Heat. Heat. >> [music] [music] >> Good evening everyone and welcome to the Cadam Select Board meeting of June 2nd, 2026. The record show the meeting started at 5:34 uh pursuant to Governor Healey's March
28th, 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 section 20 until June 30th 2027. This meeting of the Chattam Select
Board is being conducted in person and via remote participation. Every effort will be made to ensure that the public can access the proceedings as provided for in that order. A reminder that persons would like to listen to this meeting while in progress may do so by calling the phone number 158-9454410
conference ID 203386491 pound or join the meeting online via Microsoft Teams through the link in the posted agenda. While this is a live broadcast and simalcast on Chattam TV Xfinity channel 1072, despite our best
efforts, we may not be able to provide real-time access. We will post a record of this meeting on the town's website as soon as is possible. First order of business this evening is to establish a quorum. I will do so with a roll call. Mr. Smith, >> present.
>> And Miss Pot, >> present. >> Mr. Meadows, >> present. >> And Mr. Dykins is present as as well. First order of business this evening is to adopt the minutes uh of May 19th, 2026. I'll entertain a motion. >> Motion to approve. >> Thank you. >> Second. >> Okay. Thank you. Any edits, comments,
suggestions to the minutes of May 19th? I have none. Okay. We'll call the role again then for approval. Mr. Smith, >> I. >> Miss Potach. >> Hi. >> Mr. Meadows. >> Hi. >> And the chair says I as well. Next item on our agenda this evening are public announcements and agenda item requests.
I do believe we have uh any anything from the board here, Mr. Meitters, please. >> I have one public announcement and then one agenda request. So, it's about time. I'm just going to give a little rundown of our uh town of Chattam Board Committee Commission vacancies. This is
as of uh May 29th of 2026. So, uh we are in the middle of doing interviews, but this is just giving a sampling of openings that if anyone is interested, um we'd love to interview you and put you in place. Uh board of health has one opening and one regular opening and two
alternates. Cable advisory committee has three regular seats. Committee for people with disabilities has two associate. Uh conservation commission has one regular and three alternates. Um historic business district commission has one associate. Uh historical
commission two associates. Economic development advisory committee has one regular seat. Human Services has one open opening for one opening seat. Local State Building Code of Appeals, five openings. Open Space Committee, two alternates. Uh Public Ceremonies
Committee, one regular seat. South Coastal Harbor Plan Committee, one regular seat. Summer Residence Advisory Committee, two regular seats. Traffic Safety Committee, one associate. Uh zoning board of appeals has one. And then there are some open seats that are
be coming up uh on the airport commission, council on aging board of directors, cultural council, energy and climate associate committee, the golf advisory committee and the railroad museum committee. So we do have some openings coming up and openings currently available. So if you are
interested in serving uh please fill out a talent form and we would be happy to schedule an interview. Um, and then my agenda request, kind of a follow up on something we've already discussed. Um, I know a while back the traffic safety committee had
asked us to, um, we had approved a one-way sign at the community building and during some conversations I've had recently with the Sefell project and everything, uh, maybe trying to kind of bulk that up a little bit. that that one sign that says, you know, go to the
right one way um unfortunately seems to be ignored um more than we would like it to and with the extra activities going on maybe to see if there's anything we should just bulk up a little bit to, you know, cover that um goal of of of
traffic flow. >> Good. >> Good. Thank you, Corey. >> Sorry, Corey. But do you want more enforcement of it or I'm just trying >> I don't know if it this is goes back to the traffic safety if we should just review it. I mean it's it's um is it an enforcement? Would it be just an extra
little striping? Would it be a you know sign signage with a little more beef to it? But something just to >> enhance >> enhance what is already the our goal or what we've already approved. >> Okay, Corey. Thank you. Anything else
from the board? I see none. Any anybody in present this evening that has an agenda item request or public announcements? I do see Mr. Msina online and Mr. Msina, I will recognize you, sir. Welcome. >> Yeah, thank you very much. Hi. Uh uh I
just want to make an announcement and an event uh and one comment. Uh the uh after the town's tentennial, I guess 2012, a group was formed called historic Cadam. Uh it's a group of nine of the
historical venues and societies uh in town. the Atwood, the uh the lighthouse, the railroad museum, the library public library, RCA Maronei, the Monoy House, the National Wildlife Refuge Lighthouse
at the Tip of Monoy, uh the Nichson Family Association, and last but not least, my uh the lighthouse, the uh the windmill, Godfrey Grismill. Uh every year the uh historic Chattam Group, you know, tries to have some kind of an
effort uh to bring and the uh to to the community and to people in Chattam and to visitors, you know, what Chattam is, how historic Chattam is. And there's something we do which was uh the historic Cadam Group which does something called history month. And June
is is what we call June history month. And all the organizations, thank you very much for showing that. Th this month as in every the last four or five years all of the organizations in the collaborative effort have individual events. The library has multiple uh
speaker series. The the Atwood has special programs. The balcony the uh so all of the organizations we would like to bring the public's attention. If you go to our website uh historic-atham.org you get a lot of detail of what these
events are and uh we're quite excited about it. Uh and so I just wanted to bring that to uh the public's announcement. In addition, this year on June 20th, the uh the uh historic Chattam Group has arranged for a trolley
which will make a circuit from five or six of the venues which are open on that day, June 20th. It'll be a hop on, hop off. Kind of a neat thing. Uh we're going to be using the Eldridge Garage folks who are going to make a trolley available to us. It'll be free to the
public and it's a way to find out where the particular events are in Chattam and and how to get to [clears throat] them. Well, some of them are in distant like the Nickerson Family Association and Malcone close to town like the lighthouse, excuse the lighthouse and the Godfrey as well as the Mayo House.
Uh so that that's one event. I wanted to to just a second issue if you will. uh we're talking about people of needed and available. The Chattam uh windmill group is a group that we have as part of historic Chattam which provides uh
dosens and so-called millers to uh provide uh tours to free of charge to the to the Godfrey uh windmill Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays from 11 to 3. We're actually at this particular time short of two millers as we call them or
dosent. Uh parks and wreck actually hires like they hire lifeguards. So there's two openings for millers. We provide the training and if anybody in the public is interested in joining the uh the uh the Godfrey windmill as a dose
Miller if they would just let Parks and Wreck know we'll love to have you. Thank you very much for the time. I do appreciate it. >> Well Frank, thank you. I'm I'm very interested to hear how the the shuttle on the 20th goes. That's that's a great great addition to the program and I wish you guys well. You run a great program
and really thank thank you for your support for the town. >> Thank you. Any other announcements or agenda item requests from anybody online and or here? I see none. Okay, we'll move on. Um we have no public hearing uh this evening. That would be our next uh
agenda item. We do have a very short consent agenda item. We have two items. uh the approval of town property for the sale of goods on Harding's Beach parking lot for the 26th annual Yearrounders Family Beach Party on June 18th uh sponsored by Monoy Community Services.
We This is something we have typically approved every year for 26 years. So that's why it's on the consent agenda. I do know that saw Teresa online. If she wanted to say anything, that's fine, too. And then we also have uh the consideration of permission for an outdoor display and sale of goods by Jay
Mclofflin downtown which is uh an outdoor display of goods that we have approved before. So Teresa, if you have anything anything you want to say, I'll I'll recognize you. If not, then we'll just we'll just move the consent agenda. I know you're on later on in the agenda as well.
>> I I'm good unless you have questions. >> Okay. Any questions for Teresa on the You're around party. So I'll take a motion. Mo move the consent agent agenda. >> Thank you, Mr. Meadows. In a second. Thank you so much. We'll we'll run the we'll run the approval here. The uh Mr.
Smith >> I. >> Miss Bodash. >> Hi. >> M Mr. Meters. >> Hi. >> And the chair says I as well. So the consent agenda is approved this evening. That's uh for uh the year roundest uh uh party and the out permission for outdoor
display of Jay Mlofflin. The next item on our agenda, we have public comment for on our business agenda this evening. you typically um we get we let everybody speak on on every agenda item, but if anybody wanted to accelerate their speech and and had have another
appointment somewhere, this is a moment to uh speak to future agenda items which include sale of wine at uh the chair of farmers market um a request to use town property uh Chase Park uh for their their special uh one-day event uh for um
Mono Community Services and traffic safety. committee uh recommendation on some signage on Barnhill Road uh andor any comments on our letter to the state auditor. So seeing and hearing none, we'll move right on to the business agenda. Again, the first item is a
special license for the sale of wine produced by Farmer Winery for off- premises consumption at our outdoor agricultural event, which is the Chattam Farmers Market at 60 Meeting House Road by Mine Mike My Cousins Wine LLC doing
business as my cousins Wine Anthony Demoro. And Anthony, are you present here this evening? Would you want to please come up to the microphone up here, introduce yourself, and Yep. and tell us what you're up to for with this uh request for a special license. We have all the paperwork as well, but if >> Yeah. So, I don't want to take up too
much of your time. I don't have anything of length, but we are a uh small winery out of Haritch. Our family's done this for 120 years since my great-grandfather came from Sicily to Springfield. Grandfather did it. I'm now the fourth generation to do it. We're training the fifth as well. Um the TTB and the ABCC
do not allow people to visit us. So, where people get to see us, uh, see all the cousins. I'm one of a small group of 15 cousins that started this now. Second cousins, third cousins, they're all coming out of the woodworks now. They every part of the family has always done it for years. So, everybody's loving that we're doing this and everybody's
trying to get involved. Uh, if they want to come see us though, the place would be Cadam Farmers Market and, uh, Harage Farmers Market will be the two locations where we're seeking to be at where people can come meet us and try our wine. >> Where do you get your grapes? Currently, the four that we're offering are from
California, but I'm taking a trip soon to Long Island. >> Uh, so what we do every year is going to be different. We're always going to do small batch different stuff. Nothing's going to be the same from year to year. >> Okay. Interesting. Well, thank you for for coming here this evening. Any questions for uh Anthony? Any
any issues, questions? Okay, I'll take a motion. Um, I move to grant a special license to Anthony Demiro on behalf of My Cousins Wine LLC, DBA, My Cousins Wine, for the sale of wine produced by farmer winery for offremise consumption at the Chattam Farmers Market held
Tuesday from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. from June 16, 2026 through October 13, 2026 at 60 Meeting House Road in Chattam, Massachusetts. >> We'll second that. Okay. Thank you. We'll call the role. Mr. Smith. >> Hi, >> Miss Potag. >> Hi, >> Mr. Meadows.
>> Hi, >> and the chair says I as well. Thank you and have fun. Good luck. >> Thank you very much. >> You bet. >> Okay. The next item is to consider request for the use of town property, a special one-day alcohol license, and a special one-day entertainment license
for the Taste of Chadam on July 27th, 2026 at Chase Park in Chadam, requested by Monoy Community Services via Terresa Malone. And I know Teresa is online. So, uh, anything different this year, Teresa, for the for your
>> No, pretty much same thing. Same size, same place. We're down in Chase Park again. We've sent um or either sent or are about to send the Abutters notices. Um, it's pretty much the same thing. About the same number of vendors. We're
expecting about 20 uh or participants. I shouldn't say vendors. Um, yeah, it's uh it we're I'm still in love with this location. It's just so it's secluded enough. It's beautiful. And since we've cut the event in half in size, it's just
really it's really turned into kind of a special night. It's was always nice, but it's really nice to um to be keep it kind of manageable and just taking advantage of such a beautiful location. So, >> it really is a wonderful night. I and I think you made a smart move by going to
by scaling it down to 200 from 400. It was this is a manageable event. It's very intimate. It's very nice. Very nice event. >> Super. Hope you make a hope you raise a ton of money. >> Um well, any questions for any questions for Teresa? >> Yeah. Okay. We'll entertain a motion,
please. >> All right. Well, I'll move to grant Monoy Community Services permission to use town property at Chase Park from July 25th, 2026 through July 28th, 2026. Grant Libby Nickerson of Monoy Community
Services. a special one-day alcohol license for all alcoholic beverages on July 27th, 2026 from 6 PM to 8:30 p.m. and a special 1-day entertainment license for amplified live music on July
27th, 2026 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Chase Park in Chapen. >> Thank you, Stuart. And a second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Miss Potach. Okay, we'll call the role. Mr. Smith, >> I. >> Mr. Po, Miss Potach. Mr. Meadows and the chair says I as well. Have fun, Teresa.
Good luck. Raise a lot of money. >> Thanks so much. You're the best. >> You bet. >> Next item in the agenda is uh recommendation from the traffic safety committee to place two pedestrian signs on Barnhill Road. Um agenda item is requested by our traffic safety
committee and Joanie Craig's the chair and I know that our deputy police chief Lumlzone is present to speak to it as well. So Joanie, take it away. >> Yes. you have I don't you have it you don't have it in front of you but we do have it on the screen what we're talking about um it's a recommendation by our
committee um the committee reviewed a request from a resident of Meadow View Road and along with the request we received a a lengthy uh pages of reports from the neighborhood uh signage wanting
initially to have a uh uh what was it that they wanted to cross the a crosswalk. So, sorry, which we did not recommend because there's no sidewalk on one side of that area. So, we reviewed the requests from the residents and we
discussed about an installation of the crossing um at the area of Meadow View Road on Barnhill Road. The traffic safety committee discussed the request, agreed that the signage would um caution motorists to pedestrians in the area.
Barnhill Road is a very heavily traveled road for both motorists and pedestrians, particularly in the summer months with Barnhill Landing and Hardings Beach being popular uh destinations. Uh DPW Director Rob Faley made the recommendation in the on the appropriate
signage. The proposed sign would be permanently installed. Two signs are proposed. The first being installed on Barnhill Road northbound approximately 175 ft prior to Meadow View Road Young Road intersection. The second being
installed Barnhill Road southbound approximately 160 ft prior to the Meadow View Road Young Road intersection. And you can see this here. Um, the manual mentions suggested signage and
Rob is proposing the signage as you see it there. Any questions? Uh, Deputy Chief Melzone is here also. And I'd like to thank both of them and my committee for their due diligence on this.
>> Any questions for either Joanie or >> No, it makes sense. Um, I don't have any issues with it. >> Mr. Smith, >> uh, it's fine with me. Was the committee um unanimous on the decision? >> We were unanimous in consensus. Yes. We
didn't take a vote at that moment because Rob was unable to attend the meeting. So, we uh had consensus. We spoke with him at the next meeting. He had looked into it and he felt that this was appropriate as did we. >> Great. >> Thank you.
>> And it was unanimous. Yes, >> Miss Potas. >> Yeah. Thank you. So, um, don't never underestimate the town manager's assistant. We do have, um, >> thank you, Kathy. >> And, um, this is where there's temporary signage, right?
>> There is, um, a temporary radar sign, right, in that place now. Yes. >> I just want to make sure. So, um, >> and this stem from interest for people that live right on that street, which is great. >> They live Yeah. in Meadow View, I'm
sorry, goes way back with a lot of other houses and we had hundreds sign this petition. Um, the gentleman who spoke with us also did quite a lot of research on it. He understood why we could not do
the crosswalk but was amidable to our at least notifying individuals especially those driving that there are pedestrians coming and going. >> Yep. Okay. Thank you. great committee and uh you thank you for your good work. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, they're very proactive that there
there's a sidewalk on the west side of Barnhill Road, but not on the east side. It's a wonderful sidewalk stemming all the way from West Chadam all the way to Harding Beach. It's really really good. >> Correct. So, and that that was one of, you know, the issues when originally a crosswalk was brought up is um possibly
requesting a crosswalk. And, you know, the education I received on crosswalks is you don't necessarily put it where there's a problem crossing. you try to get the pedestrians away from that problem area and then you put the crosswalk, but there only being one sidewalk on the side of the street, that would mean installation of sidewalks and
um it just didn't seem the the right request at the time. Um there is heavy volume in that area. Last August, we had the digital radar sign out there to do a little bit of a traffic study. It was out there for 12 days and I think the
actual number of vehicles was 27,000. um 28,720 vehicles in that um 12-day period. >> What What was the 12 days in August or August? Yeah. Yeah. >> August. >> Extremely busy. It's extremely busy.
Harding Beach and the town landing down there. That that's a very popular landing for commercial vehicles and boat trailers and there's a lot of action. There's a lot of action. So anyway, I think this is a great idea. Um I'm certainly fully in favor of it and uh I think we ought to do it. So I'll
entertain a motion. Um, Mr. Chair, I move to approve the recommendation of the traffic safety committee to place two pedestrian signs on Barn Hill Road northbound approximately 175 ft prior to
um, >> Meadow View >> Meadow View Road and Young's Road intersection and southbound approximately 160 ft prior to the Meadow View Youngs Road intersection. >> I'll second that. Okay, thank you. Uh, we'll take the role. Mr. Smith,
>> I miss Potaz. >> Hi, >> Mr. Meadows. Hi. >> And the chair says I as well. Thank you very much. You guys do you guys do a great job as Randy noted. >> Uh, the last item on our agenda this evening is the consideration of a letter of support for state audit of the
Massachusetts legislature. And thank you, uh, Stuart for bringing this forward as a as an agenda item request. on April 28th, I had the pleasure of of meeting Diana Daglio a couple times and she's quite the quite the spark plug, quite the live wire. Um, and she's
really pushing the envelope up there. So, I'll turn it to you for any comment or and in consideration of the letter as well. Uh, Stuart, >> sure. Thank you. Thank you, Jeff. Um, as I kind of highlighted in in uh when I made the request, um, I think Harwitch
and Yarmouth are the most recent communities that I'm aware of that sent a similar letter. Um, and I thought that uh I thought this was an important issue for the community to um, show our support for. Um the community voted on
this issue um with uh 62% uh voting in favor of um having the state auditor audit the uh the legislature. As you know the legislature has resisted this for two years. There has been some movement on
this uh recently, but um there uh I think the auditors from from what I heard her speaking on the news was um measured in her response, shall we say? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> So, she she's a she's a she's a hot ticket. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Uh so,
that's what I was >> Yeah. I think it's very appropriate. I mean, our town voted for it 62%. The state voted for it 72%. >> Yeah. It was interesting numbers. >> Yeah. I mean that's pretty it's a plurality 72% is a huge vote >> well percentage but it was over 3,000
voters for shadam so I mean it's not just 40 50 people showed up I mean it was a big >> significant number >> y yeah so anyway any comments on the letter any edits or concerns about the letter with the letter >> okay I have none so >> all right
>> Dean's not here but uh that's okay >> he's asking from >> a motion please >> I uh I'll make the motion uh I move to approve sending a letter to the speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Senate President in support of an audit of the Massachusetts legislature to be
conducted by the office of the state auditor as voted via question one on November 4th, 2024 ballot. >> Second. >> Okay, thank you. We'll take the role. Mr. Smith >> I, >> Miss Pot. Hi. >> Mr. Meadows. >> Hi. >> And Mr. Dikens says I as well. Um, thank
you. Thank you, Stuart. Uh, okay. That is our agenda for this evening. So I will entertain a final motion. >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> Okay, we'll we'll run the role. Mr. Smith >> I. >> M potach. >> Hi. >> Mr. Meadows. >> I. >> Mr. Duncan says I as well. Let the
record show we adjourned at 520 559. Thank you. Good night Chadam. [music] >> [music]