okay it being 6 o' I'll call to order this March 10th 2025 meeting of the chanc select board and I want to announce that chancel T media is broadcasting this meeting live and also recording it for later viewing by the public so if you join me in the pledge of
allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic it stands Nation God indivisible with lice thank you and I also want to announce that select board member Pat Maloney is
joining us via Zoom uh this evening so with that we will do public service announcements first we have some announcements from the chumford health department uh some upcoming free events they are hosting sober Karaoke Every second Friday of the month from 7:00
p.m. to 10 p.m. at the chord Center for the Arts in the Cabaret room admission is free and snacks and mocktails are available for purchase um they are also hosting an opio overdose response training on March 19th from 3:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the
chelsford Town Hall in the fire training room participants will receive an opioid rescue kit that includes Naran um youth Mental Health First Aid training is being held on March 27th from 9 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the chelsford Town Hall the training teaches
adults how to identify understand and respond to sence of mental health and substance youth challenges among youth ages 12 to 18 they're also hosting a community adult and child CPR first aid AED class on March 18th from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the chelsford Town Hall in the
fire training room participants who complete the 4-Hour training will obtain an American Heart Association heart saers CPR AED first aid certificate that's valid for two years and there is a $20 fee for the card um in regard to some free services there
is care soless this is a mental health referral service that also offers housing and food and security support for chelsford residents and employees it's available 24/7 with multilingual support and they provide care regardless of
insurance um the health department is also hosting a depression and anxiety support group on March 25th it's every fourth Tuesday of the month from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. at the chelsford Center for the Arts it is open to adults 18 years
and older registration is preferred but not required they also have blood pressure screenings being held the first Thursday of the month from 9:00 a.m. to 2: p.m. or 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. sorry at the chumford health department and also the
last Thursday of the month from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. and that is at the chelsford senior center and no registration is required for those the chelsford health department is also partnering with the greater Lowel Health Alliance to host a Community
Focus Group to collect data for the 2025 grader Lowel Community needs assessment this helps decision makers and our community understand what health issues are most important Through The Eyes of the community members themselves participants will receive a $25 gift card and the focus group will take
approximately 60 to 90 minutes please contact them today if you would like to join or if you have questions um the public health and wellness coordinator and Public Health social worker recently completed a professional grant writing class this was vital as grants provided the funding
needed to create and sustain health programs enhanced services and address Community Health needs with these new skills the team is now better equipped to secure funding for Innovative projects and improve Public Health outcomes also they are announcing that
March is National Kidney month dedicated to raising awareness about Kidney Health and the importance of early detection and prevention of kidney disease we encourage everyone to educate themselves about Kidney Health recognize the risk factors for kidney disease and adopt healthy lifestyle habits to protect
these essential organs also the University of Massachusetts LEL is um has a public health panel uh the public health and wellness coordinator par participated on this health panel
for this senior seminar along with other public health professionals and students got a variety of information regarding jobs in the public health sector and were able to ask questions and apply for internships and last but not least from the health department they would like everyone to know that they have free
covid tests available in their office please one box per person in your family stop in anytime and here I have a public note noce the chumford select board and school committee will meet on March 24th 2025 to appoint one representative and one alternate representative to the
nooba Valley Technical High School committee for three-year terms ending March 31st 2028 applications are available on the town website at www. chelsford ma.gov application should be forwarded to the
town manager's office by 7 P.M on Tuesday March 18th 2025 we have a Freeman Lake Diagnostic and management assessment update open Office hours will be held at the Chelmsford DPW at 9 Alpha Road on
Wednesday March 12th from 1: to 3:00 p.m. to discuss the Freeman Lake Diagnostic and management assessment draft report feel free to come by or qu or contact Courtney Thompson at C Thompson
chelsford ma.gov with any questions here is an announcement regarding this chumford strategic plan share your thoughts on chelmsford's draft strategic plan by March 14th um there is a link here that you can
access it is um https bit.ly c h e l m p l a n to review the plan another announcement regarding the volunteer fair and recognition on
Saturday March 22nd from 1: to 4:00 p.m. at the chelsford senior center there is going to be a volunteer fair for those who are looking to get more involved in Chelmsford it is an opportunity for nonprofit organizations Community groups and town departments to connect with
potential volunteers and new members network with each other and showcase their organizations it's sponsored by the chumford public library and the chelsford senior center oh and at 2m. several longtime Chums for volunteers will be recognized for their contributions and a reception
will follow after we have an announcement regarding from Mass doot regarding the chelsford Lowel Bridge replacement project public information meeting uh this is meeting to update the public about upcoming work related to the chelsford Lowel Bridge replacement project this project will
replace two bridges in the town of Chelmsford including Westford Street over I 495 in chumford and Route 3A over I 495 on the chumford Lowel line the meeting will be Wednesday March 26th at 6 pm at the police training room uh for inquiries you can email
Chelmsford LEL Bridges at do t.state.ma.us um read this one no Harrison shsf for Town elections will be held on April 1st 20125 people may vote in person on Election Day or via a mail in ballot there is no early voting for The Town
elections the last day to request a mail and ballot is March 25th at 5:00 p.m. for any questions you can reach out to the town clerk's office 978 25052 two that's okay thank you uh okay we're now
at the public input part of our meeting is there anybody here that would like to address the the board on any topic please is it anything that's coming up later in the meeting or not oh no it's not then you should come now yeah yeah okay thank
you good good evening everyone so I just want to let you know you have three minutes okay great uh my name is Eric gath I live at 161 Boston Road as many of you may already know there's going to be a non-binding public opinion advisory question on the ballot at the local
election on April 1 uh the question States should the town of chumford amend its zoning and general bylaws to allow for the retail sale and delivery of recreational marijuana I'm here to speak as a proponent of this question and how a local cannabis dispensary could benefit the town as I mentioned I live
at 161 Boston Road I'm married with two girls 7 and 10 years old both go to SRO school first 20 years of my professional career I worked as a mechanical engineer designing mechanical systems in 2017 I designed my first marijuana cultivation
facility and since then I have helped over a 100 clients build dispensaries and grow facilities in Massachusetts in 2019 I applied for a license in the city of Malden and open Misty Mountain Shop up in 2022 throughout the last eight years there have been a lot of changes in the
industry I believe that the industry has become a lot more accepted many people are discovering the benefits of cannabis products and a lot of the stereotypes and concerns that were once associated with the products have greatly diminished I'll name a few when the
first dispensaries opened parking was a major concern it's now no different than a typical retail store many people were concerned with security I could speak from experience that dispensaries have some of the best security systems some with well over 60 cameras all products are tested by Third
parties before they can be sold in a dispensary there's still a black market for marijuana so having a safe way to learn and obtain products is a benefit to all our residents each dispensary could create over 20 jobs a lot of people love
working for dispensaries if I put an ad out on indeed I get over 100 applications a day and last but not least local tax revenue 3% of gross revenue from any dispensary goes straight to the town the town of Drake in a l both receive well over a
million dollars in tax revenue B Rea receives over 500,000 from one store chumford could expect similar numbers I'll be talking to Sam Chase of chasing the facts next week we haven't nailed down a time or day yet but uh please check it out and we'll talk a lot
more about this in the show so in summary I urge everyone to think of all long-term benefits that a Canabis dispensary could bring to the town and the community and vote in favor at the uh April 1 election thank you for your time thank you you thank you uh is
anybody else in the room that would like to address the board okay any okay thank you so we'll go to committee vacancies the following boards and committees have vacancies as of March 10th 20125 the CCA Town Hall advisory committee the clean energy and
sustainability committee the Commission on disabilities the Council on Aging board the Conservation Commission the cultural Council the historic district commission the holiday decorating committee the parade committee and the recycling committee if you're interested
in serving on a Town border committee please complete an online application available on the town website and for more information you can contact the town manager's office at 978 250 5202 okay thank you all right we have a couple licenses this evening the first
is a common victual license uh for plyer BS at 18 Boston Road anybody here they're on the zoom call okay Dan in huh okay there you go please turn your microphones on yeah we can't hear you Dana could you try
speaking still can't hear you still can't hear you can't you got to be kidding me you can't hear Pat either me was just here yeah you let Pete know Jesus hang on one moment
please you should have tested it what they have tested it he did we were told that it worked they've had meetings for may be a few minutes you want to just something else right yeah so we can do the lodging house license is anybody
okay if you want to come up to the to the microphone well we can't hear Pat if he has any questions I don't know how we're going to do this [Applause] we can't hear Pat we can't hear Pat Maloney either right and this is a
hearing so well it's not a hearing no well it's a discussion do the hand signal say something Pat he he did he just said it do the hand signal so obviously he can't okay if he has questions we we can delay it but let's let's try to try to
get through this one okay so if you want to talk about your license okay I'm Sandra ivos um my father's Leo was year he's the owner of the building I work with him as a property manager um we got a phone call
a month or two ago saying that we don't have an active license which we were not aware of this um and I guess it was a number of years it's it hasn't been active but we've been running the same house over there for years since
we've been when we purchased it it was run the same way so we were just looking to reactivate or renew our license that's it okay Paul do we have any anything that any reason why we know that that this happened no I said the we sent it out to
departments for a comment there were no concerns um you know is noted uh in the submitt from the health department tax collector's office Community Development and obviously you know building department will do a certificant of inspection but that's typical I think sp's question was how
did it happen we don't know we don't know they they you know they anually up for renewals and then like I said the best we can because we've had turnover in the administr part of our office is I don't want to say we missed it but it was just it was just not flag to Renewal and then and then
again it became to our awareness and recently that they they were operating at that location so it is supposed to be an annual renewal correct with our other all the other licenses so all right we don't know why it happened but but it did so any anybody
else have any questions concerns about renewing this license I have a question go ahead so um I guess it's been 11 years right and I don't know when this use table came into effect but I looked at
the chapter 195 zoning use tables and the property is in the ra District or ra Zoning for a boarding house house whether it's owner occupied or non owner
occupied according to the use tables it requires a per a special permit from the board of appeals right here so I guess my question is from a total compliance with I understand the Mass General law
requires we issue a license but given that there hasn't been a license in place for 11 years there's probably no grandfathering if that if that use table changed or something in the last 11 years do they
also have to now go get a special permit from the board of appeals or do we now need to ask Council about I don't believe so because this was reviewed by Evan and and Jose are a building department zoning law enforcement officer and and Evan who's obviously very familiar with the bylaws and we're
not aware of any bylaw violation or permit that's required well I understand that they weren't aware but I don't know if anybody looked at it well would that come a up in the the COI inspection the building department there been an ongoing use even though it's been
licensed use it's been an ongoing no but I'm saying they haven't had an inspection yet right right a COI inspection so is that something that would come up during that I would assume it may but I again my sense was is when they received this application for review they would have checked for zoning
compliance that go way back to the beginning when it license was almost I don't have an issue with renewing this license I'll just make that clear I just given that it's been 11 years I'm just asking can somebody make sure that there
isn't something with that time lapse that like I don't know when this use table was established or if it even existed this way when they were operating before Fire Fire Chief has some comments for sure if I can just add we have been
doing inspection is there every year and we convey any concerns we have to the building department so it's not like we see an inspectional Gap CU we're doing the inspections any information we have any violations we have we address it and we do um connect collaborate with the
building department so and she knows this that we're there so so I just don't want the message to be out there that it's not being reviewed and inspected because it is so as far as the zoning I can't answer that part right that that's all I'm asking can we just go check that
we'll check that before we release the license okay how long have you been doing this at that location uh my father purchased it I want to say 97 okay and it was the same type of building prior to us owning it or him
okay so so it's possible or likely or or what pre-existing well that would have had a got a special permit at that time maybe yeah so yeah I mean if you have any documentation about that that would be good but realizing it is 30 years ago
yeah I I the only thing I found that I brought with me is just old lodging license licenses and our documents of when we a were asked to fill out paperwork to get a license um but I
don't really have anything prior to that and then us purchasing it okay bu has something else to say just if I can add a little Clarity so when back when finnean owned the building we enforced it we looked at the um I think it was the bylaws back then
this was going back probably 20 25 years ago and we enforced the sprinkle provision so not only did we look at the fire prevention fire protection laws but also I know building at the time they did due diligence so my guess my sense
is some of the stuff that we're discussing tonight took place back then okay again this the sprinkle provision kicked in probably about 20 years ago okay so it was something we enforced on them all right okay so let's thanks and then I mean I'm not even suggesting the contingency I just would like to just
head check if so we could just check into that yeah and verify that there's nothing that needs to be done that would be great okay about a lodging license at one time used to get One automatically or something I'm talking about way back
in but I I did I thought it you know came kind of automatically with the okay any other questions then we'll have a motion I'll make a motion to approve the lodging house license for four score
Properties LLC DBA Stevens Manor at 146 Tings Boro Road as presented want to second that since a second all right we have a motion in the second we'll do a roll call vote Pat hi hi okay I'm an i 5 Zer okay thank
you very much thank you good luck you all right I'm assuming we still don't have that fixed yet no we still have no audio capability okay eliminating the waiting room do it I have no idea test test test now now he
can hear you Pat all right now we can hear you yeah now we can hear you all right so we'll go back um can you hear me yes can you guys hear me yes okay okay we can hear everybody we can hear everybody now we're back so let's go back to the common Victor license
pliables so who do we have speaking uh I'll get started my name is hung Lam I am uh one of the owners along with uh Dana neton on the line uh for a local friend franchise called pliables uh that we're hoping to bring to
chelsford so Dana yeah um so just a little background on us so we um opened our first pliables location right outside of BC where hung and I and a couple of our friends all
went to college um about six years ago now um and we're really excited to bring it to chelb it's basically adding a new healthy food option to the community um we um also spend a lot of time you know
giving back to the community Through various events and um fundraisers and and things of the like but yeah I mean overall it's just um a new healthy food option um we primarily serve smoothie
bowls smoothies fresh juices um and yeah anything else you want to add H yeah no um yeah so our main uh foods are the yasai bowls but we have like Baya bowls coconut bowls but it's all healthy food so there's no open Flames or anything so
I know that's always a a question um but we're going to be taking over the Dunkin Donut space uh right on um uh 18 Boston Road um but we're uh yeah we're excited to be here um to what Dana said uh one
of our goals when we do come into a community is to try to be a part of it uh as much as possible so I live uh a little bit south of Boston in Milton um so I am essentially boots on the ground so I rotate through to our different uh
different shops and we also have a uh marketing team with uh uh two Representatives that help to um just you know essentially say yes to everything that's what we tell them so um so we hopefully we'll be able to uh you know
support any causes and then uh hire you know local folks that's one of our goals as well is um just hiring some of the high school students and any college students that are home from Break um so that's uh one of the things we love about it as well can you have any idea
on your timeline when you when you'd be opening yeah I could speak to that um so we have applied uh for all of our permits and everything so we're I believe we're at kind of the the end stages I uh I swung by there um just uh
last week to the building department uh so they were just waiting on one more thing from our contractor I actually spoke today with Mark from the health department so he approved our actual plans I just have to um I just have to fill out a couple other uh pieces of
information uh from a health standpoint but once we do get the permit uh generally it takes about six weeks 6 to 8 weeks uh to build it out this one might be a little bit shorter because we're taking over uh the Dunkin Donuts so we're not moving any of the um the
plumbing essentially it's uh really just a lot of painting um and just more cosmetic Decor that we'll be updating okay any other questions from the board no okay so we'll take a
motion I'll make a motion to approve the common picture license for Pb chumford LLC DBA plys at 18 Boston Road swe 300 as presented second okay we have a motion
and a second so roll call vote Pat I George hi Virginia I and I'm I so congratulations and good luck and we'll be there soon awesome thank you everyone so much looking forward to
it take care okay we reports and presentations um first up is um Woodbine Street the layout yeah Madam chair just brief one uh at the spring annual town meeting the there's a street acceptance for an
extension to Woodbine Street and the way this process works as we know in the past it's kind of a cumbersome one is tonight you have to take the make a motion to the notice of intent to lay out the extension to Woodbine Street as a public way we then send that off to
the planning board which is scheduled to take this up on Wednesday evening they'll report back at your you'll have a report at your next meeting in two weeks on the 24th at that point you would approve the layout of of uh the Woodbine Street extension and then that goes to the town meeting uh it's
recorded with the town clerk so so the formal action as you can see just to orient people who are watching it we have a map here on the screen it's the end of Woodbine Street and closest to Market Basket or or the Town Line If you were to travel onto Woodbine Street um
up up to ultimately to delarian Terrace so um again as we've seen in the past as when the dpw's is going out doing engineering and improvements and drainage and so forth um they review matters remember the most recent one was
uh was the one up in Drum Hill on Parker Road and here's another situation where there's a section of Woodbine Street that's not been formally accepted um so you have the motion before you and again if if you make the motion for year tent
to lay it out um we'll then await a recommendation from the planning board at next meeting okay any questions from the board about this looks like not so we'll take a motion I'll make a motion that the select board vote its intention to lay
out of Woodbine Street as a public way the parcel of land shown as Woodbine Street on a plan entitled Street acceptance plan Woodbine Street chord Massachusetts dated August 29th 2024 prepared by O'Hara engineering service Mrs Inc and to forward the
proposed layout as shown on the plan to the planning board for its comments and recommendations pursuant to General La c 41801 i second okay we have a motion in a
second we'll do a roll call vote Pat I George Aon I Virginia I and I'm I thank you okay um next is uh representatives from Western and Samson about pest
remediation on 54 are they here yeah Paul McKinley's on the zoom as is Linda cook from Weston and Samson Engineers okay whoever wants to go first you're up yep good evening I'm Paul mckinl from Weston and Samson and ask my colleague Linda cook to join us tonight she uh was
inent instrumental in doing a posos source evaluation which was presented in a phase two uh report that went in end of December of this last year um and so uh thank you very much for pulling up the slide deck we wanted to give you I'll be giving you a brief um overview
of where we're at on on the mitigation and um and I asked Linda to present on some of our F some of her findings uh about the past Source evaluation which was included in that report so um if you could jump to the next slide so um this slide is we thought
we'd start off with a site map and a figure um just want to walk you through um some of the key features here to keep in mind as I talk about uh the overview of site mediation but also Linda is going to hit on a few of the um high
points in her evaluation so the uh on this figure the uh circles are are actually uh highlighting monitoring Wells which exceeded during our November 2024 uh sampling around um just to set
the table a little bit we sample upwards of 25 30 points sampling points on each uh during each seasonal monitoring round and the remediation system uh we installed a pump and treat system that's been operating and it's been U really uh
doing a wonderful job in areas that it can uh reach and we're left with only five locations that exceed current Mass D posos 6 standards so you'll see uh to the north is mw15 and that is in an area
we we call that the dog park um area a to the northern portion of the site U it's highlighted with MW 104 which is a well that's um been flagged by D um I don't want to steal lind's Thunder but this DP has always noted that there is a likely secondary source of pasas in that
area is why we're we call it out um the three circles uh sort of Central or or focused around the buildings are in the source area um I will say that our current remedial system is operating uh a little uh per DPS request we actually
had to modify the system and it's not operating quite at full capacity and our plan is as I'll get to another slide is actually expand the remedial systems uh radius of influence with a higher pumping rate to capture those three Wells that are circled um sort of in the
center of the slide there and uh and the and the well at the bottom of the site uh to the South is a location that also exceeds but it's close to MW 101 I'll highlight there right on Richardson Road and um Linda's going to talk about that in a potenti
alternate sourcing area on that location U and again just to to round out some of the locations Lind is going to talk about MW3 and WS pz2 which is in Cold Springs Brook it's a uh it's a location that was installed right in the in the Stream itself um and then we have
locations uh MW 113 and 114 which are North located on the North Chelmsford water district property so just uh please keep those locations in mind as we walk through the presentation Linda did I catch everything I think you did what are the circles where you don't
have them labeled are we are those ones you're also talking about so the uh again the the the the actual the circles themselves are highlighting Wells which still exceed Mass DP standards there's only five of them that we that still
exce exceed the mass DP P six standard during the November round so right at the legend there it sort of it it it uh shows you what those locations are depicting which are my question is of those five you've labeled mw15 is one that you're going to
talk about but are we not talking about the other four uh we certainly can um I I have a slide on them um like for instance the location that is south of the building it's called wsmw 106 is actually the location of the highest
past concentration it's in the 60s um and just to refresh the actual standard itself is 20 so if you um um I mean those those are the highlights all the other locations sort of the P 6 falls in the 30-ish range just by memory so again
I just wanted to highlight and show the distribution of exceedances that we still have left and and really the I guess the takeaway from this slide is there's only a few locations left that are exceeding Mass current Mass DP standards so um really we've made a lot of progress since we've uh started
started with this site you know few years ago yeah and some of those locations we're not discussing in detail we're discussing some of the really the alternate sources in those circles right on the property near the source area um
they are associated with the source at this property and not an alternate source so what I'll be discussing is more some alternate sources in the area that are not related to the D property the the DPW property that help excuse
me did did that answer your question and and maybe if we bounce through some of the a few more slides it might become clear doesn't appear to be working but yes it did okay so um again as I highlighted before just a quick overview of where we're at uh the pump and treat system we began operation on July 5th
2022 uh thus far as pumped about 117 million gallons uh and and we've had no uh exceedances and really the system's been operating very very smoothly we've had uh really almost no downtime whatsoever you know day here day there uh from a powerder outage but uh but
really has been operating very smoothly uh the data uh I'll be talking about is from the most recent November 2024 uh seasonal around um and as I highlighted before there's only five ws remaining of about the 20 25 to 30 locations that we
sample uh as I highlighted you know right south of the building this WS MW 106 this represents the maximum concentration on the site which is about 65 parts per trillion and that exceeds the mass D standard of 20 parts per trillion and that mass DP standard is a
is a sum of about six key compounds posos is one and Linda will we'll focus on those um I highlighted the dog park well this is something that Lind is going to get into a little more detail um in that it is does represent a secondary source U Mass DP was concerned
about this location and that and and sort of reserved the right to uh ask us to expand the remedial system into that area and mw15 at the northern uh that was the C the northernmost part of the figure um does have an exceedance but
the well that's in the center MW 104 has actually been below standards um so this is MW 104 that's highlighted there uh right at the dog park area that that's the well really um that's been of interest to D and it's been below standards for the last four rounds so
again um uh you know that's a that's a very good trend for us and and it suggests that expansion of the remedial systems to that area may not be warranted so again some good news um you back down the other slide just as a reminder mw1 which is in the p
in our source area um that well represented and that's where we put our uh treatment system and focus our efforts that rep used to represent the maximum on the site and the maximum on the site it was about 1,400 parts per trillion before we turn on the remedial system and we're down to
2.14 so a massive reduction in the in the posos in the source area uh it's been below standards for the last four rounds which is which is great and um and as I'll present in the next slide unfortunately the um Mass D standard is
likely to uh to go down in the coming months or years to mimic the EPA um thresholds that will be implemented and uh even there if if it goes down to the four which we think it will and that'll be on the next slide um note that that concentration will actually meet the new
standards yes so if you if you focus on this slide here um the EPA maximum contaminant levels for p are likely to go down in the in the near future and so I just wanted to highlight and have this up here to show you that even with the new standards in our source area from
our sort of key indicator well that represented the previous maximum on the site we actually down below these thresholds that new thresholds that when they're implemented um uh you know will have to meet in order to get Cy closure so you know even though they're moving the remedial go post on us I guess my
point here is that in our source area we're actually almost there at the new finish line now we we have some work to do around the fringes of where we can pump and treat from from the area of capture um but I just wanted to uh sort of show there that in the source area itself we've made really significant
progress and even meeting this new new proposed standard when it goes into effect um and so so just upcoming activities I mentioned before right now we have four sort of uh uh Media or treatment vessels uh on in the site structure there we're going to expand
that with two more vessels and that will allow us to pump and treat at pump at a higher rate from our recovery well and and expand the area of capture so back back to that original uh figure those three circles sort of in the center of the of the of the site we we should be
able to capture those and effectively remediate those at a higher rate to again meet the current or hopefully the new standard U if and when it's implemented so um you know again here are my Q takeaways you know we're we're mitigating the on-site Source area uh
posos is continuing to to decrease uh in the source area looks like uh other areas of the site as well and and I'll mention actually that the uh last round Wells that are on the North CH are monitoring Wells on the North cheler Water District were below standards for the first time all four of them that we
Monitor and we installed them on the North chelur Water District property so we're making progress on that front and uh and with that I wanted to transition over to uh to Linda's portion of the of the um discussion here and and her results on S the Pasa sources that are
represented at the sze and with that I'll turn it over to Linda thanks Paul yeah so um for the last report I did a really deep dive into the data and for each of these samples and comparing them um so what I'm presenting here we're
getting into some chemistry here um what we have on the right side of the screen are two their histograms which are showing all of the individual P compounds that were um detected as well as on the
actess that's the concentration so for the DPW Source on the top graph we have very high concentrations in that original Source back from February of 2022 um the P 6 concentration was 1,400 but what you're seeing in that
histogram is that posos was the dominant P compound in our source um this is really telling we can see this in in those locations in the source area we can see a dominant poos signature but
what we're also looking at in the bottom graph is we wanted to evaluate the upgradient What contributions are coming onto the site that aren't related to the PW so here again it's the same compounds the concentration scale is much
different here maximum concentration is at 14 nanograms um but what you can see here is that the distribution is different the relative response of posos is smaller than we see in the source and
I'm just going to look at two key parameters here one being the concentration of posos and then the second being that ratio of posos to pooa so as we start looking at all of the samples on the site we can start
identifying where are we having background samples for where are we having samples with a source impact so the next slide so here is just a um it's a scatter plot on the x axis we're just
simply showing posos concentration and that's on a log scale and on the Y AIS we're showing that ratio of posos to pooa so the green circle to the right is the source area before recovery so we're
seeing a high concentration of posos as well as a higher relative ratio of that posos to pooa um and we've started with the recovery well and what we're seeing in the influent is a much lower
concentration of posos as well as a lower ratio um those samples underneath we're going to now zoom in the next graph we're going to zoom in up um more closely but what we can see here is that we've had a significant reduction in
that Source area of the concentration and both the ratio in the next graph this is just zooming in um the blue box in the lower leftand corner we bracketed what the regional background is at this location
um background was based on what we saw in the upgrad an well as what we also saw in the Stream in that um pz2 location taken in um kstone Brook right next to the site so here we can back
bracket what our regional background is um Regional background in this area is likely I believe one of the primary sources might just be influences from domestic Wastewater and septic systems based on in my research it seems that
Chelmsford had a long history of primarily just septic systems and it was more recently that actually sewer systems and lines went in into um in place with a really big impact of
um it was necessary to help reduce some of that contamination to local groundwater so here we're just zooming in here what we're seeing here the mw1 144s is one of those Wells downg gradient of this site and on the um the
property the the water district property and we can see at MW4 we are seeing a higher concentration compared to background we're also seeing a slightly elevated ratio of that posos to
pooa many of the other samples when we're just focusing on posos as that primary contaminant from the DPW a lot of the other locations um around the site um are really falling within background range we are seeing slight
relative increases of peos in town Wells 3 and four but we don't see those increases in town Wells one or two or five and six so this just gives us a broad overview of what we're seeing um for all
of the data I do have some graphs coming up where we go into more detail about some of those specific location so we transition to the next slide so the information I'm presenting here on the next few slides it's all
formatted the same in the top graph what we're seeing is that past Mass 6 concentration the sum of six compounds and that value regulated in Mass should be 20 or less this is mw1 and this is
since treatment was initiated um I believe it was July 2022 with that first event in August and what we can see here for po both the mass 6 as well as um the individual parts of that is we're seeing
a steady decrease over time this looks great um the graph on the bottom I did something here I wanted to separate the component of posos as compared to the other five components that are included
in that PS um six parameter for Mass so as we look at that again we can see the steady decrease at monitoring well one with regard to posos and you know more there's a kind of a more consistent um for past 6 but you know alt together
with treatment at this location even those compounds have dropped out so the next graph will be for MW2 um which is also in this Source
area and we're seeing for past 6 we're seeing a concentration over the last few sampling events um it was down to 20 nanog per liter it increased up to 34 but when we look in the bottom graph
what we can see is that posos is still steadily decreasing um a little bit you know that decrease isn't as significant right now but what we've see is that the between May of 2024 and November we've
had an increase in the other parameters the other five compounds associated in that mass 6 so this would be an indication of an influence that goes beyond the the dpws um posos but you know it is this
related to um you know large volumes of water being pumped and pulling in some of the background um you know I'm not really sure but I think that might be associated with what we're seeing if we move on to slide three this
is that upgradient location that we've been talking about and again for past 6 it's that 20 nanograms we can see in the the top graph on the right that there's um there's definitely sampling dates for
which the 20 is exceeded or nearly exceeded up in the 19 nanogram per per liter range indicating that Regional background is you know definitely impacting water quality and what we're seeing with regards to past 6
concentrations at the DPW site so not only you know it's impacting these local conditions as well as Beyond and the bottom graph what we're seeing with the dark blue line is that posos concentration really you know stays
pretty consistent there so not only the DPW is not the only um posos Source in the area and what we're seeing is this low level that exists in our background the next graph has to do with
the stream um and again what we see in the top is that we have at least a couple of cases where the 20 nanogram limit was exceeded as well as you know many that are very close to it so again this Regional background is impacting
the conditions at the DPW site and Beyond um the bottom graph again is showing this sort of consistent concentration of posos as well as for the the other five p and the mass um the mass
profile the next site and sorry I'm flying through so fast I know you know we have some time considerations here at the dog park at 104 and this is the location that's pretty much real Center in the dog park um what we did see back
in February of 2023 is that we see this Con concentration Spike of posos without really much of a concentration Spike of the other compounds um it it raised to 125 nanograms per liter and then has
since dropped till from then so as Paul had said we're really at concentrations um since February of last year we've been below 20 nanograms per liter at the dog p park site and so you know an
indication that it it may may be that treatment system that's really controlling any migration into this area the next slide is for the 115 which is north a little bit toward the north of the dog park and um May indeed
actually be UPG gradient so the you know our the water isn't flowing from our site up to 115 it would be flowing towards our site um we're see a lot of variability at this location and we have you know a number of occasions where we
are above 20 nanograms per liter but when we look at that bottom graph on the right what we're seeing is the exceedances here and the variability are not related to posos our site
contaminant but really related to the other past that are part of the the mass dp6 and then the last site is 101 and this is just slightly South West um really
the adjacent property to the DPW just Southwest um and again what we're seeing similar to mw15 up at the dock Park what we're seeing here is really pretty a pretty consistent posos concentration over time
but we have a really variable conc conentration um of the other five compounds and we're seeing you know exceedance is more often than not at this location um really indicating that you know there could be an independent
um point source of pest at this location may be related to Prior operations at the site I believe they did Barrel relining which could have been a process that involved the use of past containing
comp compounds so that's a quick overview um I'll Paul is there anything else you want to add to to those comments no I think uh you know just to sum up I think you know Linda with her with her um Deep dive into the data and yes maybe if we could you know go back
to the figure here I can sort of uh wrap it up and I apologize should have put one at the end but uh you know from the figure again you can see MW 115 to the north and that 101 to the South and both of those have signatures that that don't represent the posos and so uh you know
as L just talking about posos and posos unfortunately they're very similar posos is is sort of the the family Suite of compounds and posos is the signature that's that's specifically um you know tied or tagged as a characteristic the
predominance of p pfos as to the release that came out of the structure so um there are forces MW3 and the pz U pz2 to the east again those are upgrading locations show different signatures and and the signatures of posos which are
centered around the site in the center there um are really you know we've been really uh capturing those with the remedial system and those posos signatures have have been decreasing in response to a remedial system operation so um really I guess I leave you with um
um good news and that the remedial system is affecting treating the P um signature and um through Linda's efforts we've really been able to identify Y and and quantify and sort of you know pull out the data that demonstrates the other sources which are affecting this and and
lastly I I'll leave you this is important it it it goes to our closure strategy obviously uh we're not going to be able to remediate these background effects which are Regional effects um but really um we're focusing on the effects of of the P released um which is
characteristic of what came out of the DPW operation so um it's really helping us to to narrow our efforts and I guess I'll leave thought okay any questions from the board for Paul or or Linda okay and can I just let me see if
I can just summarize this for a lay person so having read and looked at your presentation what what you're saying is is your latest sampling in November and I know you've taken some samples in last month but we haven't seen that yet but
the latest data samples of November show no exceedances on the two monitoring Wells on the Water District's property which is downg gradient from the town site it also shows that the the locations that are exceed the
the um P 6 criteria the three that are Central to the formal Highway yard operations in on the property are being remediated and your and your samplings are showing the posos is below the you know the the threshold re requirements
under the permitting from the state and federal sources and then you're you're concluding that there's sort of background or or the natural the everywhere chemical of what posos is is a perhaps which what's indicating sources for you know North and southerly
of the site uh as well as upstream and the monitoring wells in the brook and coming onto the site and so by the additional revisions to the plant that were done in December we expect going forward that the
continued uh treatment of the source site on the on the site really will continue to be below the threshold levels but the but the but the reality is is that there's other sources of the natural you know everywhere chemical
posos is sort of uh present in the in the sampling in the region is is that sort of a summary of what you're finding out there yeah I think that's uh pretty much right on Target um you know a couple small things I will say that the MW 1134 there's actually four Wells over there and all all of them are below
standards in this November round and um and one thing I I will tell you that we we were pl we were out there a few weeks ago in February but the site was all frozen over so we we're we're actually punting our seasonal round to March um I think everything's thawed now so I believe we're out there next week to
actually collect the next seasonal round so and you're going be once we have those results we'll we'll happy to be back and and talk about those results and you're going to be sampling the the district sites as well uh this time again we are also yeah like you know the road was completely Frozen we couldn't even access those uh you know a few
weeks ago in February but um I know the snow's gone from my yard so I I think U you know we'll be out there shortly great thank you okay thank you very much we appreciate the update and look forward to some more good news okay
thank you all good night thank you okay next up is the uh the policy for Town Council appointment we reviewed this at our last meeting um nobody had any changes to suggest or recommend so um Everybody o still okay with it had I
just have one question that I thought of um after this was came out in the in the second to last paragraph that starts if the board decides to evaluate other firms I think when we've when we've
looked at other firms in the past we've given existing Council the opportunity to participate in that process is that implied here or is that anything that you would want to state that existing Town Council has the opportunity to participate in this in
the yeah I mean I I guess we could make it put it in there specifically anticipate yeah I would that was my only thought and all right although there might be situations where we would you know put depending on depending on the situation they may or
may not right so I guess it doesn't necessarily prude preclude them depending on the situation right so I don't know how would you feel better if it wasn't there or well my question was what did you intend by that paragraph was it
that and and if it because it just says if the board decides to evaluate other firms the chair will reach out to qualified firms but it doesn't it's silent on the existing Council MH so I I didn't know
if you wanted something stated there or not or if you just want to leave it to the to board discretion so should it say after the if the board decides to evaluate other firms the chair will reach out to other qualified firms including the incumbent yeah for that
would work okay which may include which may include the incumbent incl because we may not want you may not want to but all right can I ask a question to you I feel like we T I know we talked about the timeline but does seem like two weeks so is two weeks enough time I
think so from one meeting to the next meeting to reach out to have them get back with materials and have someone show up is that'll turn right and and there's only so many you know it's not like we have 20 that we would reach out to there's probably you know no more
than four or five okay so and I think in the past we have given them you know that timeline and two weeks is pretty standard okay yeah that was M okay thank you they pretty much have the proposal written already yeah exactly propal and I think I think if there was an
extension needed or something the board could just do that at their discretion okay so uh could we have a motion with that amendment I will oh where am I I'll make a motion to um
adopt the Town Council appointment process is this policy to adopt the Town Council appointment policy as presented as amended oh as amended thank
you okay do we have a second I'll second it okay all right we have a motion in a second uh so we'll do a roll call vote Pat hi George I Aon I Virginia I and I'm
I 5 Zer thank you okay all right so we're to priorities and earmarks for uh the house Paul if you want yeah thank you madam chair since the board's last meeting the state legislature has made their committee assignments and has begun the process of
of hearings on the govern's proposed FY 26 State operating budget the house intends to adhere to a traditional schedule of adopting a budget by the end of April um which basically means that
they they're going to have to um release a proposed budget the second week of April uh and then amendments are submitted and then and then basically they they'll adopt uh and vote it and then send it off to the Senate uh for the beginning of May which the Senate will do its process in May and then
ultimately hopefully come to a resolution complete budget adopted by July 1st or shortly thereafter as that is Prelude basically because of that process representative Cataldo's office reached out to me and basically it's now time for the
legislators to submit their their budget priorities and earmarks um for the member communities um and so he's basically has asked a response from the town by this Wednesday um so I placed this on the agenda tonight and and submitted the
draft memo in terms of suggestions um in light of what the town has recently done in recent years uh we don't know because of the state budget uncertainty with the potential unknown of federal funding levels what extent of earmarks they will fund or if you know
there've been some years where they didn't fund member earmarks because it was so dire um but I think what we what we can do this evening is basically convey to the delegation in the house what general concerns we have on the state budget and also if there are
earmarks what they might be specific to chelsford I think they understand that the priorities of the communities is local Aid in terms of Chapter 70 funding you know Revenue sharing and so forth but if there are other items that the board may have and then if there are
earmark requests the three that I listed have been in line with what we've seen in recent years in terms of uh type of requests as well as funding levels for for the past what half dozen or so years representative arcero has
submitted a $25,000 um earmark for Senior Center food and nutrition programs um and this deals with food insecurity and as as as we know um the food insecurity situation
has only become more severe as we heard last week uh from representatives from the food pantry and the table of plenty so so again I think that warrants consideration the traditional funding level on that has been $225,000 in the meals on Wheel program
that goes out through the senior center the other two um the second one being the Freeman Lake management um as the board knows the they recently we've announced here they've recently had a hearing and we have an open house that was announced early this evening in terms of the Freeman Lake um treatment
in terms of the the water quality and and issues of freatman Lake and I think the $80,000 ones um was identified at the presentation and in the materials to help reduce or eliminate the nuis species and the introduction of of new
aquatic invasive species um and that and and it's almost similar to what you heard on the peas one of the concerns on the water quality at Freeman lake is the is the brook that spring that flows into Freeman Lake and so this they think around the 75 $80,000 level could
address some work in that issue in terms of almost like baffling what's coming in as a means of of of addressing the invasives and Aquatic uh growth in in the lake so that's why I offered that one and then the third one is we've seen
is this whole issue of the climate change and the tree canopy uh issues as was announced since our last meeting by the state and we've talked about they are doing a tree canopy restoration this year at the uh through a grant program
at the dog park um and so again this would further advance that uh in terms of the additional of planting shade trees and reduci of invasive species uh in the community um to again address air quality the urban heat island effect and
beautification of neighborhoods so those are three that came to mind and suggestions uh and obviously any others that the board may have um we can forward them along and then similarly next month or so once it goes into the Senate we can make additional ones to Senate a it um because you really only
need to get the ear marks in one house generally it's what carries you through so you could if some of these get funded you can submit all you know different ones uh to the Senator's office and and see what he may be able to help us as we've seen in the past okay any questions or other
suggestions for these HKS Paul can on the Freeman Lake one so at the public meeting that they had the the input session there was some low hanging fruit that had some urgency to it that Christine Clancy said she had in her budget to
start because this would be too late for that so this is that next step exactly yep the the initial steps they're going to be out there doing right away terms of the beach area and weed poles and so forth and none of this goes to chemicals because we know there's still that issue
hasn't been resolved but so that's why I didn't do anything in terms of that because the last thing we want to do is have it hung up with a an appeal which is kind of what's brought us to where we are in the lake process so this again again is is you know again is trying to address issues to improve the the the uh
quality of of the of the lake water itself and and I thought obviously representative Elliott who's been you know very much involved with that and it's this does fall in his district I'm sure that he he may sign on as a sponsor for this so you kind of see I got Senator representative arier with one
this one probably falls in the the lap of of Representative Elliott and then again we could assign the third one or another one to representative catalo okay anybody else have any comments did they take UMO off the
housing yeah he's now on the transp he's now chair of the transport which which is pretty impressive because I think as he's put it out he's made an announcement he led the Major housing e b Bond Bill last session and this year this session the governor is really
proposing a major transportation bill so the speaker basically pivoted representative arcero to now cheer that effort so I think it kind of indicates that uh the the speaker you know wants him you know as a result of his past achievements in in this important effort
for transportation okay you know who is now charg your housing uh uh it's no it's no one in our it's no one on the other end ofth nobody in our area they got all the money down here last okay um next up is a suggested
meeting schedule for April um George and Virginia you probably don't care uh you um this is the time where we are looking at the April because we're starting to schedule hearings and licenses and this year is different than last year because of the number of
Mondays and Tuesdays and such that fall and when toown meeting Falls um and so last year we sort of had an extra Monday um so what what this does because remember the first this year is a Tuesday which is why the election's on the first last year the first is a Monday so we had an extra Monday in
April before town meeting the way it is now um the election being on the first and two days later the board would do its traditional reorg which is a real brief you know ceremonial meeting and then come back the following Monday which is traditional on the 7th um but
because we lose a Monday two weeks after that would be the normal board meeting but that's the Patriots Day holiday and then the Monday after that becomes the first session of town meeting which could go three sessions so the problem is you either schedule back toback Mondays on the 14th or you're GNA have
to pick a different night of the week uh the week of the 21st or some other time because you could be basically going like four to plus weeks without a meeting depending on how you know the town meeting projected schedule goes so that's why I bring it here to help us schedule hearings and and licenses and
so forth yeah and recommendations for Tom meeting yes yeah that that that as well so because you'd have the extra meeting so I think so I think clearly you want a second meeting before spring annual town meeting starts the question is do you want to do it on the subsequent Monday the 14th or you'd have
to do it during the week of the 21st um which then bangs you into other board meetings quite frankly because like the planning board will be meeting the 23rd and that will be the night of the town meeting information session and so forth yeah I mean I think the Mondays are are fine you know you okay with that
Pat you okay with the Mondays um yeah I uh my physical attendance May uh still be tenuous at that time but I would um I would like to um meet that schedule at Paul's presented and uh I can at least uh a show that I can attend remotely okay great again if something comes up
we can schedule a special meeting if we need R we great thank you okay um bit Awards yeah one bit award this evening is a significant one this is the west and south fire station design of services our fire chief Gary Ryan is here in the room obviously it's
very near and dear to him and been part of the building committee and and and uh fire station study committee process as as obviously Virginia was the good news is they receiv received seven proposals for designer services for the fire station process um the subcommittee of
the permanent building committee uh completed the interviews and basically came to a unanimous decision uh to recommend Galant architectural Studio as the design Des of services uh that that recommendation was adopted by the full
permanent building committee their fee schedule uh comes within the budget for the project um and so therefore the the the request this evening is for the select board's confirmation of the bid award for the fire station design Service uh contract to the glant
architectural Studio okay are there any questions uh about this uh quite lengthy they do have a lengthy proposal but they're very experienced and I think that was one of the things that's impressive is their their work um
on on previous fire station projects Chief anything you want to add to this or no I'm good okay all right thanks so I just have have one just it just looks like it's a typo I think it's on the the certificate of authority from the meeting of the board of directors which is kind of which is about page 95 yep um
it looks like it has the wrong date at the top it says the 2 day of January 202 four I think they mean 2025 yeah it could it could be un unless is that is that relevant or important to have that be accurate yeah yeah that would be it
should be 25 because you look at the date below it's dat of 25 yeah that's a typo right okay so thought I'd point it out in case it needs to be corrected but maybe not um so if nobody has any questions J since you were on the fire
station I trust their process all right so we'll take a motion I'll make a motion to award the bid for west and south fire stations design Ser designer services to Galant architecture
Studio as presented second okay we have a motion in a second we have a roll call vote Pat I in Virginia I and I'm I thank you okay reports yeah real briefly this
evening the first and probably most U pressing one is the town's emergency ambulance services contract um basically three years ago we we awarded a contract to what was then Trinity emergency in healthc care transport uh division of
pridestar and it basically is a three-year contract with two one-year options for uh extensions at a 5% increase in the annual fee we're now at the end of this fiscal year uh in just over 3 months uh at the end of that three-year period so basically I'm
notifying the board that I'm exercising the town's right to extend that contract um as as as required I don't we've never done sort of board confirmations of extensions because you've approved the contract is in general but I just wanted to make the board aware that I'll be
exercising formally the notice um on the contract extension so I just have a question on the second to last paragraph it in consideration whereof the party of the second part which is the town agrees to pay the party of the first part isn't that reversed yeah that
it's yeah you're right that is that is a typo but right because it's it's the if you go to the early in the part Trinity is the first part so it should be the first part to the second part okay all right just want to make sure we don't have to pay we're not going to pay them for the
services the next item I have is the um inform the board that and that the where how we're doing it tonight the hybrid uh remote options for public meetings is is once again expiring this time on March
31st um we expect the legislature will act upon it um but thus far there's no known date for legislative action so I just wanted to the MMA has been pushing this out as well uh Mass Municipal Association uh and just to informed the board and the community that this is
something that I think we found to be effective uh and and it sort of pressures on both sides but I think the the position of the municipal Association is to continue to leave it at local option which meetings they they conduct and how they conduct them so I just again just point
of information to let people know that we're looking for legislative action on this I don't know if you want to even if that does expire the way we're meeting tonight is still legal still be legal okay as long as we have a quum present and the chair is present but but ultimately under this that if there were something like you could you you know
what what what as you describe what this could happen but if if there were three of you remote tonight we could not do it exactly right and there are some communities believe or not that that are still doing you know significant amounts of meetings even select board meetings fully fully remote so okay so anyway I
just wanted the board in the community to be aware of that and then the last thing on my report is to formally notify the board and the community that uh the clock decorative clock for vinyl square has been order ordered as you you call Bill Jette was in several months ago
given the presentation the fundraising efforts and they've sent a deposit uh for that payment and in several months that clock will be uh fully paid for and delivered and installed with the coordination of DPW so just a status report on that on that
effort okay thank you all right next thing is meeting minutes we have one set of minutes from February 24th anybody have any edits or Corrections on this set of minutes if not we'll take a
motion make a motion to approve the select board regular meeting minutes of February 24th 2025 has presented second okay we have a motion in the second we do a roll call vote Pat
I Aaron Virginia I and um I thank you all right we're two Selectmen lay on reports and referal select Bo members not selectman Pat have any um yes um so I want to update on um permanent
building committee um you just heard from Paul that the um uh designer um you just we all just approved the designer um selection by the subcommittee um so the next steps now are there's an RFP
out for the um owner project manager that is due in uh March 27th they'll be conducting a site visit on Thursday for um interested folks to come so once um once the uh proposals come in from the
OPM um there'll be another um selection process and then once you get that OPM on board and now that you have the um architect on board um you know you can start the schematic design process and uh and startop moving down the road on
that project so that's some good news um also from per building committee um most folks have probably seen that uh there's new metal siding on North chumford fire station and um just to reiterate what
happened we had a severe failure of the um uh faux brick siding that was put on there and um so it all had to be removed and we didn't see um any um any uh good way to try to put the same thing back on
so it was just decided to go with um some metal so out of that um there's been a few neighborhood concerns of the um just the broad sidedness of the gray siding if you will so um the prent building committee has um is
entertaining a new trim option to try to just put a little more architectural interest into the U building and um um just try to um break up the vastness of the um of the uh long side of the building if nothing else but um but to
break up that vastness of the uh solid gray siding so um so they're awaiting um a trim option on that and pricing and um they'll be moving forward on that um so that's the permanent building committee um on the um School building committee
for the park um uh Middle School we um there was a meeting today of the subcommittee for the selection of the OPM um we had received uh proposals a couple
of weeks ago and um so the subcommittee shot listed um um down to four um people that we'd like to interview those interviews will be conducted next Wednesday so we're finally off and running on that once we uh do those
interviews um we will um pick a finalist and then we will submit uh on April 16th to uh um uh msba Mass School building authority of our preferred um uh owners
project manager and then once we get their approval we have a meeting with them on um actually their approval will come on a meeting uh on May 12th with mass School building authority and that will give us um the time and and um and
release to go ahead and hire the uh owners project manager so um that will be good that if we can get that done by may we would immediately move on to designer selection and go through the same process such that we have the um
designer on board uh by Midsummer latest um and then we can uh get down to the same work that the perent building committee is about to start which is um um educational review um schematic design uh and so on so that's what's
going on on the um School building committee and that's all I have this evening thank you okay thank you George Aon Virginia uh yeah so from the North Chelmsford water district they're going to be posting their hydrant flushing
schedule for the spring season soon and they'll be sending out information um as an insert with the customers bills when those come uh just a follow up on the Strategic plan uh Public Service
Announcement so the public comment is due this Friday and then the committee is meeting on the 27th of March um to review whatever comes in from that and then there'll be an iteration and the committee will meet again on April 12th
and then uh we expect that it will come to the select board after that for adoption um the ledge road truck traffic issues have been with the select board for years so I just just want to mention that the uh zoning board of appeals
hearing is expected to resume on April 3rd and finance committee is resuming this Thursday right Paul yes uh with the budget hearings and also the reviews of the warrant articles and then the only other thing I wanted to mention is um I don't know
several months ago I had noticed some reporting from National Grid about the gas leaks that they have under the ground in the regions that they serve and I talked to Paul a little bit about it which is really not much that's in our control but then we recently had residents raising concerns about that too when the last quarterly report came
out um so you know Paul explained that this is really under the purview of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities and that from a legislative standpoint Senator Barrett would probably be our key legislator given his chairmanship on the Telecom and
utilities and energy committee um one of the things that I talked to Paul about is if if that's the way to work it that the board might want to consider the next time we bring our legislators in putting that as one of the agenda topics to you know is there anything they can
do to help their constituents address those leaks and it's kind of like to me it's almost like the double poles like that that's not out of our control either but look where we've influenced it to the point where MMA is putting some proposed legislation and so I I
think that might be an um important topic for the community to consider okay in the next round thanks okay I just have a couple of things uh first of all um last week we welcomed a new uh patrol officer to the uh chanc of police
department uh Derek Stark who was a transfer from another community so that was good we didn't have to send him through the police academy he'd already been so that was a good thing um also wanted to mention that the northern middle sex Council of governments is sponsoring um a greater low economic
Summit um at Cross Point Towers uh at U ukg which uh used to be Kronos um on Thursday March 20th from 8:00 a.m. to 7 p.m. they have like a half a dozen different uh sessions so um you can you
can check it out the schedule and uh register at the ncog website necco.org Summit and it also includes a guided tour of the rail trail in that area so something not to be missed but you don't have to be there the whole
time you don't have to be there the whole time that's correct all right so that's uh all I have so we'll take a motion make a motion to adjourn second there we have a motion in a second a roll call vote Pat hi
hi hi and I thank you very much