you want me to leave you don't have to leave you're welcome to stay open meeting not sitting here though obviously right all right it happens to approve no motion to enter contract I I take it you landed safely H yeah I
landed I cuz I didn't take off so oh no like turul no no I forgot an important element of my safy said
well there you go [Music] um no not reconvene the word the word we used was all right I think I got it all all right you're welcome all right so let's see we got meeting minutes oh
boy boy got a lot of this is a warrant that's a warrant this is special meeting I don't think that this one wait speci meeting oh okay
hey how you doing good I'm doing right so these I think Joan do these these need to be separate I think right the executive session and the regular session from the 13th aren't they yes oh okay so it's just the motion in and the
motion out sorry I got it I apologize my bad yeah let me just do it quick fin right um motion to approve the select board meeting minutes from December 20th um
13th January 13th yeah sorry January 13th um February 3rd and February 10th as written second um discussion all in favor I I um the motion to approve the executive
session meeting minutes from January 13th um as written second any discussion all in favor I all right any audience participation public comment all right
sorry let me throw it in there um Highway Department Ray and or John Cameron do you guys have anything to report everything's good spit it out John camon I I just have a question but it
really has nothing to do with the highway department but why is all Town Vehicles lettered that have blue plates including the pickup that sits out front which is Barely Used and I know you're getting rid of but the water the water department doesn't have their trucks all
lettered they got one of them lettered in six months the other one hasn't gotten lettered well that's up to them really that one comes out of their pocket uh I don't know rainy that's the
first I've heard of it so it's not identified as the water department truck at all no identification whatsoever yeah that probably is it got a blue plate on it yes yes oh yeah huh yeah we can talk about that um with
water and see ask them to get a price for that that's all I have to say okay thank you um price [Music] about check how did the um repair go on Huntington Road I know that you guys had
to make an emergency repair with the gravel is Ray there yeah the uh the repair went well on Huntington we got uh 15 loads of um stone
delivered from tanino that was nice he ended up dedicating some trucks right away there's towns all over that got washed out and he ended up getting us enough trucks where we actually got to F fix the road all the way through um it
was bad I mean very bad all the way to basically hate going to the end of hate the loggers going down into the Huntington I think that's Huntington wed is it Russell Russell Watershed down in
there they're dropping down over that hill right at the triangle and from there taking that left down into the triangle that's where it's all getting chewed out but everything past that triangle going up towards hate yeah um it was fine it was perfect up there we
know if they're going to still be logging they could be out there right now even or okay honestly I would hope that they would have had the sense of hey our trucks are actually sinking in the mud because we had at least like 8 in 12in ruts going through the whole
Road and I I don't understand why he wanted stopped on the first load you can tell that they've ran multiple loads up that road just tearing it apart don't they have to fill something out for them Bond on yeah that's what R Rainey was talking about we actually retracted that
if we had the bonding system that honestly would have saved us right there and not cost taxpayers that money so the problem with the bonding system was when we went to try and enforce it um we had voted and approved it and then when we were trying to enforce it with Springfield Water it became an issue
because we had to have it required such a detailed um contract like us knowing exactly what condition the road was in prior to their work so wait Springfield Water wanted us to end up yeah for wind near loging no we had agreed the town
had voted yes we're going to do I think it was a million dollar Bond on the roads and then so Springfield Water came back and they said okay we're going to start doing work um and we see that you've done a bond um we need to know exactly what condition the road is in um
and we didn't have the ability to provide that information whether it be I don't even know like how you would do that the data that you would have to did you have something to add sorry yes um since uh I had learned that uh legal council said that we couldn't
apply it with the terminologies and the situation um I've reached out to a number of towns that are I'm trying to get their bond program so that we can get the proper wordage because Springfield Water well let's put it
bluntly they throw their weight around but not not often are they very accurate and truthful as to what the situation is legal I'm sure said it because we don't have certain specifics but I'm trying to find out with Ray what the other Bond
policies in the other towns as to their their wage and basically from what I've told was prior to your mud season you take the photographs of the roads and you just store the photographs and if they
are going down them and that road is Disturbed beyond the photographs they're liable does it become I'm just wondering if it becomes like something that is often goes to court and it's sort of battled or well if they see the
situation is is if you get the road Bond they have have to post a road Bond prior to them doing it it doesn't cost them a million dollars it cost them a few hundred dollars but it's just basically if a guy's GNA take a bond and he's going to be liable for say $25,000 on a
road he pays attention that's the beauty of them is 90% of the guys will not abuse the road if they have a bond posted so at this point do we have any authority to say that there logging trucks can't be on that road
you can put you can put a sign up saying close to trucks over x amount of P tonnage through mud season but again you have to be there catch them have an officer be there and catch them in the
ACT to do it if you have companies that turn around are saying that they're having a logging plan done they have to post the bond and they'll pay attention the whole problem there is unless you're going to have somebody staffed at the road every day during mud season it's
pretty hard to deal with but if you know the companies that are going in and out of there you have a road Bond and the whole thing about having a road bond is the town doesn't have the road Bond it has a road Bond policy they have to post the bonds yeah now we also have a
problem with bu land Road yes right and the crew went out there to work on it a little bit to try and get it graded but the roads the roads pretty well shot now and by the time they're done logging and we get this bond issue squared away
they're probably done logging for the next part of years well the that's the whole situation is is you got to get a road bond in place it's not going to correct previous practices and it's not going to necessarily solve this situation in the next month or two but
next year you'll have something established so the town isn't spending money fixing a road when somebody else came in made a profit and leaves the road in a poor condition so is there anything we can do in the meantime to make sure that if they're continuing to
log on um those roads that we since we just spent a good deal of money on Huntington Road is there anything we can do in the meantime to stop further damage we can pull signs and hope they uh abide by it okay I mean I think we
might as well post some signs okay do we own the signs no we'll have to have them yeah we have to have them made because you have to be specific as far as vehicle tonnages you cannot you cannot
make like Oil Trucks propane deliveries stuff like this you cannot make them on that they have to be commercial profit not supportive of residents public utility um so Ray if you can work on that um wherever we get signs from I'm
sure rainy knows um goes sign made up okay for land and and Huntington is there any other you know that theying off South you your street too huh aren't they working on the end of your street I
hope they're not they were gonna we should have at least a dozen on hand because you should post them on Blair Gibbs uh oldchester um Huntington even NY Brook uh n Brook yes deal with the truck that came down there he ran the
stop sign right over and kept going and I don't know French but he spoke French very fluently and I don't know what he was saying but he had no idea he ran the stop sign over because they're logging Right Where The Red Schoolhouse is before the ski area so real quick don't
they have to fill out a a form with conservation for logging well yes yeah they have to we got dick here right now their cutting plan approved by so we should know which companies are and that cutting plan comes to the
conservation Comm so we see it and I I normally forward them like the rain I see okay so so it's a heads up it's two phases we get we get a copy of the plan when it's filed yeah and we get a copy of it when it's approved by the state of
or okay and then and that from dick is very helpful for us to watch out for it but if we don't have a road bond in the place of the Town you're just asking them hey let's be nice and hope they abide by it right like they're not going to pick and choose to come through when
it's frost on the road if they got $20,000 of logs in the woods they want the $20,000 logs out of the woods they're running it all throughout the day and you're just making soup you're just ch the road up even worse but hey he just made all that money where does he care he's already you know out of
town um so yeah let's do a dozen signs or so said we'll just use every year we'll post them around mud season I think most of the dirts would be good to do that honestly there's a lot of them okay and then if we figure out which log company it is um we can always send
something out can we team up dick on that sure okay thank you awesome all right thank you guys all right Christina what do you got are we all good yeah thank you you're
welcome uh okay so we had a meeting uh legal in City point the owner's project manager for the fire department meeting with them last week and as far as owner project manager Services they're sort of
on a soft pause okay we need them because of the cost of the project legally they're they're still our o OPM but what we're doing in the mean time is we are going to I reached out to Weston and Samson that's the designer for a contract amendment to
include a light feasibility study so not a full-blown feasibility study just bare Bon's very basic feasibility study on the possibility of using the town hall gymnasium as a last possible site review before moving forward okay once we hear
back from Weston and Samson uh we will then we'll sit down and go over the contract Amendment with Weston and Samson then we'll have to touch base again with the OPM and go from there we're trying to keep costs low yeah um but investigate every site possible okay
so Christina they just respond I don't know if you saw it I didn't no so they're looking at a two- phase process one to do um and then there's no dollars alloc two one to see if it's by codeing things it could be done okay
second one is do the feasibility but we really need commute three because you're the ones have to approve the contract is are you willing to go forth and put anywhere from five to $110,000 into looking and seeing if this building can be used for fire station
I think I think it's really worth it if we're going to end up saving money in the long run with the roof Generator and electric or combining those cost what was that was said it once you start updating a building up to a certain percentage right what was that da you're
going have to update the entire building because so OPM couldn't tell us sure whether it be but um in discussions with it could be as much or more than a new fire station I believe yeah but I think so as
much or more but then the cost includes the roof that this building needs the electricity that this building needs so if we include that in with a fire station they we're not paying an extra $2 million for roof electric it's all
combined so I think it may it's going to have a big price tag but it's going to take care of a lot of problems at once well than but again you have to give us the okay to go for looking at the amendment and you have to sign that
Amendment know too that when we talk to City Point um their Amendment finish up their half the second piece of that is another hund and something thousand which is we're looking at
regardless of where well they're going to come back supposedly with a better number but we don't know about that that's why it's a soft pause for them now okay no matter what we do if you go forward with this and you're okay with that then we'll get that contract to you
to look at the feasibility of this building but no matter what you're going to have to go back to the town meeting to vote for because it's another half a million dollars to do to design the fire station that Sal shed it's probably going to be half million dollars to do a design here so that's the other piece of that is the
only other location we have is the salt shed so there's a lot of people in town that are very adamant that they want it in the center of town so I think the we have to move forward with looking at the location here I don't think the town wants to lose their Hall yeah a lot of people I talked to said what there
that's ridiculous not losing have you been able to follow up on that property off of 23 in North lford no contact with that guy there he's not looking to the one that had $700 in back taxes or something yeah is
that the one you were talking about no that there's no interest there unfortunately so no one's losing a town hall though we would be using the gymnasium for Town meetings yeah um and things like the Halloween party and whatnot would it be available for pickle
do pickle ball on no it would not won't be for their exercise classes either we have many other all the this size rooms in the building tires that we can be using for exercise rooms and stuff yes Mary so correct me if I'm wrong we would
put fire trucks in the gym it would be it would no longer be the gym it would be a fire station it would be a fire station so that's where the vehicles would be housed yes ma'am correct if feasible and that means the kitchen would have to go the kitchen
would be relocated exactly it's still a big expense to move a commercial kitchen it's going to be a big expense to build py well you're right there too that and that that and uh that guy that bought the property from bfor he had divorce salees sign on it I spoke to you about
it and we can't get in touch with him or he's just not willing to sell or what he's not willing to sell I guess he I had left come back at all no yeah so this is as a two years of research this is what we have the salt
sh and we just need to keep in mind that cost four years of research the cost of building materials and continues to go up it's just we can keep spinning it in circles or we can move forward so I think realistically after five years if you want to look at this as your last option
because the community already narrowed all the other options down to the Sol shed so if you want to give the town the potential for an in town location versus salt shed this at this point may be other option but again we don't know until we spend the money
to find out so exactly if you're okay if the three of you or two of the three are okay with spending that money then and I can move forward looking at that getting that am for you to okay the payment I think we I'm fine with sending a five or 10,000 to finish the feasibility study
do we need a vote though for that John did anything ever come about suers yes all of that has been vetted and nothing came of it we looked at many places in the center of town nothing was nothing was viable next to the old fire station
they said no yeah when we do get to a place of where we really know anything all of this information is going to be available for everybody to review and look over and we're going to do a a me in informational meeting before a town meeting to supply everybody with all the
information that has been gathered and compiled over the last four or five years I think an informational meeting would be good especially for the salt shed up top Yeah there could be people that don't exactly know the location exactly compared to other spots in town
and it' be good to have them in person seeing you all right um do you need a vote for us to go forward with that or just that we're amendable probably not until we get the amendment yeah yeah because it's hard me to vote on something we don't
know POS all right do you have any more Christina I do okay um mot submitted Bridge inspection reports for Blair Road H Blair and North blanford Road they all three came back
as either good or satisfactory if anybody interested in them the reports are here I can make copies for anybody who wants to see them thank you uh I had a meeting with novice today regarding the upgrades that need to be done to it and there was some discussion about
the server I know I've brought it up to you guys before our server needs to be replaced to replace the server on site is $20,000 and at the that point that was really all the information I had to give you so there was no decision to be made okay uh after speaking with novas
today they could host the server and it would cost I just had this all written down it would cost $3,600 a year to host the server servers are typically good
for about eight years so for $3,600 a year we'd break even at about six years m but we wouldn't have to pay for licenses and on-site equipment M maintenance and even save on an electric
bill if we allow Novis to host and pay the $3,600 a year or pay the $20,000 up front continue to have it here and have to replace it again in eight years and this is where we have it where we have the AC having to run to keep oh it's up
here okay I mean if it makes more financial asss to not have it here is the work time quicker I would imagine if it's hosted by them and they don't have to come up here and fix or no no I mean we don't we haven't had any problems I think in the past what the
well not I think in the past what the issue was was that the when Town Hall had cable broadband internet it wasn't feasible for them to host it but now that we have whip City fiber there's more options where servers can be located and so yeah I mean what are your
thoughts Joan uh now thoughts I've had uh minor problems with the network dropping as well where I can't do anything and I have to call them and they fix it okay that's probably where all that is coming from okay the server is outdated oh yeah no I'm not saying it's my
fault that didn't come out right you're not outdating um okay do you need a decision on that it's not a decision I wanted to make I wanted to kind of leave it up to you guys okay but you need a decision on it now I mean I don't know it sounds to me like it makes more sense to have a
house there pros and cons so uh it comes down to price really um to replace the server as is it's $20,000 up front and it's only good for eight I shouldn't say it's not going to
like stop working on year eight to the day but they really should be replaced every eight years uh there is maintenance with them that we would not have to worry about anymore and the electricity bill would go down and we would have to pay for as many licenses
as we do and AC and AC I me so but of course on the other end of it that's a never ending Bill you know so the 36 a year $3,600 a year that's not going to go away so we don't own the server
yeah but in8 years you have to reply like one one for me yeah did I ask a question sure go ahead I'm not a president but my question would be so that locks you into a contract with them we already are in a contract with
them but you'd be locked in for how many years with the 3600 server we can only do a contract for three years and then we would revisit yes and if their prices change the contract would outline the prices for three years years and we can
only do a contract for three years so then we re renegotiate after that three years so after three years it could go up right just like everything else well yes I know understand that but what I'm trying to say is you have a
fixed cost and now you have a variable cost eight years yeah 20 be 30 and just questioned that's all thank you oh it's it's eight years old now they yes eight years old now it was
here before novas uh took us on okay um what else oh the water department reached out to me asking for Vadar training and gave me a quote that they obtained from Vadar for training in just their
department and it's $79 but the Vadar contract itself uh allows for x amount of available training as part of the contract okay so I reached out to Vadar to see what we have and he got back to me today
actually yeah the town has two training sessions remaining he says they're two half day sessions from implementation okay said I understand that the water department requested and received a quote for a day of training we can use
one of the remaining implementation sessions for that training if you'd like uh because of the new personnel and the reading upgrades being performed for the water department okay if so you don't need to accept the quote um let me know if you have any questions or if
you'd like to keep the training sessions and accept the additional Day quote for the water department office so before you make a decision on that um Board of Health also needs uh login and training and
Joanne I believe also needs training been very little cler so there is training that needs to go around we have this quote that water department got um that's for full day that's for full day for the water department if they want to fund their
Vadar training we still have two days of our own through the contract okay so yeah let's have water F their own and then let's do sounds like we need an extra half a day even uh what else that said I'll probably get trained by
Sarah okay that oh I attended an OSD training last Thursday at um the fog for combis which was actually very helpful um and I'm going to have them come out and do a
training a more indepth training here they were super nice it was very informative so that was that was huge that was good a training for you just you or for you anybody who wants to um learn about how to purchase off of comai um okay yeah or post bids or any of that
stuff okay so water High yeah everybody can come um and then that's kind of it for me I mean I have a little bit of information to talk about when Mr Gates comes up but other than that that's really kind of it thank you we have
Jennifer here no she's not gonna be here um dick okay so here to talk about two things um related one is um potential battery storage facilities we
have possibly coming to town which I think is a pretty good bet that it's going to happen uh both of the locations are on North blanford Road right near the high voltage station that's already there one one would be on one side of the road and one would be on the same
side of the road okay um we've had uh a zoom meeting with one of the developers uh not a lot of detail other than it's a proposed 200 megawatt facility which is
a pretty large facility it's on a piece of property that does have Wetlands on it um and it's fully forested area and so would be another sort of deal that the Solar projects did where they come in and just
blow down everything that's there and put in these uh battery storage units which are similar to like a a cargo shipping container you see on trucks you would basically
see like a hundred of those out there laid out um so um the other one on the other side I'm not exactly sure what the the rating of that one would be um they they
actually came to the Conservation Commission looking for an approval to put in a temporary access road on the west side of the substation that would have gone through the wetlands uh to get to the back uh of
piece of that property uh we denied that we we s him back and said you you're not giving us enough information about what what the impact is on the w and so forth and sooner or later if you're going to do this project you're going to have to build a a permanent Road and where is that going to be so they're going to be
submitting uh what's called a notice of intent which is a higher level permit application what is it called I'm sorry notice of intent thank you um and I think that it's imminent that we're going to see that um so um pretty sure
these things are going to happen I mean this is pretty pretty big uh happening through blanford I think um uh one of the developers is a a national
firm that's that has installed these all over the country the other one that's on the the substation side it's a smaller firm uh they've set up an LLC in Massachusetts called blanford storage
LLC um so uh we we expect we're going to see things uh coming to the Conservation Commission looking for review and approval for these and it's going to be complicated for us I'm sure because there are wetlands on the property and they're probably going
to be doing things like filling in wetlands and replicating wetlands and other places and things to like that um the other thing related to this that that's interesting is this the state has
passed a bill for large scale green energy projects m and what that means is uh the bill is passed in 2026 if if they write the regulations by
that time but that's the Target that will remove approvals for these facilities from from towns and cities basically they will get one permit from the state um it but it's D that's the
criteria it's driven by the size the the rating of of the facility and um but even if it's a small facility like 25 megawatt facility um we would the the local towns and cities would still do the permitting
but all the permitting would have to be done within one year or they automatically get approval for the project so there's quite a bit of change coming out of Boston for these I mean this is the what's it's going on all
over the country I mean it it again the theory is that in periods of low electrical demand power would be diverted from the grid into these batteries and charge these batteries and then in periods of high demand they would be able to tap
into into that to put put it back into the grid and they'll be sure to keep our prices down I'm sure I get asked all the time what's in it for blanford that's yeah yeah and I have no answer is that the same kind of batteries they're fighting in West field
yes well I was going to bring that up I these are lithium ion batteries that's not good um and uh I mean there's there was a horrendous fire at a facility in California couple weeks ago um Westfield has got a lot of U lot
going on related to the facility that's proposed for there which is right on What's called the Barnes aaer down there by by the airport um so I mean I think we all have seen the videos about what happens when a cell phone battery goes
through mountd multiply that times I a lot and uh so I mean um and what's interesting for these two locations is it it's it's it's within the Springfield Water and sewers
Watershed yes uh bedum Brook goes right near all e which is a direct contributary to Cle Mountain Reservoir so they're they're fairly interested in how this plays out uh in terms of protection so what the land is owned by these
llc's um no the the land well the land yellow is one of the locations and the ownership information m and this is the other one um DJ oh
okay the other the other one is is the same owner that owns the current solar facility uh honic solar they're out of Connecticut um so
yeah I don't know what the time I I haven't been able to determine from talking to these people if they view the new state regulatory reform as they call it as a plus for them or not or if they'd rather deal with
us there's nothing in our bylaws currently that would prohibit our bylaws were actually amended last year to allow battery storage units yeah how did okay um so it doesn't say it can't be done it just
lays out if you do it this is how you have to do it basically now are they going to own the property or Rel leas it it's just like the Solar projects TJ they they sell the entities they change like every week it seems like there's different entities
and different owners and it's it's just and that doesn't raise any suspicions makes me Fredy scared yeah sort of on the side do you have that position that position hasn't been filled yet that well that was the next thing I was going to bring up so with all that said I mean I we can foresee a
fair amount of work for the Conservation Commission depending on the timing of when these things happen uh our conservation agent I think everybody knows resigned and left us in December Nick and uh we posted a a a job posting
in three newspapers uh in early January at zero response and as I was discussing with Christina I just don't think um with the pay rate we've got and it's just not
attractive to somebody who's got the qualifications to do the job have we reached out to Pioneer Valley planning at all to see if they can help us not recently I did talk about that with Christina the other day as possibility um I think that what we're we're going
to need is something more permanent and even then we would be paying pvpc I mean pvpc does these ltas where they'll help us in the short term with some things but I think that what Mr Gates is talking about coming down this pipeline
we would ideally like to have somebody to be dealing with this because you like you had mentioned Westfield they have a lot more resources than we do and they're trying their best to try and fight it and I don't know that it's going in their favor um do are the I'm
just curious um do we know if surrounding towns conservations have agents that we could maybe I've talk to them I've talked to everybody I can think of including our circuit writer at Mass D that we deal with all the time he's in touch with all the conservation
commissions he can't come up with somebody that would be interested in playing for I mean in you know when we hired Nick before um he he was also the agent for Becket yeah right and uh it we
were lucky to get him because we had no other interest back then other than him and the only reason he was interested because he was basically coming this way anyways for it I'm wondering if the other hilltowns around us are having the same issues with the storage containers
and if we can sort of team up I don't I know that there's some like in Pittsfield and like Westfield but I don't think so it's sort of unique because these things need to be near a substation and they need to be near the
115,000 bll cross country lines which crisscross right up there on North blanford Road so we kind of have a unique situation there with access to a sub station and the transmission lines right there um so I I think if you don't
have that they're probably not not interested in other locations that could probably change and the state recommends that these facilities be installed near solar facilities but it's not it's not a requirement it's a recommendation as I
read it but um so that's that's what so Boston knows what's best for blord basically well I thought that what you
were saying was that the motion to come through the um through Boston was going to be stopping was going to be limiting the amount no okay no so depending on the wattage of the facility it would still fall on
Blandford if it's smaller facility blanford would have to be doing the permitting and there's a certain certain threshold of wattage where the state takes over and they're the ones issuing the permits whether it be like it or not I understand and if we if it's a small we have to do it with keep that if you
want I mean it look at it later but it kind of lays out the chart on the second page lays out the how the new process will work versus the current process
um I mean and it's interesting I mean this presentation we got for the one on the opposite the the substation um they see very knowledable
but all the work they've done seems to be more geared to like federal regulations State like the whole presentation never talks once mentions the Massachusetts Wetland protection act yeah mentions Army Core engineers and all this other
we kind of said well this is Massachusetts you need to like yeah gear this to the Massachusetts requirements and they're like oh yeah well but so anyway um I think it's coming and uh I just think whatever we can do as a town
to be prepared for it collectively is would be a good thing to try to understand what if anything the town gets out of all this maybe um are we at a place where we should reach out and ask legal if there's anything that we should be looking
at implementing to sort of impact us um and I also thought I mean I don't know if we can get somebody from the state that come like maybe to a selectman's meeting or whatever just kind of give us you know a view their
view of all this yeah going um okay and I know there's been State people in wasfi presenting information but I understand they didn't have a lot of good information but most of the people walked out of the meeting
yeah they were so pH informed yeah yeah what is the thing that you need that we lost IGN he needs a conservation conservation agent so so the other thing I would mention is we the Conservation Commission has the
ability if we if we think a project is complicated and uh technically complicated like o even over our heads we we can we can require what's called a peerreview consultant to work on behalf of the town but even with that with a
project like this like when we were doing the permitting for the the three solar projects and for belf Flur there's still a lot of like coordinating and documenting and site visits and and things like that and and that's where the the agent comes in uh it it to go
out and verify Wetland boundaries it needs to be somebody who understands Wetland delineation and how to determine if the boundaries that they've set up are correct and beat the right criteria so forth so so there's quite a bit of leg work to be done when you get
into this scale of a project for this town do do you mind if I uh get in contact with uh Pon Valley Planning Commission and uh see what they can do to help us find an
agent because I'm on their board so yeah I I at this point I'm all ears yeah I'll make copies of this and I'll I'll contact uh uh Kimberly tomorrow okay we should probably look at what we've budgeted for next year for
that position it was a 5 to 10 we posted it for 5 to 10 hours think between 20 and $25 an hour was the 23 and 25 23 and 25 okay for five to 10 hours a week which is why it's a hard position to fil right I me
well that's what I'm saying if we combine it with other small H the reality is the workload is very inconsistent I mean what it's just sort of normal blord kind of things but when these things come along it it
the level of effort takes off quite a bit okay so do you think that something like this came along and our agent decided to resign because it's too political could be could be yeah I mean
you got a good job working for the state got ex defly you told me that yeah all right thank you app am I allowed to do of course oh absolutely okay um because I'm not
familiar with this project I was just wondering I'm sorry could you just say your name so everybody knows Debbie lren thank you um so where what are the batteries going to be used for why are they going to be
in landford where is the energy coming from to go into them and what's what is it going to be used for coming out of them okay so again the theory is that um in
Massachusetts they're they're pushing green energy projects which is solar and wind obviously not wind here but there's a number of solar fields in blord so the theory is in normal energy consumption
times they can divert power off the grid and charge these batteries not from solar but from just ever Source either or I mean there's a there's an organization called ISO New England which sort of controls the power
movement all over New England it's like the open a valve and send more here or whatever there but but so again the theory is in periods of low power demand they would take divert power off the grid and charge these batteries then say
in the middle of August we got 10 days of 100 degree heat and everybody's running their air conditioners and the power consumption goes way up they can tap into these batteries and pull it back into the Grid or anywhere in the um anywhere in
theeast wh they want to send it is that it's your question okay but it's not it's not really green energy but it's um it's helping because solar can only work during the day and
they're putting energy in at night from whatever Source right all right um we've got some Wars to approve and then oh why don't we and then we have Sarah
okay table payroll please table payroll all right we've got a couple warrants to look at water department that's all the whole thing the whole shebang this is wired
um water got added in so you should only have the one main one that has select and water and then the smaller one that's all wired and that is generally um the treasure yeah everybody have a good
night all right um all right so motion to table the um warrant 19 payroll second any discussion no all in favor I I motion to approve
warrant 19 um accounts payable second um any discussion all in favor I I all right so then we've got um approval for Town accountant to pay previous fiscal water bills from the water department
yes so one of these days we're going to get around to paying the water bills now everybody has a bad memory about this but there was a motion a long time ago yeah saying that the accountant should be paying the old water bills even if they're previous year because it's all
within this building and they everybody agreed to it and now they're saying we don't remember that so I'm just asking for another motion also okay um a motion was made a long time ago at the same time to have Sarah remove the interest on these said water bills and nobody can remember that either so so you just need
us to I'm G to I'm going to get a banner and put it up after you approve it please motion to um approve the town count to pay previous fiscal year bills for the Department second any discussion all in favor I I motion for the approval for
the town treasur to remove interest and penalties from the fiscal year bills from the water department you this session hi hi all right um we're tabling the expenditure report I like that and then the climate leadership focus
group come on down oh actually I here oh S I just wanted to present the three names that I had and I don't even know I I know they in the uh local paper they
were asking for people to uh call into either the board of selectman or um the Town Administrator so I don't know where that stands if you got any nothing but um I have three names and
after the caucus it seemed like after going to the caucus um last Monday it seemed like all the commissions and committees and boards are three people so I'm hoping three people might be enough and I don't know where to go from
there it would be Paul durka from buan Land Road Chuck Benson from hate roads and me from beachill Road okay I don't know where we go from there I don't know either I was just looking at the minutes and it said that we um that it you were
we signed it see what we said according to the um the climate leader you know requirements um a a committee can be appointed by the board of Selectmen okay
I don't know if that's all there is to it as far as the town goes yeah we would need to have a bylaw for the purpose of the of the committee okay and outline their intent yes and objectives which we could do at the annual town meeting okay
which would be June 2nd okay so um then that's where we would um get the wording through Town Council yes for what a baa would look like um and then the people would vote on um basically the formation of that
committee and then after that vote I think then we appoint people um the three names um and more people if interested so I think that that's our next step okay all right thank you thank you don't your little piece of
paper I didn't know if I had to turn something awesome thank you I think I can remember the Nam you got it two really did you get your stuff from this the COA room did you get your stuff from COA yes all right I have two contracts in front of me that I just want to make
sure before we move on to our ex other other executive session so I can see this one is this is for um the beachill road project thing
so uh it's an amendment it's just an amendment to the existing contract I just sign it now okay and then that's part of it as well so that we can get the final payment um from
State okay back here let me see know anything else um this is the Mia health benefits oh yes there you go so that's the new that's the increase in awesome insurance insurance health
insurance of the industry okay um so then I will make a motion to go into executive session accordance with GLC 30A um with specifically with the
treasure um is there a second second um all in favor hi roll call vote car says yes D says yes je says yes all right uh