Hello everybody and welcome to the Monday, June 2nd Town of Conway select board meeting. I'll call the meeting to order. I'm going to skip down to new business. Uh second uh discussion on new business is the discussion and vote to authorize Mr.
Bob Armstrong and Verinique to sign the new electrical aggregate contract for how we get our pay for our power. So, I could talk a little bit. I don't I don't know, Elaine, you weren't on the
board the last time we did this. Um, and I and I never know how much people understand what this is all about. I know you got us good rates. I know that much. A brief overview. Okay. Well, I didn't get you good rates, but I mean, uh, we were very lucky and this was, uh,
4 and 1/2 years ago. Yeah. And we started the aggregation and we got at even at the time pretty good rates not knowing that the Ukraine war was about to start. And when it all
occurred that meant that we as a country started shipping natural gas to Europe, which meant our electricity generators had to pay world prices for natural gas for the first time. And the price of
natural gas skyrocketed cuz Russia was denying natural gas to all of Europe. And we had a three-year contract. And so we continued to get electricity at our contract price, which was a fraction of what other
people were paying for a while. Um um you know, it's really nice that people say, "Oh, thank you." But I, you know, it's only thank you that that I I did help get the whole thing started, but the good rates, that was pure luck. Um,
and then a year and a half ago, that three-year contract ended. And so we before that, we had had to sign a new contract. And and we got okay rates, but they didn't look great. So, we only signed up for a two-year contract because the rates weren't spectacular.
and no and we didn't know what the future was and uh so now we're 6 months or so away from the end of this contract and electric prices have dropped a bit and it feels like a good time for us to go out to bid now. Our 2-year contract
still has 6 months or so left. It'll end in January, but um it feels like it's a good time to to get a bid to lock in a bid. and if we don't get a bid we like, we don't have to take it. Um, and so a
week ago we had a meeting. Um, one thing that that I'm pleased with is that we started with 13 towns in our aggregation. We're now at 16 towns. Leverit Wendell and Ashefield have
joined our aggregation since we started. Um, and you know, the more the marrier really, right? Uh, and ladies, well, that I begged Ashefield to join us. They were not interested and then they really regretted it and Leverett was a little
slow and and and Wendell and they went on their own. So, they've had an aggregation um but wanted to join our bigger aggregation and we got better rates than they did because last time you did this, they didn't even offer the longer term contracts. We could have gotten a
three-year contract. It just wouldn't have made sense because of the rates at the time. Yeah. We But but the rates weren't great for the three-year contract and and so we just went with the 2-year contract and and I think it was good because now the rates are lower. So we're going to have slightly
lower rates. Um so what's going to happen is a week from Wednesday, I think it is, we are going to get the official bids. We've requested bids from a bunch of companies. We have bids from new some
new companies. Um, some of those new companies want to bid, but they couldn't get their bids uh us for what they call indicative prices. Pricing that are indicative of what they would bid if they were giving us a real bid, but we can't take any action on them. Yeah. And
and and a couple companies didn't provide us with indicative bids who want to bid. So, we don't know what they're going to bid, you know, and uh and so on June 11th, I think is the date, we are going to get at at about 11:30 or so, we
are going to get real bids. Uh um we're we're going to get them about noon because our broker formats them in a way we're all used to looking at them. Um, and we'll get bids for short-term, medium-term, long-term,
uh, and for a range of what we call products. Um, no additional renewable, um, uh, some amount of, uh, renewable that comes from wind farms in Texas. Uh, some 100% renewable, 5% renewable, 25%
additional renewable, 50% additional renewable. Are the rates based on the towns? How many towns agree to those rates? So, when we started this, we had a choice. Um, I mean, this is great. I
didn't, you know, I'm happy to talk all night if you want, but but when we started this, we had a choice where we could, each town could get its own rate. In other words, and the towns are different. You know, Deerfield has a different electricity profile than
Conway or Charlamont. You know, if you have a lot of industry, you have different rates. If people mostly are at home, you have rates. if people mostly are no one's home all day long and everyone goes to work and comes home at six o'clock you know so and and the
electric companies they pay um a a variable rate depending upon when they buy the electricity that they then provide to us and so the the more so well so so we pay the same
kilowatt hour rate no matter when we use it whereas they pay virtually nothing for electricity at night. The and and but and so the they're they pay more than they charge us for electricity they
provide us at 3:00 4:00 5:00 in the afternoon and so they have so there is a variable amount that they pay and then they average it out and they charge us the same amount and that's about to change. This has nothing to do with our
aggregation, but Eversource is about to install variable rate meters over the next year in all of our homes. And then once that's done, they'll develop a plan where they will charge you less for the
electricity that you use early in the morning and more for the electricity you use during what's called peak hours. and and then the people will have an incentive not to charge their electric car in the afternoon or run their dryer or do the things that that use a lot of
electricity. Interesting. But all all this and I don't know how this is going to affect our aggregation. You know, we but right now it's that's the future. Right now we're pretending it's all not going to happen. We don't have variable rates. Uh so okay. Okay. But if we're
going to um so we are authorizing you to sign off on the new electrical aggregation contract that means that when they come back to you next week at noon with that's what we're agreeing to is that you and Baroner can make the final decision. Right. Okay. Right. I'm
just the alternate. It's really Bob. I'm just saying. So, so normally, normally in many towns, the selectmen like being important and knowing nothing, they then get on the call and
they listen to us talk about stuff and they say, "I didn't understand any of that." And you know, it's kind of like it's a little late for you to ask and you know, why don't you talk to the people in your town who have been at this for a long time at at this for a
long time and and and you guys and and the Conway and I was fortunate to be on the select board and I did both roles but but um you know I you guys haven't demanded that level of knowing that you have have played this role for a long
time like you know more about electrical aggregation than anyone else in this town and that you have it on select board. I feel very comfortable letting you make the decision. As long as you don't go around diagnosing people, I'm going to go get so um and and the thing is what we will have to do is we will
have to get all 16. So, so we we had two choices. Every town could get their own rates or we could say we are going to have the same rate across our 16 towns and and very strongly all 16 at that time 13
towns said we want to be a unified group and we want everyone to have the same rate. And it took some people a while to realize that that that Deerfield is probably not getting as good rates as they might get. And Charlemant is
getting a much better rate than they would get. And Deerfield is willing to say that's okay with us. And Charlemont is saying great. Uh so, and how's Conway doing? Oh, we're in the middle. We're in the middle. Uh and and so when we did it
two years ago, we we didn't I don't think we even asked for per town rates. We just wanted the group wanted to stay as a group. Uh and and so we all everyone across our group pays the same. And so if I look at the indicative
pricing right now our our default if somebody is not in the aggregation they they get moved from ever source into our aggregation they go into our default product which is 25 additional 25%
additional renewable over the minimum that the law requires which is what Eversource sells and right now we're paying about $15 15 cents and our new rate for that will be about 14 cents according to the indicative pricing. And
we also have a product that says no additional and right now Eversource is charging about 14 cents per kilowatt hour and our new rate will be around 13 cents per kilowatt hour. And the one
thing that if you guys want to state an opinion on and we are going to have to say this on June 11th today we have another optional product which is 100%
renewable. And right today that's costing us 18 cents per kilowatt hour and we have a bid on that for about 15 12 cents per kilowatt hour. And I would propose, this is you guys,
but I would propose and and the problem and the sad thing for me is that almost nobody takes that. A couple people who have solar panels and never buy any electricity take that as their default product, but they never pay it, but but they feel good that they're signing up
for it. But almost nobody who's actually buying electricity buys that product. And there is a cheaper product which is about 15 cents per kilowatt hour which is a
different form of 100%. So there's there's different kinds of renewable and class one renewable electricity means it's made here in New England and it's um and it's
uh made using certain you know it's made from solar or wind basically and and it's made in fairly new generating plants. So an old hydro plant wouldn't count as class one. And they and they do this they separate these classes to
encourage people who were creating new generating plants to create solar and wind and and to give them you know an a little advantage. Um, and we could we could have a product that we can call 100%
renewable and that would consist of exactly what the the minimum product that Eversource has or the state has for for for electricity plus and then we only have to add 31% additional class one renewable and
that would make us up to 100%. In other words, 69% or whatever that difference is is already renewable, but it's renewable under not class one. And and if we add a we if we add a little bit of
renewable, we could then advertise that as being you're you're buying 100% renewable. It's just not 100% class one renewable. Does that make sense? Yep. Yeah. and and so and and maybe if it only costs a little bit more than our
default product, maybe more people would buy it. I don't know. You know, people can buy whatever product they want. But so, so we are when we say yes, we're going to go along with the rates and we want to stay in the aggregation. Um, we
also get to say these are what we want for our products and you guys could change those products to whatever you want them to be. At the time we basically picked no additional 100% renewable and one in the middle that was
about the same cost as Eversource which when we did a survey almost everybody said we would be happy to buy additional renewables as long as it's not a lot more than or much more than what Eversource pays. we would pay every source. We're we like renewable um and
and we don't our goal is not to get cheapest electricity we can buy. There are people in town who take that and that's fine. But um so so you as a board can say we would we want what we want for products and and it's been
disappointing to me. We're kind of wasting a product if nobody in town is buying it. Yeah. You know, we we have it. So Okay. I mean, I think it's as long as everybody else has the option for to stick with Ever Source, I
think it's worth the extra cent and a half per kilowatt hour to do 100%. Okay, it's great. That's who we had before. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Um I want to thank you for your continued support of Conway in this. Um, so you know, since we have
people joining us, I will um go ahead and move forward and make a motion to authorize Bob Armstrong with Baronique as the backup to sign our new electrical aggregate contract when it is ready. Second. All in favor? I I thank you
again. Thank you very much. Thank you for the education. Okay, I'm happy to bore you. Oh, it's interesting. I find it interesting. made [Music] some great
the guys that are doing the flag and directing like they're Oh, you got Thanks for doing it. All right. Top of new business is discussion and vote on new plans for uh the infrastructure in the Pine Hill,
Upper Baptist Hill. No. Okay. Area. [Music] Okay. Um, we want to since you and Eric were with GCA last time, do we want to discuss the history of how we got here?
I know there was a proposal that involved, that's why I wanted George here. There was a proposal that involved having to use his land that he did not want to move forward with. Um, and that's how we got to this. Yeah. Well, I think this is the proposal that
we have on the table from GCA. Um, I've done we did a walk around um on a Baptist Hill with the residents. Um, I did a drive around last week with Ron um going over the proposed plans. Um,
so Nate's not here. No. Okay. All right. So, I don't I mean, Ron, do you feel comfortable kind of giving an overview of of the proposed changes to the I think most people should be happy with how it came out.
Um, the starting with the upper end of Upper Baptist. There'll be a catch basin that gets added up by Kevin Down's house. That'll get piped down to the next catch basin. They're all getting
replaced on upper baptis. Um so the first one, the new one and then the one existing one gets replaced and then the third one down is where the pipe goes across the road and goes down
to Joonet's property down into across 116. That pipe is going to be utilized and we're going to add a catch basin down in front of um Trish Casey's house that's going to
go back to the one in front of um any St. Jack's old house and going down to Joe's property. That's where that section ends. Then we're going to put a catch basin in
front of Donna's where the existing one is. We're going to move it up to the road. Put a catch basin on the other side to as a overflow pipe so that that pipe the existing
pipe remains but it's a strictly an overflow pipe. From there you go down in front of Hardy House where the Culver pipe now crosses the road that gets a catch basin. Same
deal. The old pipe gets there or there will be a pipe going across here as an overflow. This is all for safety precautions. When we get to the huge drains, it's doesn't overload where
we're going with the water. There'll be a drop inlet which is basically a catch basin but a cement top with openings on the end in the common at Pine
Hill which the pipe coming down upper baptis will go into where the pipe from across the road there. So if there's issues with water coming down Pine Hill, that'll pick it
up and go into the drop in L. From there, we're going down into the intersection. There'll be a new catch basin in the intersection and it turns and goes down Baptist Hill down
the left side going down the hill. There's already an existing one that's tied into the current system. That one gets replaced and that pipe gets removed between the catch basins.
So two two catch basins, I believe it's two going down. In fact, this hill on the left side going down are now independent of the ones on the right side of the hill. You get down the bottom of the hill at Shel Falls Road. There's a catch
basin at the intersection and then we turn and go down Shelurn Falls Road. There's already a drop inlet that we're going to replace that. And we're going farther down just
before the shed on Chall Road catch basin there. And then we're crossing the road and dumping the water into town property. So all the water off upper Baptist and half of Baptist Hill will now go to town
property. The catch basins that are on the right side of Baptist Hill will remain going into the Mast Dot system. So that seems very robust. So yeah, seems extensive. Not only are you
adding new, but it's I don't I didn't see one area that you said where there's existing that they're not being replaced. Everything. Yeah. Except for the ones coming down back on on the left. On the right side. Right side. Right side. I think there's two there
that aren't getting replaced. They would get rebuilt, but And those are the ones that are going to a separate that go to the mass DOT. Mass DOT. Got it. And then we'll pick Shaw's section that we didn't use. Got
it. And then before this, GCA sent us something, but it was far too large, right, for us to be able to print or share or email. Um, almost 500 pages. the pipe size from what Nate when I
talked to him today the pipe sizes because I was questioning the size of the piping and he said it's because of the plug years it's way bigger than a 10ear flood that they that's why the
pipes are so big cuz I was watching what what is the pipe size the outlet pipe down balls road is 24 in the outlet so the one that goes goes from the bottom of um Baptist Hill across. How much what's the size of the
pipe going down Baptist Hill? I can't I can't read the print. 18. And what is what about the upper Baptist tail pipe down to through the Jonak near that area? What size is that? I don't know. I'm bad in No, that's on
the upper one. Another bathroom. the the first section up by um from Kevin Down to the she's talking about 18 18 in 18 in I don't think there's anything smaller
than 15 from where we started down can I can I ask some clarifying questions is so is the water the there's two culverts. One's kind of at the old Zjac place and the other is
um at Fitzgibbons. It's the Fitzgibbons water now going not um that's going back it's going backwards. It's going back up to it. Yes. Yeah. Okay. So it's not coming down the hill. Yeah. And then there's no
pipe. Am I correct by this map? There's no pipe from Fitzgibbons um all the way around the corner around the corner. There's no pipe until you So the the water that's being picked up in front of 45 and
67 that is coming kind of off the hill. That's a seat plane, but a pipe does not pick up water. Right? So what I'm saying is the culver there isn't connected all the way back up to the Fitzgibbons. It's going to be picking up water that's
coming from the hillside itself seeping. No. Where's the water coming from then? But then that there's no pipe. Correct. A pipe does not gather water. The pipe makes water go from point A to point B.
Right. But therefore the So how if there was a pipe coming down there, how would that pick up water? I'm not asking if there's a pipe. I'm asking what's the culvert there in front of in front of 45 and 67. What
I'm saying is that that culvert's picking up seat water coming down the basically coming down the hard eggs walnut grove. Donna. Oh, that's where it's going. It's coming
from the walnut grove on the Hardics property. It's coming off the ridge. Mhm. Right. And going into that. Yeah. It's got no other It's not being So that means that there's less water at that beginning point. Yeah. A lot less water.
Oh, yes. I didn't understand what you were asking. Yeah. Yeah. It's a lot. I'm just making sure that I understand what the So, so that's what I was saying about the pipe sizing because we're not bringing the upper catch basins
in the piping coming down. Plus, we're still using the ones that are already existing on Baptist Hill. the water. I mean, the size of the piping is if if we have a pipe with 24 inch water coming
off that hill and I know that we had a lot of water, but if that if we have that much water in that system, there ain't going to be nothing down off the hill, period. So, I mean, okay. Okay. So, because if what we pick up of picks
up that much water, everything else is going to be so inundated with water that and that's why I was questioning the size of the piping coming down because we're not we're not bringing as much water down.
So, the what the size of the pipe going from 67 to the triangle is what width? I believe that's 18. That's 15 or 18. I think I think the first part's 15, the
second part's 18 where it ends. I think I'm moving that. Okay. And then going picking up the pineill water. What is the size? Is there's a culvert between Hardig and uh Hardig and um George uh
Forsier. What is the size of that cauldron? That is a 15. And he was very clear that he did not want him any bigger. What he thought he said he was clear about was that he didn't want the water from upper baptist to be piped into he made it
clear to us when we when I was up there that he did not want Pineh Hill at all or he doesn't want it changed because he doesn't want the pipe bigger or anything going onto his property. So that's why we're putting that other
pipe from the intersection across so that if there's ever the pipe that goes under Pine Hill right now is sufficient. It would never been a problem if it hadn't got leaves and stuff that blocked it, which is half of
what happened everywhere in town is the pipes got plugged or blocked cuz everything was getting washed away cuz it was a Well, no. Everything is getting washed into that. We just had that on North Poland Road. A bog got blocked two
foot pipe and flooded the road. Yeah. I mean, so what's the width of the pipe from the triangle to um the 60 Baptist Hill culvert?
14. And are the culverts that are were opened up between our property and for your property, are they blocked or are they open on this? There's a triple uh the one that flows from the triangle to
your side of the them are getting eliminated. And what are you putting into them to block them? They'll get tear tore out. Yeah, but they not but when you blasted it out, you you went pretty far down. What? Those are much
deeper than they they were um kind of blasted open. Uh what there is a it's not a well, but it's a weird structure that's getting taken out. But what does that mean to
have it taken out? It's It won't no longer be there. It won't be tied into the drainage system. I think what Lory's asking is how's this being plugged? How are you going to plug it so it doesn't collapse the road? No, we're taking out the structures that go across the road.
Yeah, she's asking and then back filling it with gravel or gravel like normally. Okay. Are you talking about the thing with the with the wood over it? Yeah. It happens to be flooding my basement at the moment. The one by the the mail boxes,
right? So that's that pipe from the common to that wooden structure. Yeah, that pipe's getting removed, right? That pipe going over to George's is getting removed. So them two pipes won't be in the Right. I understand the removal
part. I was wondering for stability sake because of how the way the water moves through that area, you got to you're going to need to really attend to the filling of it in a really solid way because it is very notable the volume of
water that's moving through that area at the moment. Yeah. I mean the amount of sediment that's being poured into our property from the anytime we remove structures or even when we put the pipe in it that all
needs to be compacted. Yeah. properly so that the road doesn't settle and then you start ending up with dips and Right. I mean immediately after that like you know that whole area kept sinking. So without something in it it will
continue to sink. So I I think for me obviously it's more important for you all but um timeline is very important. I know we have to submit this tomorrow tomorrow but my I want to know once it's
submitted do we know when we can start this work? Well, so when I submit this tomorrow, Ron and I will get together tomorrow and do the numbers and redo that for um Mass Works, then they have to review the plan and approve it again
because we've changed it again, right? And then we have to be under contract by June 30th. June 30th. Oh, wow. Is that tight? That's why it's tomorrow morning that this has to be in and then we have until June 30th, 2026 to finish. We have
one year. We have one year to do the work. And I really don't want that road to go through another one. Okay. So I back door front door going one way. Yeah. So I had one question from the festival of the hills committee because they have
used that field for part well last year was the first time they used that field and so if the water she's talked about the water going south river meadow when we drain property that's okay right because there is already a swale from
the existing pipe soil right but we we didn't want to have issues because right now that pipe goes onto somebody's private property Yeah. And we figured if we went one down the road a couple more hundred feet, we'll
solve that problem. But there is already an existing soil that goes to the river there. So assuming we don't have another 100redyear storm this summer, that field should still be parking for because they won't park
in there anyway. It's too wet. This is a pretty obvious answer, but I have to ask it anyway. Are we waiting on this work to be completed before paving the roads? Yes. Yeah, most definitely. So, what what is the pipe made out of?
What is the 24 in, the 18 in? The It's a plastic double wall pipe. It's common pipe that's used for road work. It's not the blue stuff that you're using. No, that green stuff was that pipe there was just a temporary
thing. And I mean the the person shatter when it's frozen out and somebody hits it with a snow power bucket on a tractor or this last storm actually kind of this last storm just
rattled it quite a lot. Was it just a temporary fix to save the road coming down through? I didn't realize that somebody was going to try to get into the field there. Well, let's get this done. Huh? So, on
the the outflow on Shelurn Falls Road, it talks about a proposed energy dissipation structure. What's that? Basically, it's a catch basin that the pipe comes in and then there's a baffle
in the thing supposed to slow the water down. So when it comes back out of the catch basin, it's with less force. I think the pipe coming out might actually be higher because of the there's so much grade going down across the road that to
slow the water down. There's a baffle in it. And I think the pipe, believe me, I just saw these prints too. So um but I think what it is is the pipe is higher. So when the water comes in, it's got hits like a dam and kind of makes it
slow down before it comes back out of the space. So So that's a below ground structure. Yes. Well, the pipe is It's in the middle of the road. Let me know. No, that one's off the road. The circle's in the Okay. Yeah. You're not seeing where the road is in the drawings. You're seeing the property
lines. Yeah. Oh, okay. All right. So the road is in between them. So the catch basins are all on the side of the road. Mhm. So like the one in Donna's front across from Donna's house, the pipe um catch basin is way off the road. That's
not going to happen. They're going to be in the road now because that's 90% of the problem we had up there was with was the leaves and stuff blocking to it and covering the catch basin. Mhm. So the all the catch basins are
going to be in the road except for the drop inlets and them are off the road and then the the pipes going down Baptist till road. So the one is just being left alone. Yes. And the new one
is to the right on the other side of the road on Monson's side of the road. So the one that's being left alone are the grates that are at my house. One of them's on your side. Yes. Those don't actually Is there an actual working pipe that goes from our house to to down the
hill? Because it doesn't seem like water flows much in those in our experience watching it. It it picks up storm water. But the water does not where the water drains to is
something of a mystery. No, not that one. It's we know where well that one we know goes down. I know that but not a lot of water flows through there. Well, a lot of the problem is right now the road isn't the water doesn't get to the catch basin
like it's supposed to. It will, like I said, we'll be rebuilding them. Okay. But we're not going to replace the piping because we already determined that the piping between the one in front of your house to the next one down and
to the mass DT is in good shape. Is the road level going to drop? Cuz the road level in the 40 years that I've lived here has climbed and climbed and climbed. Well, we're going to mill out the existing black top on
like we did upper baptis. And then in the end, there's only so much that we can take away. So, we're going to try to take away all the black top material that was which is probably there was
places on Upper Baptist that they took out over a foot of black top. Yeah, there it's seriously. So it might be the same on there. Yeah. See, that's half of the problem with the plans because they got elevations on
there, but we're we're not in a position right now to actually maybe make all them elevations that they have. It's kind of build as we go because we don't know what we're going to find tearing the
road apart in that. But it still will be functionable the way it designed. Probably better when you do go to repave it. Um, Baptist Hill Road. I know the the past I don't know how many years when you've been doing paving inclines, you've been doing the curb. I don't know
curb's the right word. It's sort of a cr whatever. Are you going to be doing that on both sides? We'll probably do it on Yes. on the hill coming just to protect that's protected our house. Yes. Yeah. That would be really good. Yes. Well,
see that this system here allows us to do the BMS. It's when you don't have the drainage in the road that you can't really do BMS because then you're you there's no place for the water to go. It just runs down the road
and it just keeps building up speed going down the road. This is an ideal situation for in upper Baptist. The pitch of the road will be towards all the catch basins. So the it won't be a crowned road. It will be a
pitch to the uphill side of the road. So when the water hits the road, it will go to the uphill side. Well, I this is the most robust system we've seen designed. Yeah. We got here in a very weird way, but I'm glad we got
here. Right. Um, I hate to kind of cut this short if there's any other questions. Oh, you need to stay here, please, for your for your life. You're on. You're on another life. Phil can't leave. Um,
but can we put I guess there's no point putting this up yet or sending this out just because like the Zoom factor, right? Yeah. Yeah. if we could send this out so they can zoom on it because it's very small. Oh, she this kind of zoom out. Absolutely.
I'll email. Yeah. Well, literally we just got it this afternoon. So, the best I could do was like print out a nice technical memo yet. So, so this is going to be submitted tomorrow. Um we'll update
everyone once we have confirmation on um not only the grant application um approval but the work going forward. Let's get it done. And I think I just want to say that I think having all the input from
everybody has ended up with a much better product than we started with. So George's refusal has helped us honestly. Thanks everybody. land before more ways than you know because
his land is all wetland the permitting process that we would have had to go through and we probably wouldn't have made it by the end of next year if you don't mind saying we need to vote on this go here is there a vote for this is a vote is there
just yes that you approve the new plans that I submit tomorrow yes I'll make a motion to vote for the new plans to submit for tomorrow for the new infrastructure on Pine Hill Baptist area. I'll second. All in favor? I. Thank you everybody.
Thank you all. Yes. Get it in there. All right. Hello. Sorry. Uh we're going to move down to the fourth item on new business which is uh
I'm sorry the fifth item on new business which is discussion and vote on hiring Corine Man. Hi. Is that correct? All right. As building and ground maintenance technician. Interesting. Welcome. How are you? Because you are
also going to get a hoisting license. Yes. That's nice. Yes. Uh, are you local? Yes, I'm up in May playing field. Oh, nice. Okay, cool. It feels far, but yeah, it's a great drive. We used to keep our
horses there. I have friends in my field. I It feels like when I drive up there, it feels like I'm going away for I know it does. A weekend or something. It was only half. Do you have any questions for us or Ron on the town, the buildings that you know you'll be
working in? He was very clear about the responsibilities and variety of tasks. Uh I definitely feel confident that I could be an asset. It's a desperate needed position. So we really appreciate that you're here. Do your thing. Yes. Well, especially if you get a
hoisting license. Exactly. Well, I just want to welcome you and thank you for um coming here today. Thank you. Um we really appreciate you know this you taking on this position. So, I'll make a motion to vote to hire Corine uh man as a buildings and ground maintenance
technician for the highway department. Second. All in favor? I thank you very muchelcome enjoy working very hard. It is very hard to read. All right. I'm going to get out of your way though. Thanks so much for coming
in. I'm sure you'll be in touch. I'll talk to you tomorrow. Thank you. Um, Phil did. All right. Uh, above that is the discussions vote on hiring Shawn McDonald as the new treasurer collector.
Welcome, Sean. Come on over. [Music] Another big role. Another very necessary role. Uh, so Sean, tell us a little about about yourself. Uh well, I'm originally from Boston and I moved
out to um Arms of almost 5 years ago. Uh got a multi family out there. I live um upstairs. My kids and grandkids live downstairs. Two of my three daughters live down there. Four of my granddaughters surrounded by That's what you get with a multif family. Yeah.
Daughters, too. You have how many? I have three daughters. Okay. Are you telling me you're a grandfather? Yeah, I got I got four granddaughters. 52 and uh one's at 8 months old. You want to share your skin care products with us? I
like you know I started I had twins at 19. So there you go. Yeah. Um great. Uh I'm going to just ask you the same questions if you have any questions for us on the role or who you'll be working with or Dan's already
gotten you up to speed. Yeah, I met with uh met with them all and uh they were pretty clear on uh day-to-day stuff. I'm sure we'll touch base again before. Dan, Mike, and Bernie, you're going to be your friends for a while. So, all right, great. Good. Well, hey, again, like like
we said with Kraine, we're just glad to have you on board and welcome to our team. And customer service is key in Conway. like just even if it seems like, you know, you've been asked the question a million times, you still smile and answer it again cuz
people just, you know, Yeah. want to be reassured and helped and for sure and they're going to have a hard time not having Jan there anymore cuz she's been so hard so solid for so long. Legend, right? Had to replace the goat.
Yeah. Yeah. Do you play pickle ball? I haven't. Yeah, but they they put it on right by Right. It's in your job description. Yeah, I can learn. That's for sure. Some of us don't and it's totally fine. Some of us do and it's totally fine. He may not know why you're
asking. I started the pickle ball program in the queen of pickle ball. She is. She's the queen and taught everybody in that. Does that come part of the training too? Surely. Yeah. Good teacher. Well, this
is a great town. The only unfortunate part is you probably have to pack your lunch cuz we don't have a lot of places. Bakers. We have bakers. Bakers. Yeah. And some pizza at the in every now and again, but And Bakers does make excellent sandwiches. Yeah. Your fish
sandwich. Legendary. Yeah. All right. Great. Well, um I will go ahead and make a motion on hiring Shawn McDonald as the new treasure collector. Second. All in favor? I I board. Thank you so very much. Nice meeting you as well.
Thank you. We're all joking about pickle ball. We're not joking about being legend. We should go to the end. Yeah. Are you waiting on anything else? So, I didn't know if that was why you wanted. Oh, just marine. Yep. Perfect. Thank you,
Ron. Nice clean shaving, Ron. Yeah. All right, Phil. I don't even think tomorrow's going, but I have to submit it tomorrow. Yeah, big day. Don't get sick. You can drop them
off in my class at 6 in the morning. Right. Yeah. Right. Um so the last item on new business is discussion vote on signing authority for life path grant stipens. Um what
questions do we have here? The question was whether the select board has to sign off board of no sorry the u council on aging or m the age friendly age friendly. Yes. I so just so you know H
friendly Mass in Motion H friendly Conway/Massinotion committee meets once a month. Um Oh, let's do the select board. Yeah, we're probably more I would rather have the select board do it anyway. Would would we necessarily have to sign
off like at a public meeting or is it the kind of thing that we could just deputize Veronique to sign off or or we could all I mean like sometimes we do with warrants. You don't have to like town hall. Yeah. Well, is it a one time stipend or is it the stipend is No, it's
not hourly. It's Yeah. So, there's two of them. Um, can it just be the chair? Does it have to be the whole select board? Well, that's you can. All right. Let's pick the chair. Yeah, pick the chair. I I move that uh we authorize the chair of the select board to sign off on
the payments for the mass and motion grant and for the life path. um grant and can I also move that it doesn't have to happen at a public meeting like it we could do this like it it needed Yeah as
needed. Yeah. So well the stipens is is just a one time anyway. I'm just going to second that real quick. Sure. But the other would would that come through like as as one of our like art accounts table? Um or would it be a not necessarily like when Jan does the stipens she has all the department heads
sign off on it. Okay. Um, so this would be a form that would come to the chair and you just I can just sign off sign off on it. The other question is though, you're going to be submitting invoices for the rest of it. So there's going to be recurring payments, right? Yeah. Okay. And and also recurring deposits.
Well, instead of you having to wait a month, potentially a month, I can if she tells me, I can always just walk down and sign it. So I think everybody should I think it makes more sense for you to do this. And do these funds still all have to be spent by June 30th? No,
they're not go. There's no they they weren't there was never an ability to spend them all by June 30th. The whole idea was to spend as much as we can by June 30th. Okay. Um but the program it goes till the end of next
March or April or something. So it was originally written and conceived of to go that long. Um, has anybody anything been spent yet? Um, no. No, but we're we're it will be within the next
couple of weeks. Okay. I'm going to go back to Erica's motion and say all in favor. I I I Sorry. I just want to make sure we're Yep. legit on that. Okay, that works. Great. Thank you.
Awesome. Thank you, Bill. Yeah. Thanks. Thanks, See you soon. Yeah. We only have one more item on new business, so might as well tax that. Um discussion to vote on new company for third party inspections at the transfer station. Who's the new company? Um so
it's um Mark Poppy um who was his name was forwarded to me from Janamine. Basically how this came about is that I got the quote from our current company and it was really much more expensive than I was expecting. Is it more than we've ever paid before? Oh
yeah. Yes. And it's for two things. It's both for the third party landfill inspection, which we have to have, but also for the groundwater monitoring. And um so I just kind of reached out to Janamine and she gave me a list of
people and this gentleman, you can see in your packet, he has a list of all the different towns that he does this for. So, and because it came from Jan, I just feel really confident. And the difference in pricing is $3,000 less.
Oh, wow. Yeah. Here, here's the So, the one in blue is his prices. Oh my gosh. How is that first item even? Yeah. Too big for their bridges. Yeah, that's
a big difference. My understanding from Jan is that it all depends on the company that you're doing. Some are like astronomical. you know, so we just don't do the volume of work with them to get like a decent I I guess I I actually haven't reached out
to them. I just wanted to find another option or someone was patting their monitoring event and it could be so um cuz the other number is very similar the actual it is and actually in his it's higher than theirs. So yeah, but you
know, given given Jan's history, given the list of towns that he already does this for, I felt comfortable in switching it. Um, so it's like $4,000. That's so that's a favor. When I see that company, I'm sorry. No, plus he
does it for other Yeah. municipalities. Jan is very trustworthy. Yeah, exactly. What's this company's name? I'm sorry. Oh, it's just his he's a sole proprietor. Mark Popp. Okay. Yeah. Um I will make a motion
um to vote for Mark Popp as our third party inspector at the transfer station. Second. All in favor? I I thank you very Thank you. Going to the top of the agenda. Vote to
approve minutes for May 19th. Uh motion to approve. Those look good to me cuz Adam is such a great noteaker. There's no hidden eggs in there. I mean, well, I mean, I'm always looking now. Uh
I'll second. All in favor? I I thank you. Warrants. Looked over the warrants. Nothing was out of place. Jan um let us know that the pickle ball revolving account is actually a donation account. So that's why we saw small charges
there. So I will make a motion to vote for accounts payable warrant in the amount of $117,45522 payroll warrant in the amount of $150,93328. And the payroll deduction warrant in the amount of $37,30052. Second. All in favor? Hi.
Hi. Me is attended by select board members. Erica. Um. Oh, not since our last uh pre-Town or pre-Town meeting. No. And you ride around with Ron? No. Yeah, I did. I did a really comprehensive ride around with
Ron. Dela. Uh, I thought I had a school committee meeting since our last town meeting, but it was like two weeks ago. So, yeah, it was like two weeks ago. Um, and then I know I met with you for something. I don't know if it was actual meeting. Um,
oh. Oh, to look at the land. The land. That's right. For for senior housing. It was a different plot than Baron and I thought it was. It's still a very small plot, but it's in a very good location. Where is it? It's right like literally across the street from the church that
was rebuilt that the other church that got torn down by a tornado. Yeah. Um, but it's only an acre of land. Uh, which is a bummer, but there could be a possibility for something, you know, you know, a four unit place or something
like that maybe. Do we own it already? No, it would be a purchase. Um, but purchase or donation. I'm sure it would be a purchase, but you know, Vinick and I can continue to explore it as an option for something. That's a great location. Smaller. It's just, you know,
not ideal for what we were trying to get um going with a larger facility. But what's our minimum size for a building lot? Um well, they when we were talking um they were saying a developer would
want at least how I they said something crazy like 25 units. I want to say it was about Yeah, 20 to 25 units, but I don't know the amount of acreage we need for that. probably need like three at least. And because we were also talking
about, you know, hoping to get maybe double that so that you could have some other amenities put in there because it would be like a complex and it probably be multi-, you know, it' be be affordable with senior and all that. If you think about the building, the
parking, right? The leechfield, the septic and the well. I mean, I can't I don't think I thought our minimum build in Mont Conway was like 2 acres anyway. It depends on where you are, but I think there is a minimum of I think it's under
two acres. I think it's an acre and a half or something like that. I thought it was two remember. Yeah. Um and other than that, you know, I talked to Ron a bunch about the road that they they redid Orchard and uh
Delibar. your street too. Mhm. And both they look great. It looks great. Um they still need to remove the mesh out of the out of the the culvers because definitely blocked up the water when it rained the other day. But the roads look
great. Yeah, they're a lot narrower than they were before, which I'm totally fine with, but I have been getting a lot of questions about that. I thought that too, but I don't think they are. I think because they're right, they sink. They just they sink after a while. Yeah, but I I cuz I remember Delibar wasn't actually that wide and I you know I I
looked at it when I was walking down Delibar and I'm like this looks really narrow but I think there's act like a because of the soil on the side. I know. I think it's just like psychological and honestly I'm like I don't want like I mean I live on that street. I don't want like a street that's wide enough for
people like too I don't want too cars to be able to pass on. It's it's a visual like uh optic illusion type of thing. Yeah. But anyway, um because they were supposed to obviously build the same size, but it looks great. Um
uh I I love what they did at the intersection where Maple and um Orchard meet. Yeah. Um that's going to be a lot nicer, safer, too. And safer. So I think again Ron has two very great things with
the water wastewater design and the road design. So thank you uh Ron. Um public comments known unfinished business. We're going to table the first item there. Move on to the second which is discussion and vote on grant authorization EMD for
washer and dryer. Amazing. The grant is in the amount of up to $10,000 for laundry. Yes. Machines, which means that they could get two of each, right? No. No. What this means is that it's a huge commercial purpose is to be able to get
the chemicals out of Yeah. Same thing, too. No, they have to take him to Greenfield now or something, don't they? Yeah. They have to take him to another fire station to use their washer. So, this would be huge if we could if we could get this. Well, especially I mean, why not? Because we
have a new emergency building. So, match funds are not required. Nope. Excellent. Which means I will make a motion to vote on the grant authorization EMD for washer and dryer. Second. All in favor? I I and all of us have to sign.
Ironically, that came in the mail. Oh, is this the That's part of my TA update. Oh, okay. Uh items not anticipated 48 hours. None TA updates. Here we go. Something about sausage. Oh, is this a rat trap? No, that's
that's Okay, I'll skip down to the very last thing. This is the birth control. This is the birth control. Okay, I need to Oh god, I need this. I'm sorry. I I thought I've had a mouse mice in my house. It's chipmunks. Oh, and I can't
get them out because I don't know if that's chipmunk. So, we just tried it for rats and they didn't eat it at all. See, I thought that with my mice, but it's they've been going in my basement like that. So, I'm giving it a shot. Okay. Tell us
tell us more. Well, so the and I'm part of this um we fed the rats and they haven't eaten a bit of it. I'm part of the and the Massachusetts Energy and Environment Committee and we had a presentation um which I think I
mentioned um the other day about um this woman who does wildlife um she t she takes care of wildlife especially like birds of prey and stuff and she was showing us what happens when they eat
poisoned poisoned and you know we had to put something up at the transfer station and there was some concern at the time that we were poisoning. And what I didn't know is that the problem is that um according to her is that the mice or the rats have to eat they they keep
coming back and they end up with about four or five times in their body what would actually kill them. So and then if a bird Yeah. If they then it actually does totally decimate them. So I I thought, well, you know, maybe we
could just switch to this. Do they do live? Do they do they put traps up there? Is that Yeah, there's traps up there. There's not traps. There's the bait. The bait. I'm sorry. There's like the the slap down like Who's going to Who's going to go around and take Yeah, we didn't have much luck with that
either. I think I I have a lot of rock. I I don't have rats. You have to do it like every day. It hit it and then didn't kill it. So you'll see those big plastic boxes up there though. That's the bait trap. Then the natural but they go eat it and then go run away.
Exactly. So I mean we could also use the the other option but you have to do that every day too. Your plaster paras oatmeal. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I use that. That gets rid of them with these. But yeah. Does that work on groundhogs?
Mhm. I put it out by the chicken coops cuz I get them in the chicken coop sometimes. And mice or rats? Rats? I have. Oh, I need to know what this is. I I set it out 30 years. Never had them. Now I got the suckers. They they disappear rather quick. What is it? It's
just uh powdered cement and oatmeal. They eat it and then it just eat their belly and then like it gets inside of them. It gets wet and kills them. How much do they weigh? Oh, I've had him about that big. No, after the Oh, I
don't know. I couldn't pick it up. Good God. He was using them with bells. No, sorry. So, anyway, go on, Verie. Well, so so I guess my question is how you all feel about trying to use an alternative instead of the the poison.
I'm I'm fine with anything that works. I think we should just keep experimenting until we I'm not sure it works cuz just personal experience, they haven't touched it. So, you do have the Evolve? Yes. Oh, okay. Then you still have checking the thing. Well, it's not just
even about having rats, but they haven't touched it. They just literally are not. They just Can we just do a combination then and see if they actually eat it, but keep the bait out there, too? And and can you wrap those little bait pellets in like bacon or something? I mean, honestly, like I don't think you can. They seem attractive looking. The
mice weren't eating it at first and now they're just disappearing out of my basement. So, I'm assuming like the first week they didn't touch it. And now they're just gone on a daily basis. So, and I'm hoping it's not something other than myself. Wait, you're using this? You're saying? I'm using it in my
basement right now. Okay. You can keep the Yeah, if you don't mind. No. Well, if anyone discovers something that's I can wait a little longer and see. I would introduce that and see if we can get them started, but I wouldn't
remove the other till we see that they're actually eating. That's how I dropped it. I would I would do a balance. Are you guys good with that? If we Yeah, I think we start we try that and then I think we should if they're not eating it, there's no point getting anymore. There you go.
I love that. Okay, thank you. Um Okay, so um we talked about all the roads that are being worked on. So that's great. Um Adam made a recommendation which I thought was fabulous that we get an electronic sign at the transfer station.
You know, I can't always borrow Ron's to be able to because he needs it for his work. And it's so true that everybody goes to the transfer station. If we had an electronic sign up there that I could from my desk control and put transfer station stickers are due by July, you know, that kind of stuff. So, Adam
talked to me about this the other week and I thought it was a great idea. So, I would definitely be in favor of that. Yeah. I just had a question about like what kind of sign is it just going to be like just purely text or um like you see along the highway, right? Well, I got the idea from uh what's his name comes
to the inn once in a while if he's a select board member in Peru and he said they got sick of the sandwich boards and everything else on the way to their transfer station and they made it like a little garden area but he says everybody has to go by there and there's a you know you put whatever you want up there
town meeting that's this and that and everybody sees it and you just program it and you don't have to they have it on the street in Greenfield deal with it. Yeah. Like the one at the town common in Greenfield. Mhm. So it's like it's not just I mean so you can have like graphics. Isn't it basically a
Well, I guess it depends on what kind of The funny thing is I put it out to Stam and nobody got back to me about what they recommend and I had like about five people say, "Oh, if you find out, let us know cuz we're interested too." So I I mean my only like isn't there an issue with Wi-Fi up there? Like wouldn't we
have to Wouldn't this sign have to be connected to it's got like how's it going to get how do we program it? Yeah, it comes they come with a I don't think you'd be able to do it from your office. You'd probably have to go up there and I actually would recommend we don't do something that's
over Wi-Fi where somebody can get in there. All right. You know what I mean? Yeah. But so so someone's going to have to physically go up there and like if you want to change what's on the sign unless you put it in Pumpkin Hollow on the way up. Well, I don't I I don't want to sign or
email it to somebody at the transfer station who has a computer or something and then can plug it in. Yeah, it it's not a problem for me to go up and do it. Either way, I think I think it's a great idea. I just I mean I I I manage a digital sign right now. So, I had lots of thoughts about digital sign. So, if you like the idea, I like the idea. I
could do some research and come to you with some suggestions. Yeah, I think that's a great idea. All right. Um All right. So, we do have the request for quotes out for paving the transfer station. I actually just got a second quote today. They're all due in two
days. Hopefully, um we'll be able to get going with that. I don't know if you saw, but the posts are up. I hadn't seen that the posts were up for the new gates um at the trans. I didn't even notice it and I called the guy who said they were supposed to be on the 20th and he was like, "Wait, what? They are." Oh, I
missed that. Yeah. I didn't I leave it on the I was going in as you were going out and I didn't notice. It's a big huge like it's a much larger robust post. So there's two there's two in there but he said the and they did put them in on the 20th but he said the new gates they have
to make and it'll be 3 to four weeks. So that's why I'm assuming by June 20th we'll be done with that. Cool. Um and I don't know if you saw but um Lori Hall has given us her Yes. So um for right
now Oh I So is that why she didn't want to step up into the dance? No. No, no, I don't I don't think that's why Sean's here. anything to do with that. But um but Jan's willing to stay on. Yeah. And I don't think she wants to train two people at once. So she wants to get on
boarded and she'll do she'll be she'll be coming in a couple days to do the collector portion of it and then I you know when she's ready she'll let me know and we'll advertise for for Lor's position. Was there anybody you interviewed for Sean's position that would be a good second? I'm going to
Yeah, probably. I mean, if they're interested, they're very different jobs. Um, in the sense that they don't make as much money, it's fewer hours, you know. So, um, but I could send out something tomorrow saying, you know, thank you, no thank you, but if
you're interested, we may be posting, well, we will be posting for this in a few months. So, makes sense. Yeah. Um, okay. Was there anything? Oh, I thought it was really about forest and trails. hadn't gotten that DCR grant that or um
for the grammar school. And that's pretty much it. We're ready to send out the RFP for the planning vendor for 2.0. Mhm. Um and the log cabin situation. She's still working on quotes up there.
Um what's her name on 116 for the Oh, yes. Gil. Yeah, I forwarded that to you all. Yeah. So, she Yeah. Yeah. Bobby. Bobby. Yeah. I have but she hasn't I haven't heard from her since then. So, yep. So, that's Oh, and then the mail today, just so you know, that was just
for what came through um that the select board is going to have to decide on the right of first refusal for the land coming out of chapter. Oh, from so there's 120 days from when it started and you know so there's a little bit of science too.
So this we've I think we've only done this once and I was involved in it was that there was um Toffman's land was coming out of right of first refusal and I was on the conservation committee at
the time and it was a piece of land down Conway station road which Have you been down Conway station? I Yes. And I would love to buy a piece of land on that road. No, you wouldn't. Cuz we do not want electricity down there. We do not want it developed. We want it like so.
And the person was like, "Oh, we're going to be so green. We're going to be so whatever." And I'm like, "Doesn't matter. Once you run electricity down that road, and it's it's a very unique place because it's historic because the train station, it's a resource area with
the two rivers coming together and it's recreational. like it's a like I want to get back organized to try to make sure that whole thing is protected at some point. It mostly is I think it's only Bill Graves now since anyway. So I
really pushed that we exercise our right of first refusal because otherwise that land was going to be developed and we did. Uhhuh. Um and Lee Topman was not happy but luckily thought Philip Jezwell um did it and not me. So, I was off the
hook. I'm just kidding. Um, so there's no homes down that road, just the farm. No, there's no no roads down there. And then what happened is Tottman's sold all the development rights to the town a few years ago, which is the best case scenario. They can always farm it, but
it's not going to be developed. But Bill Graves still owns um some land at the beginning and then it's mostly um state water resource. I forget if it's I'm only asking cuz I'm wondering if there would be a way to
block off that road for anyone that's not a resident cuz you know it's down that road that a lot of people go to. That'd be cool. And it's overrun last ever since. Um well the the tubing people
Yeah. run down there because you you can do a halfway tube um and get out where the two rivers come together. Have you walked down to the point? I've walked everywhere over there. Okay. Yeah. How would a way to enforce that? So after you go if you're tubing after there's
like these the old railroad trestle and then you can pull over to the right and hike up the hill. Right. So the tubers the the van runs down there all summer long. Oh, I know. Yeah. She says she has people pick up trash out on their free. They create the who's out there creating
the trash though. Yeah. Um but during co unfortunately people dropping pins left and right with all the swimming holes. So now that's the problem. It's the swimming Connecticut plates and New Hampshire plates and all sorts of the one really nice swimming hole there which I will not say where it is on
here. Yeah. is overrun. It's so great. And we used to always beautiful swimming hall and when I've gone there, I didn't recognize any. They were all younger. I It's I mean the the one that's privately owned that's technically not. Is that
privately owned? I believe it's privately is owned by um there's a trust that like the blue one Janet I don't want to say what I call what what we call it. I don't want to land backs down to that. Okay. Yeah, that's what I'm
talking about. Everybody knows that way. Yeah. So, I'm wondering if I only take people there if I blindfold them. Yeah. So, that's why I'm wondering if there's a way like if we can restrict if there's really nobody that lives down there if
we can. I mean, ideally, that whole road should be protected because of those things that I said. Exactly. I mean the historic value like that the train electric train used to go across there is just so cool. You got Paulie's bridge
down there which is very cool. Who maintains that road? The town. Right. So that's my issue is that we we are basically subsidizing some business that is basically only using that road with large vehicle, right? That's
destroying the road, right? And only paying how much? $10 a year, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cuz we don't have a recreational tax. It's true. sort of it's nice to have small businesses in town, but that's
there should be some tradeoffs. Yeah. And that's not like that's not a town business. Yeah. But the town doesn't get a benefit from it. And also that business is like I'm surprised. Yeah. Although it brings people to town. They might put the Conway in. They might have. They might, you know. Yeah. I
don't know if that offsets the issues of damaging the road and leaving litter out there, but Right. Well, the biggest offenders of litter are the the high school parters. Yeah, that is the biggest offenders, you know, and I just think, you know, um Donnie needs to bust
them a few times and that that dissipates it usually. But they also people drive down there and drink their, you know, their tall beer and toss it out. I mean, that we pick up cans all the time up there. It's just disgusting.
Yep. So, and nips and all that kind of thing. But in terms of protecting the whole thing, I don't know, you know, what Bill's plan are for his land. But, um, that's just the beginning, I think, of it where that old barn used to be on the right. The barn's gone now, and then
it rolls up to his property. Yeah. So, I'd be interested to see if there's any way of like making that historical or historic, recreational, and uh, a water resource. It's a huge two rivers come right together. I can't imagine not
being able to protect it. So my whole point was we have exercised right of first refusal because I just couldn't stand that that was going to be developed and if it did it would have started the whole chain right that whole thing. All right. So there's precedent for there is okay. There is precedent
and I do think we need to think about certain parcels when we do that. Yeah. strategically because there might be other things that Yeah. Poland some areas on Poland for sure, right? Pine.
Yep. Um, so anyway, speaking of we talked about signs earlier, I need to ask Hazel, but you know, you know, Hazel. Yeah, I'm familiar. I meant to ask her about the um Festival
to the Hill sign on 116. What's going on with that? It's just leaning against the Um, yes, I will. I I can bring Yeah. Yeah, if you mind bring I'll bring that up. I know that she needs help or they need help on it like let us know. I'll I'll
help. Do we have any money? So, I believe someone's someone who was on the committee, someone's h cuz before it was like it was down completely and so there was like it's now strapped to a tree or strapped to the tree. All right. So, I'll Yeah, I'll mention that that we're all willing to go out and Yeah. But like
we can get people together to go out and fix it. Okay. Maybe we ever source to drop a couple of telephone poles in the ground and put it some from It's not They'd stay forever and that could be the support and then we could just read the sign. That's what that's
what you just said. Eversource. It reminded me that today. Yeah. I looked out my window and Eversource was there taking down a street light and I was like, "Yeah, excuse me." So, I went out and I said, "What are you guys doing?" "Well, we're taking down the 26 street lights." And I'm like, "We
haven't paid for them yet. This is" So, of course, you know, I didn't want to kill the messenger. The guys said, "Look, we were told to do this." So, so that does remind me, they were supposed to come back. We're supposed to have another poll hearing. I know they haven't. And I I thought that that would have that was like over a month ago, but
I was I did. Well, actually, yes and no. because they were stopping anyway because they were called away on an emergency. But the guy who would had been given the orders gave me two people to call and I spoke with one of them and he was you know and then I spoke with Mike Kane who was our liaison and so
Mike said that he's going to get Chris and I and himself and whoever to but it turns out that the woman who just retired Esther supposedly told these guys oh you can go ahead and take them down now and I'm like we haven't signed a purchase of sale we only just found out it was going to be 3,000 instead of 5300 or whatever. It's like what are you
doing? It's like the worst kind of bureaucracy. Like I know the worst communication is good. We should be able to get a couple of telephone poles for the rest of the hill. Supposedly there were like five on Weightley Road that came down which they haven't I wasn't going to ask them to put them back up
because they're already down unless you want these decommissioned ones. We haven't decommissioned anything yet. The ones that Yes. They're the ones there plenty of like poles that we want to come down but Well, the pole Yeah, but that's a Verizon issue. That's the double pole. And I don't know if you I
don't know if you saw but I did post on Facebook and I hope it's spreading around. I said are you seeing double cuz I need help meaning do you see double poles and to let me know road. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's also a double pole that's not being used right now right next to Denise's house. Yeah. So, I'm
hoping people will like email me like either the number on the poll or where they so that I can put a list together and get them all done with once because Natalie Bla's given me the information to do that and the you know the connections and now I just I can't spend you know we could do little like I don't
know little sections. Well, I was just thinking you could like mention it. We could we could laminate some like hot pink cards with a QR code and staple them to like poles so people if they're like out on a walk or they're on a bike ride like you know do you need this poll like snap a picture like that would be a way that people could actually like I
already did the you know that map I did for the street lights. I could do the same thing for the poles. It's really easy. But no, but I'm just thinking like that's what I was labeled exactly which ones people are
want to flag. Well, Elaine brought up a good point. We should mention at during town meeting. Yeah, you could ask. Um, and which I'm still apppropo of nothing. Um, I told George that I want I don't think the planning board is planning to do a
handout for the ADU by the law change, but I offered to George. I feel like it would be very useful because like he gave the overview that he gave at the um pre-Town meeting was just very succinct and great. I was like let's just put this on a handout so that I copied something from him.
I made 50 copies of something that Can you send that to me? Because I had I I mean I told him I didn't really read it to be honest with you. I just ripped him off 50 copies to have on the table for Okay. I was gonna We don't have too many handouts but I did have one too.
um about the um surveying people for their top three concerns. I like that. I was wondering if we did that. Yeah, that'd be really good. Um yeah, so I've already got the copies made and ready for Yeah. Okay. Do you have any
sustenance hot hidden under the table up there so we can like get through the day or we got to bring our own little snacks? Well, I'm going to be fasting. I know cuz he's got his colonoscopy the next day. Yeah. On Sunday. On Monday. So I have to do the the drinks on Sunday and I have to fast two days before. So
he's going to be like alcohol included in fasting. Well, they did say clear. Okay. No jello shot. So uh mail mail from Hana's on chapter 61 land for sale. Removal of 4 acres from
chapter 61A. The purpose of this letter is to begin the removal process of 4 acre parcel of land we wish to sell from chapter 61A. Uh it's 1474 Pineh Hill
Road. Do we need to know anything about this or this just that's what I was that's why I was bringing it up. We have 120 days from when they gave us the information and there's a whole sort of sheet of things has to weigh in assessors planning but you know a lot of people have to weigh in the state forester and at the end of all that
they'll make the recommendations to you and then you all will vote on it. That's who just had their barn burned down from I know that was and had us all fancy equipment burned down with it. Right. I read about that. Yeah. That's awful. Yeah. Lightning strike. He most
crazy. Yeah. Uh yeah, speaking of that, I would meant to tell Ron that the field over here looks the best I've ever seen it. That the Smith um the local Oh, yeah. landscaper has been doing a great job.
Um announcements, none. Anything else from anyone? Nope. Next meeting is June 7th. But when next meeting is town meeting June 7th and when's the one after that?
uh the 16th. Okay. So, next meeting will be town meeting June 7th at 10 a.m. 10:00 a.m. at the uh grammar school. Um Okay. So, if there's nothing else, I'll make a motion to adjurnn. Second. All in
favor? I I thank you. Leave the