[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Good evening everyone and welcome to the
Cadam Select Board meeting of May 27th, 2025. I'll let the record show we started uh at 5:45 this evening, a little later than normal. I will uh read what I'm supposed to read. 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 emergencies 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 will be made to ensure that the public can adequately access the proceedings as provided for in the order. A reminder that persons who would like to listen to this meeting while in progress may do so by calling the phone number 1508-945-4410 conference ID 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 simoccast on Chattam TV Xfinity channel 1072, despite our best efforts, we may not be able to provide real time access and we will
post a record of this meeting on the town's website as soon as possible. Uh Mr. Niccastro was away on a muchdeserved vacation, so I'm the chair this evening as vice chair. The first item of business is to establish a quorum. I will turn to my compadres here and Mr. Meadows uh present. Miss Davis present.
Mr. Smith present and Mr. Dens is present as well, so we can declare a quorum. The next item of business is are the minutes uh for May 22nd, 2025, our last meeting. A motion, please. Motion to approve. I'll I'll second, but I have a a point of order. The minutes read May
20th and they read in the agenda May 22nd. So, you are on your game, Miss Davis. Thank you very much for that correction. Any other corrections, edits? Okay, we have a motion and a second of approvals. Mr. Mters I Miss Davis I Mr. Smith I and
the chair says I as well. The next item of business is public announcements and agendum agenda item requests. I do believe we have an introduction by Mr. Berman. Please come forward. Hi there. Greg Burman, your director of natural resources. Uh we
wanted to take this opportunity to introduce Marshall Burke who's the new deputy harbor master. Uh he recently retired after 20 years with the US Coast Guard. He was offered the position back in December and just sworn in May 20th. Just a good example of uh good things
worth waiting for. Uh let's see. His last 10 years were service on Cape Cod, including at station Cadam 2015 to 2019 where he had local surf rescue boat experience and Chadam has done pretty well um getting Coast Guard uh retirees
and a deputy harbor master position. So, he's following some good footsteps. We're very excited to finally welcome him to Team Chadam. Please, Jason Marshall, welcome. Thank you. Um just like to say a few words. Uh I've had the pleasure of knowing
Marshall uh personally and professionally since 2015. Um found him to be a very comparable boat operator. Uh really good leader. Um very fortunate to to get him on board. Uh so being a little bit familiar with that transition
from the Coast Guard to municipal life, I think uh is going to shorten his learning curve uh quite a bit. Um and he'll make an immediate impact as far as our response out on the waterfront. um he's familiar with the waters, he's familiar with our watercraft. Um and I
think he'll make a huge impact right out of the gate. So, thank you, Marshall. Any comments? Say hi. Welcome. Uh yeah, just uh no, I'm extremely happy to have the opportunity and to to earn the position. Um it's it's something that I
was kind of uh you know, when retirement was on the horizon, you know, and you're looking for for future opportunities, um this was definitely something I was thinking about. So just very very happy that all the stars kind of aligned uh and just you know able to stay here and
and make a a longer impact than than being at a Coast Guard unit for you know four year segments. Well, yeah, it sounds like a win-win. Uh any comments from those? No, just welcome aboard. Thank you. Well, you have a great mentor there and Jason. So have fun. You guys you guys do great.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Burman. Any any agenda items? Uh no, just a little just a little plug. Um we had a wonderful Memorial Day uh celebration um yesterday in front of the community building and for u I we all were in attendance and um for anyone who
was there um may have picked on the very subtle plug for Mr. Fron saying that you know he is he has served diligently for for many many years and he would very very much like the opportunity to pass on his knowledge to uh another set of volunteers to help continue the
celebration and and traditions that we that he's put in place. Um we have you know the Memorial Day and the and the Veterans Day uh celebrations. So um for anyone who is looking to serve the community um there are some openings. So um I'm just going to follow up on Mr.
Fron's plug that the volunteers are uh very welcomed and uh would be very much appreciated to kind of continue continue the the work that he's put in place. So consider it please. Yes. Thank you, Corey. Um anybody else with an agenda item or a public Mr. Burman?
Sorry, one more quick announcement. Uh you may have or you probably will see these flyers out and about soon. This is a new community climate survey. So, the town's energy and climate action committee has launched this survey and they're inviting all residents, business
owners, stakeholders to take a few minutes of your time to share your thoughts on local climate impacts and potential solutions. Um, your input will help guide future strategies to make Chattam more resilient in the face of climate change. And the survey is up and
available on the Energy and Climate Action Committee's web page and the town's main website under news. Thank you very much, Mr. Burman. Anybody else in the audience here? An agenda item or announcement online? Miss Gibbs.
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Uh yes. Um currently, uh the select board uh agenda item requests uh are accepted within a month. Uh but citizen requests are at the discretion of the chair as to whether they ever get on. According to
Mr. uh Chairman Niccastro, I believe on the June 10th agenda item will be likely to remove all citizen requests and then we will have to request them again with the select board summary schedule that will delay timesensitive requests. When
a citizen is making a request that should have rightly been requested by the select board, I believe you should do so. Uh so it will get on the agenda. Uh two of mine are going to be removed. One of mine was to have Eversource come
in and explain the 426 outage of 4,400 customers with uh their site not updated and no information coming from them. And it also included uh a need for an emergency preparedness staff person, a
dedicated person uh to replace KZ to post on town websites uh on social media sites and decide whether or not robocalls are necessary. We got absolutely nothing. I think I explained that everybody was texting trying to find out how many people were
out. I hope one of you will ask that this become an agenda item since I think it rightly should come before the board. It shouldn't be up to citizens to have to point this out. The hurricane season is coming and winter is coming and it comes every year and right now there's
no plan in place. So I would appreciate it if one of you would endorse it so it becomes a select board request rather than a citizens request. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Miss Gibbs. Uh anything else? Anybody else online? I see no one.
Okay, we'll move on here. Our next item of business is a public hearing to consider a petition from Menstar doing business as Eversource Energy to install one handhole. I'm not going to read the whole thing. A conduit to a customer installed handhole and to provide new underground service to the customer
located at 351 Barnhill Road. And I will have our clerk please read the uh the hearing notice. Mr. Smith. Select board public hearing notice. The Cadam Select Board will hold a public hearing at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, May
27th, 2025 in the large meeting room at the town hall annex 261 George Ryder Road, Chattam, Mass, and remotely via Microsoft Teams platform to consider petition from NSAR company doing business at Eversource
Energy to install one handhold 48 over over H23-5A and 40 plus or minus 1 to2 inch conduit in a customer installed
handhold 48 H23-5B to provide new underground service to customer located at 351 Barnhill Road. The public is welcome to attend in the meeting in person or participate via link in the mediums uh
in the meetings posted agenda. All interested parties are encouraged to attend participate. Thank you. Mr. Smith, I think we have do we have Marissa online here from Eversource today? Marissa Jackson, are you there? Julie Longas. Julie Longas covering from Marissa today. Yes. Okay.
Please. Yep. Okay. Okay. So, Eversource is proposing 40 ft plus or minus of one um 1x2 in PVC conduit from a proposed Verizon pole, which I don't think that you've gotten that um that petition yet
for under Barnhill Road to the customer installed handhole on the other side. The reason for this would be to install new 400 amp underground service for the um customer at 351 Barnhill Road.
Okay. Uh any questions from uh the select board this evening for Feversource? Okay. Okay. This is a public hearing. Anybody from the public would like to comment on this request for um these conduits on 351 Barnhill
Road? I hear and see none. So, I'll turn back to the board and entertain a motion. Mr. Chair, I move approval of installing a hand um installing the the whole um what is written in the hearing um at 351 Barnell Road. I'm not going to
read the whole thing in a second. Second. Thank you very much. That's a motion and a second. Uh do a roll call. Mr. Meadows. I. Miss Davis. I. Mr. Smith. I. And Mr. Den says I as well. Okay. Just a brief summary on our business agenda this evening. Um uh we
have a proclamation honoring the 100th anniversary of Puritan clothing in Chadam. Um item B under 5B, a consideration of a one-day alcohol license. Um we will revisit either on June 10th or June 24th when we have a quorum. Um this evening we'd have a
couple members that would recuse themselves. So we not have a quorum. So we're going to postpone that one. We uh can consider a letter of comment in response to the US Coast Guard's proposal to change aids and navigation buoy removals um by our harbor master Jason Holm and public comment will be
accepted on that agenda item. And then we have uh some considerations for uh board commissions and reappointments. One uh nomination for Chattam Rep to the Cape Cod National Seashore Federal Advisory Commission, Mr. Derty, who has announced that he's no longer
interested. So, we're going to discuss his replacement and then also the opportunity to appoint our coastal resilience director, Katherryn Ricks, as the alternate there to that um uh commission. And then we also have a a note to consider select board representative to the affordable housing
trust uh fund board of trustees, i.e. Shireen. And then we have the uh the town manager monthly report. So, not not a not an overwhelming agenda, but uh not no less an important one this evening here in the in the town of Chadam. First item of business. We have a proclamation
honoring the 100th anniversary of performance. Mr. Chair um uh you need to ask for public comments on the business agenda. Public com any public comments on the business agenda. Thank you very much. Any public comments on the business agenda? Okay. Hearing seeing
none, we will go on to the proclamation recognizing 100 years of uh Puritan clothing service here in the town of Chattam. Um, off to you, Joe. Why don't you tee it up and then uh give a little introduction? Uh, thank you, Mr. Chair. So, we're very excited to recognize Puritan Clothing for their 100th
anniversary in Chadam. And I don't know if Megan and you and Rick want to come to the the podium there so uh we can recognize you. So Stuart, you were going to read the proclamation. Our clerk is going to read the proclamation, then we'll have a
chat. Proclamation for the town of Cadam Mass, honoring the 100th anniversary of Puritan Clothing. Whereas on May 22nd, 1925, Puritan Clothing opened its doors on Main Street in Chadam,
beginning a legacy of customer and community service that has spanned a century. And whereas the store was founded with a vision of providing quality clothing to all, including uniforms, to the US Coast Guardsmen stationed at in town and has become a
cherished institution in the heart of downtown Cadam. And whereas for a hundred years, Puritan Clothing has remained a family-owned business sustained through generations of the Penn family and is today proudly operated by cousins
Richard and James Penn with James daughter Megan now managing the Chattam location. And whereas the continued success of Puritan Clothing is a testament to the dedication of the Penn family, the hard work of its employees, and the loyalty of
generations of patrons, all of whom have contributed to this enduring presence and reputation. And now therefore, we the select board of the town of Chadam, do hereby recognize and commend Puritan Clothing
on the occasion of its 100th anniversary and express our sincere gratitude to the Penn family for their steadfast commitment to excellence, community, and tradition. Furthermore, we encourage all residents and visitors to join us in celebrating this remarkable milestone
and in wishing Purit and Clothing continued success for generations to come present uh proclaimed this 27th day May 2025 Chattam Select Board. Well, congratulations uh Rick and Megan.
Nice to see you guys. Rick, nice to see you again here in Chadam. Um, I have such fond memories of Benny Shuro, believe it or not, and then Harry Collingwood was a was a stalwart there for years. Mr. Bell, too. Yeah, Mr. Bell. Absolutely. So, it's been has been
a a an anchor downtown and a wonderful anchor downtown for for our downtown and just for residents and tourists alike. It's been just wonderful to have you guys here in town. You know that. Um, off to Shireen. Yeah. I I also wanted just to note that I I was surprised it
wasn't in the uh in the proclamation, but uh during the rescue of the Pendleton uh Puritan clothing uh clothed some of the victims from that from that uh rescue and and provided warm warmth and comfort. Um some of the other things
that are notable in my time um uh doing any of the maritime festivals or um sea fests that happened in town, Puritan played a major role in supporting a lot of endeavors um when it came to community um community um celebrations.
Um also uh your presence on the Chattam Merchants Association has been um most noted as well. There's a motion in here. Is that something we need to do or or is that um I'm sorry. It says a con suggested if there is I'll I'll I mean
Oh no. Yeah, please. I move to issue a proclamation in recognition in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Puritan clothing and and as related you know the proclamation was as as spoken for procedural purposes. I will second that. You bet. We'll take a
vote. Mr. Meadows I. Miss Davis I. Mr. Smith I. Mr. Dyken says I as well. And uh I uh Milton was on the Cape Cod Hospital board for years. I knew him. He was a great guy. You guys have really been tied into the community either in Hyannis or here all over the Cape. So it's really wonderful, wonderful family.
Well, u wow. Can I say uh first of all, I'm Rick Penn, part of the third generation. Jim Penn, my other principal of the company, unfortunately, could not be here tonight, but his daughter Megan Penn is here. More importantly, is the manager
of the of the Chadam store. And I looking at your agenda tonight, you have a very busy agenda. For you to take time out of your agenda to uh honor us with this proclamation, it's it's just wonderful. We we really want to say thank you, ma'am. I have not not just my family, but all our employees. Um you
know, we also want to thank the town of Chadam, 100 years in the same building on Main Street, Chadam. The support we've received the community is just amazing. We want to say thank you. Uh we've always believed, you know, you want to do business with the community, you must give back to the community. And
um we're very proud to have Megan and not only being the manager but also uh as president of the Chattam Chamber of Commerce this year is a great example of of uh you know her commitment to the to the the Chad community. So on behalf of uh again our family, our employees, thank you and and we're honored and we
look forward to many many more years together. Thank you. Thank you. Back at you. I just want to say thank you everyone. Um I'm honored to manage the Chattam store. Uh most mornings I walk in town and the amount of familiar faces at 8 am when you walk by and say, "Hey,
how's it going?" Um the town really does feel like family. So, thank you all and um cheers to another hundred years. Okay, thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you. And we'll drop off the proclamation, Megan. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Um again, item B is uh going
to be deferred. Our next item on our business agenda is the consideration of a letter of comment in response to the US Coast Guard's proposal to changes in needs to navigation um and buoys their removal. Um and uh Harbor Master Jason Holm why don't you
come on up and brief us. We did get the the letters that have been drafted etc. But anyway, good evening. Thank you, Mr. Vice Chair. Um, so when I first heard about this and uh it was Dick Osmer from the waterways advisory committee sent me
the local notice of mariners, I jokingly said uh that must be old because we just went through this a couple years ago. Um I did read it and um and it in fact was new. Um so uh you know to refresh everyone I think most of you were here
back then um 2019 they tried to do something very similar. Um at that point they were just proposing the Cebuy uh as far as Chattam waters but there was similar uh movement and adjacent um waterways. And when I went back to review the minutes and that the light
board at that time had uh had voted to reach out to uh the neighboring communities uh and kind of coordinate letters of support as far as uh refuting that effort um which ultimately the Coast Guard chose to keep
in place um that buoy. Uh this one's a little bit different. Um it highlights four uh in my opinion very critical uh aids and navigation and Chhattam waterways. You know, the logic is, you know, there's more modern mariners and modern equipment. Um, which I think is
true in a lot of cases, but I think anyone familiar with Chattam realizes that not every boater has GPS. They don't have updated electronics. Um, and the physical buoy being there for uh for people lost and disoriented in the fog to be able to listen to the sound
signals, the two seaboies to um to pick it up on radar during low visibility. Um those things I think are crucial for navigation. Um and our waterways are used by a variety of voters. So um I've drafted a letter uh myself in response kind of highlighting things the way I
see it from uh from my view. Uh the waterways advisory committee uh has also submitted a draft letter uh for you to take a look at as well um as uh as somewhat of a uh a template possibly for um an endorsement from uh the board to
move forward with that. Um but I think that it's pretty crucial that we get a variety of opinion from the public. The only way that that happened last time was through public outreach and uh we've submitted um correspondence out to our moing permit holders. Um it's become a
pretty hot topic uh locally. Um and we've gotten a lot of uh positive feedback from the voting public as far as wanting to um to uh put this in. Um it is on the working waterfront advisory committee's agenda. They did talk about it last time. Um they're hoping to try
to schedule a meeting before June 13th, which this would be on the agenda and hopefully vote for them to uh send a formal letter uh against it. But they did verbally uh to each member uh think that these were definitely worth uh
keeping. So um at this point I'll open it up to any questions that that you might have. Sure. Thank you, Jason. Uh Shireen. Um I'm I the board should definitely um send a letter and I would recommend that not only do we send it to
the district um uh one I think the first district commander but also to Senator Marky and Warren as well as our state legislative representatives. Um I I don't even know if maybe it should go higher up the chain in the Coast Guard
um to um to the committee. I can't remember who oversees Homeland Homeland Security, but I think it needs better attention than just um we our our experiences working with the the district have been wonderful to some
degree, but uh sometimes ineffective. And I think the more we get attention from um let me just caveat that we have a good relationship with them, but I just think the more we get uh a political aspect on a spin on this, the more attention it may get. Um, I've had
a great source of comfort coming up Stage Harbor and seeing those buoys um myself in in some pretty crappy weather. So, I'd hate to see somebody else get lose that. Uh, Mr. Matters. No, I mean, I've know the waterways have talked
about it and Jason, you've been on top of this since day one. Uh, I I'm so very supportive of the draft letters that you guys have put forth uh yourself and the waterways. I'm sure the you what used to be on Lady Cove will also weigh in. Um, and I do think this this select board should also weigh in and and I'm very
supportive of Sirene's recommendation to go a little bit higher up the chain. And you know, again, we have a good relationship, but maybe be need to be a little bit louder on this one because it is so important. Um, so I think collectively, um, everyone, you know, as
individuals chime in, um, and send a clear message of how we feel. So, uh, I'm I'm I would endorse us moving forward with our own letter and be supportive of the letters that have already been drafted, um, to go along with it. So, thank you very much. Thank you. Okay. So, the process for for us,
you think we're going to draft our own letter? You'd like that would that's your preference? Yes. And I I think that um this maybe Stuart would weigh in on on the letter and how it's written. Work with the town manager and Kathy on that. And I would add Bill Keat to that list as well. Oh,
Bill. Yes, of course. Yeah, sure. Jason, um I assume I mean the Coast Guard through goes through these buoy reductions every so often. We just dealt with this two years ago. Um is this a do you know if this is a
first district um alone or is this throughout the country effort at the moment? The notice that I had was that this is a first district commander initiative. So basically from New Jersey to Canada. Um, if you go to the the link that I put in the agenda, it's actually an interactive map that you can open up
and see the buoys that are targeted to get removed. I mean, there's there's a lot. So, it I think you'll find a lot of support in neighboring communities. Uh, the harbor masters across the Cape are adamantly against this. Um, that uh for the the novice boers or or non-boers, this would be the equivalent of taking
away all the street signs and just having people operate off of GPS. But it's worse because it's the water. You don't have mark lanes. I mean, these are the the markers for the lanes. So, um you know, from a public safety standpoint, certainly extremely concerned about it. Um and as far as I
know, this is just a first district uh initiative, but I I can't be certain of that. I've only seen what is uh was put out to us. Okay. Um I mean, they're all important buoys. We use them all. Um it it's I will say that, you know, number
eight and the one off the common flats is real important. uh locally. Um so I think that since it's probably a first district effort as you point out um maybe we can coordinate with our uh you
know our neighbors um not only in the immediate area but uh you know perhaps throughout first district. Um maybe our congressional delegation can uh facilitate that. But it seems like because this is really, as you
probably already know, this is just the beginning. You know, they're going to they're going to continue with the uh whether it's the reduction in the buoys, reduction in the capabilities of station Chattam, um which we have I'm not sure where that stands that that that debate.
Um but I think uh maybe even a larger regional effort um to our neighbors to the north and to the south would be would be helpful. Thank you. Yeah, buoys are really important. We This is déjà vu all over again and and
Stuart Stewart's correct in that, you know, but we've already seen them trying to erode their presence here in terms of search and rescue and here go the buoys and blah blah blah. So on it'll go. So I do think we should draft a letter. What what's your what would you like to do? Would you have sign it to to Jill and her crew to draft or and then back to
us? And um I'm sure we have the what we wrote before a couple years ago. Well, let's see what the signatorries I would suggest that we see who were with the signatories were there. There was a long list of signatorries. Yeah. I mean, I have trust in in Jill and working with Stuart to put something together on our behalf. I don't think it has to come
back to the board. Okay. Yeah. Fine. I mean, a follow-up should, but And signed by the entire board. And signed by the entire board. Go ahead, Steve. Yeah, sure. One other thing uh that might be helpful um not only for any future debates we have about this but a cost
estimate on what would it take for the town. I don't know who else would do this but besides the town it's all within at least these four buoys are within your jurisdiction. Um I know we don't have that capability but we may have to sub it out. you know, a price on
the tackle and the and the buoys and the um might be something that we want to use and maybe something we have to resort to if we think it's that important. I can't even imagine the cost. Yeah. Uh to try to replace these. I mean, it definitely would have to be subbed. The the
the waterways that these buoys are in require a very tall buoy. These are 923s, most of them that are they're tall and you know we we would have to permit them through the Coast Guard, ironically enough if they remove those. Um and then uh I think the cost would be
astronomical. I mean the size of chain that's required for those um to be footing it as a municipality would be extremely difficult. Yeah. And we may have to consider uh sorry M but uh just to follow up uh we may have to consider um you know maybe it's a seasonal
aspect. I think number eight is just even subbed is beyond our capability. But the others maybe seasonally we could do something with a smaller scale buoy. Um but something to think about is all I don't mean anything tonight obviously. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Thank you
Stuart. I I just have one stupid nit on the Polloc Rip channel bua on your letter Jason. This I apologize in advance but says known for frequent groundings. This area poses serious risks to serious risks to vessels unfamiliar with the local terrain. I would just say change the word terrain
to waters just with unfamiliar with local waters. That's all. Otherwise, I love the letter. I thought it was really complete and really meaningful. Um, okay. So, this was a agenda item that was open to public comment. Anybody in the public that would like to speak to
this issue? Um, either in here or online. Anybody online that wants to speak to this issue? I don't see anybody. Do you, Jill or Kath? Okay. All right. Well, thank you, Jason. We're going to be working on a letter and we're going to tee it up and get it out there. I appreciate it. And just as a
reminder, June 13th is the the drop dead date. Yeah. Thank you. So, I'd be willing to help. Good. All right. Cool. Thank you. Um, the next item on our agenda is to consider uh nominations for the Cadam Representative to the Cape Cod National Seashore Federal Advisory Commission.
Now, this is really an announcement that Mr. Thomas Dary does not want to be reappointed. So, this is a solicitation for folks that might be interested in serving as Chadam's representative to the Cape Cod National Seashore Federal Advisory Commission. And then, I think
um we would like to have our our coastal resilience director, Katherine Ricks, um be named as the alternate. And I think we should tee that up and move it and vote it tonight if unless anybody has any major issues. No, as far as staff goes, I would be supportive of of her
continuing on that role. And then um I know there's a couple names I have in the back of my head. I'm going to try to, you know, knock on doors, but anyone who has an interest. Um it's kind of like I say timesensitive, but there is some urgency. I'll actually let Kathy kind of maybe just kind of summarize
that, but there this is something we really do want to act on in a in a timely manner. Yes. Um thank you. Uh the current um Mr. 's term currently is set to expire September 20th, 25. This seat um what the board is doing is submitting
nominations to the Department of Interior for their um their appointment. So, the federal government is actually the appointing authority for this commission to the Cape Cod National Seashore. So, it is a bit timesensitive because of how all of that works and how sometimes that can be a little slower
process than at a local level. So yes, the sooner we can get a nominee, okay, to um the superintendent of the Cape Cod National Seashore, the faster that process can happen. Oh, thank you, Cory. Yeah. In the interim, should we move to
um like to Yes. appoint um Katherine Ricks as the alternate member of the Cape Cod National Seashore Federal Advisory Committee for 2-year term expiring September 20th, 2027. In a second. I'll second that. Good. Take a vote. Mr. Meadows. I. Miss. Davis. I.
Mr. Smith. I. Mr. Dyken says I as well. Thank you very much. Are we um at all going to be chastised for the It says on in their letter 30 days from the date of this letter. The date was January 7th. Is that why we have to move
quickly or I've been in touch with the superintendent and we've been emailing back and forth um and along with Chair Niccastro. So she's aware that we're in the process. So if it we're good. Great. Just for procedurally, the gentleman just notified us within last week. It
took a little time to get a response. Then we got the response. We were moving forward, got it scheduled, then he withdrew. So yes, and I will convey that to her tomorrow as well in my transmitt of the nominee nation for the alternate. Thank you. Okay. The next item is uh to
consider a select our representative to the affordable housing trust fund board of trustees. We we uh did discuss this in terms of our appointments our liaison appointments at our last meeting. Um I think we want to formalize Shireen's appointment to the affordable housing
trust. There is one uh you you'll recall article 58 um allows us to have one select board member and um we did think that uh Shireen would be the best uh obviously the best candidate because she's been there and knows what the heck's going on. As a note, um both my term is up uh June
30th and and um former select board member Shells obviously um he's no longer select board. Um with the legislation pending approval with the state, I think it would be only right that we just honor what the town voters
wanted to do rather than appointing two people um just appoint one. Um, and I'm happy to serve if if you'll have me. Totally agree. Um, so I'll I'll take a nomination, please. Motion. Uh, a motion or motion. I I
nominate Shireen Davis to serve as the affordable housing trust fund board of trustees. Um, member, representative of the select board. I'll second that. Thank you so much. Okay, we'll vote. Mr. Meadows. I. Miss
Davis. I'll abstain. Mr. Smith I and Mr. Dykin says I. Thank you very much. And our final item on our agenda this evening is the town manager's monthly report. Off to uh Jill Goldmith. Welcome Jill. Yeah, thank you Mr. Chair. Uh the first item was a notification to the
public as a reminder that we did do the Memorial Day observance uh yesterday and I think it was one of the best that I have attended since I've been here. It was really personal personal to um Chadam and I thought it was Mr. friends and um uh Mr. Miller did a phenomenal
job. So, I thought that was really great and you were all there to see it. Um I also in the report here note the summer schedule, the summer meeting schedule u our meetings will start at 5:00 pm on June 24th and that will go every other
week uh through October 20 October 14, 2025 at 5:00 pm. So, the board needs to call a special meeting in between. you had already indicated that you have you would have uh no issues with that. And then as I normally do, I have the years of service anniversary. This is for
June. One of our longest serving employees, Dan Diane Langua, she's our department coordinator of natural services, has been here for 37 years. Tim Hunter has been a firefighter for 25 years. Our Brian Powers, our beloved
downtown highway labor that everyone um is so appreciative of his services. He's been here for 20 years. Our chief Justin Tvano, fire chief for 20 years. Sue Frederick Campbell has been our recreation coordinator for 18 years. And today she was the head chef for our
employee appreciation barbecue, which was really fun to have over at the community center. And then um I don't want to skip over anyone, but just to be brief, Chris Vardkus, I think he started out in the the Harvard Masters Department, uh went to the fire
department, EMT, and is now a sergeant in our police department. He's like the superhero of public safety, and we're really appreciative of him. And just moving down many uh 10 years, six years of service, we have our own Kathy Lewis who's been the executive assistant for
two years. So time goes very quickly in Chattam. So, I want to congratulate everyone for their years of service. And speaking of congratulating uh our departments, it was National Public Service Week last week and I know not everybody is on social media. So, we we grabbed a post that Shauna had done
recognizing uh the staff and the team in our facilities, highways, parks, grounds, and cemeteries, transfer station, and water and sewer. And then a reminder to employees because I know it's this time of year when people are getting back into town or noticing um a lot. So if there's any public works
requests uh for grounds maintenance, trees, anything, uh we have a link on our town website that people can access or access to it directly through the link I provided in this report. And then you have u met and been introduced to
Marshall Burke, our deputy harbor master. And here's a really great picture of our of our team uh when he was sworn in. and you've also met Katherine Ricks who you just appointed as our coastal resources coastal resiliency director and all the good
work that she's done. And then we have a few other positions that we're recruiting for with Katherine getting promoted. Her position of assistant conservation agent is now available. And then we're also hiring our first engineering technician. And then in the report, as you will see,
Kathy's indexed um some spotlighted items that the public's very interested as well as you and the various page numbers for the housing initiatives down to the wastewater construction project. And then Chattam TV's done a really great job um helping us prepare for
annual town meeting and they did some uh tidbits and and video shorts for the seasonal communities designation and the annual town meeting prep show and they were instrumental to the success of our annual town meeting logistically and um it was a a really great um really great
turnout by the voters as well as the work of staff. So social media here is very important. You'll see that our numbers are increasing thanks to the great efforts of Shauna. And as always, I have the emergency notification smart 911 for people to register for as well
as the notify me. So happy to answer any questions you may have. Questions or comments for Jill. Just a good report, Jill. Always. It is an excellent report. I, you know, in terms of the Memorial Day um event, you know, I said after it, I thought I
agree with you. I thought it was one of the best ones we've ever had. And I said to myself, are we ever going to replace Bob France? Because he did such an excellent job. He really did. Heartfelt and so did Ted Miller. Um I thought the naming of the names was really really unique and very moving. Was it was good.
It was excellent. Um I also want to I watched Ben Sacko uh mining cohogs and oysters on on backstage the other day. It was wonderful. Um really really some really good programming on on YouTube online with respect to the town of Chadam. So really nice job there.
Um, so that's that's what we've got. Anything else for the town's business this evening by the select board? Okay. A motion to adjurnn, please. Motion to objourn. Sorry. In a second. I'll second
that. Okay. Mr. Meadows. I. Ms. Davis. I. Mr. Smith. I. And the chair says I. Good night, Chadam. Thank you. Thank you. [Music] [Music]