all right good job thank you all right we are open and we're being recorded and you should be all able to hear us back there are there speakers back there should be that's awesome where's Mary um I don't know can
we Can we officially start okay um All right meeting out do we have meeting Are we uh tableabling meeting minutes tableabling meeting
motion to table mainments of March 10th second uh any discussion i did more today all in favor i no worries um audience participation public comment no fantastic
department reports we got highway we'll wait we'll give Ray a second um what jennifer jennifer come on down jen you don't have anything
okay all right then don't come on down nobody wants to talk to us adam come on down can I speak real quick about the Gateway Education Foundation didn't even know they were here amazing i always go in and check oh they're
things been a function no matter what it is even if it's basketball I go in and check make sure everything's okay i was like were they even here generally I see something yeah dirty something leftover something so we'll have them back again everything was bad how are you young man
i'm well sir how are you all right it's better than the alternative better than the alternative thought you said you had an ulcer no no not yet not yet give it a minute only if I had stayed on the select board um thanks
so uh do you want me to just start yeah what do you got so we've uh reached conclusion finally on apparatus for replacing our brush truck so I have a contract here for you to look at
one minor complication always and this is right up your alley oh no you got a old brings me to you know that uh the budgeted what we had budgeted uh they came in at exactly 200
$250,000 which is $200,000 from the town $50,000 from Springfield Water but now we have to include a tariff contingency for the materials that potentially
given the winds of change that are subject uh of tariff all the way up to $297,000 from 250 however what we've added into the contract
is in and in talking with the supplier Greenwood um the tariff policy has been shall we say inconsistent at best uh and sometimes it's zero sometimes it's been thrown around that it could be 40%
so what we built in is a clause to be able to cancel the order if the cost including the tariff goes beyond what we've uh indicated we can purchase for so us signing this contract is just for the 250 us signing this
contract includes up to 297 however we can go back and cancel it if the tariff is going to put us up to the 297 okay my view is if it if it's
going too far I don't know what too far is but if it goes too far above 250 I would come back to you guys and say what the cost is to figure out what we Is it coming from outside the United States yeah almost all parts are yeah is it the trucks coming from No the parts parts no
it just all tanks and all that stuff yep um we're fortunate the one they just quoted for Lennox is $120,000 worth of tariffs wow they're not going to affect us though um so our uh council has already
reviewed this correct correct all right this is the draft so initially it was an agreement from Greenwood uh Mark has sorry uh KP has worked with Greenwood before okay you put it into our whatever
format and all right so you need just one signature it looks like i just want to make sure I'm keep signing all the stuff you need and autograph just on a federal exemption sign
only there was an exemption from text the finance yes jackie what do you got the $47,000 difference right which we haven't put away mhm where's that coming from we are the the contract has a
contingency that if there appears to be a $47,000 tariff attached to it we have the right to cancel it we do not have that funding identified at this point so Adam saying he'll stop it if you cancel it and we'd have to discuss it we'd have
to talk i would bring it back here yeah okay back from the board yeah only thing you can do really limb um I think we've now gone through six batteries for old truck in two years
it's because it sits there and don't go nowhere last time we had a alternator belt broke i definitely put that is that because of lack of use some of it's also seriously old we start it actually pretty often
take it out how about that has moved on am I putting today's date that's actually coming over here for happy okay okay and I don't know what to fill it up here so you're going to have to read okay and then I'm going to make up the
difference if we're short put in the date here too as long as you just sign where you need to sign we can sign and dated all right so motion to approve the contract with Greenwood
Emergency Vehicles LLC um with the contingency I'm not even um second second any discussion all in favor i Well thank you
no question just hope for no terrorists yes are you going to be able to do that for us pile over at the cemetery good all right i'm a happy camper thank you you got uh information on the stipens for us yeah so we had one of the
things I had been we had talked about last last year uh but I think we were a little late in the process so we brought it back up this year was to try to We are one of the only uh towns in the Commonwealth that doesn't uh give some
form of uh compensation to our staff uh in recognition of their hours that they spent training and responding to calls uh initially I had come up with kind of a matrix of
um how we could compensate uh responders for calls and a combination of that and training i think that was probably a little too complicated so what we did is we took a similar dollar figure and just broke it down to what we think an annual
budget would be just compensating staff for training mhm the total amount if we say $15 an hour uh training is generally two hours a week obviously we train every week we
have about 16 responders that's a total of just under $25,000 $24,960 okay um when we brought that number to the finance committee uh they were uh appropriately pointing out we don't have
a policy in place to allow that so we thought we would come to you first okay before including any line item in the budget for annual town meeting so we need to um do something about putting a policy would it be another vote in the
um there there would definitely be a line item on ATM but do we also need to do vote some sort of policy in place well yeah and I think we should write something up and have the lawyer look at it honestly then we can vote on it okay so you're in the meantime you're going
to put it on the budget as a line item and we'll also have the policy so they'll be sort of like contingent upon each other at the meeting correct okay no um are you all right with me working with Mark or do you want to or sorry
Copelman or do you by all means okay i don't want to do what I'm not supposed to Whatever happened with the uh stipen on uh firefighters saw Yeah I think it stalled
in the Senate yeah but they're going to re pick it back up this next session unfortunately everything's out of our hands in this state okay just a question [Music]
all right are you So we're okay with that approach so yes please do go forward with that emergency calls and fires it would be a $15 an hour so we're going to only do it on training oh only on training okay that's why I didn't know it yep sorry that's fine we'll revise a policy to only focus on
training okay great i like it cool anything else work on that and get it back to you okay thank you that's it all right thank you um uh Rainy and
Slayway come on down that's what it says on my agenda rainy and I would do something cute like combine your names but I feel like it's obvious sorry i'm looking I'm going where the break didn't realize you had your
pumpkin hat on it was cold it was cold was it I said hi to him you got to answer who i was going to say you didn't say hi to me i didn't see you i'm afraid to say that word in this
room am I triggering all right [Music] um so we had a busy past week honestly uh we ended up getting preparation for uh summertime coming we
got 1550 and the single axle Mac uh stripped down got the sander out completely plows off we oiled up all the chains on the sanders completely put them away uh on both trucks stalled uh so no more snow that
means No no we're just ready for if an incident like Huntington Road happens again where we can actually haul our own material okay so we have one Mac the the Tandem that's uh together you have a 550 ready to go so if something does happen
we can easily we left the head gear on we can hook up to a plow for the other Mac to push snow if we do get anything okay but the larger Mac can hold more material so it can do more to spread through town if needed so we've got that taken care of
um ended up u I made a connection with the state forest director on behalf of Huntington Road and Buand Road earlier last week ended up having a good conversation with him and making a good connection for future work that's going
to be done in town and he oversees all the logging that's done in the area so I got a good insight of where people are going to be and when they're going to be so I figure that's a benefit too for us as a community so we could end up
utilizing that timeline to attack a lot of these dirt roads if they're not going to be on these roads until July August coming back because it's wet right now we can actually utilize that to our advantage right now and get a lot of these roads taken care of nice um fuel
land the lower section with DCR is completely done for right now for logging the only thing they got 600 acres of land on the upper portion of uh the forest road that they're going to be clearing but uh that forester he's not I
talked with him uh personally too and he's not going to be back in until like August to start hauling out more so that's taken care of uh Huntington Road is completely done they're not going to be out there until
working off a hate early late summer they're going to be out there so at least we have a timeline for that i'm doing what in late summer uh logging thank you harvesting Log yeah oh and another thing too so we
ended up the signs that we ended up getting the mud season signs we ended up actually getting one up on Huntington cuz that was the most used one here so we ended up getting a dead end sign I ordered we got the sign made up put a brand new uh anchor base and put a new
post in too completely visible so at least if there is any commercial traffic like logging you know we're not stopping any postage we're not stopping any oil deliveries deliveries so and there the number's there so if there's an issue
call you know and we can have a conversation about that if there's any big deals um add in Tyler right just add in for what he's got enough signage too to do the rest of the roads but he's going to be
doing it as time permits but when he ordered signs we ordered signs everything gives so that we can put them on both ends so that during those seasons they're all marked okay not just that there's going to be other spots you know Springfield Water Whole Forestry
they're going to be pulling marks out over the years yes so we can use that to our advantage you know exactly there is an issue that I want to end up bringing up to the board um I was hoping that we can get rectified for u an
accident that happened in the department for an auto accident okay u Matt is still getting a bill and he can't be here tonight because he has previous obligations but I told him I'd speak on his behalf was that on the Mac out on
Gibbs Road on Gibbs Road when the uninsured driver and he ended up hitting Matt and ran he's not getting his bills paid no no the ambulance bill oh okay so that that never got paid so I just was hoping that something can come about it
because you know he's worried about his credit score and it's like look it wasn't his fault let's just take care of him you know so I was hoping that we can end up maybe putting a little fire under the insurance uh so that's insurance that needs to it's been with Maya for
months and it it is true and Matt has been handing the paperwork and all the bills to the town but Maya's not doing anything about it and it's starting to affect him and I don't want him getting upset over that that's the last thing he needs to be doing yeah yeah is there anything we can do to push it along do you think I can reach out to
them again i don't I mean I don't understand why have a bottle of water from Sure that'd be suitable I would say okay let her call him first and then if in a week doesn't then send the lawyer so we can save the legal fees let her
try one time that's not fair and then if nothing the next week she can call her lawyer and have him do it because try to save a few bucks i see you Ryan Town i know not as much as you think
so uh okay so that's taken care of um what's the signs on Huntington uh we're doing in-house oil changes we're not spending money going out and about and spending thousands of dollars have someone else come to the shop to do oil changes on vehicles and
services there's just no need for that um we have all the filters and everything and all the oils so we start on a rainy day like today we got all the oils changed on the 550s both of them next we're going to be going through and
doing fuel filters on them and stuff but that that needed to be done since winter time so we ended up getting uh some maintenance taken care of and greased everything and made sure that was set to go so there'll be no bills okay there will be but I'm just saying
for $3,000 for no change yeah there's minor stuff you know that we can end up doing i bet and you have a place to get rid of the waste oil does that go up to the dump after we do we do have a place to elaborate a bit yeah i just want to make actually you should elaborate on
that well we uh just recently started an agreement with safety clean which is coming out of the highway budget and they will do the removal of the oil so the liabilities off the town okay perfect and they're a good service
that's one thing I can say very proud too yeah I know i've worked with them before awesome yeah um next thing we ended up getting Sanderson Brook we got the uh the actual Sanderson Brook sign erected at the end of the road it was
gone from an accident a car hit it or something it disappeared uh so we ended up putting a new base in and putting a new post in and we ordered a new sign for that we're just working our way through town want everything all taken care of and um that was one of the issues we ended up noticing there's no
signage on that road so that's another one that's a candidate for uh you know dirt roads so yeah it's a dead end too um and there's more roads to be addressed too as time goes on um today we received our 550 back uh from Blue
Ribbon Welding we ended up having a hitch uh 2-in receiver welded to the truck instead of having a bolt-on hitch that we have to keep taking on and off every year because of the spinners on the back of the trucks so John did a beautiful job we got the receiver we
dropped it off he ended up putting it on over the weekend and then he called us up around 11 today and said come get it so we went down and grabbed that so at least all the trucks including the 350 and the other 550 have the same 2-in receiver same height nothing needs to be
changed so it's just there's less of a headache for employee new employees and for ourselves even that are present at the moment well not to mention before the 350 had to have a sleeve put in because it was two and a quart right then you had the two inch for the 550 number five and then you had
a a bolt-on for number three so this is all universal now and it's uh it's it was done mainly because blue ribbon which is uh Kevin Yeah John Marcul is a certified welder in the state so the
DOT performance for this has all been good certified so great excellent i understood most of the words that you said it's kosher i got it um
I I met with uh with Randy today we uh met with some contractors with uh some uh future road projects that we're going to be drawing into town um we'll be planning that as we go uh just getting
some estimates and some ideas um you know along Yeah two more coming along but you know we started the ball rolling on that so I could end up getting a good uh rapport with uh all states so that was good
um and then the next thing that I have is I do have one candidate for the highway department but he could not make it tonight okay uh so hopefully for Monday's meeting I can have him Yeah come and you guys can introduce
yourselves so yep and hopefully after that yeah we'll ask him a few questions and hopefully be able to make it that would be great um is he local yeah he is local okay yeah he's a lamp for night oh you didn't say I just said local that's why I said local
um there seems to be some concerns in Nybrook i've been getting calls in the office and I don't know if the board is aware of these issues but I am working with other departments to see if we can resolve this issue and if we can then nothing needs to come about it but if
not then what's the issue um we're having manure dumped right on the side of the road in town and is this the house at the end of the street again yes yes so it's pretty close to a you know
fresh waterway that spills into the actual brook itself um the other side it it's not a dumping ground like it's touching asphalt that's how close it is it's also filling the ditch and and it's filling the ditch that's how much it is it's not just like
a 5gallon bail it This has been progressively a health issue or is this a So did you go out there today and check to see if it was running we did we did go out there so we checked it out and there is nothing in the actual ditch that's happening on the brook side
there's some hay mixed in cuz there is some piles that are along the edge of the road there but not like a tractor load in the actual brook um but I would be more cautious about what's going to be happening in the future if we don't nip
this in the butt because if it does continue then there could be bad you know something that would concern conservation uh I actually reached out to conservation and there's something with an agricultural that it's like a
borderline you know because people can spread manure in their yard they can for fertilizer you can do that So it cannot go in the brook and that's the thing and then so that is that's the deal that I'm keeping a visual on to make sure that it
doesn't happen but at the same time like Randy mentioned our drainage ditch on the other side is getting is getting full and when we had that landslide I'm guessing Dave said we can dump chips there or either she ended up talking
with the company and she got the chips but the chips are here's the brook and the pile of chips are right here and right along the edge of the road that's plugging up now the drainage to go naturally into the brook with this mound
of chips so I don't want to take my guys off of doing stuff to have to pick up someone else's mess but no have you um reached out to the owners yet we ended up not having any contact yet okay so maybe we start with did we we we sent
out a letter but I don't know if she's picked it or if he's picked it up yet um because I haven't gotten my green card it's the certified yep i haven't got my green card back yet okay but there again we're really more concerned on the um brook being contaminated than the drain
so we should maybe send one about the drainage yeah so if you send one about the brook Yeah we're more on the water they can do what they want on their own land because they can use it for a lot of but on the but on the opposite side where the paddic area the pasture area
is that water naturally would with that ditch run off into the actual brook just on the other side of the bridge it's not like it just is in the field the spot that they're filling in inside the fenced in area near the barn that's their own property so we really can't say nothing about that but in that ditch
that drainage ditch it is they're filling it up in between the pasture and the road which there's a ditch that goes there to the brook but then you got that big pile of wood chips that are sitting there also so well why don't you you work on a letter from highway that's more addressing the
drainage okay um and then we'll see if they respond to that and we'll go for it from there so at least we're just add in that and I both and I have been both looking at it
very critically because we're also working on a project for that particular road and the state is not going to appreciate if we try to use chapter 90 money on a road that is going to have a dead wall on the drainage yeah and
undermine the road so why Why are Why do they have those uh wood chips there i wasn't here when that happened that's that I'm guessing that's a D Waldron's question or they just had them delivered for something they're using Well they weren't No it was when
that landslide happened and we had the tree company come in they put the chips there okay so that's I don't know but Didn't they put the chips there did the subcontract no we didn't do any work when that landslide
happened that got taken over by D D took over that whole project so you know they did the hillside cleaning they ended up cleaning all the debris out of the actual uh brook did a good job you know but
put the chips there no D didn't have the trucks the contractor that I'm guessing the D had work in there some contractor well they so they know that the D knows that the wood chips are there they hired the
subcontractor to contact the D and the you know and have them reach out to their contractor to find out why there could be also they have to be removed right but it also could have been an agreement with the
resident she does own the land because it's on private property so it could have been D said "All right here's the company." And they said "Hey can we dump these here?" And they said "It could be but we're guessing and we don't know to the We'll do the D." And and
most of all I'll send the letter out to the resident that's the first thing and then see if it disappears if it gets disappeared and cleaned up problem solved all right okay sounds good all right what else you got
um uh we have just so that the residents know in town Eversource is going to be doing aerial trimming uh that's fun to watch they hang on the chainsaw from the chainsaw falls
my ex-wife's house oh I was hoping on these okay so that's going to be uh proceeding just for the town of Bford they got numerous towns in this area and just for the town around here we have uh from Hayden Road all the way to Old Chester Road they're
going to be working that line going all the way through um it's going to be starting from 3:26 to 45 so that's that's weather permitting that they end up sending out for dates um that's
something to see yeah no it is um they're going to be flying from 7:30 a.m to 5:00 p.m okay and uh the helicopter you're going to seeing is going to be orange with white stripes and the landing zone for the crew is going to be
on Mard Road okay so that's where they're going to be working out of is from there so if anybody sees anything happening and wondering what's going on it is not an aerial drone so um we ended up getting our report back
from mass unless the bridge project or Okay um the Mass DOT ended up sending out a report for u the bridge on Blair um over Wheelerbrook the bridge is in good condition we're getting six and
sevens out of the scale so uh so far it's doing good one thing I have noticed is the water line is starting to come up a little bit maybe it'll pop once this thaws but you know that's one thing I talked to Rainey about and I've seen in
the past from working here that water line will come up over the road and if it does happen then Springfield Water's going to have to do something about it you said that you be contacting Kelly before then because we don't want it to come up we want them to know it's an
issue so so if it comes up is because of beaver dams yeah so that's what we're going to be running into there hopefully not but they have been building some more dams on the upper side on the inlet of that you know
bridge so okay maybe give them a heads up that we're watching it so that they know that it's going to be on their radar okay yeah I see them drive by all the time so Okay but just Yeah just let them know that we're Don't just stop and look at it make it Yeah take BB
oh I drove out there a month ago um got you uh to get the blower going this is probably going to be something to hand Christina since I'm here I might as well just do it i need a W9 form filled out i filled out all the information for the
department and myself i just need the rest of the stuff filled out our Buffalo blower we need to get some parts for it to start cleaning ditches out uh in town like it's thought out enough we need to get a head start on before we're grading any roads i need to get one of the guys
in the tractor and run that thing like a lot okay so we got a lot a lot to do it's not big amount of parts there's not cracked housing plastic housing okay however there's very few dealers in the area so we when we purchased it from
them we were put on the uh account but we are because we never used it we have cash only account so basically they just want to set us up we don't have to fill credit information or nothing just get contact information everything else to set us up as an account billable but
then u I mentioned that he has to keep them appraised to make it accounts payable okay yeah do you need a tax exempt certificate too i would assume so I already took care of that for you i ended up printing out my tax exempt form and added it to the application so you
don't have to worry about that joanne can you just email you the W9 the W9's on there already um I don't know if you can Joanne if you can end up making me a W9 that's all filled out send it to me and I'll send that to the guys in Pennsylvania yeah it's the same
for every department okay he just sent me a blank one just so that I was all set but I got all the other paperwork all set for you on that uh pretty much I would say that's about it we're staying busy we are um we're ahead of the ball good um way
on the back burner burner not important but um I don't know if it even matters so you could answer my question um what's the name of the road between Ny Brook and Huntington used to be a road n schoolhouse schoolhouse no schoolhouse is the one that goes down the hill that's what I'm
talking about oh oh okay so I walked the other day i thought she said the other honey i don't know if that's something division right that's the other do we have to I walked it from Huntington Road to VNO okay and
there's second division three second division sorry that's not school second division all going through to the bridge so I don't know if we have to clear it or not well there's the the bridge is out so you cannot okay don't worry about it yeah we started to look at it and u
you know Massa DOT said I know it get bridge paid for there i just wasn't sure if we were supposed to clear trees cuz I noticed you guys had cleared one at the end did you go past the Jersey barrier oh yeah I went all the way to N so when we had the wash out with that storm or
well with the a couple weeks ago on top of logging that tree was down that night we ended up uh needing a good turnaround spot for Irish trucking so we had to make sure there was a couple different options for them that was one of them we ended up cutting that tree up
but those jersey barriers are there so you went past the jersey barrier yeah i just walk to the end but it's fine if we don't have to clear them then don't clear them i just wasn't sure if it was The problem we do is if you clear it up nicely you're going to get a lot of people go down there or get stuck at the end i mean it's been closed way before
there's just full trees like I couldn't walk i had to like like it's like full trees down i was like "Wow." I don't know what storm hit down here oh w down in there yeah all right probably about 25 years 86 that thing happened i believe that
closed in ' 86 same time Huntington Road really too bad man that would be a nice shortcut oh we tried to get that open the problem is is the bridge that's all right uh quick question and this is for for all of us what can we do
about getting bonding from these logging companies that we have to have a rope on no no that's not a quick question that is not that's Well it's all right well think on that and we're going to move on to our next
but they're not going so you know we've already inquired for the few times that have bonding yeah okay to get their literature and get their wording so that because evidently when we did it we didn't have the right verbiage when it went to legal and instead of the
Yeah we want to get some examples of a proven bond road bonds for so that way we can tweak it for the town you guys are welcome to stay there i'm going to fly through the rest of this and we're going to go into executive okay okay one more i got one just a quick one no take
your time take your time so we're talking about a water line for the old uh town hall so the way the grade is the water line would have to actually go through the office you'd have to come up through the office and go out you're talking at the post office
that's where the original town hall used to be yes so I'm thinking of maybe putting a 5ft berry so you guys would have to bring the little mini down and so I can put it down below and put stone in it and then then we can lock it so nobody can use it when they want to you
know except for the park instead of just having it just run so that is something you guys could do if it goes forward yes no maybe you're talking about for the park or the line that connects to your house not my house no
the the office building where your meeting room is want to put one right out the corner so they can water the park right by the chimney in the side of the training center yeah but up towards the parking lot a little bit so you're going to get a faucet and just put a padlock on yep yep yep okay so that's
something you guys could dig for what they what he wants is to put a hydrant in there okay all right you're going to punch a hole through the foundation yeah yeah just got to have My son's been in on the job he's got to replace all the sewer lines in there they're all
rotted out and twisted so he's given the town a bid he's working on it now but I just we got looking at that and measuring the grounds here and it's there's no room for it to go out yeah so just wanted for the future to mention it then so okay thank you i
don't think any more time go ahead so I would motion to approve the employment agreement between the town of Lamford and Raymond i'm going to say ha ore oh halt um this is the one I have in front of me that we um is there a second
second any discussion no all in favor all right right so you can pass it to Ray when you're done um and then I have a motion to appoint Ry to the emergency management committee let me wait on that so that I can do the paperwork and go through the proper uh Absolutely we'll
put on the agenda next week and one thing I was gonna it how much time is that gonna end up taking up honestly it's not much it's mostly like in the event of emergency you're you get text messages you reply you're in the loop so like he's not the emergency management
manager no you're on the committee so it's like it's a fire um water uh select board Christina um so it just puts you on the team um in case of an emergency we really only meet like
um we rarely meet during the emergency it's more after to if we want to sort of go over um what was done how it could have been done better i hope I hope they meet during and prior to during like in the heat of it or like it's like sort of
you know what I mean so but yes sometimes we have to meet to I can do coffee hours so that's fine all right all right regular when you're done with that hand that back to me so I can put it all in one just give me a minute i just want to read through this real quick here do you
want this one it's the same exact one you have in front of you but it's highlighted with the changes that were discussed okay perfect there you go all right while you're doing that do you mind if I talk about No go right ahead that's fine so the payable warrant Joanne you said we're waiting on that one we're waiting for
the warrants yeah she she made a mistake so I'm going to motion to approve it and then I'll have like we did last week and you guys can come in and sign um so motion to approve warrant 20 accounts payable and payroll
uh contingent upon review from select board second any discussion all in favor i All right we have uh GSA parking and town hall lot yes this is um I'm not sure that this is
why that old staff guy he used to do flags here I guess his wife is military and I printed that so you guys could know the reasons why they're not allowed to keep a military vehicle on their property she's asking to park it here during the
day uh park her vehicle here during the day and the military vehicle at night i asked them to do it way over if they're approved do it way over on the side either side so we're not are we going to be liable if something happens to that car that's what bothers me they can't even trust one of their employees to
park it in their own yard it's happened before so I'm guessing that that question has been asked by others so military vehicles um are generally restricted from being parked on private property due to security concerns uh and the need to
maintain operational readiness as well as the fact they're primary use for official government business do we get to all the keys uh security parking military vehicles armed private property could pose security threats potentially exposing them to unauthorized access to damage
liability um the government could be held liable which is something the military seeks to avoid i mean we are the government i don't know right not the federal government you know what I mean especially if it's like an M1 Abrams well that's what we
wanted um operational readiness need to be maintained and readily available to deployment official use primarily intended for official government use does that maybe we get to use it um they're used for personal errands or parking private property is generally
prohibited okay um I guess we just have to I mean it's I think it's fine i just don't know if we should run it through someone for liability check do we want to bother with that i mean I would at least just want like the make and model okay i don't even they already he
already spoke to um Chief Duville and she didn't have a problem okay so make model and the license i already asked him for that and I will make sure I have his phone number so if we have a big storm tell them to get their car out of
the way for Okay so motion to allow um GSA parking and town hall parking lot second any discussion all in favor hi oh Christine I skipped you you got her i
was um I picked up the new vehicle for this COA use uh we traded it in the truck and the COA vehicle is here i got the new plates i'm going to take it this week to get a sticker i went and got quotes for decals on the doors which I
very inexpensive it's only $69 really for each all together wow so let water department know so they can get No town of Blake well because everybody can use it it's you know it'll be on the road this week
yeah yep okay um question thought it would for them well I mean it's town use you know so that's journal if you would like to use it you can use it do you want to drive a car that says a COA or template or I can't say what I want to think you do do you do I don't know if I
could sit in it yeah uh you'll find I believe a copy no it's okay a copy of the HCA for Belf um if we could just sign it again 100 times sign
uh I spoke with Dick Gates he is requesting and I think it's a really good idea that we have a meeting with assessors planning zoning and the select board to discuss these battery storage things in more detail um
I think he did talk to you TJ didn't a little bit well there was a article in newspaper newspaper and I think we could talk to somebody from the Springfield waterworks because it's going to be near their feeder maybe with
their clout that could help us out yeah i don't want those things on top personally yeah let's you know can't put them out to burn they're going to have 300 containers do you think it would be worth it to invite the head of whoever's fighting it in Westfield we could try i
was going to at one point once we have a little bit more information ask somebody from the state to come and speak to us directly because they're the ones who are imposing these new Yeah initiatives taking sort of the ability to allow the towns and the cities to do the
permitting states Yeah states it didn't work out westfield they had about 100 people there the people they sent weren't even working they were subbed from the state right and everybody walked out because there was wasn'tformational enough so I think they got to get a step closer somehow i don't
know i will um be working on at least organizing that meeting for us mhm um and then Ham County Sheriff's Department on Friday will be here uh to assist us with whatever we may need for
uh groundskeeping that they're going to spend a day um waking up the flower beds yeah I'm take the leaves out of the overflows out back there's about that much leaves in those so the water will go in the drains i have to call the lead so yeah that's what they're going to be doing they're going to be the woman who
opening up I think I can do that okay just let me know i know they're going to be here Friday um they're bringing their horses let me know if No these are people doing community service oh so there won't be any orange shirts orange
and for me I think that's pretty much it i told Christina I was going to reach out to to the um master gardener association i guess we have enough master gardeners in town that we might be able to get on their project list um
which would mean that we would have um some more help the Westfield Technical Academy they have a whole that I know a few people there i wonder if they would I think you reached out to them before about putting a bid in oh no
and I don't think they were interested cuz in doing the maintenance you know what I mean but in the summer they don't forget the kids well even if it was just the the fall and spring you know what I mean and then we just cost something to stop provider yeah that would be helpful
here here's another simple question to back stuff a little bit on these ion uh lithium batteries okay it said in the newspaper article we already have them in town at the solar field on Chester
Road and the one off of 23 by the oldest line oh and uh we just voted in the approval last they were they were part of the solar fields when they put the solar fields in as as their backup and
uh when when I was on the planning board when we first started getting into this there were supposed to be no backup batteries and then all of a sudden they came in and I'm wondering was our fire department ever notified that they were
there can't answer that question for them but I was in and out of that situation there but from what I understood the backup batteries that are on site there are backup for the communications and electronics of the field not generating power is that right
i'm not positive but that's the way they explained it to me because they don't have big trailers they have two basic units there and that was to power up the grid and everything for the electronics to control the solar not necessarily to
give solar for backup they're not backup batteries they're not backup for power outsourced they're backup for the systems to control the systems inside that's the way it was explained to me okay i just see those things out there
all right um we are going to go into executive session so I would make a motion wait oh Ray did you have any questions are you good to Sunday yes I just have one question so
providing the quarterly smart goals that's the only thing that on this sheet what's going to happen to the guys from the past year let's say mhm i'm gonna I'm gonna submit smart goals
for you guys for this upcoming year yep they shouldn't be penalized because of all the drama and all the stuff that was happening in the town with the department head prior to me being in there we did a heck of a good job taking care of the roads you don't mind me
saying this no accidents compared to previous years we were on time we were out there before you know anything could even happen uh I'm hoping that you guys will be able to
take care of the crew and the department and give them the top pay for the That's not up to them that's all the union stuff that's all under the union contract but who makes the decision on these contract that you guys signed it but who so what I'm basically saying is
who am I reporting these smart goals to and who's making decisions that the department made to that the three stage take care of that's why that's why I just want I want to make sure there's I thought you were talking no that's misunderstood you
sorry so I just want to make sure there's not someone else that I got to report to to get to you guys christina and and the three of you that's all I want to deal with when it comes to this because these are the guy's livelihood and and the smart goals will start when
you No they don't no were there retro smart the whole contract is how can you make it make personnel responsible when they had no goals at the time they were supposed to submit these goals previous service man service or superintendent
was supposed to submit correct nobody asked me about him he He drove us to the ground as me as a laborer right now he told us he's not getting the class A CDL he told us all to go get other jobs he bashed us in the shop
and I just want to make sure that the turnaround our face of the department I hope to the community has been good enough where their pay gets reflected and not being penalized and saying you don't deserve a
raise this year because no one put a gold you know goals together well at this point you only got one union guy anyways right Matt because you'll be out of the union as soon as you sign that i don't know how much of this we can talk about in open meeting so I want to pause the discussion for a second but I just
want to say that the smart goals it I'm gonna speak for myself i'm even if they're retroactive I'm only thinking when I'm looking at those what you're able to do with the guys when you're from when you're in charge i'm not I
don't think it's uh fair to look at prior it when we're talking about you reaching your goals i don't think it's fair to look at priority well I think that's a confusing thing you say it like that well I
understand when you sign that contract i have no problem submitting achievable goals for the guys that yes we can work on and the community notices a difference that's proactive but what I'm saying is July
1st when that contract rolls over there's three different stages of pay there's basically no raise there's a somewhat good raise and then a good raise we've achieved I would say to the highest expectation mhm including
licensing training with the board of health mhm to exceed that but it shouldn't but I just want to make sure before I sign this this is This is So this is actually why I said to speak with Dave about this have you reached
out to Dave at all i we just said that I deal with you and the three people okay but you're asking about the smart goals which is the union contract so that Yeah that is a Dave question he's our expert is that Is that the union contract no this is my contract this is your
contract so you're talking two different contracts no okay no well there's he's out of the union when he signs that he's not in the union yes but he's just he's just saying that his smart goals are linked
i'm going to exceed these goals for the crew and for the department and the town but for the past year what I'm saying is there hasn't been goals set in place how can then how how how can if there was no goal set how can you achieve the goal so
this is what we need to this is why because we have this is our first time working with merit face pay so we definitely need to have Dave part of this conversation as you part of the conversation both of you were involved in the union negotiations to reach this
point and I was too so we have to have you know all together have that conversation how exactly you can't negotiate for a union i can't negotiate after I'm sorry after you that's why I'm saying I understand but we need we need to discuss it with Dave because I don't know exactly how we're managing I just
don't want to lose the crew and be honest I we don't have any desire to either so just take the initiative on that even if you have to have a town vote in front of the community and ask how was the
department it's in the union contract the first goal was to come up with the sparkles that's the first merit thing we don't get to vote on anything else now it's in the union contract your first thing to reach is come up with the sparkles that was it okay you didn't
have to do anything else just come up with Dave that's the first goal correct yes for the superintendent to achieve he didn't even get into the running till July he hasn't even signed the contract yet once he does all come up with the goals correct that's why it's in there
his question was is how can he held this previous year to the goals if he wasn't able to wasn't in the previous year it wasn't in the previous contract and they didn't sign it for like four or five months after it was maybe longer no it was in the previous contract
the the three stages go to the 2026 so that's what I'm just asking Jeff okay that's what I'm asking that the the three steps they just tied in the superintendent in with the employee i just want that's what I'm saying i got
you i clear you guys and Christina like I understand Dave we're gonna have to speak with we're going to have to come level yes now who does this mean you're not going to sign that contract i'm going to sign this but I wanted to hear the public hear you guys saying that
you're not going to end up railroading the department that's all we have have we ever railroaded the department no you haven't and you So why is that a question i'm getting insulted here but we've been on your side we've been going along with this we've we've tried to
meet everything that you guys and it keeps coming back about the guys the guys have a contract that we have to honor okay when you become superintendent you have to honor that contract we understand your concern for your guys
but the thing is is that you keep bringing up stuff that are mute because it hasn't happened yet and it's not going to happen because there were no goals set so how can we go back and set goals for work that's already done you
can't do it so just you know relax let's let's you know we have faith in you we have faith in the guys it's time you show a little faith in us okay all right that's correct i don't mean not upset at you dj I got upset because you
I don't think you do yes Jack the first time I've ever seen you got upset can I just say one thing there's a quarter left in this year quarter left we're there get the goals together yeah for the next three months absolutely that would be the right you
meet your It didn't say when to meet the goals right get the goal done ASAP yeah of the smart goals so at least you have measurement for the next three months yep thank you all right okay sorry so when Ray signs this does he officially
become It's official not till we swear him in so when he gets sworn in and Mr sen is we're is done no we're going into executive session to Let me just read this before okay we're in executive
session in accordance to GLC 38 section 21 to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining or litigation and open meeting may have detrimental effect on the government's bargaining or litigation position board of the board first to discuss regarding Renele
revised contract and then the board with um Renee to