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It being six o'clock, I call to order this uh select board meeting for July 20th, 2026. If you would join me in the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands, one

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nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. And I just want to remind everybody that this meeting is being broadcast live by Chancellor Tele Media and also recorded for later rebroadcast. Uh so we will start with public service

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announcements. Well, we have a uh public notice for the fall 2026 annual town meeting. The town of Chster will convene the 2026 fall town meeting on Monday, October 19th. The articles included on the warrant must be submitted to the office of the

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town manager at 50 Borick Road prior to 4 400 p.m. on August 3rd, 2026. Petition articles must carry this must carry the signatures of at least 10 voters. And for more information, call the town manager's office at 978-250-52.

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And the uh chosen milit military community covenant task for invites you to invites the community to attend a mil military appreciation cookout. Please show us your support to our local veterans and military for their service and sacrifice on Tuesday, August 11th,

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2026 at 5 to 7:00 p.m. at the Charles Lodge develops pavilion 300 Littleton Road. It's free to all. Hot dogs, hamburgers, watermelon, dessert, soft drinks, and cash bar. We hope to see a lot of people there.

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and um the Chelsea Historical Commission. >> We have we have somebody to do this one. >> Linda, I think Linda's that's why Linda came. Right. >> Commission. And I'm here tonight to invite everybody here, everybody that hears my voice, everybody in or out of

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town to join us on Sunday [clears throat] evening, August 23rd at 6 o'clock at Riverside Cemetery. We've had quite a few conversations with the spirits there lately and they're willing to come out in the daylight and tell their stories. North Chumsford has

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remarkable stories and um I think you'd find the evening very interesting. The uh tours start at six o'clock. They are by reservation and um you you know by reservation and they're guided tours so we can kind of control the crowd as they go through the

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cemetery. It is a daylight tour so people can look at the um grounds and decide if they can manage walking them. I know a lot of people that do forefathers don't feel comfortable walking uneven ground in the dark. This time it's six o'clock. It will be light.

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So um and children under the age of seven, we like to have them stay home unless they're in the hands of a parent so they don't run around. And that's it. We just hope you come and enjoy it. um doing meeting these spirits have been

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really really interesting and no I don't think nobody understand what went on in North >> No I met I know a lot of other towns have done this and they've had great success with it and people absolutely enjoy every minute of it >> this we've been doing it for five years we started actually more than before co

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and I don't think I've I personally have heard anything negative um what I hear when people leave the cemetery is I didn't know and that's kind of they should know. So, uh this is the first time we're doing Riverside because again it's not such an

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old cemetery but it is a very old part of town and that part of town really led the way in the industrial revolution. There's a reason why the Middle Sex Canal came so close to North. I mean there's a whole bunch of people just don't know the whole it's a big story.

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>> So Linda, where would you park for that? Would you park at the church or >> um I'm making arrangements with the church. Um or you can probably park right along the street. You know, Riverside's very long. It's got an um soft shoulder. >> Oh, okay. >> So that you can park there, too, but not

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in the driveway in the cemetery. We'll have that blocked off. >> Okay. >> So, >> all right. Thank you very much. >> Well, I hope to see you all there. >> Thank you. >> Okay, we've got one more. We have a candle light vigil for remembrance and hope on Monday, August 31st at 6:30 at

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the Chumpswood Town Common. Uh signing and reading of names. Uh keynote speaker is Charity Edwards. And then we'll have words from Chief Hanigan and the Candlelight Vigil. Special music tribute, a beautiful portrayal of Hallelujah.

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Um, this is presented by the Chelsea Public Health and the One Community Stronger Together and sponsored by Do Dolan Funeral Home. I hope you can get out and support that. I think that's all we got passed. >> Hey, thank you. Okay, next is uh general

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public input. Is there anybody here that would like to address the board on any topic at this time? And just a reminder, you have three minutes. Thank you, John. Thank you. >> Thank you. I've got two of them. Somebody wants an extra.

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>> You can be special. [laughter] Good evening. This is I'm John Ray. I'm at 223 Pinehill Road, Chonesford. Um, and what I'm here for is for Sunny Meadow and making a pitch for uh to keep

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Sunny Meadow uh should remain open all year round. last year. For for more than a decade, Sunny Meadow farmed what demonstrated that um farm has demonstrated

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a agricultural and responsible public access can be successfully coexist. Before the recent Why don't I use my glasses? Before [clears throat] the recent uh winter closure, the property was open year round and became one of

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Chumps's most popular uh places for walking, family outings, nature study, agricultural studies. Closing the property removes the town's most valuable winter outdoor space at the very time that town needs it. Since the

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town purchased Sunny Meadow Farm in ' 09, it remained open during the winter for many years with no significant public issues. The the site has experienced fewer in instances than than other open space property that remained

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open accessible year round during the winter. Very few open spaces properties offer plowed parking, maintained roads, and easy walking for family, seniors, residents, and looking for safe outdoor

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exercise. Sunny Meadow fills an important need that no other town property currently provides. The Storybook Trail is heavily used d throughout the wintertime and throughout the year, more often than many open

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space locations. It encourages children to read while getting outside and has become a favorite destination for families. Closing the site has not protected the green houses. Sunny Meadow transferred to town ownership five green

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houses that have either lost their plastic coverings or suffered significant farm farm storm damage. Restricting winter access has not prevented these losses. In fact, continued closes are likely to make the problem worse because volunteers cannot

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quickly reach the green houses after major stones sto snow snowstorms. Historically, volunteers have removed snow buildup from along the greenhouse walls to reduce snow loading and stress on the structures.

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If if people cannot access the green houses, they cannot perform their pre uh preventive maintenance, increasing the likelihood of future winter damage. >> John, you have 10 seconds. >> I'm done. >> Okay, good timing. Excellent. Thank you. >> I I practiced. Okay,

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>> that Thank you. [laughter] >> Any questions? >> Um we we don't we usually don't ask questions for public input. >> That's fine. >> Okay. It's not on the agenda, so we don't discuss it. >> Thank you. Is there anybody else that would like to address the board in open session?

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>> Okay. [clears throat] >> Yeah. >> Good evening. >> I just wanted to >> Can you can you identify yourself, please? >> Oh, Phil, I know who you are. Six Lon Lane Council Mass. >> Um, I just want to take a minute to talk

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about uh tick mitigation in town. I just short uh two or three weeks ago, I spent eight days in intensive care. I ended up with heart damage. I ended up with thousands of dollars of bills which are

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not covered by my insurance. And I'm looking at um extended medical um drugs for the rest of my life um because of it. So tick the these things talking about tick damage and

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ticks being out there is a serious problem. Um since I did become sick I've talked to a lot of other people who have it and what I would like to see is our trails widened in town to right now they're very narrow. When you're narrow

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you're brushing against um brush and those. So, I think we need to widen our trails and take a serious look at tick mitigation, which includes it includes trimming up trees in public areas. It includes removing high grass because I

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know that uh what I have and will have for the rest of my life is something I don't want anybody else to get. I spent 20 years out there and uh ending up in ICU for eight days and wondering whether I was going out the front door or the

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back door of the hospital um was very concerning. So I think it's something that we need to talk about and I came here to public talk about it and and what happened to me in hope of raising awareness. It's not just these signs where they say beware of the ticks.

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They're not kidding. So they can uh really take a whack on you. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Is there anyone else? John, is there anyone on Zoom? >> No one's in the Zoom room. >> Okay. Very good. All right. On to

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committee vacancies. >> Okay. Committee vacancies as of 72026. is the CCA town hall advisory committee have two unexpired three-year terms and the clean clean energy and

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sustainability committees have one unexpired term. Dis commission on disabilities has five unexpired terms. Council on aging has two unexpired terms. Cultural council have also have two unexpired terms. Historical

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Commission also has two unexpired confirmed two three-year terms available. Historic District Commission has one three-year term. Holiday decorating has five one-year terms available. The Military Covenant Task

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Force has two three-year terms and the North Town Hall Advisory Committee has one three-year term. And the parade committee, as I say, we have a lot of turnover this year. So, I encourage anybody interested get on board now. because the work's already begun.

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Um I actually already received an email last month about next year's parade. So that work doesn't stop even if the fourth is over. Um personnel board has a one two-year term and zoning board of appeals associate has one unexpired

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three-year term. If you are interested in serving on our town board, please complete the online application available to the town website. For more more information, contact the town manager's office at 978-250202

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or email tmoff officem.gov. >> Okay. Thank you. All right. Next up, we have a public hearing for an amended application for an oil alcohol beverage license for the House of Chiron. Do we have somebody? >> Yes, Madam Chair. We have um a Pachaya

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Bun Wong and we have attorney Hannah Go representing uh the House of Chiron in the Zoom room. >> Okay. Um if we could have one of them um talk to us a little bit about what it is you're looking for. >> I can take this one. Hi everyone. I'm

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Anna Greeno. I'm representing House of Chron LLC, the applicant. Uh so essentially the change where we are before you again this evening is that uh we were asked to add a second manager of

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the applicant. So the LLC, this isn't the manager record for the license, but to add a second manager of the company entity for the applicant um to

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uh in order to have one controller of the company be a US citizen. So on advice of the ABCC, they recommended to add a second manager. And so we have updated our application and resubmitted those materials to you.

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Okay. Do we have anybody anyone on the board have any questions for this applicant? >> Oh, no. >> Um, this is a public hearing. Is there anybody here in the audience that has any comments or questions about this application? Apparently not. Is there nobody on

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>> Nobody's on the Zoom. >> Nobody on Zoom. >> Okay. Um, can we have a motion then to close the public hearing? >> Okay. I'll make a motion that we allow and >> we have to close the public hearing. >> Okay. I'll make a motion we close the public hearing. >> Second. >> Hear a motion and a second. All those in

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favor? >> I. >> Okay. Now we can take the motion. >> All right. I'll make a motion that we add a second manager to the um House of Chiron. I'm not even going to try the name. Um the House of Chiron LLC

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at 313 unit 2 Ch Littleton Road. >> Second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Not all in favor? >> I >> Okay, so uh you are all set for now from

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us. So, um good luck. >> Thank you. >> Okay, next up are licenses. We have a common victimless license. Do we have anybody on? Madam chair, I'm not seeing the applicant in the Zoom room at this time. I'm not sure if you will the board

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would like to come back to this if we expecting someone. >> Okay. They they are aware that they we we're looking for a representative to be here. >> Okay. We will skip on then to the next item, which is the warrant for the September 1st primary election. Um,

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anybody have any questions about that at this time? >> No. Okay, we will take a motion then. >> It's um tab seven. Tab. Yeah, tab seven. I'll make a motion that we initiate the

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warrant for the 2026 state primary. >> Uh we should sign it. Just say we'll sign it. >> Which we've already signed it. Okay. >> Just the motion should be that sign and post the warrant. >> Okay. I'll make a motion that we sign and post the warrant for the 2026 state

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primary. >> Second. >> Okay. Okay, we have a motion and a second. All in favor? >> I >> Okay, that was easy. All right. Um, next up

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is um goals um for um for fiscal 27. Um, I asked that this be put on the agenda um because it's about time for us to update our goals for the for the fiscal year that

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just started a few a few weeks ago. uh it might be uh more logical to hold off on this till we have a permanent new manager, but I did want to bring this up if anybody has any thoughts about um any on here that

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need to be continued and or any that you may want to add and including John Souza. You know, you I'm sure you've probably seen things that we could add to our goals for the upcoming fiscal year either for the board or for the uh incoming town manager. So, so first

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we'll take the board members. Anybody have any thoughts um on on doing an update an update today or waiting and or any that are on there? Aaron? >> Yeah. Um I would definitely um like an opportunity to come back with some of

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these. Again, I as I mentioned to you before that I had already started looking at these in preparation, but um I do think based on the on the um the timing and the way things are working out, um I would definitely like a little bit of John's input, but I also would

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like a little bit more time myself to prepare um specifically around some of the stuff that was in the strategic plan that did have kind of deliverables to community for the update. Um, so I need a little bit of time to go back and prepare for that. Um, and I would be

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okay um with uh with delaying this a little bit to give um you know, Alex and John a chance to to weigh in and add to it. I'm not saying >> we we can't get started on some of these things or get a draft out there, but I definitely think all of us collectively

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working together is a good idea. >> Okay, >> that's just my take. >> Okay, Dave, any thoughts? Yeah, I thought a lot of the items on here are pretty relevant and they're going to carry over. So, that was the good news. So, you don't have to recreate the wheel, >> but there are a couple items that probably need to be added and maybe a

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couple removed, but we should have some discussion on that before we complete it. So, similar to what you said. >> Okay. >> Okay. Jeff, any thoughts? I agree with Erin's assessment that we should probably wait until the new town manager is up to speed and let him and John kind

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of give us their feelings on some of this stuff. But to Dave's point, we carried through on many of these. >> Right. There are there are one or two I noticed that we have have not made it to, but other things kind of got in the way on some of the some of them. So,

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okay. >> And I agree with everyone else. >> Okay. So everybody's okay with um holding off on an in-depth >> Sure. >> Okay. So John, do you have anything you want to >> just on the first one of early notification of financial issues? So um

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ple please see our incoming town manager in the audience tonight. So, one of the things that I thought would be helpful would be I'll put together a list of any known issues either for the FY27 budget and going over for the the coming fiscal year so that when we you know after Alex

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starts we can go over those issues, get his input and his thoughts and then we'll be well prepared for that first tri board meeting that usually takes place in December. And then also I thought I'll be I'll I'll start the capital budget forms, the traditional operating budget forms and again I'll

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meet with Alex get and if he would like to change something you know that's as the incoming manager that's his perview but I'll be glad to start the process and then go over any >> uh major issues that I that I foresee and I just thought that would be a good way to do it and then like I said we'll

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be better prepared for that first tri board meeting. >> Yeah, that sounds like a that sounds like a good plan. Yeah, I mean it's a it's a good opportunity maybe if if there is something that that you know maybe could be handled a little bit differently or or more effectively then

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now is the time probably to do that but >> um it's worked well. So >> we can stick with that for now. >> Sorry to interrupt just to go back to that. So So John, there's a lot of things going on here and I was just looking through a couple of these. Um,

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so to to be a little selfish, would it be would it be possible and and I'm okay with no being the answer. Would it be possible to take a look at um uh some of the the u the sewer items on here um and see if maybe Christine could draft even

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a brief um update or status for us on that. And just so the board understands why I'm um um asking for something on there and again I it can be in any up and cominging meeting is just because um based on some of the activities in the manage growth strategy um committee I

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think just this board myself included and then being able to use that for for some of those activities would be great. So I don't think it needs to be you know the same level of update that Paul was doing but some sort of high level update on those would be >> would be good. Otherwise, I think most of these things we're in pretty good shape on actually.

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>> Well, some of the stuff is like, you know, potentially um connecting to the MW. I think we've we we did get a pretty >> correct index report on that. So, that Yeah, but the other stuff. Yeah. >> But just some of the work that they're doing on the, you know, the inflow, the infiltration, you know, the status of

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the of the reserve capacity, specifically the sewer items, that's all. And it can be a super brief one >> page. I'd be glad um have director Clansancy do that. And just so the board knows, in a management meeting, she had mentioned briefly that they will be starting smoke testing in a an area this

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summer in Chsford again. So it's that's ongoing. >> Yeah. And some of those Yeah, it does say ongoing, which means they probably will transfer over to the next absolutely [laughter] for many years to come. >> Absolutely. All right. Thank you, Pat. >> Okay. Any other thoughts on the on the goals at this time?

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>> Okay. Otherwise, we'll look forward to doing that in next several weeks. Madam Chair, excuse me. Um just just to update you. So um Hardock Patel is in the Zoom room and he is with Bavani Boston. So

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>> okay, we can go back to tab six then. Um >> six. >> Yep. For the common victor was licensed in Parker Road. Okay. So, um, if somebody wants to tell us what this is all about and what you're

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requesting, now now is the time. >> Hi guys, my name is Hard Patel. Uh, I I am from 126 Morris Street River, Massachusetts. This is um a fast food casual Indian street food restaurant

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um with 49 seats. Uh, this is our second location in Massachusetts. First one being in Shbury, Massachusetts. It is a it is a franchise from India. Um there's about 3,000 locations in India. Um and this is I think uh their 20th or the

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21st location in the United States. We do not have any alcohol and we do not um uh aim to get alcohol in the future. Um it'll be a mix of um uh sitdown and casual and fast food. If any questions,

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I'm I'm willing to take those right for now. >> Okay. Does anyone on the board have any questions for this application? >> Nope. >> No. >> Okay. All right. Um I guess we are ready for a motion then.

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>> Well, do we have to open a public hearing or anything? >> No. Not if it's not no alcohol public hearing. >> I'll um I'll make a motion that we grant a common vicular license to Second motion. [laughter] >> I'm sorry. I'm >> Ronnie Boston LLC.

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>> There you go. >> Was that a second? >> Second. >> Okay. All right. We have a motion in a second. All in favor? >> I. >> Okay. Congratulations. Uh, >> good luck. >> Good luck. >> Good luck. >> Thank you. Thank you guys. Appreciate it. And apologies for being delayed. That's what it is.

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>> Thank you for taking me. Appreciate it. >> All right. So, we will go on to Tom Manager reports. Thank you. So I have um just four items to share with the board this evening. So the first one is um just an update on double polls in the

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community and you can see from the report the total is 99. That's an increase of five from the prior month. Um and I did want to mention um there you'll see there are there are eight that deal with um town the town where is

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the last point of contact and I did talk with director Clansancy. One of the issues we've had is the um the aerial lift bucket truck is out for repair at the moment. So um once that returns to service, those will be addressed. >> Okay. >> And then um the second is a it's a kind

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of a four-page flyer from National Grid. So we recently received a public service announcement from National Grid regarding um a major $330 million um project to refurbish overhead transmission signs. and it's it's a area

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of transmission lines that run from Sandy Pond and Air all the way through Tukbury and all you and so it affects all the towns in between. Um the good news for residents is that um they're looking to upgrade 16 miles of uh lines

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that date back the 1950s and another 16 miles of lines that date back the 1970s. And they are having open house sessions just to um you know to get the word out to the community. And I just wanted to mention there is um the first session is

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July 30th at the Berka Public Library and then the second session is August 6th at the Chumsford Senior Center. Uh starts at 6 p.m. And they did emphasize that residents from any community can attend either session. So you don't have to be a Chumst resident to attend the

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Chumps meeting or vice versa. Uh that will be an ongoing effort for that project. Well, um John, I have a question on there's a letter that's included in a packet um with this. Do you know who received that letter? Did it go to everybody that would be in a

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butter to this project or is it just to the towns? Do you know? >> We did check with them and they are going they said they are going to send um direct notifi to notification letters to the director Butters of the transmission line area. >> And then the other they just reached out

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I I think I received it. They they just have general emails like the town manager or town manager's office. So that's where that flyer >> that I included in the packet came from. >> Okay. Thank you. >> I had one question. Sure. It's okay. Um the one thing that wasn't on here was

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did they expect any outages due to the rework that they're doing because that wasn't in there. And I think it's pretty important that we know that there's not going to be any or there may be some. >> Yeah, I could follow up with the National Grid representative. Um I know um they did say in the flyer the first

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year so the preliminary work will start in August of 26 go to August 27. It was more planning site preparations but I will have definitely asked that >> but somebody will probably ask right >> yeah absolutely >> especially if they lose power. >> Yeah.

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>> John I got one other question. Do we know who added those five polls last month? >> Oh >> we I can f I have the locations. Well, I know I know um we see that National Grid has taken care of theirs and I didn't know if it was Verizon or one of the

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other carriers and be curious to why they felt the need to add five more when we're trying to eliminate them. >> Yeah, I can follow up on that with the list which you carry. Following up on that, have they given us any indication when we can expect more

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removed or is this just well, we're going to let you know how many we've got and uh >> Yeah, it has been just going up recently. You're right. Yeah. Which is kind of unusual. You know, this time of year you would expect it to be going down. >> Really? >> So, >> yeah. Again, I'll ask I did contact them

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and unfortunately I haven't received anything back saying, you know, when a a schedule for the work, but like I said, the um the the ones that are related to the town, we will follow up on that. It's just an it's just a situation where the the aerial lift truck is out for repair.

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And then the next notice, I'm pleased to report that uh Representative Cataldo um included a provision or an amendment in the environmental bond bill. This is House Bill 5562 to um provide 70,000 for um storm water

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management and drainage and an inf an infrastructure assessment of the area near Sandra Drive and Donna Road. Um what we're what been proposed here is um the representative Catalo had sought some input on um

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projects that would involve um environmental improvements that are affect you know that are affecting the town either with climate change uh possible um flooding things that could result and um this is a this is a um

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project suggested by DPW and the whole idea is to um this area of town has four culverts in it and so drainage is very critical and so hopefully this study if it comes to fruition will um you know

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guide DPW's efforts in future years to um try to reduce some of the flooding or improve drainage um should we have a very heavy rain event or you know something that occurs due to climate change. So that was a good news story

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there. We'll have to follow that one. And then um the final announcement is um Chief Ryan provided me with an update. So the the contractor has informed us that the um South Fire Station will the demolition is expected to begin next

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Monday, July 27th. It will take about a week for that demolition work to um conclude and then at that point they will then mobilize and move their equipment and personnel to the West Fire Station site and begin demolition there. That's also expected to take a week and

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they did say that additional time would be needed for the site cleanup, debris, site grading, things like that. So, just trying to get the word out to the public because, you know, sometimes when you when you have a building in your community for this many years and people see it start to be demolished, they you know, it can be surprising to to folks.

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So, >> is is it um I I don't think I've noticed anything like on the on the homepage of the website, you know, maybe a little notification there that about this. >> Yes, I'll double check that. I know um town manager's office was going to add

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something and do a news flash. We also >> Chief Ryan um is planning to um send notices on social media and also traditional media like the Sun. So, we had sent um a press release previously and I know >> um Chief Ryan has contacted them just in

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fact as of today. >> So, >> okay, good. >> All right. So, moving right along. We're to appointments. First, we have um appointment of election workers. Um anybody have a chance to look through

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that list and see anybody they think shouldn't be an election worker on there? They all look very reputable. >> They they do. >> It's a thankless job. We know >> my former colleagues.

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>> Um so if we don't have any questions, we can take a motion to appoint the election workers. >> I'll make a motion that we appoint the election workers as presented. >> Second the motion. >> Hey, we have a motion and a second. All in favor? Hi.

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>> Okay. Thank you. And Joan, you have several appointments. >> Yes. Thank you. So, I'm seeking the board's um confirmation this evening of three appointments. The first is a reappointment of Edwin Paul Ericson as a town constable for a one-year term

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ending June 30th, 2027. I would note that the police chief Hanigan has provided a letter of support and recommendation for his work. Um and then two familiar names um have stepped up to join the parade committee. Um

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>> obviously it takes two people to replace me. >> Yes. [laughter] These are both one-year terms ending July 31st 27. So the first appointment would be for Aaron Cunningham and then the next appointment is for David Bva.

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>> You sure you want to appoint those two? [laughter] >> Yeah. I I do question your judgment on that. >> I think they'll do. I think based on their record of service, they'll do fine. >> All right. Does anybody have any questions about these three appointments? >> Oh, Paul's been doing that job for quite a while, right?

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>> Yeah. >> Okay. So, >> take a motion on on those three. >> So, should I do them individually or all three? >> We can just together. >> All right. I'll make a motion we accept the committee appointments as presented by the town manager.

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>> Second the motion. >> All right. All right, we have a motion and a second. All in favor? >> I >> I Okay, thank you. Okay, we're on to minutes. Everybody have a chance to look through the meeting minutes for the June 1st meeting?

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>> I did. Yes. >> Any additional edits, uh, corrections, or anything? >> Okay. If not, we'll take a motion. I'll make a motion that we approve the minutes from June 1st and

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second the motion. We have more than one. We do have more than one set. >> June 1st and what's the other date? >> Uh we have June 29th. >> June 29th and July 6th. June 29th >> and July. Yes, we have several. >> Okay. I'll make a motion that we approve

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the minutes from July 1st, July 29th, and excuse me, June 29th, and July 6th. >> Second motion. >> Okay, we have a motion to approve all three sets of meeting minutes. Um, in a second. All in favor? >> I >> I

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>> Okay, thank you. All right, we are to select board leaison reports and referrals. We will start with John. Um yeah, the um uh Chancer Center for the

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Arts will be um having a show on July 25th called Diamond Blues. It's a Jerry Garcia tribute band at the uh Cabaret Lodge uh cafe. Uh it's at 7:30, doors to

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9, doors open at 7:00. Uh and there is a cash bar available. >> Hopefully those dead heads happy. Just got to say. [laughter] >> So that's all I have right now. >> Okay, Jeff. >> Well, most of my committees are pretty

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quiet right now. Um, as I mentioned, parade committee is already receiving correspondents about next year's parade. And I know eventually they're going to be setting up a meeting as kind of a debriefing for this year and hopefully welcome some new members.

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>> Well, two at least we know of. >> Yeah. Okay, Dave, >> on my end, I did attend a nice little police swearing in ceremony for several folks who were promoted. So, we had we now have Commander Poor, Commander

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Zaminsky, Lieutenant Fernald, Lieutenant Brown, and Sergeant Maui. Uh, also, there's a new officer that was brought in for the town and officer Ducet. So, congrats to those who were promoted. Welcome to Officer Ducet. hopefully

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they'll serve the community well. >> Okay, that's it. >> That's it for today. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Um I'll go through these pretty quick. So, I attended the last board of health meeting. Um they're currently, you know, kind of business as usual. Um I did have

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an opportunity um Rebecca Gore from the recycling committee presented um a warrant that a a warrant article that they're considering for town meeting. Um and I did have an opportunity um to step into their meeting and just get a little

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bit more um a little bit more feedback from that. Um uh I also uh you know regularly attend the planning board meetings and and again I don't want to take away because they are crazy busy. Um but it it's was pretty much regular

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order of business and they continue to to march forward with a number of town meeting um warrant articles. And again, I always encourage people because the work that they do to to pay attention there so that you're not surprised by what's um going on or being discussed. Um and I think by attending those

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meetings, it will help you be much better prepared for for town meeting. Um and then we had a a managed growth strategy um meeting who we unfortunately lost um John as a member because we're keeping him busy um otherwise, but uh

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Mike took over and and did very well at hurting the cats. Um and we had a working session um last week and uh it's in preparation for um for some of the grants that NIMCOG is working. So we're working on two grants that will cover

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phase one and two. um and they continue to provide the uh the structure for us and there'll be uh some information requested of uh of DPW in the uh the water districts to start looking at um you know things like physical

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infrastructure um for the town so that uh we have a good baseline of what the status quo is of today. Um, and I, you know, we we most of this stuff is going to be readily available. So, I don't think we're we're challenging the water districts or the town too, too much to

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give us the status quo. But that work will continue on um by NIMCOG through the summer and the committee will meet again um in August and Octo uh September and October, I believe. And then, um I did join partially uh finally the

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Chsford Water District meeting. Um they unfortunately had a lengthy executive session. So I had to leave before that meeting um uh meeting finishes up, but uh you know I'm I'm starting to connect with the committee members over there and get a little bit better understanding at least what's going on

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in the in the center water district and we'll continue to um continue to work um work with those folks. Um, other than that, I'll uh maybe coordinate with Dave and we'll work on giving parade committee updates in uh in just place

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here, but they're giant shoes to fill. That's why we both had to join. >> I'm sure you do wonderful. [laughter] >> Thank you, Pat. >> Okay. Thank you. Um so, um just want to um send condolences to the family of Sean

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Shanahan who passed away recently. I don't know if anybody else on this board knows Sean. Uh he was building commissioner here for several years. Uh he was uh injured um doing his building commissioner work and had to leave uh

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employment of the town and uh recently passed away. So it was uh sad to hear that. um some upcoming events on July 31st uh which is a Friday week from this coming Friday at 9:30 a.m. the food

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pantry out back is going to be dedicated to uh Sandy Dunovan. It'll be renamed the Sandy Dunovan food pantry. >> Fantastic. >> If u anyone's available then uh be sure to come by. Um family members are going to be there. So we'll have a couple of

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>> What date is that again? >> It's the 31st. July 31st, Friday. >> What time? >> 9:30 a.m. So, hope to see you there. Also want to note that our next our next meeting, which is on August 10th, we will be

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receiving a an update from the school building committee for the proposed um new Moses Parker School. um the demolition of the one that's there and building a new one. It's going through the process now with the MSBA.

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As part of that process, this board would be responsible for uh potentially um setting a uh a special town meeting and or a a special election to vote for because we would have to

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have an override for that. So, they're going to come in and tell us more about the project itself and um I'm hoping that we can have our discussion at that time about how we feel about those two things, the town meeting andor the election and how those should go forward. So, just look for that on our

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next agenda. And also want to mention on September 21st, KP Law representatives will be here. We're going to have a meeting in the library at the the library um the big conference room for a committee orientation. We did one of

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these a couple of years ago and it was very well attended and committee members really learned a lot. It was kind of supposedly designed for new committee members to kind of you know get them up to speed on open meeting law and agendas and things like that. But we've also

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discovered that some committees don't really understand their responsibilities and or their authority. Some some have surprisingly although I mean not really surprisingly taken it upon themselves to to take action that is not really within

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their purview to do. So we just want to get some updates from town council and try to get that propagated to all the committee members about what you can and cannot do. So >> that's the 21st >> 21st which is a Monday. It's between our

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two Monday meetings in September. Um so hope to see everybody there. And the reason I wanted to mention it is when you do go to if you go to your your committees, your liazison committees, you might mention it there because I know the recycling committee especially is was very adamant that we continue

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that that tradition to have that because they learned a lot and I know everybody would quite frankly. So that's all I have for right now. So we will take a motion. >> Okay. Okay, I'll take a motion that we adjourn to executive session to discuss,

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excuse me, [clears throat] strategy sessions for negotiations with non-unit personnel and/or contract negotiation with non-un personnel regarding the responsibilities of the town manager pursuant to general laws

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30A section 21A2 and to review executive session minute exe session minutes meeting minutes for approval. Second motion. >> Okay, we have a motion and a second. We'll do a roll call vote. Aaron, >> yes. >> Dave,

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>> yes. >> Yes. >> And I'm Yes. >> Okay. So, we are um adjourned from our regular meeting and we will go to executive session at this time. Thank you.