I
think that would be the best outcome on that part of it. Okay. I know what this bullet was too. It was Brad. It was just for me. was reminding myself when you and I should get together and go through all the numbers. Yeah, we're getting Yes. Now,
we could wait another week for bills to come in because we have till the 15th. Right. Right. Right. Right. So, if you want to wait another week and then set up some time to Yeah. Because Jasmine's supposed to be putting together a letter to put out to any vendors that to make
sure they have their right paperwork in by a certain Yeah. Right. Yeah. So, we're not there's no next week. No, I know. But just Brad and I are going to get together and go through the financials that we went through already and kind of, you know, get it
straightened out for the new year. So, right. They're in good shape. Yeah. Okay. I'll reach out, Brad. How did you uh find the uh reaction for the repair here on Russell? Yeah, that's what I was just going to ask. Um, I didn't hear any
complaint. I had no phone calls. Good. Um, they were done by around 11 11:30. Water was back on. Water was back on. Steve then went down and bled the hydrants out, take all the uh milky colored water out and the air. And
sometimes it gets that black soot out of the inside of the lining of the pipe whenever you break them loose and do some repairs. But what it was was a bell was leaking at a bell where the pipes went together. Okay. And I think those pipes are
19 1913. Okay. Over 100 years old. Okay. No, I just heard one person said they did have water on Maple Lane, but yeah. Um I tried to make sure that everybody was uh contacted, but I did
forget one person sitting here behind me. I think somehow I missed that. I don't know how I missed that, but I did. Poor feet. I think the reverse 911 went out. So, uh, we did Friday and Saturday for reverse 911 just to make sure everybody
got a good handle on it. Um, and then we called for the we called for the dig safe emergency repair and uh, Mark had everything else lined up and Stephen came in after he had his uh, time off. He came back in and took care of things.
And I thank you, Steve, for taking your time away from your family to come back. I appreciate that. No, thank you. Yeah, one smoothly. And I want to thank the highway department for patching. Yeah, they helped us out today. Yeah, he's good, too. Okay. Writing. Oh, okay. Thank you, Rick. Yes.
Thanks, Rick. I think that that's it on our end. Unless you do you guys have anything else? Um, not at this time. I don't. Do you have anything this time? No, we'll get together and discuss all this. Yes, we're going to have that the 24th. if you uh swear by or something either one
of you or any of you we can you know okay as long as it's not more than two of you then we have to post a meeting so yeah just let us know when you're ready and we'll put you on agenda for sure definitely because right now so far everything's working handling everything
very well I have no complaints uh he's been able to uh cover everything he's actually sending out a a letter because we had a issue with a high chlorine disinfection part which we get written up for for too much. Yeah, those
will be going out Wednesday. The CCR reports are already he's got them out, too. So, he's still good with that, too. You remember those? Car. Those are fun. Yeah. All right. Great. Good. So, we'll see you in a couple weeks. I'll I'll come over. This is all
right. Thank you. Yep. Thank you. All right. So, we have uh Christina's on vacation. She'll be back tomorrow. And we don't have a sent. All right, Ray, come on down. I don't know if Oh, wait. I just want
you in here. It's power. I don't know. We've got three folks. J, Bob, and I don't know who it is today. All right. How's it been, Ray? You been
good? Yeah, busy. Okay. How's it been going? You want to fill us in on where things are at for highway. Uh so on the 19th uh and the 20th, Palmer Paving came out and
they ended up having to push a three-day project into a two-day project. So that was long hours and um it laid over on the holiday. Talking with the guys, I said, "Look, with the heat Mhm. if they're willing to
come in early. And the vote was unanimous. Everybody came in early. Uh we've been starting early, too. Especially with the heat, it's been working out. So, just want to inform you 6:00 is our start time. We're out the door by 6:15. Everything's prepped and ready the night before. Trucks are all
filled up with fuel. So, there's no downtime at all. So, it's been working out and everybody gets up and goes. So, uh we got Cobble Mountain paved and we got South Street Extension paved. on uh the 19th and 20th
and then uh I don't live on Cobble, but it was nice. Yeah, I'll have to check to check it out. You haven't checked it out yet? No, I'll have to get really Yeah, it was uh it came out nice. It really did. We ended up uh the guys came in. They did a really good job keeping the
traffic off the roads. We'd have a few like 53-footers trying to sneak on the cobble mountain while we had a paving box and trucks. So the guys did a good job turning them around, getting them back down crooks and getting them out of there. For the meantime, uh, one
resident was getting a delivery for a refrigerator. She contacted me, we ended up talking, and it was okay. Saturday, she got the delivery, no issue. So that was good. And having Hayden paralleling Cobb was really a godsend because we
could, you know, redirect traffic that way to anybody that needed to get through. So that was good. Um that was a big big har getting that taken care of honestly.
Um I did end up contacting Wendy Delamp from the Country Journal and she stated that we'd never had a job posting in the Country Journal ever. Oh, we have. We definitely have. Yeah. I've been here
Yeah. four years. I never seen one. You know, I walked and knocked on the door. Um Christine is in there, so I know. No, I mean for the highway department. That's That's Yeah, I'm not asking other positions. You know, last meeting we
had, you asked to contact and see if we can end up getting some uh advertisement out for a position now that Matt left sadly on Friday. So, yeah, I'm the only one that holds the CDL. So jumping from the office back and forth running the
trucks that you can't operate without a CDL. The guys are really doing a good job. They're pulling their weight and u really proud of them honestly. I really am. So I did talk to Wendy. She was going to reach back to me by like 5:00, but I
haven't heard from her. So hopefully by tomorrow we'll be able to talk to her. Okay. The next thing she asked me was the parameters of what we're going to be putting it into an advertisement because there is nothing to go off of as of
right now. The only one that I've seen is the one that we have on the actual website for Bamford and that was from like 3 years ago. So the pay is different. Uh pretty much the same skills we're looking for in licensing
and stuff. But, uh, if we can end up if someone can reach out to me and let me know what you want the parameters to be, especially with it being July 1st. Mhm. To end up starting this process, I need to know the numbers. Not that we're paying for something, drawing people in and wasting their time and wasting my
time, right? So, that would be important if we can do that. Well, that's going to depend on the licenses that are on there, right? Yeah. Yeah. Licensing. Um, that's what we'd be going on. I wouldn't go off someone's experience, you know, let me end up talking to them and figuring out what their knowledge is at
that point and what normally would do something in the country journal. Uh we did something in the penny saver and I think we did online indeed. Indeed. Yeah. So, should we have Christina?
Yeah. Okay. Because Christina said that we have an account I think with Indeed. Y with Indeed. Um, do we need to put the pay or can we say based on um experience certificate certification? Um, I wouldn't be wasting anybody's time. If you're going to pay them a certain
number, I would definitely put it in there because I would skip over it if it didn't show what the pay is. Honestly, I would rather go after some advertisement that's straightforward. Here you go. That's like buying a car and saying, "Hey, come look at this car." and you go
there and they're like, "Well, we want 105,000." And it's like, "Well, you can do a range." Yeah. Do a range. Exactly. Doourly. Is that what you would normally say? Yeah. Because annual rate. Yeah. I would definitely do a hourly rate and then have like the
bottom number for someone with like a regular driver's license. No, you know, licenses. Well, we're not looking for that. No, I know. We're not looking for that. So the bottom number with at least the hoisting licenses and a driver's license that would be helpful properly
CDL preferred CDL. So that would be the high number I would say on that. You don't think it's required. Yeah. If we can if you want to end up running it and see what happens. You can see what happens. If you say required CDL only people with CDL will post.
Yeah. And that's what we should do because that's the main thing. Yeah. I agree. Get to a place. No, I I we the guys we have now are getting their hoisting licenses, so we'll be covered with that. So, I you are correct on that. Definitely a CDL uh applicant
would be good. Okay. Yeah, because I can tell you've been running around to lost weight. Can we maybe can we maybe like set a date and say by such and such time, we're going to have this poster? Yeah. And I'm just I was just thinking how that kind of tied into what we were
talking about, Liz. pay last week. Um, I'm just wondering if we're able to do a range. Do you think we're able to now a range? Yeah. Yeah, I think we could look at it. Okay. So, I just pulled up the job description. So, we want to take a look
at it and put it on the agenda for our next meeting is two weeks out though. Is that This is the highway department maintenance work. Okay. Okay. Part-time or full-time? So, we would be looking for full-time. Yeah, we don't need part time. So, I we can just I'll print this
out. I can't print this out. This isn't hooked. But I'll get it to you guys if you want to take a look at it and we'll put it on um the I I think the sooner we get it out, the better. So, if you send it to us and then we okay it can send it
to Chris Andy to put it out. Right. All right. That would be quickest. We just have to decide on pay. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we could do that in the next two weeks, right? We can do anything. Can we? Sure. All right. I'm just going to make a
note. Send John description. Um All right. Okay. Um what else you got? Anything else for us? We did uh confirm, Ray, that you're not eligible for the double time. Yeah. For
work and a holiday. I know. I found that out. It's actually in your contract. Yeah, I just read it. Yeah, I seen that. The holidays of showers. Yeah. Um,
so we talked about pay for the guys, but that was executive session. So, we can put that aside. Yeah. Okay. I think we can put that aside. Okay. Um, all right. Do you have anything else? I was just looking at a couple of the um
there's two for July that we had talked about goals of the goals. So, just wanted to like let you know that I know you know, but um we were looking at the inventory list of all equipment um including approximate current values, acquisition date, cost, location, and
status and then a maintenance plan for our equipment. So, those were the two July stuff that we're looking for. That's coming up. So, not now, but coming up. I believe when I first gave you the packet, what was it? April. Yep. I gave it to you in the April packet
with the values of all the vehicles that are in the department. Um, to the best of my knowledge. Okay. Equipment maintenance. Yeah, I think you have a maintenance schedule on that. I'm just seeing um the for maintenance. I'm just seeing the winter
putting equipment away. Yeah, that was pretty much it. So maybe just more of an idea of with the list. I would say is the it was the Maya insurance list that you that I received from the town that you wanted
me to compare the prices and get the values, but I figured the insurance adjuster should be the one that is coming around looking at the vehicles and the property at that point and giving you an accurate listing. I just went off of online um
retail dove deals and took the like the military trucks for instance, Brad knows you really Oh, thank you. You really can't get a number off them because there's so many out there and it's a wide range of dump beds, different
implements on the trucks. Like so I just went off the year, the mileage, the condition off of what we had and wrote that on the Maya sheet that we ended up receiving. You still have that record? Yeah, we do still have the record actually and it is in working order. Um,
we don't use it much, but you know, we do still have it for emergencies. Last time we ended up naming the record is um when we had North Blamford Road Paved, we ended up having the green uh army truck break down right about uh right by
Dick's house. How did we do this across the street? The green army truck was sitting there when they were doing north. Yeah, we ended up hauling that up the road with the record. Did a good job. That's about the only thing I could move it. Why don't we do this? I'll go I'll go through that and line it up with
this and we'll see what's left. Okay. Okay. And Ray, if there's something that you think you've given that she doesn't have and I'll just come by and you can give me a cop. Okay. Okay. Okay. And now a maintenance um you want to what was it a maintenance? Yeah, I was just looking
at here too was um this is from the Rainey's uh submission of what he was going to work with you on is the um project and create maintenance time and cost table for all equipment. Okay. So yeah. So, a cost table. You want me to end up making a chart of how
much it is for the oil filters, the oil, how much the grease tubes are going to be like that type of stuff or Yeah, I mean on here it look it's looking like logs of operational checks, dates and hours of required services, materials needed, the labor required. So, yeah,
just your maintenance plan for the equipment. So I would say like looking at the equipment list that has already been put together and then what the maintenance plan and I I guess an estimated cost. I don't think it has to be exact but an estimated cost so that when we're doing the budget we have you
know an idea of you have an idea of Yeah. It comes out of Yeah. equipment repair. Okay. Um we'll take a look and make sure that see what's left there. Right. Okay. No fine. Now I Now I see how these
companies like what Dave signed up for a quality fleet, they'll spend $1,500 on an oil change because they end up doing everything. They go through and sell you every bell and whistle on the vehicle plan. No, I don't want to do that. That was ridiculous. That was a waste of
money. Get stuck like last year where we had to buy all that stuff. Remember we were $56,000, remember? On the snow and ice stuff. Yeah, there was because nothing had been purchased. Everything was thrown out cuz there was a metal bin here and don't
know where it went. Okay. But yeah, a lot of stuff got thrown out that we could have reused. You know, I'm big advocate on recycling stuff and being able to reuse it for something else. Like you can take a plow blade if you got a a head wall or something or a catch basin going bad, you can actually
reinforce that and reuse it and it'll last a hundred years. We have them going down Russell stage road. I don't know. You didn't install them, right? Maybe a couple the blades, but they work good though. I've seen that technique and I was like use those and covers and stuff
and pinches here and there and it works. Um, so getting back to the list, we'll we'll end up catching up on the maintenance stuff and the list. Uh, yep. So, uh, I contacted Wendy. Any info on using the projector of the
classroom coming up for August 6 because that's something I really need to know about. You guys wanted the select board wanted training for the guys. Y, I signed up for the training. So, and there's other communities even all the way out to Hampton that didn't even know that we had a wood chipping course
coming on. We have Washington coming. Okay. Um, so I just need to know if if I need to end up figuring out another option or another outlet. So, you want to use the SL room just like how we've done in the past. Um, that's it's fine
as long as we just really make sure like I would say we would put you in charge of making sure that stuff because it's just stuff tends to get unplugged and then we go to meet and we're like scrambling trying to figure out how to work stuff. So, just make sure that stuff doesn't make sure it's still working. Yeah. Okay. Well, someone can
just show me how to use it like Okay. However, we have to connect the computer. I'm guessing you got a USB plug on the back to tie it into. Are you having people zoom in? No, this is going to be in I don't like the online classes. That's why it's important we have the hands-on. I want to make sure
someone knows if the chainsaw bucks up or Yeah. You know, it's better hands-on than watching it on a video. So So you just need to project from the presenter's laptop. Exactly. And do a little seminar. So it's about 3/4 of a
day, half day in class, and then the next day and a half is going to be up at the yard at the salt yard. So we're going to set up up there and we'll be hands-on up there. So once we're done in here, we're done. So I'll let put that in the note to Christina so that she
knows. Thank you. Have you selected a date yet? Right. Yeah, August 6. I already signed up for it and we got two free uh uh entries. Okay. For signing up. So it saved us $400. That was good. Okay. Um,
another thing on uh I ended up getting a call on the 25th from K5 line painting uh Brandon Durn and he noticed that we had the bid coming up for line painting and he said, "Hey, do you need any line
paint? We had a cancellation." So said, "Actually, we just had Cobble Mountain done and it would be perfect if you could make it here." So, I went through just cobble mount alone. That wasn't enough footage to do for the uh by the
foot for the paint. So, I ended up adding up at it was like 4:30. He called. We put this all together by like 5 and they were there by 9:30 that night. Um, Cobble Mountain Road, Russell Stage Road, Chester Road, North Bford
Road, and Curtis Hall going out to Otis. I had them do from the line going out. So, we ended up getting uh two yellow 4 inch yellow strips in the center and then uh the fog lines with 4 in on either side on all the roads in town and
got them painted. It was a last minute thing, so we didn't really have too much preparation, but his crew came out. I met with them. They're here till about 4:30. I went home for a little bit, came back in for 600, made sure the guys were all set to go, and the roads look good.
And it really makes Cobble Mountain stand out the paint for sure. I've heard a couple compliments on that. So that was good. Last minute. Um, do you have any challenges that you
wanted to talk about, Al? Any concerns? Any concerns? Yep. just the heat honestly, you know, keeping the guys hydrated, getting them out of the sun. Like today we ended up uh they ended up
going down they ended up going out to George Mard with the wood chipper chipping up the trees that were down because while we're doing paving those two days we had those high gusts of winds come through. So, we had like
multiple trees on wires throughout town. And we ended up I got the guys out there, pulled them from the paving, left a couple down there, and then the other two went out as a team and ended up cleaning up at least what we could of the branches in the road. But the ones that were on wires, they got the whole
process down, calling in, getting a ticket number from Eversource. I don't even have to tell them how to do it. I made copies of the tickets so they have the cards in every truck. So, all they got to do is call the number. It's not waiting on hold for a half an hour. It goes right to an operator. You get a
number and it gets addressed. You know, you bring up the heat. I did when I read the union contract because I was trying to compare and contrast. Right. There is mention in there about how it's important that you make that decision, that heat decision with those guys. Yeah. If it's too hot, that's what we've
been doing. There's plenty of stuff to do around the shop. Okay. Good. You see the guys sweating, right? They have I ended up getting a nice one of those Gatorade coolers. I had it at my house. Brought it in. It was brand new. Fill that thing up with a couple frozen
bottles. Fill it up with waters all the way to the lid. They're going through at least a whole cooler of water a day. So, I went and bought five cases of water the other day. Brought them to the shop. So, we have a case in the fridge. Right now, we have like three cuz they've been
going through it on the the floor. But every time we're getting low, it's worth getting. Do we have more here from the last water break? Do you guys know? Or is it just a big It's just the big jug. Just the big jug. Okay. Those help you at all. But the only thing is I noticed
that you guys have a bubbler here. Now, is the Did it didn't come with a bubbler? Obviously, it came with that pump top. Yeah. So, but if you want to use it with the pump top and then get it out of that. We could keep one inside the
fridge and then have it at least like they're there. So, yeah, we're going to be using the bucket truck uh coming next week. Now, we're done with the paving. That really getting that prepped and ready for them guys down there. That was a lot of time, but So, you're all done with paving for the season? No, we were
out here today paving. Well, what? Well, yeah, we got the hot box, right? We're getting the hot box and um there was a little bit of material left in the hot box. So, there's a couple potholes in the parking lot that we built and then where the catch basin burm is over on
the right hand side when you pull out of the parking lot. I had the guys dig it out. We'd whack the whole thing and clean it up and then we ended up putting the curb around it again. So, at least the water isn't taking dirt and running down the road. So, it was perfect amount. ended up getting it cleaned out
and at least that was taken care of. But concerns other than that, not really. Um, okay, good. You know, Rainey really caught me up to date on stuff. I am uh projecting our next uh project for Russell stage. I don't want to go into details on the stuff, but uh first step
is I got to end up getting my uh because I'm going to use chapter 90 on that. I got to end up submitting my proposal to Dave Stokes and if he ends up approving it then I'll end up calling Ellen from Fort Cog and I'll end up getting the bidding going for that so that we can
get that project taken care of. It's that crib wall around the base there that that needs to be addressed before winter because I've even been down there plowing and it does just turn into a sheet of ice. We had that iceberg all winter long down there. Brad, you drove by it. You seen it. It was a monster.
And even if we went down there with the loader, it would come right back as soon as the sun hit it. It would just build up. So, I want to get that addressed before uh you know getting too late in the the season. But pretty much I think that covers
everything. You need anything from us? Um, so one thing that I wanted to let you know, um, for the vacation time from when Mike was in the ICU and, you know, building up
going in the negatives, what I would like to request the select board to do is take one vacation day a year since I'm not planning to go anywhere and I can reimburse the town instead of coming up with the like 30 I think it's like $3,800
Um, it can end up doing one vacation day a year at least to start giving it back. I think there's 12 going to take 12 years. You're really Hey, if you want to I'm not I'm really I'm not wantly blampered,
but yeah, like I I'm Well, we could talk about it. Okay. See? Well, that's what I was hoping that So, you don't want to So, you're saying you definitely don't want to do the um pay it out. you would rather do take the vacation days. I can't afford paying it out. Y that's
honestly I'm not gonna lie to you. Um okay. We we can talk more about that and see what works. We'll do it that way. But um we'll talk about how many we do to catch up. Okay. When we rejoin, we'll discuss it. Okay. Okay. All right. That
works. All right. Is that it? Any questions for me? I don't think so. I think you should shoot for no later than two weeks to get I wouldn't be pushing burnt out really fast. I wouldn't be uh pushing it longer
than two weeks. Yeah. I wish I but um Okay, I'll send it out now. Wait, you don't have a good specific cooler like town water? Town water? I honestly I'd rather go I would rather go to a brook
and get a cup that's feeding cobble mountain then drink town water the one oh that's ringing I'm sorry I was going to say something nice about
forget it now uh one One thing uh that I before I leave, I just wanted to end up giving you um there was there was a request for um what towns
are making in the area. And I did end up going on the uh for the Birkshire. I think that's what this was. Let me just make sure. the superintendent, Berkshire Highway
Superintendent, am I saying it right? Yes. Uh website and I didn't reach out to everybody, but there is a small list of what other towns are paying their employees. Now, henceforth, I did end up
talking to Jerry and I asked if there was a upto-date uh list because this list is from 2022. Oh, okay. some of these some of these actual like uh pay scales we're not even touching and in
2022 they were exceeding our pay that we're getting right now. So I just imagine with the years later what they are making at this point but I'm willing to give you this. I do have a copy. I don't have doubles. Joanne is ordering me new
ink from doing all my paperwork. Um, I ran out of black, so I have plenty of color, but Okay. A lot of this stuff I can't copy. I wanted to make copies for you, but that's great. Until I get the ink. Um, all right. I'll make copies for
us before we leave. Thank you. And then you want a copy. I'll No, I have that saved to my computer. Okay. But in the meantime, I'm trying to end up getting uh up todate information for you. Um,
right. I mean, we can make some assumptions based on raises that happen, right? What we what we would expect raises to be the amount of the amount of land that towns take care of. You know, we got a big chunk of uh land and road mileage that we take care of in Lford
compared to a lot of towns. Um, but that's that's all I got to say. Okay. Okay. I appreciate that. No, thank you. Thank you, R. You guys enjoy your evening. Yeah, you too. All right. So, we've got a couple things to improve.
Water. All right. One last thing. Ray, we forgot to say um we wanted to thank Rainey for um Yeah, today was his last day. Last day. Yep. So, um we just wanted to send out that. Is he on? He may be. Uh he may be under Howard. I
don't know if there's a Howard up there or not, but the David something was there for a while. Yeah. We don't know. We just can't. Well, his uh was it Glacius? Oh, yes. Thank you. Yeah. Glaciius the singer.
Yeah. I didn't know that he was a singer. I thought it was a comedian. I ended up finding a cassette. A Julio Glacius on it and I realized it's a singer that sang like songs through the 80s. It fit him perfect. Um Ray, the only other thing we need is um the
truck. Did you get the truck yet? The truck is in the driveway, so I'll end up We're just so busy running around today. Okay. I want to just check the oils, go over it, make sure it's got a full tank of fuel, and then I'll park it over here in a vacant spot, and I'll bring the key in for Joan. Okay. All right. You don't
want to leave it at the garage. You'd rather it be here. It's crowded there. It is crowded. It is crowded. I got so much equipment there. I just moving the stuff around town just so that I have room. Um Okay. What's this truck for? The truck that Rainy had the highway.
Yeah, that the Okay. Is that Is that going to be able to be used like from the cemetery? Anybody can use it. Yeah, we ended up fixing it. We got the battery drainage system taken care of. The truck just sat too much. Wait, are we talking about the same truck? I'm talking about the truck that ran the
Silver. Yeah. So, we're talking the same truck. Yeah. There's a kill switch underneath on the battery that I installed so that if it does sit like how it did over winter, you just hit the lever. It's like the Frankenstein switch. Yeah. And then at least it doesn't that doesn't have a trailer
hitch on it though. It No, it doesn't. No. Okay. We can get one and if you need it installed, we can install it. Okay. And also the uh one last thing, the dumpster for the uh for the uh transfer transfer station. Yeah, we have the new wheels all
installed. And I called Brett. I told him they can end up coming to pick the thing up because they almost had an accident with that. Had them drop it at the shop. It was just easier just to slice it off with the torches. He ordered the rollers and the pins. We put them all in. I welded them up and you'll have your
dumpster back. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, sir. All right. So, motion to approve um payroll warrants 26 and 27. Second. Any discussion?
All in favor? I can't sign in red because Mary will yell at me. All right. Um then motion to approve warrant 27 accounts payable and wire for payment.
Second. Oh no. Second. Any discussion? No. All in favor? I All right. So unfortunately we have two or we have a resignation letters from Paul Martin for planning board and board
of assessors. Um and so those would be appointed positions, right? Yep. Okay. So we planning board is elected. Planning board is elected but assess and assessors is elected. Yeah. Okay. So we do need to approve them. So um I'm
really sorry to see him go. I know. Me too. It's really good. Absolutely. Um, all right. So, a motion to approve the resignation letter um for playing board as well as that for assessors for Paul Martin as June. Um, as of I didn't see
them June 30th. Yeah. Yeah. June 30th. 30. Any discussion? All in favor? I All right. All right. So, then we've got review town blank and personnel policy. I don't think we're ready for that.
level. Um, well, just as an update, I did go through the union contract and our policies to lay them side by side. So, you guys can I'll give you a copy, you take a look at it, and then when we come back,
at least you would have had something that you could quickly look at and say, "Okay, what makes sense here?" You know? Okay. Um, quite frankly, honestly, the union contract's better. Yeah. But um you know we have to decide what we want to do.
Okay. Thank you. I appreciate. So the um are will you send that to us? Yep. Okay. And we'll or I have I'll send you Yeah. So we want this back on the agenda for two weeks out. Yeah. Would that be an executive session or how do we do that? I don't think so. No. Okay. Okay. That's
fine. Yeah. Um, I figured we take maybe three, four at a time, not try to do all of it at one time because it'll just be lose focus. I agree. Yeah. Right. I remember it took us a while also. Okay. All right. Um, so then we had received
the um notice that NSAR Electric Company um petitioned um for zoning exemptions. Yes. So, we received a copy of it, but it was actually sent to the sitting committee. Correct. Is that what they're called?
Well, right. They when I read it, I got it fast. But um they sent it to the sitting committee which is at the state level and this um it's basically just we already like a
little bit discussed but not a lot. It's an expansion of the current Eversource infrastructure. It says NSAR but it's really Eversource, right? Um, it's a $64 million project. Now, I don't know whether that $64 million is
just for this or it's a bigger project and this is a portion of it. It's not clear. They they sent it to the petitioners of the state to basically bypass any zoning laws that are here in Bford. Um, which is allowable by the new
Well, it's allowable as long as they approve it. They haven't approved it. They petitioned these guys, but these guys have not approved it. Um, it's a small group of I went online to look and it appears that it's a small group that was put together specifically for this
type of thing. Um, probably and I'm just conjecture is that it's probably connected to the statewide wanting to go to more solar and stuff. So I wanted to bring it up as okay, you know, we need
to have our minds around this and my thought would be I I personally would like to have these guys come in. Yeah. Yeah. Either to the board or to one of us and somebody put them to task to say,
"Okay, help me understand why you're expanding this quickly." Now, this was a a in the plan, I guess, for a couple years. Um, but is all of this stuff that we're that's the reason why I brought up all of this stuff connected somehow?
You know, we got vests, we've got uh the the larger solar commercial piece, right? And we need to know the real specs, not peacemail. Yeah. Right. Um,
this just said to me, uhoh, that we're starting a bypass. Right. Absolutely. And that's not good. No, but also when I was looking through that, they have a completion date. Yeah. 18 months. Yeah.
So, but what by 2028, right? They want it done up and running. 18 months. So they're trying what they wanted what the way they've got it laid out is we're going to petition to bypass zoning laws that are in Bford for the purpose of
staying on our timeline, right? Okay. And that's the whole 18 months. Um I think this is again just my opinion. you guys in here, but I really think it's important for us to go to vote for solar
and for uh for the town to vote. So, as representatives of the town, we know exactly what we need to do. Yeah. Right. Right. Absolutely. Um if the town votes for or against this, we're the we should
be the ones that are really fighting to support the town. That's the way I looked at it. So that would be a special town meeting. Y um and we want to do it sooner rather than later. Yeah. So that's something we want to um
it would be just the warrant of the two um it would be the two questions separately the solar large so commercial solar and then best they're two separate and it would be non-bin is it really is it there's three
there's the ever expansion sorry yeah I'm acknowledging go ahead there the ever expansion batteries and solar for three separate. So, yeah. So, we would need to build on all three of those. Okay. Is an
expansion of an existing facility. Yep. I mean, I don't know how much control or power we're going to have in fighting it. But, I think we just want to know at least what the residents want. Their first contact before they ever said what
was going on was to zoning saying how do we get a waiver without telling me really what was going on. Yeah. Yeah. So, right. A waiver and and by the way, we might go to the state. Yeah. Well, I I even before we vote, I still want to get
these guys in here and say, "Put it on the table. What is going on?" Yeah. Right. Because I can't see. When I read it, I was I I had to come in and read it again because never I I didn't believe that mindboggling. Yeah. Well, that
they're going to first of all invest $64 million. And the way that they wrote it, it was to for the stability of Bamford. Okay. Well, I don't think anybody's going to spend 64 million. I mean, I would like to. So, and then it said and
for future growth in the soul. So there's there's there's some Yeah. But they there's stability of Lampford. But stability of Bford what? Exactly. Exactly. Marriage. Does it say I didn't
see anything, but I know there have been opportunities for public comment to the sighting board. Yes. And is there anything in there that has public comment opportunities coming up? Um, I thought there was I thought there was
the involvement that that's kind of part of their plan, right? They they did have I mean I didn't read two so far that I know of. Yeah. Yeah. This also needs to go to our attorney by the way. Absolutely. So the question becomes how
do we get another copy? So, I wouldn't hesitate, you know, maybe we could have Christina reach out to the guy that sent this to us and say make another copy and send it to Yeah. Um, so he knows how to represent us as to, you know, our future. But was there
other questions, Colleen? Yeah. So, they actually bypassed the town already. Yeah. Because it's interesting if you look at their timeline, they were going to Q4 start approaching the town and they skipped over Q4 2025 completely and went straight to the state. Yeah. So
that's what I was curious about because I know I've talked about it before. There's an immense amount of wetlands there. Um they're currently at just over half an acre. They want to expand it by twice the size. They currently have, you know, capacity for 50. They want to put
in 262s. I mean, it's huge. They It was pretty um the last time that when it was Romeo years ago, probably 20 25 years ago, they did have to come before the town and the town got to vote on it and decide one way or the other. I will also
say what Lameco ended up doing, they expanded the footprint bigger than what was approved. It was kind of after the fact, they utilized the space differently than than was originally shared in back 20 years ago. Who who approved that though? Do you remember it went to the town? The town actually got
the vote on it and then it was passed through the town. So, um I know this is part of their big push. You know, if you go on the Eversource website, you can see Blamford is one of their areas, the six areas that they're planning on expanding. They definitely have a
timeline, but they do talk about having public comment. They don't talk about having a public vote. So, I went back through the annals on the website and I can't find and it goes back Wendy keeps stuck a long one time. I couldn't find when the original vault happened. Okay.
But I will say it was after 95 and it might have been early 2000 at the earliest. So, within first seven years I lived here. Yeah, I would be interested to see what happened. Yeah. Well, I'm I'm gonna suggest that we do bring these guys in
and I think we'll probably There's a reason they're not doing that yet. What's that? There's a reason they're not doing that because they definitely want to come to conservation even though it says in here if they go to the state they'll come to us. Yeah. Um we've reached out to them. They actually reached out to their They did. Okay.
Yes, sir. Yeah. You have to realize that the town has to go through a certain review to approve a project. Mhm. The state also has to do it and and there's at least a half a dozen state laws that would preclude
um this the developer from from putting in a project without getting approvals. There's wetlands. There's the um boat that flows right into the reservoir right in front of that project. Flows
right into the uh town reservoir. There's a reserve area that that was kind of um tried um back in when they put in the uh the processing plan down at Long Pond to put
in wells. So, um there's certain and also there's um Tony is putting in a project um off of North Blanchford Road and I know that project very well because I did all the works in the site
evaluation and that brook that abuts it goes into the town reservoir but my house. So if you put batteries there there's a lot of question and what I'm suggesting is that the town um do a parallel um evaluation of the project to
make sure that the state even though the state has taken over the review that the state um um be be held to the fire. So, um, and the town should take a position on these vests because this is the biggest thing
that's coming to this town ever. Um, you know, we've had a lot of projects that, um, impacted this town and nobody did anything about it. The reservoir. Yeah. Um,
we get nothing from the reservoir. We subsidize the valley. Yeah. Um, turnpike. Um, the town provides water for the turnpike, public services for the turnpike. We can't use the turnpike and and yeah, everything everything that
comes this way, the town just rolls over. Yep. So, I think I think the board and and all the other town boards should take a position on this and let them know where we stand because the state in
this past legislation um what is it? S267 that was passed in that was what's her name signed in in November as they're they're forcing everybody to put in 5,000
um megawws of of of battery storage and what it's going to do is pit one town after another, one town against another. So if if we don't fight um we'll get stuck with with these vests. If we
fight, we don't. We'll push it on to somebody else. It's the bad worst piece of legislation that the legislators come up with. And you did it on um um close session. So, oh, they didn't
have open meeting law. I'm asking the board to take a position and take a strong position. Yeah. Thank you. Just for the record, Tonyy's putting that project 530 m from
my house. I'm not going to sleep with a gas mask because these best projects are dangerous and everybody knows it. I mean, just in Wilberham, um, four electric buses just burnt up. I mean, and there's been 30 30 of these best
brushes worldwide that went into into flames and and it's hydrogen gas, um, hydrogen cyanide, which is cyclon P if you want to know, hydrogen fluoride, um, hydrogen monoxide, and 14 15
different heavy metals that'll pollute the ground. And you got a you got a um waterhed area for two waterersheds. Yeah. And and and we got to get the sprint fuel water. I know. Yeah. Nicole is already very Nicole Samson is already
very concerned and involved. Well, it's it's more than that. Copies every other than one explaining why it's it's in their interest. Um Yes. and and to send copies to all the politicians in Springfield. Get Springfield because
it's a quarter million people that are that are on this watershed for Springfield. We get nothing out of it. They get it to benefit. Yeah. So, we got to get them into the fight, too, because we're going to get stuck with all these. This will be the first one. Yeah. I
mean, it's just lowkey, you know, nobody pays attention to it. Y Thank you. And no benefit to the count. Go ahead. Look, yeah. Um, I read the resolution that Christina wrote and it was awesome. Um, when I spoke with
somebody down in Westfield, Dan Alli, I don't know if you're familiar with him, but um, yeah, he um, he said that part of their way as a city of beating the best was they got resolutions from all the other surrounding towns. So, I'm
wondering if we can as a board you can reach out to this. I know Beckett is going through this now. Talin just lost. They're getting this. Um, yes. Oh, no. Hale. It's It's going They're going west. And when they get resistance,
they're kind of hang on a little bit. But what is Dan's position in Westfield? He is a city counselor. Okay. Alley. So he would be a good contact. Thank you. Okay. So we were um talking about how we could meet with who we
could meet with in Westfield and how we go about hosting that. I think we can post a meeting and like if Jackie and I Jackie and I TJ wanted to meet with them in Westfield. I think we just have a conversation about what did you do and how you know they actually just went out
to OKAM. Okay. Massachusetts and they did a whole presentation. That's awesome. Where did they go? I'm sorry. Oak. I wonder if they have that presentation online. They're in the news right now because they're they're current they're
a small town and they deposit into uh Yeah. Yeah. So, they're fighting this right now and we came in probably maybe two weeks after. So, we didn't get the benefit of getting Dan on board with us soon enough. Okay. But I think um Oak
they're they're pretty much they're pretty much going forward and that would be a good resource I think. Okay. Perfect. Thank you. Appreciate that. Nobody wants nobody wants Yeah. And that's and that's what we're talking about is that's what we're that's what we're hearing. That's what we're
hearing. But I think that just taking the vote gives us a percentage just gives us numbers. So we can go forward with you know 85% of the population of Bford but you know voted and doesn't want this and this and we're thinking two weeks because look these guys move
very fast right and you can't slow roll this so and there is a although I'm sure it's in your document not speculated in the one that they shared with you is there is battery storage yes which I
think is significant as part of the cyber source. I don't know the size. It's probably in that folder. It's not in their plans, but there is they call several containments because now they're going to be putting in um more than
double. It's going to be more than double what they currently have set up for. So, they're going to be storing it on as part of this expansion in that 1.0 acre there as well. Well, I you know, we're supposed to be supporting whatever
you guys want, right? So, when the vote comes in, that's the direction we're going to take. And, you know, so get your folks out there to vote. A lot of happy people. I suggest strongly that when they do their review,
it's going to be done. for taking a review out of local hands, which is which is the earthquake in the state. When they do the review, we should send somebody down there to hold your feet to the fire to to know that you're
complying with every with every act that they that the state has passed in the last 60 years. So are you saying hire an outside person to do a review or have somebody you know who understands or even an
engineer excuse me as a thought my husband's an engineer and I went home and spoke to him about it and the first thing he said was so how are they building this thing well that's not the way I think right yeah and it's not the building it's the it's complying with
all the compie it's offsets yeah right you know the water courses, um the soils. Yes. Um well, that's the part they bypass conservation, which means the D doesn't automatically get flagged because if they send us a notice of intent, it notifies other state
agencies. The D is unaware. You know, Mark Stinson, who's you know, our wetlands guy, he's completely unaware of anything because he hasn't been sent any courts. courts. Can they Can they bypass an existing law
like like what? Well, they did they haven't finalized the rules yet, but they already passed the law that says yes, they can bypass the to their initiative, but they have not signed that. They did. I know a couple times that I've run into this myself working
with highway, working with utilities like electric, a lot of things they are exempt from. They're only exempt from existing maintenance. It has nothing to do with expansion. So, they are allowed, right? They have to come to us and tell us when they're doing work on their
lines. Even though they're exempt, they still have to notify us, right? And they're allowed to maintain their existing infrastructure. This is something that is more than doubling the size, creating battery storage on site, and that might be that rule that you're talking about they're trying to get past. Well, there's several rules
they're trying to get. That's why there it doesn't flag the DP because the D has very strong um legal backing and therefore we go to no well we go to conservation as conservation we go to D immediately
and when anything comes to us an automatic copy goes to them and they review it we discuss with them before we do anything this bypasses that and it's a lot it's a lot of wetlands if you drove by there it's just all completely They notified us they were going to be
doing some poor drilling um which is on their existing footprint but what they want to do is completely and that there is the wetlands that runs right down in front and it feeds into Brook which feeds into um yeah yeah so
you know we did reach out to Nicole again Nicole came to do it meetings she comes to our meeting she reaches out to us and ask she's very involved in she's involved trying I don't know they're trying to lawyers involved. Good. Okay. That's that's Yeah. Yeah. You can invite her back here. She will come gladly.
Yeah. Absolutely. I have a couple more questions. I don't know if you can answer them, but um do we know what the total megawatts of all the three solar fields are putting out? I don't have a number. No, I don't. I
don't know if that would be with planning if planning knows. I'm not sure. A lot is I think 27 something. I would say the one on Otus Stage that's the one on that's that's the biggest one
the one on Otis Stage Road I think there's a there's a project it's already done with you the whole it's back in it's off I would say I can find that out for you because they've all had it come before us um do we know if like these
companies are doing any ongoing maintenance do we get information from them that goes goes to conservation. Is that right? Planning. No planning. No planning. We're wetlands only. Conservation wetlands only. Okay. All right. Well, I know the one on Chester Road hasn't been maintained since they
built that, but they got trees growing up. So, one last question, maybe Colleen, you can answer it. Who's who's developing um the the bigger best system uh on North Blood? We actually have someone who's on the call right now, I
noticed, who's a gentleman um from Pennsylvania, but they're muted. So that's me. Hi everyone. Hi. I'm I'm I'm David Dro. I'm from Exus. I am just listening so rapidly to all of
these questions and concerns and feeling very eager to help address them and work with you guys to answer I think a lot of these very important questions about what is this? Why Blandford? What are we doing? How long's it going to take? Where how are we working with
Eversource? What's the expansion plan? There's there's a lot here to unpack. So um yeah, I'm just eager to continue to participate in the conversation. Thanks for thanks for calling on me. And you're from Exus, which is what? I'm sorry. So, do you do you follow? Yeah. So, yeah,
I'm my So, Exus Renewables is the name of the firm that is developing the proposed 50 megawatt system adjacent to the existing Bford substation south of North Blandford Road. So, I I guess in this context, you
could say we're the smaller battery. So you're not developing the bigger one? I believe across the street is another planned development for a 200 megawatt system, a larger one. But that's not you. Correct. That is not that is not
us. The name of that company because I know you know Tony who's associated with that. So someone from California. Yeah. I was just wondering if they California. Yeah. We just Yeah. Um, do you happen to know the name of the company that's
developing across the street is the question? I started looking into it a little bit. There's some stuff on the public record that I can try to look back into and and work with um you guys. I don't know, Colleen, if you're the best person to talk to. I've been just
emailing the town or the administrator at No, select, you know, conservation. I would email planning. Select planning. Conservation. Yeah. So we're all just um so planning at townofb of blamford.com or I think it's select is it select board or
selectman select board select board at townoflamford.com I think okay great and then we'll share it amongst and we appreciate any help you can give us and any insight yeah we're I mean I was I almost came off mute a few minutes ago to address I
think someone had spoken up about again it's just answering it's like what is going on and why Blandford and this came up a little bit during the you know hearing at the beginning of the month too but um there there's there is there's a lot going on and I think
there's a lot in it for Bford but I think for now we coinc I wanted to note that coincidentally because through this whole NOI process for the work that we're doing to be proactive about the plan for runoff
and storm water management and protecting the aquifer next to the substation. We're taking the walk with the town's peer review company, I think, in a hopefully a couple weeks. I know we're we're trying to get it on
the books now with SWCA and the delineation. I mean just really taking a close look at the topography, the watershed, how we can make sure that what we build is completely separated from the watershed from the aquifer and only
connected to this electrical infrastructure that, you know, is what allows us to utilize the batteries in conjunction with the grid that Eversource is building. So you I'm sorry. You said you were taking a walk with with who through that? the the town's peer reviewer and I I know we're
we're kind of remote here, but I can follow up with all the information. I got it. It's Salvini. It's the one that you you Correct. conservation to hire Salvenian Associates. They're out of Chester. Oh, yeah. Correct. Okay.
Okay. So, conservation hired. one one of the questions you know all all this is is coming down on our town and uh if everything comes that that's being planned to happen here what benefit is
to the town I mean you know we're going to become what a third rate town we might be a blighted town property value is going to drop I mean this is affecting a lot of people and their investments Yeah, I think property value I'm hear I
I heard property value as one of the key issues also at the hearing at the at the town hall earlier this month. The short answer is compensation for the town. Finding ways to leverage the value
that we're getting from the battery and then delivering that back to you guys, back to the town itself. And there are a lot of ways that we can do that. Well, we we have to talk about it, but we're not going to hash it out now. This is not we're not going to hash it out
now. So when when the batteries are done, we're going to say, "Oh, what are you going to give us? I want So TJ, just so you're aware, their project is only currently right now before conservation is for a temporary road only to be put
in." So, we know from when they came and met us unofficially in November, and correct me if I'm wrong, Dave, is that the temporary road will be the permanent road if the core drillings go as they hope. And that there's a lot there's a
lot a lot of wetlands involved. This is property that Kurt Maylor, who did was from Park Avenue Solar, who did the solar on North Glamford, tried to gift the town when they did their egregious
ecological disaster called the North Glamford Solar that EPA and D was involved. Now, Kurt Maynard tried to give us this property. We refused it. Conservation in the town refused it because it's filled with wetlands. We can't even do hiking paths on it. Right. that is now the property that they want
to put this and Kurt brought this Kurt who brought us the first solar in Bford is now bringing us this battery storage that Mr. George has the pleasure to bring before us. So so but we're still we're talking an 18month window to
completion. That's Eversource which is different from the project that he's talking about. He only right now he's not even before planning yet. is only come to us conservation with a temporary road that will then become the permanent
road which is through a creek through wetlands cutting down an inordinate amount of trees although we asked for the number of trees um like the Lorax I have no idea how many trees but I'm guessing two 300 trees in the wetlands but the plan is to just chop them down
and leave the so we have a third party evaluator but he can't talk to you about compensation for the town because he doesn't even know if his core drillings if if the conservation's going to approve based on the peer review. D is not happy either.
So, we're still waiting for them to look review the peer review. So, he can't talk to you about compensation for something that is smaller than the other one that's going across the street that we also haven't seen anything from yet. So, I think we have our running order
address is insurance. Colleen, a disaster. You're welcome, Dave. Who pays for who pays for the who makes people? What kind of insurance and bonds are they going to? Yeah, that's a good question. One more from Sue and then I think we kind of
have what we need going forward. What's our timeline for having a a special town meeting? So, that's Yeah, that's what we were going to talk about. I think you have to post and need two weeks posted. So, we're going to need to get a warrant approved through the attorneys and then
posted with two weeks notice. Just just an add on to that question, is there any way that that reverse phone system that the town has, is there a way to send that message to people in town if there's a special town meeting? We can. We've been yelled at in the past for
doing that because people don't like I find a lot of people would like to know because that's the the feedback we're getting going door to door. Okay. I was really surprised going door to door and how how many people had absolutely no idea what I was talking about. Okay. No
idea. What do you mean battery storage? They think they're dead batteries. Yeah. They think we're going to store dead batteries. They don't understand if these are live. Okay. So, I think like even if we get people a little upset by the phone, you know what? Yeah, we can do that. Definitely send
out a reverse 911. So, I'm guessing it'll take us about three weeks because I think the notice is two weeks. It has to be. Yeah. And then so we'll just have to get it approved first um and then we can move forward with that. Is that quick enough for the July 9th meeting?
No. No. Right. No, but that's that's the planning board meeting. The planning board meeting and they are going to be voting based on bylaws and you know what we have in place here. They changed the
so that what we're seeking is an unbinding. It's it's a non-binding vote. that's just giving us a collective opinion of what the town wants, right? So, that's kind of something that's a little bit different. We can't really
connect with that. One last question. Um, what's the process and timeline for replacing Paul Martin? Um, I have a notice for someone that was interested in um volunteering. So,
Richard, I'm gonna I'm gonna Would you and so I'm going to try Max next door. So, um I just have to figure out
Richard how because planning is elected. Excuse me. I'm just trying to figure out because planning is elected. Um I don't know if we have the ability to appoint someone mid I think we do. So but we'll just have to get that on our agenda to
do. There's certainly no harm in you attending the meetings and you know um participating but we'll move this as fast as we can. Um but we do have to make an official appointment. Um, so, um,
I will send it to Christina and let her know what we need to do ASAP and then we might just have to come in for a meeting just for that. Yeah. Whatever. So, if we have to come in for a meeting, we'll do that and we'll just make the appointment. Thank you. Thank you. We appreciate it.
Um, call I don't know if you're aware or the actual status, but Sarah, who's also on the planning board, Sarah Sarah Samson, she has not attended a meeting, has been absent the entire year. I don't think you guys received an official resignation. No, when I saw Edna when I
came to vote, um, she mentioned that she left. Oh, gotcha. That's their secretary, which But we haven't gotten any information, right? Which is their secretary, which is why the meetings aren't haven't been posted. the meetings haven't appropriately posted. So I think
you need to find out if how many openings there are because I believe Sarah if Sarah's gone too then how many does that put us with? That leaves you down to if Edna stays which she swore she wouldn't have called. Yeah. So we're not sure if Edna stay but
maybe with you may have more than a problem. Let's just put that. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Cool. Um, so I can reach out to Sarah Mary. Okay. Uh, the planning members of the planning board and the select board
together are charged with appointing an interim community board member to fill the vacancy until the next town election. Okay. So you want to meet with the existing So we'd be meeting with Edna and Sarah. She is still Gario.
Another gentleman named Twi TW. Oh, and the clock is ticking on the because the first open meeting for the two s two larger solars, the People's Brook and the Gibbs Road that the the 90-day clock
started when they had their first open public meeting, which was June 4th. So they have to make their decision or and if if they don't it's very bad because then they go to the state and they say well we did this and they didn't act so please approve this
for us. Okay so I will send um a notice to Christina we need a joint meeting with planning ASAP to do the appointment. So we're looking at maybe the week of July 21st for special time. I don't know I'll we'll as soon as we
can. Yeah, that that would be 3 weeks out. Most reasonable. That's one, two, three. It's actually We'll send you as soon as we have a date. We'll let everyone know. Okay. You got to check with us. Yeah. And the moderator. Yep. Yep. Christine's got it.
All right. Um the only other thing on our agenda is the marker for Where did my thing go? The historic marker for Jeffrey Jones Road. Mary Hall and D. I don't know what that's about. It's
for the cemetery up on the Kyle Trae. They want to put a monument. Okay. On the edge of the road on the property. So, what do they need?
Oh, sorry. Um, sorry. We're still in a meeting, so I'm just going to ask our quiet. Yes, if you would come up and speak to Thank you. Yes. Thank you. Appreciate So, hi, I'm Mary Hall. I live in Russell, but I'm also a forest land owner here in Blford. And uh nice to meet you. Um one of our forest land
properties abutz. Um Ted's familiar with this because the cemetery commission already put a letter of support in with my application for the marker along with Blford Historical Society. They also put a letter of support in. Um ever since I found out Jethro Jones was a revolutionary war veteran, I've been wanting to do something to honor him since he doesn't
have a gravestone or any kind of number. Um, so an organization that I belong to, the Daughters of the American Revolution, got a grant from the Pomeroy Foundation to put together these Revolutionary America historic markers to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. So I thought
I'll apply for one of these on behalf of Jethro Jones. So I did with support from Cemetery Commission and Blford Historical Society and the Mercy Warren chapter of D, which is the Hampton County chapter. And um, they granted us the marker. Great. So it's this is an example of this isn't the marker but it
kind of shows what it would look like. Oh nice. So it's an aluminum cast aluminum sign on a seven foot pole and the people who were put up the money for the sign prefer that it be placed at the junction of Blair Road with Jethro Jones Road so that more people will see it.
Okay? Because if it's on Jethro Jones Road, you know, no one's really going to know it's there. Um and there's a website that tracks where these historic markers are located. So if somebody is driving through Western Mass and wants to visit historic markers, they'd be able to see. Oh, there's one on Blair Road at the So I'm basically here. I
already spoke to Ray at the highway department, but I'm here because he said that the town of Blandford owns 25 ft from the center of the road on either side, which means we would like to put the sign up within the town's right of way. And so we need to get permission to
to do that. Okay. Um and that's okay. I mean, no. Yeah, it's going to have a concrete base that there's a whole set of instructions that come with the sign. I was actually going to ask if the highway department could put this sign up for it. Okay. It's um it needs to be
just like a 36 in by 12 in deep hole and then you have to mix some concrete and set the sign and then just make sure it's flat and square. Yeah, that that'll be perfect because then they'll know if it is impeding any view or anything. Right. And Ray already pointed out a couple areas where there's kind of wash out from Jethro Jones Road onto Blair
and was suggesting that we put it so that it wouldn't really be right in the path that wash out. Okay. Now you you do know that's a gated road. Yeah. All right. And the gate is not locked, correct? Okay. I because Sprinkle Water on one side and then Hall owns the other
and then one of our citizens own partly up that road. So um so I would make a motion to allow for I keep losing it. Um the um historic marker for Jethro Jones um road to be
placed. Is there a second? Second. Any discussion? All in favor? I thank you so much for doing that. Thank you. So, could I just reach out to Ray at the highway department? Yeah. Let him know that board approved it and you know, make your arrangements with Ray. Perfect. If he gives you a hard time
calling. Thank you for your support. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. All right. So, I think we're all set. So, our meeting will adjourn at 7:27. I get some emails and then I'm going to turn this off. But I can send
it's like a 30 It was all very