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Jar, can you come here and help me, please? Good evening, Chadam. Welcome to the April 29, 2025 meeting of the Cadam Select Board. Please note, this meeting is being recorded and will be available shortly hereafter for scheduled and on
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to Governor Healey's March 28, 2025 signing of chapter 2 of the acts of 2025 extending certain COVID 19 measures adopted during the state of emergency suspending certain provisions of the open meeting law general law chapter 38
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the town's website as soon as possible. First order of business is establishing a quorum. Mr. Niccastro, Mr. Shell is present. Miss Davis present. Mr. Dykins, and Mr. Matters present. We have a quorum. Um very quickly I'll just
summarize. We have um on the agenda this evening two sets of minutes. Public announcements and agenda item requests, public comments on business agenda. Uh business agenda that consists of I'm going to say that looks like about 10 or
11 items. Uh I'll go through those when we get to the business agenda. Uh and with that I'll take a motion on the March 25, 2025 minutes. So move. Second. Any comments? Uh, all in favor? Mr.
Niccastro. I. Mr. Dykins. Miss I. Miss. Davis. I. Mr. Shell says I. Mr. Niccastro. Hi. And a motion on the April 15 minutes. Did you say I? So move. I. You have to get a vote from I. Oh, did I
miss you? You called on Dean twice. I got Dean voted twice. So Well, I You gave him a proxy, right? You did. He says I I'm trying to get through it in a hurry here. Sorry. On the uh March 25, for the record, March 25, Mr. uh Meters,
say I I Okay, so we got that down on the April 15 minutes. A motion. So moved. Second. Any comments? Mr. Niccastro. Just on page one, I believe that uh and those participating for the town from the town
included Carolyn Mlullen as chair of the uh Catam Housing Partnership. That should be added. Good catch. Good get. Yep. Good catch. That's it. Uh okay. All those in favor, Mr. Meadows. I Okay, Mr. Dyken. Hi. And
uh Miss Davis. Hi. Mr. Shell says I. Mr. Niccastro. Hi. We have the minutes. uh public announcements and agenda item requests. I'm gonna turn it over to uh the town manager. We have some awards to uh to to give. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So,
I am going to go over to the podium to recognize a team chattam member, Alexis Wagglars, for our first lighthouse award. Oh, and Alexis, please join me. you can share here. So, I would like to take this opportunity to recognize one of the
members of team Cadam who went above and beyond her duties. On Friday, April 18th, 2025, Alexis Wagglers, our department coordinator for the Council on Aging was driving home from work and spotted one of the Writers Cove respit
participants walking alone down Queen Anne Road. Her instincts led her to call Joe Fennel, our Writers Cove respbit director, to see if this person should be out walking alone. After confirming that the participant should not be walking alone, Alexis guided the
participants safely into her car while Joan called to notify the caregiver and directed them to where Alexis was waiting. The participant was reunited with her caregiver and due to the actions of Alexis, a potential crisis was averted.
Because of her actions, I'd like to present Alexis Wglars with our first lighthouse award for guiding others with compassion, clarity, and service in support of our community. We are grateful to have such a thoughtful member of team Cadam who used her
training and acted quickly to ensure the safety of one of our citizens. A special thanks also goes to Joe Fennel for assisting Alexis in coming back to the office when she was at stop and shop and contacting the caregiver. So, thank you
Alexis and thank you Joe. [Applause] And the the certificate reads that the town of Chattam presents the lighthouse
award to Alexis Wglars guiding others with compassion, clarity, and service in support of our community. And it's signed by myself as well as Michael Sher Shell, the chair. Thank you. [Applause] Thanks, Jill. And uh thank you, Alexis.
That that's a phenomenal story. Um it's one for the ages. Thanks very much. Uh I'm going to move um under the heading of public announcements, I'm going to move our uh uh Capen Islands District Attorney, Rob Gallibboy, up into the
public announcements territory. um and uh invite him to give his update. I think is this your second annual update or third maybe? Third, sir. Third. Mike. Third. Yes. Tempest fugit. Tempest fugit. Welcome. Thank you so much. Um, permission to approach to hand out my
annual report for trying to adhere to uh my promise my first year that going forward we would produce an annual report and that is our January excuse me our 2025 annual report. Um, so again, I really appreciate this time and I noticed you
have quite a full agenda. So I'll keep my remarks to under 10 minutes and certainly answer any questions that you might have. There are five areas that I just wanted to talk about a little bit uh to bring you up to speed about what our office has been doing in the past year. So recently, I'd say within the
past five or six weeks, we launched a new program called Cert. It's the Child Emergency Response Team. And what it is, it's a collaborative effort between our office and the Department of Children and Families, uh, Children's Cove, where we conduct forensic interviews of
children and, um, our law enforcement partners. And essentially, this collaboration was formed so we could uh, respond as a team as quickly as possible to fully and thoroughly investigate a matter when our most vulnerable victims,
our children, are either physically or sexually assaulted. as well as be able to try to draw upon the resources that uh this victim and their family might need. Uh it is led by the uh chief of our children protection unit, Courtney
Scaliz. Uh and she's had two trainings now uh for this new SER program. Each training had over 60 attendees. So uh we're feeling pretty good that it's off to a really good start. Um I did also want to mention a little bit about human
trafficking. I did talk to you all uh last year about human trafficking. At that time I mentioned how we were fortunate enough to receive some grant funds to conduct some trainings, a total of four across Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard for those working in law enforcement, the hospitality
industry and the transportation industry. So after last year, we felt that we could present with credibility to the Office of Grand Research, the providers of the money, uh saying we uh we're going to ask for another $100,000. And this time we wanted to run a
statewide uh conference if you will uh for law enforcement, hospitality, transportation as well as uh those folks working in the secondary education fields. Um they granted us that money and just about two weeks ago now we wrapped up our two-day conference in
Hyannis. We had 38 presenters from all across the country. Uh included local uh law enforcement personnel, state police, uh FBI, the US attorney's office sent down a team of five representatives to
present and we had over 200 attendees uh uh from again from all across the state. uh including folks from the offices of grants and research came down to check out basically how we did and they were really complimentary after the second day. So uh we're feeling pretty good
about it. We're kind of sitting back now trying to figure out what we might want to do uh in the following year. There's some brief conversation uh of maybe trying to host a national conference right here on the Cape, but uh we'll keep you all advised if that that's a path that we choose to go down. Um, I
wanted to take a moment to talk about our efforts uh, regarding fentanyl. U, you might remember when I came before you the very first time in the spring of 2023, I instituted a new policy. Uh, anytime someone was charged with trafficking in fentanyl, those are your
business dealers, if you will. Those are the ones that are pushing the poison for profit. Uh, our office was going to seek to hold them without any bail. Uh, there's a very powerful statute known as the dangerousness statute. And as you might imagine, they're in the business.
So they prepare themselves for the rainy day should they ever get busted and prepare, you know, they build up that bank account to bail out and essentially go back to their trade until their case is over. Under this dangerousness statute, we get to hold them from the very outset, their very first court
appearance during the pendency of their case. Um the judges bought in to these requests and they were all the judges, district court and superior court were holding them without bail. So now we have some data that we can kind of look at to see if it in fact has been
working. Uh after year 2023, the data indicated that the non-fatal overdoses were down 10% across the district and the fatal overdoses were down 7%. Okay. Then we got the 2024 data 2024 numbers
where non-fatals were down 25% from 2023 and fatalss were down 35% from 2023. So while I can't stand here and draw the direct correlation, I think we can draw a reasonable inference that this policy of holding the the those in the business
so to speak from jump seems to be having a positive impact. Um I also wanted to uh talk a little bit about some grant funds that we uh recently came into. Um, many of you might be aware that Cape Cod Healthcare recently uh announced and
they opened a brand new tower they're referring to it as uh for cancer treatment. Um, and this literally started um at a local restaurant to where I lived uh with notes on a napkin what I'm about to share with you. Um,
early last summer in 2024, I'm at said restaurant and the CEO of uh, Kot Healthcare happens to live near me and we happen to go to the same restaurant as well as one of his senior uh, vice presidents. So, I had learned just before that chance meeting at the restaurant that the hospital had a big
pot of money that they needed to uh, invest in various stakeholders across the community to get the permits to put up said tower. So, uh, there I was with them, literally barside, scratching out a few notes about how we, as a DA's
office, might be able to apply for some of those funds. That napkin eventually led to a 10-page single space proposal that we put before them. Uh, led to a couple meetings. Then they brought in the Department of Public Health, a few meetings with the Department of Public Health, back to having more meetings with Kkott Healthcare. And about a month
and a half ago, uh, they announced that we were successful and we were going to be awarded $1 million, uh, for, um, working in the area of substance use disorder. Uh, and specifically what we're looking to do, there's a a database known as SIMS. I believe the
chief is aware of it. Um, it's critical incident management systems. Uh, and what it is is if someone has an overdose experience, uh, the police officer who responds goes back to the department and enters the data into this SIMS database. And for a hypothetical, and I'm not
trying to pick on any towns, if an individual from Hanover, Massachusetts came down to Hyannis and experienced an overdose uh matter, uh the officer would go back, put that information in the computer, and where that person's from in handover, they would be notified almost in real time, if you will, of the
experience of that one of their particular residents. So, um like anything else, it's a little bit of a challenge trying to keep the data flowing into the database to kind of keep it up and running. So, these funds are going to allow us uh to try to kind of rejuvenate uh the uh the the efforts
going into keeping the database going. We're going to be able to hire a full-time employee to work with all of our area police departments. Uh and we hope to expand it in two ways. Uh right now, 14 out of the 15 Cape Cod towns participate in the SIMS program,
including Chattam. Um, we hope to bring this database now to Martha's Vineyard where we have six police departments uh in Nantucket. Uh, we're also hopeful to expand the nature of collecting the data and how it's used. Uh, we see
opportunities here to try to utilize interpretive services. We see opportunities here to perhaps bring in housing options. Uh, and we see some opportunities here perhaps to expand uh to wellness issues. So, we're really excited to uh engage in this uh
contract, if you will, with Cape Cod Healthcare. The way it's broken up is $250,000 over the course of four years. Uh so, I'm looking forward coming back here next year to kind of explain to you how year one went. Um the last topic I wanted to mention uh is in the area of
elder fraud. Um every single month the detectives across the Cape gather in Howitch for a detectives meeting and essentially it's a big round table. So, they kind of go around and talk about what's going on in their given towns to see if they can perhaps uh help each other out and whatever might be the issue at the time. And I try to get to
these meetings as often as possible. Uh for a long time, a lot of the conversations surrounded, you know, B&E into cars or into seasonal homes or unoccupied homes. And then early last summer, I noticed something. Literally every single town would talk about elder
fraud all the way around the table month after month after month. So in the fall of 2024, I said, "Can you please get me some data?" I asked for data for year of 2023 and then year to date 2024, which was I think October in 2024. I happen to
know the Barnstable numbers off the top of my head. Over that time frame, um they had 397 calls for elder fraud just in the town of Barable. Of those 397 calls, 257 uh made its way into a formal report.
That's the only the resources that they had. They could do the 257 cases. Of that, they only charged in 13 cases or roughly 5%. And that 5% is kind of representative across my district, Barnable County, Nantucket, and uh Dukes
County. So, we got together as an office, put together a proposal. Uh we're trying to get um some additional funding from the legislature to hire a couple forensic examiners and we're thinking of, you know, CPAs that are on the back end of their career. They've been in private
practice, they made their money, and now they want to engage in some public service. Uh we want to use some funds to hire some prosecutors, of course, to prosecute the cases, uh and to get a couple additional victim witness assistance to work with all of the victims. The total package comes in around
$580,000. uh the overwhelming majority of our Cape delegation signed off on this particular petition and submitted a letter for us uh to ANF. So we are continuing to work on those efforts literally as I'm talking to you right
now. Uh I have 20 COAs in my district. Uh we are asking each of them to write a letter of support uh on our efforts. um we uh literally as I'm talking to you right now are working with one of the larger financial institutions in um on the Cape uh and they are indicating that
they're going to get behind our efforts and and offer some letters of support as well and uh we're going to be approaching as you might imagine elder services uh and the capes capes chiefs to see if uh they'll get behind the efforts as well. So those are the areas that I wanted to touch upon. I certainly
stand ready to answer any questions but I am I am sensitive to the the time that you have for the agenda. Any burning questions here on the board? I just have a comment. Um Mike and Rob, what a great summary. Fascinating uh issues you're dealing with and you're
addressing. Um you really are doing a great job as a DA. Really, it's really fun to see you and to hear you. Um very familiar with the fentanyl poisoning I call it, both personally and professionally in my background. It's wonderful to hear of the relationship with Cape Cod Healthcare. That's my one
of my alma modders. So, it's just really cool what you're doing and what what the community is doing. So, I applaud your efforts and please keep them up. You're doing a great job. Thank you. Amen. Thanks very much. Really did terrific stuff. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Enjoy your meeting. Thanks very
much. See you. Okay. Any other public announcements from the board or agenda request? Uh Dean? Yeah, Mr. Chairman, I just want to make a request that we take a look at where we are in the quarterly review we're supposed to be doing of executive
session minutes. I know we did a whole bunch of them. I don't know if there are any pending uh where the where the meetings have been closed out, but we should make sure we follow up on that. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Okay. Anything else? Any excuse me from the public here
in the room? I don't see anybody. I I see somebody has their hand up, but I I think that's just a a state of uh status. Um um Miss Gibbs, I'm sorry. So, Carol has their hand up and then a
link and I see Miss Gibbs. So, um we we'll go to Miss Gibbs. I think Carol maybe is stuck on hand up. Miss Gibbs. Uh no, I believe Carol Gordon is on to speak first. Oh, well, she's had her
hand up through the entire meeting. She's welcome to speak ahead of you if she likes. Okay, I'm on I'm unmuted now. I just wanted to make sure I had got my hand in there. Okay, may I speak now? You may indeed. Okay, thank you. Uh,
basically, I'd quickly like to address the use of the town seal and property for political gain. Uh, I had a question. And uh I noticed this in one of the uh political ads this week and I contacted town uh our town manager's office and uh she had sent me a link so
that I could see how the town seal could be used. I um really think that when I looked at this, it did tell me that the town manager does enforce the use of the seal and uh it's also I found by doing some more research, it violates Mass
General law 268 section 35 as an unauthorized use of the town seal. Now, if it was authorized for this particular use, then I feel it should have been made available to all the select board candidates. And I'm pretty sure the person who would authorize it would be
our town manager. And I you can I think you can see that that by using the town seal, it it could m be misconstrued as the town supporting the two candidates that use the seal in their ad. So I I don't know if you'd like to address this now or put it on the agenda for next
week, but I feel it should be talked about before town meeting. Thank you. Uh I I I don't I'm certainly not prepared to talk about it uh at this point. So we can put it on the agenda for next week. Okay. So it'll be on next week and we can talk about some more and
about also about using town property for political gain. That's fine. Okay. Thank you. I appreciate being put on. Thank you, Miss Gibbs. Thank uh thank you. Yes. I have three agenda item requests. One is to have
Eversource come back. Uh last week uh we lost power. uh 4,400 homes were without power. Uh their map was not being updated. After I reported three properties, uh it still showed less than
five downtown. It was only after, you know, several hours that we realized it was massive. Uh I I spoke to them and they said it was from equipment damage. That's as much as information we had. I don't think we should have to depend on
texting on social media each other uh when the power goes out to find out how widespread it is and what the status is. None of the town's social media sites posted anything about it, nor do we get a robocall. There should be a town point
person updating social media with the location cost and restoration time. The hurricane season's only months away and winter is right after that and I don't see any improvement by Eversource as to their infrastructure or their
communications. Uh so I think if someone on town staff um is identified to be responsible for updating social media so that again we don't have to literally contact our neighbors to find out the
status. It would be appreciated. The second one is I would echo uh the request by Miss Gordon uh for next week is it's time sensitive about using the town seal on social media sites using
town property uh for gatherings going to town meetings in town meeting rooms asking for endorsement signatures and what is and is not a violation. Uh, I think when the town seal is used, it indicates that certain
people are in fact endorsed by the town. And I think that's an appropriate or maybe it's not, but I believe it is. And the third item that I would like um to have a future agenda item on is the town manager evaluation process
since there's nothing in the package tonight to be able to comment on during the agenda request to have a more formalized process and procedure put back in place. It was not on the weekly upcoming agenda uh of the last ones that it was going to
be today. So we only found out Friday night. Um, if we go back to May of 2021, the agenda packet had the evaluation forms and the six criteria with subcategories for ratings one through four in each category. Uh, in
2022, there was nothing in the packet. Uh, four-page summary by the chairman that only appeared in the minutes after. In 2023, nothing was in the packet, only a paragraph in the minutes, again added later. and in 2024 the same thing just a
short paragraph. Um today we have nothing to go on. I don't recall any select board meeting where a discussion andor decision was made to change the process. And I think it's important that one should be um
uh studied and come up with um to include public participation. Um, I think this is a an indication of less and less transparency in the process. I think it's really important that the roles and
responsibilities of uh the town manager versus select board are out there so that we can see it. It's important for the public to know. Uh, so those are my comments for now. I have some on the agenda items coming up, but I'll hold
those. Thank you. Thank you very much. Anybody else? Um, well, before we I I'll just quickly summarize what's on the business agenda. Uh, we have a u a a committee update
from the energy and climate action committee from Chairman WAfter. We have a request for use of town roads. Um, we have a u one-day entertainment license, use of town property, outdoor
display and sale of goods on town property, etc., etc. for the fifth annual uh which is on the water fundraising um at Oyster Pond Beach. We have um a request to consider acceptance of a
donation of a permanent sign, benches, and table at the Maronei RCA conservation trail. Uh we have a um a water conservation recommendation uh from the director of public works. We
have a um Cadam sewer assistance grant program policy first read. Um we have a uh committee appointment to the airport commission to be considered. Uh we have the town manager's monthly report uh for
month of March and we have the town manager's annual evaluation. Um and with that I'll accept public comments on the business agenda. Ms. Gibbs. That was quick. Uh, yes. I'd like to
speak to the water conservation recommendation. Um, I think that uh option one is unnecessarily complicated uh for people to even attempt to follow. So, option two, if you're going to do
it, I think would make more sense. I would also like confirmation because again I've looked at the chart the color chart and it's still difficult but it says public it says public water. So I assume
that means these do not apply to people who put in irrigation or wells or have wells uh for their water. And so I'd like that confirmed. And then I would also like confirmed that the boaty yards
are prohibited from using water to wash down boats during the season and that water is not available to boers to do that. Um uh again I think it's a matter of equity that if we cannot um wash our
patios uh our furniture uh our siding our cars uh that the same should apply to the boating community particularly when many of them don't even live in Jadam and so they'd be
using our water. So hopefully that will occur. And then uh my final comment has to do with the appointment of an airport commissioner. This appointment should be postponed until after town meeting which is only two
weeks away and the election. It's for either a one-year term or a three-year terms. The airport issues have become a contentious political issue with the citizen petition. legal opinions from this board and the airport commission against the petitioners and ads taken
out on both sides. The resignation of a commissioner was less than three weeks ago and only one interview has occurred for that position. I think that has to be a record on interviewing and possibly taking a vote. the airport which is town
property is being used um I think at times for political reasons and uh I would hope that that doesn't continue. The board should not commit to appointing anyone until we know the results of town meeting the warrant
articles and the election. Thank you. Thank you. Anything else from anybody else either here in the room or online? With that, I will proceed to the um
first what is now the first item um the um committee report from the energy and climate action committee. Mr. Whater and I see Miss Griskcom is also here. Um but I guess you're going to stay where you are. Okay, Bob, go ahead. Welcome. Good
evening. I'm Bob Wchfter. I'm chair of the climate action energy and climate action committee. We have two topics tonight. One is to update the select board on our activity for the last year. And then we have a a
request to change to reward our charge. It's a little wordy and we've come up with a a nice concise uh account of what we do. So let me begin. There's five areas of activity that we've
participated in over the last year. Um you can read them all uh there. I'm not going to read them now because I'm going to be talking about each of them individually. The first one of these is anticipating and mitigating climate change
impacts. Uh for this and every other of these activity one of these activities our our primary uh responsibility is to work with the town as an advisory committee.
Uh and our purpose in this case is to increase Chad Chadam's resilience and to help uh provide some prediction of what impacts may be coming and and make sure that people uh in the in the town are
aware of those risks and and have maybe developed some strategies that we want to work with them on. Uh so in 2024 we assisted in in the low-lying road study
and we instituted a salt marsh study that um I'll be talking about in a little bit. Over the next year and a half, two years, we see ourselves being involved in the Chattam multi-hazard mitigation plan, open space
plan, municipal vulnerability preparedness, and the south coastal harbor plan among other things that will crop up over the the year. The most important of our activities as a committee ha has focused on the salt
marshes as I've explained in previous uh uh talks to you that that is where we see the largest risks to to Chadam as as we see it. Um so we have uh instituted
last year we requested and got money for a a study that looked at Forest Beach, Cole Cove, Bucks Creek and Oyster River. There's been a a a lot of information data collection over the last year to um
get all of the kind of statistical information. uh I'm not the one to tell you every little detail of what we're collecting, but it it will be used to look at the current conditions of the marshes and to help predict where the future might be
under certain uh scenarios of of u sea level rise. We also uh will have some recommendations on how we can best preserve those uh marshes and protect them from floods. We expect to come back
to you in the next month and a half, I would say two months to give you the update on our first on that study and to uh present to you uh that study. We've also put together a new study to cover
the other marshes that have not been studied yet to keep collecting this data. It's really important that we get this data over time that we know what we have now so that as the conditions change we're able to see how how the
marshes are changing under those circumstances. So this is important data that um the town uses. The second area of study is to reduce energy usage and carbon emissions. Again, we work with the town
staff and other committees and the public to conserve energy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and promote renewable energy. I'm on the Cape and Vineyard Cooperative as their treasure. So, that we're monitoring those solar projects and looking for new solar
projects with the town. We've monitor the town energy projects through Cape Light Compact. We've encouraged the purchase of town electric vehicles. And I'm so happy to say we now have a charging stations in town at the Eldidge
Garage that are up and running and you can go and charge your car there. And we're we've also become uh involved in looking at ways to reduce the amount of waste and the cost of waste across the town. Uh we it it has been something
that has concerned a number of the members of my committee and it may be one of those where we uh found other other groups within the town that are able to handle that and may not continue
to do that but it is of interest to us. So if it's not being covered elsewhere we will continue to look at it. Our third area is regulating a sustainable environment. Again, working with staff
to to look at uh identify regulations and bylaw changes needed. We have advise the town on the stretch and specialized codes. Uh and we want to in come to you in the near future. The next uh the next
step for Chadam may be to become a climate leader community. It would uh make a lot of state funding available to us if we did. The biggest step in that would be that the town would have to adopt the specialized energy code. Uh we
also are work worked with the um town staff in the EV charging policy and in looking and working with the town to figure out where the best places for sighting EV chargers. We work with the um Cape Cod Commission,
Cadam Conservation Commission and others planning board to work on um a coastal flood plane bylaw and storm water management regulation. And we're also looking at some new solutions that are going to come down in the next year. Uh biggest
of those is the thin layer disposition that we hope we uh which is now easier to do and we're going to record it. look at how it's being done elsewhere to make some recommendations to you. One of our biggest jobs is
educating and residents and visitors. Uh we have lots of different ways that is we work with that. We work with a uh a whole bunch of different groups that are mentioned here. Um we're working with the uh we're
working with um the town and the Chadam climate action network to develop a climate action plan uh and a calendar uh and a list of all the actions that have been taken by the town that have uh some effect or on on
our climate and or our ability to deal with climate there. We're also supporting the SECAN. They're planning a an event in June for education and uh our committee is is actively going to support that that work. We work with the
town community director. We've completely overhauled the website uh and we're working to um provide more information to her on on main sheet. I I have one for next week on how you get
your name on the Eversource outage list. So, they send you the information to your uh to your uh email and to your phone. I I knew exactly when the outage was. I knew how many people are out. So, I think that's
a bit of information that we need to get to the town. Excuse me, Bob. I I'd just like to ask a question about that. Um, I I we get that information as well automatically, both by email and on cell
phones. I'm not aware that we ever put our name on a list. Do you do you know whether you have to put your name on a list in order to get that information or it they they somehow send it to all their customers that they have that information for? Yeah, that's the that I
think that's the bigger issue is that they don't have everybody's information. Not everybody's cell phone is known and then I think you do have to give them permission to send you the the stuff on your cell phone. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Uh we're going to work we've
worked on um again a couple other challenges. Another big one that I keep talking about is how do we get our our non-residents to um participate in Mass
Save. uh we are are initiating a uh survey that we're gonna that the SEC can is going to launch on u this week or next week and and make to try and get some more feedback on that from from
households. Finally, we've uh we're working we we would like you to change the charge. This is our charge. It's wordy. It's mostly focused on energy conservation, which we do do, but there
are is so much more. I don't even want you to read that one. I want you to look at this very simple one here that is that says everything that we would like it to do um in three sentences. And uh we uh we
are requesting that we use this as our charge as and get rid of the old wordy one that and that's my presentation. But if you could approve this charge that's make us all
happy and I'll take questions. So yeah go ahead Dean. Yeah thank thank you Bob for that report. Uh I just have a few things but I think that charge is great. Simplicity is always best. Um, and I I I applaud the committee for taking on as
one of the newer projects the salt marsh issue. I think that's really important. Um, with respect to the um charging stations at the Elders Garage, I think it was the committee perhaps you personally that came before the Elder Garage committee a few years ago and
pitched that to us. Uh, so that's it's nice to see it in fruition. um the stretch code. I'm well I'll wait to see what you have to say about that. I'm I'm very skeptical about it, but I we'll see. Well, we are we do we do um
have the stretch code. We are it's already been adopted. The special I guess I mean the you're talking about the specializ specialized code. I'm sorry. We'll see what it what you have come up with. I I I'm very much for it, but I uh I have actually asked my
committee to uh wait and give builders and everyone a little bit of time to adopt to the to the new stretch code. Um there isn't an awful lot of act uh new construction activity in town, so it isn't it isn't something we have to rush
to do. Um there are some renovation large renovations and commercial properties that um would be affected more by the specialized code than the stretch code. But mostly this the specialized code just it's major
differences are that all the new building would have to be ready to be solar and ready to be all electric. So you would have the wiring for that without having actually have to do. Okay. Unless you build a 4,000 square
foot house, in which case you would actually have to do it. So, I I'm just I'm ready to to start talking to you folks about it. I think the reason we should start talking is because to become a community leader
uh community um would open us allow us to to get money a much I I believe it's at least as much money as we got when we became a green communities act. So I I think that's something we should not Well, we'll keep an open mind on it and
see what you come up with. My fourth and final thing is I've had several communications uh from from one individual admittedly uh on on a topic and I wondered if your committee had looked at it. It has to do with um the use of gas powered leaf blowers and the
noise the noise pollution and the environmental consideration. Has anyone brought I I suggested that this individual bring it to your attention. Well, we uh we have worked with the with the um the town the building
um whoever it is landscaping to um adopt uh electric um leaf and and garden uh equipment and they bought some and um so so that's our fir that's that's what
we've done so far uh for the town. Um, I don't think we have the the power to to to ban that uh those that equipment, but again, we should emphasize that and Mass Save does give rebates for people who
buy electric uh garden equipment and that they this is a good time to do that because that won't be available for for much longer. Yeah, I'm I'm not proposing a ban. I just wanted to introduce the the issue. Yeah, it's been on our on our
um radar for for several years trying to get the larger commercial um contractors to to move to electric and and um and I've talked to a lot a number of them about what expenses would be and how how
that would work. So yeah. Well, any any education you can that your committee can provide, I think would be valuable to especially to the small solo landscapers who would have to incur a lot of expense if they had to shift over. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Bob. Jeff, thank you, Mike. Um Bob,
excellent report. Once again, I like the three sentence uh charge. It's simple, straightforward, and really summarizes what you guys are all about. Couple stupid questions, but uh thin layer disposition. What is that? It deposition. Okay, it says
disposition, but anyway, it we never changed the word spelling. Okay, that was my mistake. So, it's a thin layer a deposit. I could ask Sarah to come up here and give you a a much better explanation. allowed to put you. There
is less restriction on the um adding sand to a salt marsh to raise it up so that it isn't underwater anymore. So the um apparently the state environmental regulators are have more clearly defined
what can be done and we we should be looking at what those things are. So your reports be this spring? We're gonna well next spring or whatever we're gonna well salt marsh is coming coming soon or you want to talk about
introduce yourself. Hi Sarah Griskum on the energy and climate action committee. Um thin layer deposition is really popular down south where they have these marshes that are subsiding quite fast. And so it's been clear that raising them
with a small amount of sand or sediment regularly allows the marsh to grow and it'll just grow right through that deposition, that thin layer. So that's what it is. We're not we're not there yet in Massachusetts. So but they're they're bringing it forward. Just a
couple of comments. um mass save. I was I would think there's there could be a mass emailing or whatever for the folks that are non-residents here and to make them aware of Mass Save. It's a wonderful program. Um and we should, you know, get the word out as best we can. Um and then I was so impressed with uh
the meeting that we had with the association for for the preservation of Cape Cod that that for Earth Day, Earth Week. It was he he was extreme Andrew Gotautle was extremely impressive. Um and I know he's been around a long time. is just I I haven't been um introduced to him, I guess, as much as I perhaps
should have, but what a wonderful resource and and he he he's he's got it down. Um and I'd love to have him come to Chadam in a more formal way at some point. So, I just I hope you guys interface with him and and and work with him because I really was really impressed with his work. Yeah. And you
guys are doing a great job. Love what you do. Thanks, Shireen. Uh thanks um Bob. Thank you for the report. I am really really psyched to hear about the salt marsh stuff. I just think this is really important work for such a fragile sandbar as we are. Um the idea that
you're um providing content for social, you know, for our social media to the public, that is really important. I really appreciate that. I I hope more committees would would take note of that and provide provide that charge. Looks
great. Um I just um I I'm just very happy that your committee is working very hard um for for for the issues that we're facing here. I think you know at some point we're going to be in in a more deeper problem than we are and this
is you know if we are ahead of a game the special energy code I I'd love to hear more about that. um you know and I'd also like this might be something the economic development would take a look at to see what that impact could be maybe to the community in a broader
picture see if we have to balance anything um going forward. Um and just a note to Jeff that uh Kristen Andes works for APCC as well. So I mean I think it would be a nice fit for for them to come come visit us as well. Thank you for
your good work. I mean basically I appreciate the presentation and I guess my only two cents is simple easy proposed uh new charge is crisp and clear and no issues whatsoever. So
uh yeah I the I'm all for the new charge. Uh great report. Thank you very much for that. I um I let me just say that I hope you will be able to accomplish the things that you have on your plate. You have a
tremendously challenging um mission here, which is two things. One, a very complicated and difficult set of problems. and two, you're probably the only people, you're a very limited number of people who actually
understand most all of it. So, the education piece is huge as well. Um, and you know, I'm speaking for myself among other things. But, um, I I I I would express a hope that we can speed up the
process of installing uh EV chargers wherever they're uh appropriate. Um, we've got a start, but it's just a start. So, okay, those are my comments. Great. Michael, do we need a vote on the charge or? Uh, yeah, we probably do. I
move I move to approve the charge. Second. Uh, we'll give that one to Shireen. Um, all those in favor, Mr. Niccastro, I. Uh, Mr. Shell says I, Miss Davis, I. Uh, Mr. Dykens and Mr. Meadows. Hi. Thanks very much. Thank you
very much. Yep. Um, now we have a request for a series of approvals, um, licenses, use of town property, etc. And this is from the witches on the
water. Um, sorry, short and sweet. Short and Oh, sorry. I have the wrong piece in front of me here. Short and Sweet is next. Hello. Hello.
Hello. Thanks. This is Ian McBride, owner of Short and Sweet. I If you could speak up just a little bit. You're a bit faded. Sorry about that. How about that? There you go. That's good. Thank you. All right. Sorry. Uh yeah, this is Ian
McBride, the owner of Short and Sweet Ice Cream. Um we are hoping to host a charity fund run in June um to benefit Monoy's track and running
programs. Um and we would need just use of crossing Sam Ryder Road. Yeah, we we have a staff memo that I think outlines that. Any questions from
the board? Otherwise, I take a motion. They were before the park and wreck and this is very straightforward. This is almost So, yeah. So, I I I move to approve the use of the town roads for the short and sweet 5K charity fund run on Saturday, June 14th, 2025 at 8 a.m.
as presented by well, Ian, not Becky. Sorry. Second on a flight back. All those in favor? Mr. Meadows. I. Uh, Mr. Dykins. Hi. Miss Davis. Hi. Mr. Shell says I. And Mr. Niccastro. Hi. Thank you.
Okay. Now we have a I'm sorry. I just said thank you. Oh, you said thanks very much. You're you're have a good one. You too. Now, now we have the um series of proposals from the
uh the Witches on the Water fundraising. Good evening. Welcome. Welcome. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Chair and select board. So, we're back again. This is our fifth year. I couldn't have believed that we would be where we are
today. We have raised just under $110,000 for our recipients over these last four years. So, this is our fifth annual costume paddle. Pretty much a mirror image of last year. Um, we've gone to parks and wrecks already as you see. Um, I went to the town clerk this
morning for our raffle permit. And, um, this year's beneficiary is NAMI of the Cape Cod of Cape Cod in the Islands, which NAMI stands for the National Alliance on Mental Health, Mental Illness. It's an amazing organization um providing freeof charge services to
individuals um with mental illness, their family and friends. It's just a terrific organization. We're thrilled to have them as our recipient this year. So, we're looking to again mirror image of last year. We had three food trucks. We had a wonderful successful event with
a live band and a disc jockey. It was absolutely terrific and we just we're hoping to do it again this year on uh Saturday, October 4th. questions. I I think this is a wonderful event and
you know it just brings such community goodwill together. So I'm going to um I'll make the motion. I guess we we actually we have a series of motions but then why don't we I I do want to say same thing. I it's terrific but go ahead. Um
yeah I'll do the first one I guess the use of town um property. I move to uh grant uh the use of town property to Witches on the Water for the fifth annual fundraising um costume uh sub paddle on Saturday, October 4th uh 2025 from 11 to 6 p.m. at
Oyster Pond in the parking lot. May I just ask though real quick? Would you also approve if the rain date would be the next day should something go ary on Saturday with I think we can do them. You want to you want to do them all at once or all at once? All right, I'll
I'll do my um with an alternative date of October 5th. Um I also move us uh to grant a special one-day entertainment license to Witches on the Water for amplified live and recorded music on Saturday, October 4th, 2025 with the
alternate date of October 5th, 2025 from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. at Oyster Pond and Parking Lot. Also move to grant permission for outdoor display of and sale of goods on town property to Witches on the Water on Saturday, October 4th, 2025 with an alternative date of October
5th, 2025 from 2 to 5:00 p.m. at Oyster Pond Beach and parking lot. I also grant move to grant permission for three food trucks contracted by Witches on the Water to Vended Oyster Pond on Saturday, October 5th, 2025 with an alternative date of October 5th, 2025 from 2 to 5:00
p.m. Food trucks must depart no later than 6 p.m. Um, and obviously a a rain date of se Sunday, October 5th, 2025 will be permitted for all the above if necessary. Second. All those in favor? Uh, Mr. Matters. I uh Mr. Dykens. Hi.
Uh, Ms. Davis. Hi. Mr. Shell says I and Mr. Niccastro. Hi. Thank you very much. Thank you all very much. Have a nice evening. Same to you. Thank you. Okay. Next case is uh acceptance of a donation of a permanent bench uh
permanent sign benches and table. Uh Mr. Burman, welcome. Hello. Greg Burman, director of natural resources. So this is in part the consideration of acceptance of this donation but also kind of an announcement that after many
years this was a CPC article of 2019 we are finally kind of wrapping up the last touches of this particular area. Uh sorry. So this is uh right off of Writers Cove landing and um you can see the
Maronei area, the powerhouse down there. Um, this was acquired back in 1999. There's been restoration occurring. Um, the work has been supplemented by the Americanore program that's come out uh, multiple seasons and done really
tremendous work out there. Uh, but now there is kind of an an easy loop trail heading out and around with some lovely views of the water. um those two benches that you can see kind of along the the water side of the trail and then the
picnic table is kind of on that white rectangle. That's an existing concrete pad out there. The UR here um that's actually where the kiosk uh would be located and this particular map is part
of one side of the kiosk. Um this is the kind of history of the area. Um, this was provided in your packet. Um, showing the the two historic towers on the site and a little bit of the background. On
the other side, we really get into more of the conservation and natural resources of the area. Uh, this is where that map that I had showed before is, and this does show uh hopefully the relocated tower position on this map that'll be coming uh uh within the next
year. So, I don't want to get too much into the weeds on this, but if the select board is willing, we do have two um instigators who have been involved with this for a long time. Uh Michelle Maloney Kits and Barbara Cottonham. If
you're willing to hear their brief background about it, I think they'd be very sure. Uh thank you. I'll be very quick, but as some of you know, this project has been at least I'm sorry, Michelle. Can you just oh introduce yourself? Sorry. I'm
Michelle Maloney Kits. Um I live in the area and have been working with Barb Cottonham for the last for me, let's say 10 years. Um and for Barb, it's been 20 or 20 um on this project. So we're just
ecstatic to be here. Um, and I just want to say a few words. Um, that this project really does reflect the very best of what a partnership and a commitment to a vision can deliver. Um, there was uh it was a completely run
overrun with invasive area. You could not even walk there. And there are these magnificent water views over Writers Cove. um and an incredible opportunity to really preserve and protect an extremely historic piece of land as well
as one of a very beautiful spot that offers a great deal. So, I just want to say that um none of this would ever have been possible without the persistence of Barb Cam and she totally deserves uh
beyond the lighthouse prize, let's say, uh for her vision and this shows not only um what people can do together, but also the power of persistence because it would have never happened without that
just quick shout outs first of all to you. This is the second time we've met with you. Several of you walked with us in the early days when we were trying to put the trails down to basically protect it from becoming the parking lot that
several people had previously proposed. Um, also of course the town has been extraordinarily helpful. Dr. Bob has been an ally of this project all along. Paul and Kenan, we couldn't have done it without them in the natural resources
department and recently Greg has become our part of the fan club. So that's really good. Maronei has been very involved. Um Bob Fishbach the president, Dick Chaser before him, Carolyn Kra, Edy Craell. These signs were kind of like
negotiating a NATO treaty. You have no idea what went into trying to get all of this organized. Americanore has been invaluable to us in this site and moving forward. It is a big concern moving forward. If they are not going to be
here anymore to help us, we will have to find an alternative solution. Uh the Cadam Harwitch woodworkers made the benches for us and the friends of Writers Cove Marone Triangle which is a group of people that Barb put together
was able to raise over $11,000 to provide a match for the CCP funding that we were able to get. And then of course we had all the commitment of the committees along the way to get us the funding, the town of Chadam that
voted for it multiple times. So anyway, I'm going to leave it with that. Um, and it just proves that you don't have to pave paradise and put in a parking lot. You can have a great alternative. So, thank you so much.
Thank you. Thank you. And if you have any questions for myself or for Michelle or Barb? Go ahead, Jeff. I just have a comment, Barb. Michelle, when you walked up and I saw Barbara, it is a testimony to perseverance. It really is. Barb's been at this for a
while. It's beautiful and you guys did a great job. Thank you so much. Thank you. Just one last thing. We do hope to have an opening possibly in June. It's National History uh it's history month and we think there'd be a good link and
we could really use it as an opportunity. It's incredible place. I encourage you to go and sit in those beautiful benches. We should have a ribbon cutting. Yeah, absolutely. Um, thanks very much. Very u inspiring. Um,
particularly the the the long struggle. M Mr. Chairman, yes. I move to recommend the select board approve the donation of benches, a picnic table, a permanent sign, and other site enhancements valued at approximately $11,340 at the Maronei RCA Conservation
Trail. Second. All those in favor, Mr. Meadows. Hi, Mr. Dyken. Hi. Uh, Miss Davis, Mr. Shell says I and Mr. Niccastro. Hi. Thank you. Thank you. Thank
[Applause] you. Um, okay. Mr. Failey, I think, is next with a water conservation recommendation. Welcome. Good evening.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Rob Philly, director of public works. So, this is a continuation of our discussion a couple of weeks ago about um water conservation recommendations. So, as you know, Chadam gets its portable water from a sole
source aquifer, the Monoy Lens. Um uh along with the towns of Harwitch, Orleans, and Brewster, who also pull their water from the Monoy Lens. So, we are currently at about a 40% below average, a deficit in the amount of rainfall that we typically see this time
of year. Um, and that's been prolonged over the winter months. So, for the second month in a row, the Energy and Environmental Affairs Office have declared Massachusetts or Cape Cod um at a level two significant drought. um as
temperatures continue to warm and vegetation starts to draw more groundwater um the likelihood of the groundwater being able to recharge is going to be minimized. So what I have here is um um the
discussion piece is at the April 14th meeting the water and sewer advisory committee. They recommended that the water conservation level should be at a level one. Even though Massachusetts
declares Chadam and all of Cape Cod at a level two, they felt that a level one may be more appropriate because the pumping hours in April are still quite a bit lower. I know in their matrix uh it calls out much higher hours, but as you can see in this um we don't typically
hit the low level alarm this time of year and our pumping hours in in April are 4 to 10 hours per day and in May they're 4 to 12 hours per day. The water conservation restrictions recommended by the environmental affairs
office uh which is at the bottom of this slide um closely matches the level two conditions in the Chattam water and sewer advisory committee decision matrix. So you can see um really the first bullet on the bottom of the page
is what the EA's office recommends. all non-essential outdoor water uses are banned. Um that that to me is pretty restrictive. Um but if we look at some of the
groundwater levels, um this is a kind of a repeat of the slide that I showed at my my monthly report except this has been updated with the chart of last year of last week. I drew the red line across to show um where we are compared to the previous five years. I checked this line
again today and we're still climbing. We're still recharging. Um and actually now we're above the 2021 levels which is a a good sign. And this is the Cadam USGS well. Brewster as you know is uh
more of the bell weather um for the Cape. Um it's also still recharging on a very steep rate which is a good sign. And I think a lot of that is due to Saturday's uh rainfall that we had, but the depth of the water is not as promising as Chadams is
showing. So um recently the towns of Harwitch and Orleans have passed outdoor water restrictions that begin May 1st. And actually uh since I wrote this report, the town of Brewster has also jumped on board. Um there both of those
all three of those towns are less stringent than the EA recommendations and the level one recommendations by the water and sewer advisory committee. So Harwatch um they recommend two days per week ordering. Uh they
separate it by odd number houses and even number houses. Um that begins again on May 1st. There's no mention in their restrictions of vehicles or buildings or boats or any of that nature. uh they keep it very generic. Orleans also mentions two days.
They don't specify which two days of the week. Um but they also spec specifically call out non-essential outdoor watering and they define that as no vehicles, buildings, driveways or sidewalks being allowed. They do not specifically
mention boats in that as well, although I would consider a boat a vehicle potentially. Um, so Brewster, who have just recently enacted theirs, again, beginning May 1st, they have an alternating schedule. Odd number houses on odd days, even
number houses on even days, uh, between 4 to 8:00 a.m. or 5 to 9:00 p.m. So, they have the the least restrictive of all three towns at this point. So, the Massachusetts Drought Task Force is meeting again on May 7th.
So, we'll discuss drought conditions again then. Um, but we really need to take some action to put something in place before then. Again, I just blew up the matrix um on this page so it's a little easier to read. Um, that's the
matrix that the water and sewer advisory committee put together. Their recommendation again was a level one mild drought, but again, that recommendation was made before any of the surrounding towns made those recommendations. So there's a lot to consider and a lot
to discuss. Um with that I developed really two options for recommendations. Um and one of those is to align with level one as recommended by the water and sewer advisory committee on April 14th. Um which would
allow waters uh sorry lawns to be irrigated only one day per week. um and no uh and allowed hand watering on two days per week, but no uh non-essential watering
allowed. Option two is similar to somewhat similar to Orleans and Haritch where it would allow non-essential watering two days a week uh in the early morning hours or in the evening hours.
And it still does allow some handheld watering, but no watering of vehicles, sidewalks, or buildings. So, I know that's a lot to digest and I'm happy to go to any other slides. Um, I think if we do pick u a
restriction, it should be on specific days. Do recommend fines. Um, it'll also allow us to keep track of fines. Um, it'll also allow us to keep track of uh water usage instead of just allowing people say in Orleans two days per week,
which days are they choosing? Is everybody choosing the same days? It really helps us uh conserve water and target days that we want to have people using water. I'm happy to answer questions. I know that there'll be many. Dean, thank
you, Mr. Chairman. Um well the uh water and sewer committee spent a lot of time coming up with this matrix which is a tool for the board to use um and I respect their recommendation. Uh I did watch I wasn't able to attend their meeting in person
but I did watch it subsequently. At the same time, um I I think I am more inclined toward to adopting something similar to to our surrounding uh towns which is a little less restrictive. But
we need to if we're going to do that define what is non-essential, what is essential. I'm not sure how these other towns define that. Um I do want to clarify because the question was asked um in the uh at the beginning of the
meeting. This is only u um uh obligatory on um on public water usage, not private. But I do think as we have in the past, whatever restriction we do come up with um we should encourage
those who have private irrigation systems, private wells to to honor these restrictions. The reason I'm I'm a little hesitant to go as far as the water and sewer committee has recommended is that as you point out, we have um May 7th to look forward to when
the state task force regroups. And I'd like to know what they have to say then before um I I think we should um impose something a little more severe. That's my current thinking anyway, but
I'm I'm flexible on this. Thank you. Anybody else? Uh I I I my only qu I mean I you there were a lot of words that you were speaking around option two that I I
don't see here in the staff memo and um so I I I guess I want apart from the question that Dean raises about what is non-essential and what isn't um the the um the part that is clear is
two days a week specifically Tuesdays and Thursdays. Um after 5 and before 9ine, um what I what's not clear to me is all the other stuff, the handwatering, the boats, the you know the cars, the all of
that other stuff and how that fits in here, right? And it does it gets to be like an onion, you know. Um I think towns have kept it generalized
um just to wait and see what happens on May 7th. I think there are um there's specific language about if somebody who um installed a new lawn or they're irrigating their newly installed bushes, you know, you don't want to sacrifice
those. They don't use as much water, especially if you're handwatering. you can control the the flow a little bit more. When we look at irrigation systems, we are in the 70 to 80 million gallons per year on the registered irrigation systems in Chadam. That's how
much water we use. If we restrict that, that's a tremendous amount of savings. I don't think somebody handwatering their bushes or their a specific area in their lawn that they're trying to grow grass on is going to make that much of a difference. Yeah. And I and just to follow up, I was
really asking the question not necessarily inviting a suggestion that we get down to being very restrictive or very detailed. I I apart from the the the anticipation of of new news from May
7th, the state um it is somewhat early in the it's early in the season. We've had a lot of rain. uh the the um the uh the graphs that you're showing us are not yet trending in a in I mean
they're not great but they're not trending in a in a direction that causes me anyway to think in my uninformed thinking that um you know we're we're we we better batten down the hatches early because this is going to be a bad
summer. So I I guess I wouldn't be inclined to support option two. um with the kind of flexibility that that you know the um I hesitate to use the word but kind of loosey goosey
um um definitions around it for the time being at least until May. I don't know how my colleagues feel about that but that's sort of how I was looking at it. Mr. Chair, yes. I mean just I mean just
to be very blunt about it. I mean, we're in a kind of an awkward timing position because I mean, a lot of people a lot of people pay irrigation companies to come and turn on their systems and frankly, they don't know how to operate the system or they don't engage as much with it. So, all these companies are coming
through and turning on systems and they're going to set them for whatever it was was previously run. And to get that guy to come back may take a couple weeks, months, whatever. So, we we just got to accept that, you know, there's going to be a little bit of a transition with whatever position we take. Um, and
unless we want to go around finding, you know, quite a few property owners right away, I think we got to have some flexibility with this. I mean, that's this the reality of it. Yeah. No, I I thoroughly agree with you. So, uh I would allow some flexibility. Obviously,
the May 7th is right around the corner. Um, so I'm I like to was as flexible as possible at this stage, prepare ourselves for with a little more data, a little more concrete position. Um, and in frankly, this, you know, less than
two weeks. So, well, May 7th is next week, isn't it? Yeah. And I would agree. Um, that does give us a little bit of flexibility. Um, we're going to have better data very soon. And, you know, I I think we certainly prepared as a board to do to be more draconian if if the
data says we should lead us that way, but probably a little early early right now. So, those are my thoughts. Well, just in light of what Corey just said, are are we talking about waiting to do anything until next week?
I was I was speaking more in terms of option two. Yeah. No, I that's what I thought we were talking about. But um if we adopt option two, there may be a lot of um of of irrigation systems that are, you know, sort of on an automatic pilot
was what I understood you to be saying. It is. I mean, we could I mean, I could go with I would go with I could support option two, but I just want I just don't want to be super quick on all this the fines of
penalizing people that, you know, they they they say they they support option two in in theory, but they just mechanically can't get their guy to come back. So, I don't want to be hard on people who who may be supporting this. So, I just want to figure out the the nuances of not penalizing people who,
you know, fine in option two is what we're going to do. That's fine. But, you know, my guy can't come back for another week or two. So, I just want to have a balance somehow. Sheree, um I think since you know May 7th's around the corner, I would go with option one and
and and leave it at that and for the week. And I understand we're not going to have Yeah. Option one, the mild drop. Yeah. I'm sorry. The which level one if we're talking about not going with
anything, I would go with option one. Um just just because it would be a more caution cautioned way to a cautioned approach. This would be the most strict. It is strict. Yeah. Yeah. This is what we're looking right. Option one would be
one day per week watering and option two would allow for two days per week. Far more far more restrictive. I'm sorry. We're get there's levels and options looking at this. Yeah, that those are levels. This is Sorry. I'm sorry. I
apologize. There was a lot of information to try to Well, you know, that's me, too. And it's all unfolding as we speak. Yeah. All right. I'll go with what you had said. Y got it. Page three. Mr. Sherman. Yes,
sir. I was going to offer a motion. I I think we should do something tonight. Yes. I do understand the complication that Corey outlined about getting somebody to come back if we tighten the screws a little bit. They also have to pay a sec for a second visit. Uh
probably. But I So I'm going to move that um we adopt restrictions as follows on use of public water. that we allow non-essential outdoor use of the water no more than two days per week before
9:00 a.m. and after 5:00 pm. water water and that water by watering by sprinkler or irrigation is allowed on c on the customer's signed day only before 9:00 am and after 5:00 p.m. Odd
house numbers on Tuesdays uh and even house numbers on Wednesdays. I'm I'm two days, right? So Tuesdays and Thursdays for the odd odd house numbers. Wednesdays and Fridays. Is Fridays a
good day for us? It doesn't. As long as we can dictate when people are irrigating, I don't think it matter. Even the numbers on Wednesdays and Fridays. Some of the towns have picked weekend days which I don't think work well in our condition.
Yeah. So that that's my motion. Second. Okay. All those in favor? Mr. Niccastro. Hi. Mr. Shell says I. Miss. Davis. I And thanks for clarifying. Mr. Dykens. I. And Mr. Matters. Hi. Thank you, sir. Thank you.
Uh, next we have um a proposed Cadam sewer assistant grant program policy first read. Jill, is it you or Okay, I'll introduce it. Yeah, go ahead. So, with town meeting coming up on May 10th
and the board has placed article 23 to fund a sewer assistance program, uh Kathy and I wanted to put together a draft policy for the board's first reading to give us some direction per se of where we want to go. We've set it up
as a grant program similar in a way to the Dr. Florence Selden family support pro preschool family support program where with that program the resident actually doesn't get the funds we pay the vendor directly and so in setting up
the policy we wanted to fashion it after the successful um aqua fund program where they two pay directly to the vendor but for this we would augment that program so they would go for the initial review through the aqua fund and
depending on what their percentage for their loan payback um that would be the criteria for our policy. So I want to turn it over to Kathy. She said she's done all the research for this and she can provide details. Thank you. So, um,
as as Jill mentioned, um, this was kind of based heavily on using that almost prequalification, if you will, of the Aqua Fund to determine, um, ways to provide these grants, these supplemental grants to those in need in town. So, the policy
begins with a couple definitions of the Cape Cod Aqua Fund for those who might not be familiar. Um again because the zero and 2% loans through the aqua fund apply only to uh new sewer connections. We fashion this policy in a similar manner that it would
only apply to new sewer connections at this time. Um it goes through kind of the program overview. Eligibility criteria would be that it must be the residential property owner of record. They must be making a new connection to the Chattam sewer system. Uh we're asking for proof of a
Cape Cod Aqua Fund loan approval. This was similar to how Orleans had done their grant program as well. And um also in talking with um director Alice Ryan, she had mentioned that that was how other towns were discussing creating a similar program. We wouldn't we would be
the second town kind of officially creating this type of program. So um it seemed though that that's what a lot of other towns were leaning towards as well. And then the grant would only be for expenses related to new sewer connections. For example, evac um excavation, engineering, labor, piping,
and materials. And in our in the presentation the board received on April 1st, if you recall, um engineering costs seem to be kind of one of those front um costs, upfront costs that um people need to pay to put deposits down in order to secure engineering. So, uh the hope is
that this would help with that. And at this time, commercial properties and businesses would not be eligible for this program. Um the grant dispersement, um again, if they if the resident qualified for a 0% Aqua Fund loan, we're recommending with this policy that the
uh grant award would be $2,000. If the resident qualified for the 2% Aqua Fund loan, we're recommending $1,500. Again, in an effort to aid and assist those Chattam residents that are in most need of additional supplemental funds. um the payments would be made
directly to the contractors and engineers who would be provide that information would be provided by the applicant hopefully um and invoices would be sent through the town manager's office again similar to how Dr. Seldon the Dr. Seldman program is administered.
Um, so that's the policy. I also included the application, just a draft application, very simple information kind of hitting all of the points outlined in the policy just to confirm and verify that the applicant has done
all of those things. Um, so I'm happy to answer any questions. Yeah, go ahead, Shireen. Um, just a quick question, Kathy, on the application. Yes. Um I'm confused as to an
apartment and why was that included? Uh that was included just because the Cape Cod Aqua Fund designated that as well really. Okay. Um we can Did they define it what it meant in any manner? It wasn't clear, but um because it was in their definition of what a residence
was. Um I put it on there in an abundance of caution. But again, if you'd like it removed and simplified, that's fine as well. I don't want to I hesit I kind of contemplated that one because again, like you, I was kind of what's the difference and does it matter
really? I think it was more just for tracking purposes, so we could say, okay, we've done this many single family homes, but again, I'm open to suggestions. Just just like a little more clear definition as to what it would be. Um, you know, I understand the condominium duplex ownership kind of
thing, but I'm kind of confused about the apartment because that would probably an apartment would be part of a commercial building, I would imagine, in in some respects. Correct. Yeah. No, I I I when I read that, I just thought that, you know, we're not going to have any of
those here because it's very unlikely that whatever they contemplated with the Aqua Fund uh program that, you know, we're not going to have individual. First of all, we don't have many apartments. We certainly don't have any single apartments that are going to be
subject to um connection orders for the apartment by itself. So, that was how I resolved it. Other other than that, I'm fine with it. Yeah, Dean, go ahead. Thanks. Thanks, Kathy and Jill. I just have a couple of questions. Um, um,
so it applies only to year- round residents, correct? So, if you're a seasonal resident, you cannot apply for this grant money. Correct. Um, can we make that distinction? Is that is that Have you run this by town council yet? Town council and I have a call tomorrow
afternoon. We weren't able to quite coordinate schedules quickly enough. He has reviewed it and he does have a couple questions. But again, using the Aqua Fund as kind of our basis determining document, the zero and 2% loans are only applicable to year round residents as well. I have no problem
with that. I just want want to make sure we do it correctly. Um, when you say under the eligibility criteria in section three, be the residential property owner of record. A lot of properties are in trusts or or LLC's. We
just want to make sure that they're eligible. Um, uh, the I guess I I like the idea that, you know, we we don't do our own qualification. It's done by the aqua fund. At the same
time, the property owner is put in the position of having to get a loan first before they're eligible for a grant. And I just wondered if you know we have any anybody has any concern about putting the forcing the property owner to go out and get a loan first before
they can get a grant from the town. I I well I I they have to get um approved and and qual and and and some sort of a certification that they are um entitled to have the loan. But I don't think there has to be any uh they don't have
to have taken the money down. I don't know how they do it in Orleans. I have no idea. That would be the only Orleans had required that they had actually taken the loan out and maybe we want that. I don't know. I just don't because that that ensured that the work was going to be done and that's why Orleans made it
kind of a sticking point for the grant to prove that yes, I am committing to this new connection. And I don't recall how much of the loans um that they get. I I thought the woman said that they could get the whole thing paid for by they they can would be five or six
$7,000. They can I think it was more the timing of the dispersement of their loan versus our grant. I think our grant would be elig would be available to these um recipients a little bit more timely so they'd be able to apply it to uh the work that they're needed to apply
it to. I'm not I'm not going to press on that point. I just raised it. Uh the final thing uh was on the application and maybe you don't need this if uh well maybe we do. We might want to add um that they provide proof of their year their year round residency on there.
Good. That's it. Otherwise, you know, I know this is a first read, but those are my comments and suggestions. Thank you. Corey, just a real quick one because I know Shireen mentioned the apartment and the on but the condominion. Um I mean do you have to put residential condominium
because there are commercial condominiums? I mean it's position not residential I mean sorry commercial is not eligible. Correct. Um so you'd like to see a distinction there for res because it is it is it would be residential. Yes. Right. I was wondering
if just for clarity is necessary. So okay I'll bring that up tomorrow as well. I think the fact that that funds are paid directly to the vendor is really is a great idea, good idea. I think it's very appropriate and you know um I think
this is going to take off to be honest with you. I think it's very attractive and I think having the Aquaf fund as a predecessor precursor you know approval um is is a great control for us as well. So good job. Thanks. Thank you.
Anybody else? I I that I I agree. I I think this is it's simple, it's easily administered, and it's, you know, it it effectuates the the the purpose and intent that we had in mind. Um, so I I I
I think I would agree with Dean. We let this go to a second read. I I think that was your implication. I would certainly agree with that. Um, maybe wait to see how the u you know, how town meeting treats the the warrant article, but I
think they have a pretty good idea now what how this would operate. So agreed. I don't think we need any action. Okay. Thank you. Uh thank you. Good job. Uh next case uh we have a committee
appointment um Mr. Leo Eldridge um to the airport commission. Yeah. Can I just ask a question and I I know we had some comment in the public
comment section. I and I like this candidate and I'm prepared. If there's a vote tonight, I'm going to vote for him. If there's a vote three weeks from now, I'm going to vote for him. But I just wanted I we have two openings, right? Because we received an email today from from someone who Yes. I was not comments
I was a late recipient of Mr. Mike Galen's um resignation. So, he has resigned. um effective April 1st he has moved apparently. So that does leave two seats which is I believe what I indicated on this form because I found
out and it was confirmed and his his position ran until what 26 or the 28 202 moment and I can tell you Mr. Galen's position ran through 2026. Okay. And the other opening was from Mr. Schulz who stepped down a while back.
Yes. So, he had been removed from the list, but yes. Um, and that seat was through June 30th, 2025, which is why I indicated a June 28th. So, my real question is, do we have any other applicants at the present time? I can go back through. I don't recall seeing any
when I was prepping because I will have I've been kind of going through and nobody has submitted. No, not that I'm aware of. And the positions are posted, right? Yes, they are. Okay. So, if we're to consider anybody, somebody has to apply. So anyway, I just wanted to make
that point. Thank you. Yeah, I I I mean I I there has been some modest recruiting effort on the part of the um the um airport commission and I you know I I can't say of my own
knowledge there's nobody out there but um in terms of anybody that's had a conversation um relative the to the possibility of their serving I I would say there's nobody out there other than this gentleman. Thank you. And he, by the way, is the
product of of some lengthy conversations. So, um, Mr. Chairman, I move to appoint Leo Eldridge as a member of the airport commission until June 30, 2028, unless sooner revoked or successor is appointed.
Second. Second. Uh, all those in favor, Mr. Niccastro. Hi, Mr. Shell says I. Miss Davis, hi. Uh, Mr. Dykins. Hi. And Mr. Matters. Hi. Thank you. Next case,
Jill. Thank you, Mr. Manager's monthly report. Yes. So, in your packet, we have the monthly report for March as well as a few current items that I'll go over and I'm happy to answer any questions. Um, the first item is exciting news about
our AAA bond rating being affirmed with a stable outlook. And so next week you'll see the uh bond bids for uh the borrowing that Carrie, our finance director, is going to do. It's about $8.1 million. So I'm
just really proud of the efforts of the finance team uh both Carrie and Sharon, as well as the collaboration with Greg Berman from natural resources and Katie Dunovan uh from our community development and Craig Row from our IT
division. what they were able to contribute really contributed to our affir affirmation of our bond rating. So, it's not just about the finances, although they're very strong, our reserves are very strong as noted in the S&P report, but it's also looking
forward into the future. And so, we have a great stable outlook for that. And in the in the packet has the full press release. And then just following up on the committee and board reappoints um we stuck it in the the town manager report
about um some upcoming vacancies that we are aware of and also the current listing of open seats. So that's in here if anyone's interested to find out and we just talked about the air airport commission and Kathy had noted that there's two open seats. Um so take a
look at that. And then our uh t team cadam celebrates earth week. We've had um some really um great participation by team members who were guest speakers at various events and um nonprofit
cleanups. So I listed them here. There was a panel at the Oreium that included um Rob Philly, our director of public works along with um Renee Gagny, our shellfish constable and other community leaders on the environment. So that was
really interesting. And then there's a third annual big blue conference that was I believe it was today uh that Greg Burman had participated in that. So, um, that's listed here of all their speaking engagements and very proud of their
expertise and their willingness to take it on the road for us. And their DPW division is holding their open house events that are listed here um for the various water treatment and drinking water week coming up for uh this week.
And then as usual, I've noted the uh employee years of service looking forward for May. Uh so we have I think now our longest serving employee is Dave Ready and our he's a fire captain with 35 years. Um again with the fire
department um Bill Delane he's also 25 years and I just don't want to miss anybody here. We have um Sarah who's Sarah Harris who's 25 years as well. So a lot of longevity um including our DPW
force and um quite a few new hires in the last year. Again, they're all working out really great with us and so I've listed them. And then we have our new uh promotional well, sorry, let me back up. Um, police officer Kenton
Franklin has been um appointed and started the academy and his introduction memo also went to the board. So, um, I have a picture of him with the chief and then Sergeant Bill Glover, who's retiring after, I think it's more than
40 44 years of service. He didn't want anything, but I I couldn't let it pass. So, um, I wanted to note that um, appreciation to him for serving with the town since June 15, 1981. And then with him retiring, we
have our promotion of Sergeant Liz Thompson. very excited for her. She's been with the town since July of 2019. And that's going to happen this Thursday at Chattam PD at I believe it's at 10 o'clock. And then recruitments and
postings were doing pretty good as well. Just a couple of open positions that are available online. And then throughout the monthly report, Kathy's really great about indexing hot topics. So projects are always the case and so she has them
listed there with the page number and then our Chattam TV productions. Must see TV has been doing a great job at helping us promote the annual town meeting getting people there as well as certain articles that they're highlighting. They did our preview show
as well. It's a different format. So, I'm looking forward to hear some feedback on that where we did fewer articles and relied on some of the backstages and our digital companion so that people can click and follow along. And the backstage um shows are also
shown on our local cable TV channel. And then the West Chatam Neighborhood Center Q&A. Um that's also a really great resource that uh talks about the um neighborhood center the two articles for town meeting on that. So um a lot of
data a lot of great outreach. Our numbers are improving and I am happy to answer any questions. All good. Terrific. Um very comprehensive. Thank you. And I I'm not preempting anybody.
Okay. No. Great report as all. Absolutely. Absolutely. So, um the next item on the and last item on the agenda is the evaluation of the town manager.
Um this is um correct me if I'm wrong. I think this is your 13th full year evaluation. Is that right? We're in 14. moving into year 14. Moving into 14 um out of that unlucky 13th, but it turned out to be pretty lucky.
Um the town manager and I I do want to say um particularly in light of some of the comments at the outset. Um, this was a process. I don't recall exactly when it started, but my recollection is that I got the memo as did the rest of us
starting the process um, I don't know, three weeks ago. Um, three three or four weeks ago. Um and that started a process in which each individual select board member um um
fills out um the evaluation sheet, makes comments, um schedules a meeting with the town manager, has an individual conversation with the town manager, then finalizes um that uh board members um comments and
and and evaluation. U numbers, if you will, uh submits that to me um and and in a in a and get a compilation from the uh executive assistant uh and it all uh landed on my
um in final on my uh desk yesterday. So, um, that that that it's an elaborate it's a a very robust process and I'm going to try not to take too long to outline some of the things that I think
are worthy of mention um tonight. Um, and I think then the uh the the memo, the final version does go on the public record. So, it will be available and on the town website and on the town website. So
um let let me say that the as as the memo indicates there are six separate categories of evaluation. Uh number one is personal and professional. Number two is board support and and board relations. Number three is financial
management. Number four is personnel management and organizational leadership. Number five is community leadership and public relations. And number six is town operations and infrastructure. Um there are a total uh
under those six large headings, there are a total of 38 separate items that receive um a numerical uh evaluation. Uh according to a point system which begins with one point for
improvement needed. Uh two points for satisfactory or acceptable. three points for strong performance and four points for excellent um or highly commendable. Um this year
the um the average of all of that was 3.72. Um which is an average of of all of those 38 um individual um ratings from each of the five board members. Um,
another way to think about that is that the 3.72 is um 93% of a perfect score. Um, so uh and and last year um her um rating
was 3.78. This year it's 3.72. Um, statistically those are virt virtually identical and they both cannote uh an extremely um strong literally a very close to a an
excellent highly commendable um u rating. Um I want to go through I I think the comments are worthy of mention. Uh what I've done is I've tried to pick out at least one comment u from
each of the five board members and in a couple of cases I um am going to read two under a particular heading. Um and um in one case um I've I've gone back and there there's one board member whose
comment will be read twice. Um the the first one that I'm going to read is under personal and professional. Um and it is as follows. Uh the town manager is top grade in all of these categories. With respect to
item D, I have checked both boxes to indicate my view that sometimes her emphasis on process comes into conflict with her creative and inventive impetus. She is always top grade however where effective is concerned. In more general
terms she is a capable, experienced commanding manager of everything that appears on the dashboard of her job responsibilities. Um the second category is um board support and board
relations. Um and I'm going to read one uh comment from another board member. um as follows. Appears to have difficulty working with select board that is phil philosophically divided. Noticeable decline in keeping
the members of the select board informed about events like swearing in ceremonies of new uh FTEEs, full-time uh employees, citizen police academy graduation and celebration events recognizing staff department achievements.
concerns about growing list of future agenda item requests dating back to 2018 that need to be scheduled for select board discussion. Um the third one is um uh financial
management and I'm going to read um the comments from two board members on under this category. Uh the first one is financial direction continues uh to show superlative accomplishment by
the town manager pan eg renewed AAA bond rating effective management of the budgetary process together with the participation of the finance director. The second comment from another board member is as follows. Jill's presentation along with her staff
excel at providing a detailed report of our financial picture and over the years reports have become more comprehensive and thought compelling. The next uh section is personnel management and organizational
leadership. Uh this is yet another board member's comment under that heading. Jill has had a very good year with the remaking of her team. The hiring of Greg Berman and Rob Philly immediately improved the professionalism and dedication of her team. They are both
resultsoriented and extremely wellreceived and respected in the community. The addition of Carrie Maserol is also a win as the shoes of Alex Haila were the big one were big ones to fill. Indeed, Shauna Neely is excelling in her new communications
role. Megan Downey delivered four union contracts agreements and Katie Donovan has led multiple initiatives in the planning department. I do think that the director leadership level of team Chadam is on a very good tra trajectory. I do
hear on the street that morale and communications are issues uh and need more attention um and and need more attention. and Jill's plan for bringing town hall on the road for residents and employees alike may serve to quell some
of this noise at least in the near term in the near term given the large s of recent contractual agreements I do think we have put the cries for increased and more competitive compensation to bed uh Jill's creation of team cadam her
continued engagement of staff through informal meetings and her proven status in navigating and negotiating contrast tracks exemplify strong management and leadership. Um the next one I am going
to I'm also going to read uh sorry I'm going to read from another board member under community leadership public relations. Jill is active and visible in our community. She has maintained an excellent working relationship with the chamber of commerce and the merchants
association. She is presented at the Chattam Men's Club SRACK and whenever and wherever she is asked to participate, she projects a positive image of our community. She prepares town meeting, educational videos, and
masterminds backstage videos. She represents herself well and communicates the SE select board's goals, related plans, and accomplishments very well. Uh the last section is town operations and
infrastructure. Uh and the last comment from a board member um is as follows. The digital budget book is innovative and helpful for the community to deep dive into the intricacies of our town's finances.
Uh and then um the conclusion um which I wrote um says uh Jill's performance as reflected in the written comments by the select board members above with very few and very modest suggestions for
improvement exemplified her excellent performance, her professionalism, and her collaboration with all the town stakeholders. The comments and the scores reflect the overall consistent and exceptional discharge of Miss Goldsmith's responsibilities as Chadam's
town manager. So with that, I will open it to the board to make any other comments or whatever you want to say. Corey, go ahead. I'll just make a very simple comment. I mean that we've done this process for for for I've done it for
quite a few years. Um, you know, I've been um around I have my own perspective on things. I think we've all had an opportunity to sit down on a one-on-one basis with the town manager and and able to um discuss and communicate our our
items that we're very supportive of and items that we may have issues with. So, at least we have that communication element, which is been very important. Um, you know, I think every year we try to build on that. Um there's no secret there's certain issues I have some concerns over and you know each year
we'll build on that. So um hopefully we can um take the evaluation move forward. Um and I've also you know and I don't know how the other members feel about this. I'm not a big fan of this
particular evaluation process. I think maybe there's a better system out there. I think we've been doing this system for quite some time and I just suggest that maybe and I've I've spoken to the town manager about this before that there may be a better uh rating or evaluation
system out there that um might be considered moving forward. So, I just want to put that out there um because I think some of this is uh the way it's interpreted um there's some gray areas that I I I have always felt uncomfortable with. So, I think there
could be a better process out there. Okay. Thank you. Um Dean, go ahead. I would just say with respect to the process, I I I I know Corey and I have tarted about this over the years and maybe I mentioned it to Jill. U we
should probably look to see whether these grade rankings might benefit if they had intermediate um levels. So you don't just go from, you know, you're okay to your to your excellent or that's almost the way it
reads right now, right? That's something I certainly would be willing to look at. I would just say that in terms of the overall um uh estimate, I'm thrilled that in 10 years on this board that I've
been, we haven't had to deal with getting a new town manager. If you look around other towns in the Cape, including today next door in the town of Haritch, um you know, it's great to have stability. uh and competent very
competent stability. So I'm I'm very pleased with that and that's my my overall comment with it. Thank you Jeeoff. Yeah. No, I echo uh Dean's comments. Um uh there is something to be said for extremely competent stability and you know a steady hand on the
tiller. Um the I I you know I emphasize the I the advances we made in IT as well in my comments. I'm struck where Chadam is with respect to its leveraging of IT versus other municipalities. We in every sing almost every single department
here. We are ahead of the game um in in leveraging it. Sometimes it's not perfect, but we we really get at it. Um and then the the the folks behind the the window here, the video folks, uh Craig, the the the job the IT department
does in Chadam, I think is phenomenal. So, uh and that's at at Jill's insistence as well. um Jill's leadership. So, it kind of goes on unheralded and I wanted to bring some some light to it really do really does a great job. Really do a great job. Thanks.
I I I agree with everyone. I I think when it comes to um the hiring of of staff in the last several years with such challenge for this, you know, the Cape community at large to to find qualified people, maintain them and, you
know, in in a place where it's very hard to live is has been a testament to your leadership and a better understanding of what what what we do need here to maintain a good staff. And I just I think it's been a a really um
interesting experience to watch and grow, you know, watch this whole whole process grow. Um so really appreciative of that and your leadership. Um I I I I've already more or less indicated my comments, but um I I this
is a tough job. I I this is a very hard job and and I the degree of difficulty is way up there and and um I I think you know it's impossible to satisfy everybody. It's impossible to do everything every day exactly the way it
ought to be done. Um it it's difficult to work with uh where you have um you know five people that you have to in some way or another um keep happy, respond to um you know execute on
initiatives on behalf of uh these are all things that I think really make that a very special a job with a very special challenge and I think you do a great job of it. Um and um thank you.
Thank you. It's it's always really awkward to sit here um because there's so much that goes into an evaluation. It's not just the ratings and the comments and and one of the comments that um I I thought was really uh
compelling to me related to the role of the town manager where a lot of people don't know what a town manager does but you see the outcome in in for instance with me with the new finance director the new director of natural resources
and one of the comments I don't have it here it's you a member didn't realize realize how much work or how much credit I'm due as the town manager for those that I coach and counsel and really help get them to a point where we can carry
out the board's directives. And so I really appreciate that comment because it's so many town managers like myself are behind the scenes and we're not here for the credit. We're here to get the work done. So I really appreciated that. And so um back to my formal comments.
I'm really grateful for your thoughtful and constructive feedback as part of my annual annual evaluation and um as the chair said the strong ratings nearly 93% of the highest category are a reflection of not only my work but of your policy
direction and the great work of our incredible team that I have the privilege of leading. Much of what we do may not make headlines, but it makes our community functional, strong, and resilient. So, I want to thank you to
the board, to our staff, and to the community for your continued support, and it's an honor to serve as your town manager. Thank you very much. Um, it's a good uh note on which to invite. Motion to adjurnn. Second. All
those in favor, Mr. Meadows. Hi Mr. Dyken and Miss Davis. Hi. Mr. Shell says I and Mr. Niccastro. Hi. Thank you. We are adjourned at uh
7:40. Uh good night Cadam. [Music] [Music]