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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the November 4th, 2025 meeting of the Town of Cadam Select Board. Please note, this meeting is being recorded and will be available shortly hereafter for scheduled and on demand viewing on any smartphone or tablet device. If anyone else is
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soon as possible. First item of business is to establish a quorum. Miss Davis >> present. >> Mr. Matters >> present. >> Mr. Smith >> present. >> The chair is present. We have a quorum. Um first um the next item of business is to approve two sets of minutes. The
first is the meeting of October 21, 2025. Is there a motion to approve? >> Motion to approve. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Are there any corrections? Hearing none, I'll call the role. Miss Davis >> I. >> Mr. Meadows. >> I. >> Mr. Smith.
>> I. >> And the chair votes side. They are approved. The next the minutes of October 28th, 2025. Motion to approve. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Moved and seconded. Are there any corrections? I have just a couple. On page three,
first full paragraph, the third line from the bottom, the word recommended. I would strike that and insert the word suggested. And then in the middle of the line after the phrase traffic safety committee, I
would insert the word could. And then on page seven, uh, up at the top at the end of that first sentence after the word after the phrase merchants association, I would put a comma and insert with several town
representatives. Any other corrections? Okay, I'll call the role. Miss Davis, >> I. >> Mr. Meadows. >> Hi. >> Mr. Smith, >> I. >> And the chair side. They are approved. >> Public announcements and agenda item
requests. Do we have any from the board? >> Yes. Yes, Stuart. >> Uh, I had one. I was wondering whether we could uh have a an agenda item for um comms uh communications between the uh town manager and the board. um
>> Mhm. >> notifications and things like that. >> Okay. >> Thank you, >> Corey. >> Actually, yeah. No, yeah, I just want to make sure because um I didn't make it a formally last meeting, but it brought got brought up in a discussion when the first night committee got brought up
just the uh the restroom situation of um by Volunteers Park, what it might take to make that more usable into the law agencies, the water connections, all that fun stuff. So, I don't I didn't see it listed on a future agenda item. Um, but >> let's put it on the list. >> Yeah, that's that's it. Thank you.
>> If it isn't already there, >> it is on there. >> It's under public works opening veterans park restrooms for first night chat. >> Okay, great. Um, I just wanted to announce unless someone else we that next uh Tuesday is Veterans Day and the
town of Chadam will have its annual observance in honor of our veterans at the community center at 11:00 in the morning. We encourage everyone to attend. That will be sponsored by the um public
public ceremonies committee. Okay. Okay. Any public announcements or agenda item requests from the public? Looks like Elaine Gibbs, do you have something? Elaine? >> Yes, I do. Thank you. I have an agenda item request. On August 19th, we had an
emergency preparedness meeting after I had asked for it and wanted to know what the plan would be if we lose all power, heat, light, and cell phone service and no shelters are open. uh to declare a local state of emergency that the select
board can do and unlock the community center. It was continued by the select board. It's now November 4th. There is no meeting next week. So I decided to check what had happened in the interm. If you go to the main page of the town
website under popular links, there are eight and one of them is public safety. I clicked on it. It's blank. Then I went to emergency management and under community emergency response team link.
I clicked on that and all it said was a new website is in the works. So it could have been on tonight's agenda because you don't have a meeting next week and November 18th is very full with a lot of important issues. And I'm a little disturbed that we're not
getting our priorities straight here. I had asked for this in April when we had we lost all power. It's now November 4th. Uh it seems to me that if we have to wait until Thanksgiving when nobody's around, no communication, nobody's going
to know what to do and storms can come in that you could take a vote tonight as the select board to say in the event of that situation, the select board will open as a local emergency, open up the community center. Just unlock the door.
Uh I I've been asking for this for five years and I don't get it. We've spent a fortune on putting in um generators there. It's a public building. It's open and you can do it and avoid all the complications of having a shelter. And I
don't understand why you won't do it. But now again, we're going into winter and we have no plan and everything's blank on our website. So that's my request. >> Okay. Thank you. Duly noted I you the
August 19th meeting which um was on the agenda at um both yours and um board member Smith's request uh called for additional continued discussion of on personal care sites and emergency emergency shelters. Uh we will we will
move that onto uh one of our agendas in the near future. We can't take a vote tonight because it's not on the agenda. But I >> Well, you can do it on an emergency basis. I'm just saying because on November 18th, you've got a full schedule >> and there are priorities.
>> There are complications as you heard. We heard them from the fire chief about the pros and cons of opening a shelter. So, I it's not something that, you know, I'm prepared to have the board consider on an emergency basis tonight. Um, but I >> Well, then they should get their
websites up and running then. So, we have some way to communicate because it's worse than it's ever been. >> Well, the town manager >> in terms of no information. >> Town manager is here and she heard heard your comments about that. And so, uh, we'll leave that for for the staff to to address, but thank thank you for
bringing them forward and we will we'll we will try to move this ahead uh in in at Mr. Smith's request. It's on the list. Uh, thank you. Any other public comments? and I'm sorry, agenda item requests or public announcements. Okay,
we'll now go on to um public comments on the business agenda. Um and um if there are any, we'll take them now or we can take them contemporaneously. Okay, I see none. We'll go right on to the business agenda. The first is an
application for a special one-day alcohol license and possession and consumption of alcohol and town property for Cadam Walker's annual holiday party December 2nd from 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at 702 Main Street, Cadam. That's the
community center. Yes, welcome. >> Thank you. Good evening. Mary Ellen Laurifice representing the Cadam Walkers. Uh it's our annual holiday potluck party. It's a good time. It's all adults. Um
people bring their own wine or beer. There are no people underage there at all. And um we usually go a little bit early to set up and the party runs the party itself runs from 5 to 8 and we're usually cleaned up and out by 8:15, but
I wrote 8:30 on the um just in case, you know. >> Thank you. Well, you've been here multiple times. Um, any questions from the board or the public? If not, is there a motion? >> I'll make a motion to approve the one
day alcohol license. >> There's there's language in there. >> Yeah. >> I'll second it. >> Mr. Chair, if if you could just clarify. So, there's two different time start times on the application. And you said
you wanted to come in at 4:00 to set up. >> Um, if that's not convenient, if there's somebody who has the room before us, we could come at 4:30. >> It's more for the alcohol consumption because they have to vote for the consumption of alcohol on town property.
>> And so we just needed to clarify, was that a four o'clock start time or a 4:30 start time for that? Um the setup is when we go in and decorate, put out all the table settings. Uh no one actually comes in except that little committee to
actually eat food or get going till 5:00. >> So 5:00's the time where you'll be serving alcohol is or would you do it at 4:30? That's just >> Oh, five o'clock. I'm sorry. People will come in with their own. They just bring it from home.
>> So do we want to adjust them? of the draft motion says 4:30 to 8:30. You want to change that to 5:00 to 8:30. Steuart, that's in the motion. >> Okay. Um I move to grant permission for possession and consumption of
alcohol on town property and a special one-day alcohol license for wine and malt beverages only to Mary >> Mary Ellen. Mary Ellen >> Laurifice >> Laurifice of the Cadam Walkers for the
annual holiday potluck on December 2nd 20125 from 5:00 to 8:30 at 702 Main Street Chadam >> and Shireen >> I'll amend my second. Yeah, >> she has seconded it. Okay, we'll call
the role. Miss Miss Davis. Hi. >> Mr. Meadows. Hi, >> Mr. Smith. Hi. Mai. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next, we have um uh a consideration of uh special one-day licenses. The first is for Sundance
Clothing on December 12th, 2025 from 5:00 to 10:00 p.m. at 497 Main Street, Chadam. Do we have a representative um from Sundance present? The application is from April
Cabra. Mr. Chair, I'm not seeing her online. >> We did reach out to her. >> I did. >> Is this subject to our This is a liquor license, right? So, >> it is a special one day alcohol license. Yes. >> Yeah. We have a rule that um they're
supposed to show up in person. Okay. Well, we'll have to defer on this unless the board wants to wave that rule. I'm reluctant to do that myself. >> Yes, Corey. >> No, I think I think we should hold on it. Um I think because of
hit pass, we want to make sure clear we're clear on all the applicants. But is do you think there's anything that this board needs to do to completely reinforce the requirements, the timetables, because I seem to we've we've waved the the 30-day a couple
times. you know, we've had, you know, not just one incidences of representatives not being present. Um, you know, there's, you know, we can go through a flexibility of, you know, working with applicants, but I think we need to be as clear as possible to be fair to everybody. So, um, if there's
anything we can do in top of reinforcing what the protocol is, I think it would be I think everyone would appreciate it. Well, I shar >> Yeah. I know that the chamber put out an email today about um did some outreach today about the alcohol licenses and stuff >> did which the deadline passed.
>> It did? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Well, I think I saw that too. I was going to bring that up first. >> Oh, it was. >> But I I think um we should probably reach out to the chamber and and and remind them of these two rules on
timeliness and and personal appearance. And um but on this one, I guess we'll defer until um we have the applicant present. The next is Chattam Paint and Hardware, December 12th, 2025, uh from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at 6:24
Main Street, Chattam. And Mr. Fox is here. Welcome, >> Paul Fox, Chadam Payton Hardware. Um this will be our fourth year of uh serving the wine and beer, and it's always a great time. So looking forward
to it. I think my customers are and just people in general. I think it's a great time. Um I will have at least nine people staffing the store. Um we'll be serving wine and beer and some cheese and crackers. Um the uh the doors,
there's two doors for people to enter and exit on. They'll be staffed. Uh nothing no drinks coming in, no drinks going out. Uh my uh one of my managers who's going to be handling the pouring is a uh also Moonlights as a bartender.
Um and uh we pretty much pour two is the limit and they're about 4 ounce uh drinks. Um that's about it. Thank you very much. Any questions,
>> Mr. Comments? Any from the public? >> Okay, none. Shireen. Um, I move to grant a special 1-day alcohol license for wine and malt beverages only to Paul Fox of Chattam Paint and Hardware for December 12th, 2025 from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at 624 Main Street, Chattam.
>> Second moved and seconded. I'll call the role. Miss Davis >> I. >> Mr. Meadows, >> I. >> Mr. Smith, >> I. >> Chair votes I. >> It's approved. Thank you very much. Good luck. All right. Thank you. >> Uh, next item on the agenda is to consider consider seasonal shellfish
openings. And I'll call on our shelters constable Renee Gagny. We have several. This is very customary and we ask the clerk to read them once uh we vote them Stuart. So >> yes Rene, Mr. Chair, and good evening to
the board. I'm here to seek your support to open our seasonal shellfish areas on December 1st. And you'll notice that three of those official notices have pending DMF approval. We haven't received the water quality samples yet. I don't think we're going to have any
issues, but that's why that um that caveat is on those notices. >> Okay. Thank you. Um we'll take the vote first and I think Stuart reads reads the actual Yeah, >> I'll make the motion then.
>> Okay. Um, I move um that we approve the opening of Mil Creek, Taylor Pond, Champlain Creek, and O and Oyster Pond, Mic Creek, and Bucks Creek. Wait, I got to do that again. I move uh um to approve make a
motion to approve the Mill Creek, Taylor Pond, and Champlne Creek opening and Oyster Pond, Muddy Creek, and Bucks Creek opening pending mass DMF notification to the harvesting of shellfish effective December 1st, 2025. And um we'll sign the official notices,
I guess. >> Yeah, I think those are signed electronically. >> Yep. >> Okay. Is there a second? >> A second. Okay. Uh, we'll call the role on this. Um, um, Miss Davis, >> I, >> Mr. Meadows, >> hi.
>> Mr. Smith, >> I >> and the chair votes side. Steuart, did you want to just read the the substance of each of these? >> Sure, please. >> Shelfish rules and regulations, November
4th, 2025. Effective December 1st, 2025. the water and flats of Mil Creek, north of a line drawn from the western breakwater to the eastern breakwater at the mouth of Mil Creek and south of a line drawn across the mouth of Taylor's
Pond are open to the taking of shellfish by permit holders until further notice. [Applause] Continued shellfish rules and regulations November 4th, 2025. Effective date, December 1st, 2025. The
waters and flats of Taylor's Pond, north of a line drawn across the mouth of the pond, are open to the taking of shellfish by permit holders until further notice. Shellfish rules and regulations continued November 4th, 2025. Effective
date December 1st, 2025. the water flats and all tributaries of Champlain Creek northwest of a line drawn from the outermost piling at the town boat ramp northeasterly to the no
shellfishing sign in the marsh on the opposite shore are open to the taking of shellfish by permit holders until further notice. Shelfish rules and regulations. November 4th, 2025. Effective December 1st, 2025. The oyster
pond east of a line from Kelly Landing to Longpoint is open to the taking of shellfish by permit holders until further notice. Shellfish rules and regulations November 4th, 2025. Effective December 1st, 2025.
The waters and flats of Muddy Creek southwest of a line drawn across the mouth of the creek as defined at low tide and northeast of the Route 28 bridge are open to the taking of shellfish by
permit holders until further notice. Lastly, shellfish rules and regulations. November 4th, 2025. Effective December 1st, 2025. The waters and flats of Bucks Creek, north of a line across the mouth
of the creek, and east of a line across the mouth of Cole Cove Creek are open to the taking of shellfish by permit holders until further notice. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you, Renee. >> Thank you. Uh, next item is the 2025 annual review
of the intermunicipal agnostic beach agreement. This is with the town of Orleans and our director of natural resources, Greg Burman, will present. Thank you. So, this is our annual review of the agreement. Uh, it may seem that
we talked about this less than a year ago. That's because that was the three-year update to the actual agreement. Uh so every year in October uh we bring forward the opportunity to review how you know things worked over
the last year and then every three years we look to redo the entire agreement. Um so uh uh Nate Sears the DNR director in Orleans and I met recently and
looked at how things worked over the season. We both agreed things seem to go pretty well as far as finances and fees. Um, our recommendation is status quo for now. So, um, you do have the option to
meet individually or jointly. And my theory is if things aren't broken, singly works fine. But that's up for the select board. there's no necessarily a vote or anything needed unless you feel that something does need to be changed
at this time. >> So, thank you. Uh Craig, I just um looked at the um uh amount of money we brought in last year on October 21st. Town of Orleans sent a check to Chadam the amount of $145,000
approximately. How does that compare with um this is our share of the fees. How does that compare with previous years? Do you happen to recall? >> Yep. So, it's slightly more than last year. So, that the percentages are still the same that we get 25%.
Um, but last year was 133,410. So, >> so we we have a couple more years under under the under this agreement before it has to be >> Yeah, we we just renewed it in I believe April 1st of 2025.
>> So, it it wouldn't be until 3 years after that that we need June 30, 2028. >> Okay. And we've we've gone back and forth with the with the Orleans board over the years on various aspects of this and we finally got to the point where we came to some consensus about
the respective shares. So, it seems to be reasonable to me. Um uh I don't know if we want to take a vote to basically endorse or or just express our consensus with the staff's recommendation that status quo
continues. Stuart. >> Sure. Thank you. Uh Greg, um I just had one, I guess, question. Uh Dean's question kind of tipped my mind. So, what we bring in $145,592.50.
Um, what does it cost to run our portion of the North Beach operation? Um, and then I had it while you're pondering that. Um, on the second page it says NSET Beach agreement. third paragraph,
last portion of the sentence, it says, "And the town of Chadam from a point south of the NSA Beach parking lot uh to the Chattam inlet." I'm assuming that's the the boundary uh you know on the northeast corner Strong Island headed
east. That is that the southbound boundary you're talking >> I believe so. I'd need to take a look at the language, but that sounds like it. Um it's marked on the beach, too. >> Yeah. Um, my only point is we may want to define
that with a Latin long, but so be it. Um, I think my recollection is it's like I don't know how much beach, maybe a mile from that point to the to the inlet, more or less >> ballpark. Yeah.
>> Yeah. Um so um do do you do you recall I I tried looking in the town report but it doesn't get that detailed as to what the salaries the operational cost. >> So it it's not specifically called out.
I mean, there's a a variety of salaries that go into it, whether we're counting the, you know, sticker office staff, a portion of their time, a portion of our North Beach uh seasonal staff, a portion of our um permanent staff in conservation who also help and supervise
some of those. So, it is not specifically called out. And in addition to that, it can vary yeartoear. if we were to introduce an HCP, um the fee paid to the state for that HCP and any additional monitoring would be added on
to that. So that's accounted for in the budget in case but doesn't get spent every year. >> Yes, the the budget that you supply, I assume it's done the same way to the town manager and it itemizes the various functions under natural resources.
Shellfish is uh one of them and there's a bunch of others. Um, North Beach, I assume, is also itemized under there. And I'm just trying to figure out what the I don't care about the permit people. I'm thinking about the operational people who fun who
operate on the beach. >> So, if we're talking about staff, it would be uh seasonal hours that necessarily called out separately >> for um just trying to think. I mean, we it's
conservation seasonal is is almost entirely um for North Beach. Um and then a when we go through the budget, one of the later lines in conservation is I believe it's called clover monitoring, but that really is, you know, all the
fencing and equipment and HCP that's used on North Beach. We'll probably put a comment in there this time just specifically calling out that it's North Beach, not just blow monitoring. Yeah, I was I'm just curious as to if you maybe you know Jill as to whether our expenses
generally speaking that run North Beach are covered by this amount. I I just don't know. >> I think they are. I think that was one of the um reviews that we did a couple of years ago and more recently. It's under the conservation budget under natural resources and I know with the um
HCP, so that's the habitat conservation plan. Is that what it stands for? um that's that runs around $10,000. That's what's in the budget. So, I know that they and we can certainly get the information to you, but a few years ago, we did sort of a costbenefit analysis to see what our expenses were and I believe
this does cover it. >> Okay. Um that's really what I was, you know, curious about maybe down the road is is to whether we're still covering that. Sounds like we generally are. That's a that's always a good thing. Um,
okay. Uh, I I guess I I had some other questions, but that's uh that's fine. Thank you, >> Shireen. >> Yeah, Jeff and I have been part of the uh team that has, you know, um been we haven't had to really meet on this at
all in the last few years. the relationship with Orleans has been good and we've um not had to implement any mediation on bird um bird habitat at all. Um I think it's been run fairly well in the last few years. Uh we are
constantly considering the idea that you know because we are shut down for we're shut down because of piping clovers for a good part of the season in tandem with um Orleans but we also have lease turns that um habitat the beach at the end of
the beach and that causes for a more uh a later closure. Um that doesn't seem to be impacting revenue. Um yet again we're always there beach is really popular and the end of the beach is probably one of the more
popular places where we go and that's Chadam itself. Um but again I just want to reiterate um we we had some contentious uh relations prior to me being on the board and since then I think um there's been quite a a good
relationship build from Chadam to Orleans uh in the last few years. Um, I think as I Jill had mentioned, there was an assessment done of the review done of the of the costs. It would be worth another look. Um, but I'm I'm not um I'm
not um inclined to open up and try to do any fee changes um at this point. >> Right. >> Go ahead, Stuart. >> Cory had um I was simply going to say I think we we're our relationship with Orleans is I think is very good right now. We've, you know, we've had some
heavier discussions in the past. I think we've worked through those. Um, I think we're in in a in a fair situation with them in the agreement and I don't see anything glaring at me that wants to to change that at the moment. >> Okay. >> Stuart. Well, one thing that and I'm not
suggesting a change, >> but one thing to to think about and maybe I'm sure Jill and uh Greg, you know, probably debated it, but >> years ago when the uh north inlet wasn't there and
we just dealt with the south inlet, so to speak, um and we the town through various departments dealt with the rest of North Beach vehicle access where uh where the island is now. Um and so
when the inlet took place, we continued to manage and oversee about a mile of beach. That's change, you know, that's going back and forth a little bit with the with the conditions on the inlet, but there seems to be a whole lot of effort going into
dealing with a mile of beach. Um, now I know you have monitors over on the island and that's kind of its own issue as well as other parts of the community, but something to think about that uh, you know, somebody's driving there every day. Somebody's running a vehicle down there every day and I don't know the
distance between the parking lot at NSET and and Chadam's border, but it's probably somewhere I don't drive it, but it's probably somewhere around six, seven miles or so. And um somebody's doing that several times a day uh in order to oversee a mile of beach and I
just was wondering whether there was maybe a more effective way to do this and uh but you know something we can talk about during the uh budget process. >> Shireen >> Greg did we put a truck on the beach? But I thought NASA I thought um Orleans was like co-
um monitoring the beach with us like >> no we actually have a demarcation at the town line right >> that you know we we patrol ours they patrol theirs within reason if there's an emergency you know people may go across um but you know our our bird
monitoring and our north beach rangers um are just in Chadam there is a lot of transit time you know, they're going to have to get down there anyway. We had a K Cabota years ago, but just keeping that down there wasn't really an effective way of
doing it. The the 4x4 trucks are more effective. >> Yeah. Something to think about. You're driving from Chadam to Orleans, then you're, you know, getting ready to go on the beach. You drive down the beach, you do whatever you do, and then you come back for literally a mile of beach. And I'm wondering if there's a more
efficient, effective way to do it, but we can chat about it during the budget. Thank you. >> Happy to. Uh Craig, is the select board in Orleans? Are are they of the same posture? Do we have they met yet to discuss this? >> So they're going to put it on their
schedule and while town staff does not talk for the select boards, all impressions are that there's also, you know, status quo has been talked about. >> Okay. Just one question. I noticed in the town manager report upcoming, um I think it was under the GIS
report, which is not your department. Um they there were several I think there were two perhaps um nesting places of American oyster catchers. Are they protected under the HCP as well as the delearns and the plvers? I first time I
had seen that. >> I believe they are. I'm not sure if we have any takes in there. I'd have to look and get back to you. Okay. But primarily it's the the lease turns and clovers that are the effect. >> Okay. Well, I think that the sentiment of the board is is the consensus is that
we uh endorse um um your recommendation for status quo on this and thank you for the update and if we hear anything to the contrary from Orleans, we'll have we'll be back with this. Thank you, Greg. >> Very good. Thank you. >> Uh final item on the agenda is the town
manager report uh for the month of September 2025. Jill, turn to you. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh so you have the report in front of you and it's also posted online with the agenda packet and this is the monthly report for September but also there's a few uh current items
as well as select board followup. Um so we noted in here the FY2027 budget review. Uh that was the summit that occurred on October 21st. It kicked off the budget process for us as well as our meetings with town departments. And so
it's navigating the fiscal year ahead. And also um at that budget summit different than last year, we had two departments promote um how the appropriation turns to reality. So um examples from natural resources and
information technologies just to illustrate the connection between the budget and funding. And they also included some operational efficiencies. So, I'm trying to to um bring in more um of the departments to the the budget summit while they do participate. I
thought it was important for them to to showcase what they do and all of that is um posted online. And so, uh the next item is the center for act center for active living the sefal building working group. Um I believe we're having our third meeting tomorrow. Uh last week's
meeting included u a tour of the sefell as well as an on-site meeting there. And so uh the working group members along with the uh project team were able to see exactly where some of the items uh may have been value engineered or what
may um now be desired. So we have a meeting tomorrow. The meetings are recorded and public comment is accepted. Um, some information just came out this afternoon and and that's been posted to the website and um, just so the committee members know if they're
watching this, we'll have hard copies printed for them. So, >> what information is that? >> Um, information is a recap of the meeting from last week, including uh, very it's it's almost like a budget and a schedule. >> Okay. So, um, it's, um, I don't have it
in front of me, but it it's one of the items that will be discussed and we we wanted to post it online. As a working group, there's there's a lot of, you know, it's it's less formal, as you know, and so it's in order for the public to follow along. We thought it was really important that the materials
be posted as well, especially as we're maneuvering through it. And then um the project team, the designer and the OPM uh have a presentation that they'll go through and that's available through teams. >> And I I wanted to say I appreciate um Stuart's participation on that. He's
been keeping me informed about what's going on. So it's good that um uh we have a good group working on this. Okay. >> Yeah, we do. And so I'll just note the other members of the working group are Robin Zebra. He's the president of the
friends Sen Chadam COA friends uh uh Rob Stell Construction um as well as Stephen Daniel and Pat Burke who's the chair of the COA board and at Steuart is our select board design.
We also just finished the Cadam Municipal Academy. It was our inaugural academy. Uh we had a cohort of 14 members participating over nine weeks. The last session that we had was Wednesday was a why I serve session and
I had invited um Dina Castro is the chair of the select board. Um let's go through my listing here. Dick Hosmer from the waterways advisory committee. Liz McCart from the railroad committee as a railroad museum committee as a
co-director. Um we had the chair of the conservation commission and we also had uh the chair of the energy and climate action committee uh who also serves on the the planning board. It was a really interesting conversation. U some had
prepared comments, others did a a macro view. this group of cohort are are really inquisitive and they're very curious and so they asked a lot of good questions too. So it was a really good uh recruitment pitch and I think probably Liz McCart wins the award of of
really um generating a lot of interest for what they do and and what was important for me to show that there's different types of committees that people can volunteer to serve. Some are regulatory, some are maybe more passion driven. Um and I think it went really
well. And then we had the graduation on uh Saturday morning and um that was fun. We heard testimony for from a member and also had an opportunity just to kind of connect the dots again. And so uh they all were asking about various committees
to serve on. So I'm hoping we have 14 or at least 13 new members uh with Stephen already serving as the chair of the fin. All right. And then we have employee >> and this is going to be repeated again next next fall. >> Yes. We're looking forward to doing it next September.
>> 14 new people or maybe more. >> Yeah, maybe more. And we we might tweak it, maybe condense it. Um it's it's interesting because the departments were wondering how they were going to be able to fill like an hour and a half. And um the sessions are two hours and we went
over by like 15 or 20 minutes each each session. So it was very engaging. So we'll get some participant feedback and um also put out notifications of when the dates are. Employees years of service uh Subra
Canelo our department coordinator and our natural resources harbor masters division um has the most years of service for the month of November with 27 years. Ryan Darmman who you saw at the budget summit our IT managers 14 years. Jay Brics our building
commissioner at eight years. Shantel Kenny, our department assistant for community development, seven years, such Jessica Karen, our police dispatcher, and then um a group of two years, Carrie Maserel, our director of finance, Gwyn Foreman, our department assistant for
DPW Cemetery Division, Greg Burman, who you just saw, director of natural resources, and Dana Grim, our police dispatcher. And then we also welcome new hires in October. I know that you get a a memo notification of um a little bit
of more of their background that what's included in it here. Um Brian Lehey is a vet, a veteran. Devin Neie has worked in um medical fields and Joshua Sawyer has done energy um energy engineering and
he's been a specialist. So, what's really interesting for us is that we're looking for non-traditional backgrounds for public safety in addition to um those who have had a calling or a passion for it. Um those three are in the the Plymouth, Massachusetts Police
Training Council Academy for the next 20 to 22 weeks. And um we also know where they live in relocations um to Chattam. And then um a lot of hits on our social media. So, we're congratulating Jackson
Goddard for his appointment as the first uh boat operator in marine mechanics. So, we're very excited to have him. And um we have our promotions of Mark Welsh to de DPW heavy equipment operator. And
Mark's a Cadam High School grad. And we have our recruitment postings as you see. and uh project updates are highlighted uh as an index and information about our our social media and and the hard work that the
communication uh team including Shauna as well as Chattam TV do. So I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. Um just wanted to ask in terms of recruitment, I know I've asked you this privately, >> are we making progress on the director of assessing because um Ardell is
leaving in early December. >> Yes. So um >> we have some candidates and >> the deadline for applications was considered well in advance before she left. So we're hoping to um name a person um either before she leaves or soon after.
>> Okay. Any um questions or comments? regarding the town manager report to Jill. >> Lots of pictures in this one for >> I like the pictures, >> especially the uh the ones on the natural resources department. That's really helpful. Okay. Well, that was the
last item on the agenda. I will entertain the motion. >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Okay. Call the role. Miss Davis. >> I. >> Mr. Meadows. >> I. >> Mr. Smith. >> I. >> And the chair votes I. We are adjourned
at 6:12 p.m. Good night, Chadam. [Music] [Music]