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2025 so welcome to our February 18th meeting and Mike would you lead us in the pledge please yes I will I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
Republic for which it stands one na under God indivisible with liy and justice for all thank you and if we can have an approval of the minutes of February 4th please move
second discussion hearing none all in favor I I oppos none thank you at this time we're going to hear from two candidates for the Beverly airport commission one gentleman had to
withdraw and will not be applying so we have two folks that will hear from it first of all I want to thank you um for your patience I know you were here a couple of years ago uh when we went through the same process the board has
changed since then we have two new members Mr Mike Bean DJ Joko so they're not familiar with your presentation from before so I'm going to ask that you you come up give a presentation tell us a little bit of why you want to be on the
commission and what you think you can do for the town of danvas and we'll go alphabetically Todd did you go first please hi uh Todd d form asav um do you all have a copy of the resume
we should was in our packet I don't plan on doing that again so uh T could you speak right into the sure yeah I've um I've finished uh 40 Years of professional flying I live in dvas I've gone to uh
School uh at Northshore Community College I'm on the advisory uh group to help with the curriculum for uh for the next generation of professionals uh I worked on the Bev side with a school on the Damas side um
I also you know lived in the uh traffic area of of uh of belly airport so I've been involved with Beverly airport since I was nine um the only thing that's different on that resume is I I just completed a uh FAA safety seminar on
security so I was invited by the FAA to do a presentation that I I became an instructor in um and that was prompted by the TSA requirements for going into Washington in National I became an instructor in security um so you know why do I want to
do this well uh I've got 40 Years of professional uh experience and uh i' I've I spent my entire life uh continuing education and uh it's time to give back uh I've
uh uh I've been to the uh um American Airlines Academy Southwest Airline Southwest Airlines Academy I've got a tremendous amount of background I've done emergency uh uh drill at Beverly airport I've done it at hansam uh backgrounded the with the
NTSB uh I've done some training there um I also have you know Safety and Security training at the University of Southern California so um when I look at you know the the issues here at at Beverly airport I I I really think that any of
these issues are solvable and and people have already done that it's a matter of networking benchmarking and using best practices so when somebody you know asked me what about this I said well uh let's go to Naples Airport in Florida because they've been down this path uh
so uh yeah I'm not that brilliant but I know where to find the information so uh any questions D question yes thank you Mr chairman and thank you
Mr D D yes Einstein sorry uh for wanting to serve um I'm new at this as far as but I've been reading a lot and hearing a lot about uh the Beverly airport and it seems that our
commissioners are sworn in by the Beverly city clerk MH and they swear and oath to make sure that the airport works well so the intent of the commission is not to close down the airport so there's definitely
going to be some um challenges balancing your role as the commissioner and the interest of the dver resident who are about the airport M how do you see yourself reconciling those two well my
value to uh to this uh group is Safety and Security and also I've worked with Ron and uh in committees so uh I uh and being a Damas resident and being in the traffic area so I I see the concerns and
I uh I know how to work with groups on on solving the problems so uh there's no conflict um this uh I see opportunity I don't see conflict okay and I like the fact that you have some safety
experience I think that's reassuring that will probably be reassuring to the community yeah so thank you that's all for now thank you Morin hi Todd thank you um for applying again um congratulations on all your accomplishments I love your key word
give back that's what we want we want to give back to the community and the people and what my um colleague has said about Safety and Security it sounds like you have a lot of experience in that and can always we can always learn from that so um that's it I'm I'm all set Mr
chairman thank you Mike thank you Mr chairman hi Todd uh thank you awesome resume um and I like your opening speech uh you sound like a regular working guy that's uh going to get out there and do
what has to be done um from what you know about airports in around the country you see a lot of gaps in Beverly that we can actually deal with well I'm a member of the uh uh Northshore a club
so I I am actively flying out of the airport and um they um they Advocate a certain place to run up which is you know uh it's it's to create an area you know to prevent noise to the community
so uh what what I see is a little bit of an education uh you know we could educate the flight schools better on how to be better named neighbors so there there is an opportunity to do better the fact that we're outnumbered on the on
the commission there uh do you feel that you're going to be able to persuade other members that are on the Beverly side we'll say to uh realize what what we're trying to get done over here which obviously make them a better
neighbor um many years ago uh they wanted to put an ILS in Beverly and that became an emotional topic cuz people thought it would be larger airplanes and what I can offer is to uh educate people with what what the facts
are and in reality what they put was a localizer and what happened is back then we what we would do is dive and drive we would lower get to our altitude and then power up and drag the plane in and we had more opportunity for a go around so
by not putting the ILS years ago we actually were you know not advocating safety and we're promoting more noise so what I what I could do with this committee is help educate to help make better decisions do you think there's going to
be um you think you're going to run into push back as far as um FAA rules and things that we may want to promote maybe they don't want to spend the money on well I just you know uh facts facts you know and I can help people with uh uh uh
how other airports do it uh I'm a I belong to massachus Business Association it's a uh a group of you know organizations that get together and uh and they're interested in Massachusetts airports and uh uh I've worked with
massport on some issues so it's yeah I I've worked with committees before and uh and I I always look at conflict as an opportunity I don't consider it a problem I just an opportunity to have a dialogue thank
you what that Mike yes thank you thank you David thank you Mr chairman Todd I think it is very generous for you to offer yourself to this job which I have often seen as an absolutely nowin Boulevard of Broken
Dreams as an old lawyer I sense and feel the authority and power of the federal government the authority and power of the state government and absolutely
little or no authority of local government Beverly or danvas to be able to address the major issues down there that are driving the neighbors crazy um I think at the last meeting or
sometime in the very close future Gat tras uh uh gave a presentation here which um was not well accepted by the uh by the neighbors who are here which I thought was absolutely brilliant because
it told the story as I have always feared that it was that we have little or no control over the Congress we really don't and that the Airlines and the airline industry of billions of
billions millions of dollars and their lobbyists control policy and law at the federal level pertaining to the operation of airports including ours excuse me Beverly's or the
local um I have sensed that the state has absolutely no ability to plug in as a problem solver on our issues here and year after year after year residents come in they live closer than I do but I
still hear it and um I always it's like I could compare them to motorcycles why can't you put steel wool inside the mufflers and and and and and make them well I don't know why that can't be done but again I don't like motorcycles
either so I don't know do you have a sense of power or powerlessness with the reality that we have no control over federal or state government in attempting to to alleviate the problems that our neighbors bring here year after
year after year yeah you know my my younger son went to Thorp school he taught me never give up and uh this that's what this sounds like uh mbaa Massachusetts Business Association has been to uh the state house and and in
lobbies for things so I know there organiz organizations in Massachusetts that could help um you know a noise abatement type of issue so uh yeah never give up just per persevere that's uh you know uh I First
Met Sally curin on a uh an oil spill issue law was was written to go after uh a polluter except for oil uh Sally and I went to the state house and she gave me her time and we lobbied we fought and we got law changed uh you know for uh we
call it the innocent homeowner defense was put into law based on Sally and mind input so uh I'm familiar with going to the state house but if we listed in one column the agonies that the neighbors have noise
number of planes LED in the um Airline Fuel and the seven or eight different items that drive them all nuts if you looked in the next colum and said check off it if
local government has any authority to fix it no no no no check off if State and it comes to the federal column and the federal government has the authority and as long as the federal government is controlled by the lobbyists that um
they're controlled by which is the airline industry yeah I don't I I just see that my neighbors here and I say I just wish there was something I could do for you I would agree with you on the lead issue I've looked into that I don't the lead and the fuel I don't see that being fixed really soon but it's still
an issue you know LED in the fuel and causing issues uh uh so yeah those some some issues that are that's a long haul that's for sure I'm I'm I thank you for your willingness to to uh apply for and perhaps accept this uh job um Aaron
didn't have much fun over there I I thank you for listening to me thank you Todd Vin said please sit down y thank you we we'll get back to you Benson no not
here well that certainly makes it interesting so we had uh one applicant withdraw without prejudice tonight Wayne Maguire Vincent Malone MD did not um
appear uh Rodney I assume everybody had been contacted and verified that they would be here through you Mr chairman everyone uh verified that they would be in offend the this evening I wonder if it's a Time issue you want me to try to go yeah let's see where his number is yeah you
got it yeah can you give him a buzz and just I'd hate to make a decision and have them show up thank you we take a brief recess please e e e e
any questions from the public Mr Brad street I'm trying to in the past a couple of uh suggestions or questions that come up one was I can only describe it as what happens on an aircraft carrier when a
plane is getting ready to take take off they put the I don't know a buffer in the back that goes up to deflect the sound or the the power whatever I thought there was a uh a suggestion that was made perhaps for the airport instead of the noise all coming back towards
wood Veil it could be deflected up that was one question if that's possible for them to deal with and the other was uh in a conversation I think the last time somebody was here from the report the FAA
says the air strip has to be maintained or resurfaced or redone every period of time I believe I heard them say they were going to lengthen it by 300 feet on either end in my mind it says they're not planning on just maintaining they
were planning on having large of planes come in is that something that uh one of our members could bring up and I wouldn't be happy with it I don't live up in Woodville I do hear the planes like other people do I'd like to
see if something could be at least said about it whether we can do anything or not is whoever we appoint to replace Mr Henry will hear your questions and take them to the commission and ask those questions okay
because nobody at this board has the expertise to answer that and I don't have the ex good questions so duly noted all right thank you you're welcome Tony so quiet tonight thank
you Benton Court 15 off Circle dvas Massachusetts town meetting member PRI 5 uh I got a couple I don't know if I can just ask a couple questions we didn't do um Mr zubri gave you some stuff do you guys can do anything on that or well some of the stuff he gave us was not in
our purview okay so we couldn't respond to it the other one that he gave to us he called a um Proclamation right uh we had conversation last meeting and Mr the Joko suggesting that we should come up
with some thoughts on what it is we want to say and I'll address that at under our public comment okay tonight uh another question I have now you you folks last time the airport was here you folks did ask for for them to submit some questions to you did you get all
the stuff that they were they were supposed to submit on Plain sides and all that stuff do we get all that information we got some information Mr do we know if we is it public can we have copy of it or something oh you can request anything through the public records um yeah they did provide through you Mr chairman they did provide some
information we can look at see and if we can get that maybe posted or something on the website so and then another thing too about a month ago just before the last airport Mee and uh there was a plane that went down in um Plum Island that was one that was a Bly Bly flight center plane there's been
planes going down Toronto that's Alaska they all all of a sudden we got these PL things I don't want to dwell on these people understood I'm just look my honest opinion I think you should take the money okay that's my honest
opinion Okay the reason being is those people hate to spend money okay uh $10 for them is real bad okay my honest opinion I can't see why we can't take take the money and still have two reps there okay I can't see why we can't I mean and they keep coming here and they keep promising they're going to do this
and do that they're not doing it okay that's what I'm trying to tell you okay they have a Good Neighbor policy if they followed it I wouldn't be complaining as much but they're not following it okay they're taking care of bevly residents okay they're taking care of the Quantum of winham okay and we are getting bombarded so until this board here okay
put some pressure on them okay and get some gets and gets them to do something we're not going anywhere okay get be in a py and giv them whatever they want Mr Henry was there he did what he could but he gave whatever they want he walk in the office give me whatever they want same thing with C Nelson was there same thing okay I've been watching this for a
long time we have to like I said I know we're going to have a SE selectman's workshop on this I want to bring in federal state and try to get how we can get some maneuver here so we can get some relief for our residents we don't need residents leaving this town because of that stupid airport there's more than people that I know that have left
because of that reason okay I'm thinking of leaving some because of that reason so it's not fear it's about time they comply with us and they have to sorry and that's about it that's right thank you Tony anyone else we're going to wait three
minutes um I did I just ask you to bear with us Todd um I did skip over new public business at the beginning of the meeting intentionally so that's I'd prefer that you did it now appreciate did anyone
else have new public business to bring for before the board no okay thank you so we did take care of that U Mr chairman so you uh why are we waiting the two minutes if I can ask another question of okay
um so uh two questions in one so the first one is uh um what what do you think this board in in your opinion and I know you're not on the commission yet how how do we support your
work what is your expectation of us in in support of what uh you'll be doing at the commission and the second one is do you have any questions for us well I think you know because this is new to me
so I think for me it would be going to some of the airports that I know that have these issues and just Gathering the data and and try to find where you know somebody who's who's asked these questions have already found the answers
so that would be my uh I know some airports that are are really noise sensitive uh airports so uh Naples Florida is one and a few out in California and they monitor um uh they monitor the airplanes and they enforce
some things so um yeah I I'm too new to this to to really answer that question it's a good question but um uh you know I've been successful in many many uh projects and this is just another one
okay thank you thank you so board um as I see this we have a couple of choices um Todd is here he made his presentation we can vote to have him recommended to Beverly
as Aaron's replacement or we can give the other two applicants the benefit of the doubt and have them come in at our next meeting and then make a decision Dan didn't you say that one of
the three withdrew without prejudice and because he needed to clear up something ethically and he can have that answer within a day or two well then um the other thought I had can we place a phone call to the home of the second applicant
we did I'm sorry D we did okay Kathy went and did that the result was no leave a message just a voicemail voicemail yeah well that's why I was waiting till 7 in case he fought the time okay it is now 7 time to make a
decision well so Mr Marquee is the one who may be back yep maybe well I think maybe to our next meeting yeah is that agreeable we table this until we get an answer from the other two candidates if
they can or wish to move forwards or not yeah I I'll make a motion that we appoint the candidate that's here today I'll second that motion we have a f we have a motion we have a second any discussion Dan I'm sorry that I couldn't hear the motion to
app point to does this gentleman to replace Aaron okay thank you that's the motion and it's been seconded any comments from the maker of the motion um no I well
yes I I do I do I did look at uh um Mr Todd Paul I I hope it's okay that I say Mr Todd so yes um the resume was uh I mean he's got a lot of experience in aviation
which is what we need uh he's a long-term resident of denas um he's pledging to uh take the our brother's concerns into consideration and communicate between the airport and and the residents and um
he's got a lot of safety uh experience which is I think something that will be very important and he's also pledging to um you know being not giving up and I also like his
candle in saying he doesn't know what he doesn't know so that is that that goes a long way to be able to say that I'll figure out when I get there I have the experience but I'm willing to to to work with the commission and the board um so
I would I think he's a good candidate okay so we have a motion we have a second all in favor I I opposed did everybody vote I voted in thank you 5 5 yep well thank you sir appreciate it
I know um you sent in your resume back in May 3rd 2023 thereabout so thank you for your patience do you know Mr kazaan you'll be working with him very good marvelous we finally took care of this
thank you all right the town manager will report to the board on various items of Interest Rodney thank you through you Mr chairman um you received an email for me on Valentine's Day it was not a valentine
unfortunately it was unfortunately some uh frustrating news to share with the board uh back in September of 2024 uh S&P which is our ratings agency revised their methodology for rating us governments their purpose was to have a larger focus on debt and liabilities so
in danver's case that would be our pension and opep liabilities over the past several months they've been reviewing credit ratings to determine how they fit within this new criteria unfortunately based on the large awaiting of our pension and opep liabilities we were deemed unable to maintain our AAA and we were moved back
down to AA plus where the town has been for um as far back as I know historically up until our upgrade back in 2019 we did have a ratings call as part of this process a couple weeks ago maybe a month ago we urged S&P to look at what's actually happening damous um
personally when I came to this community in 2018 one of our major goals was to finally get that elusive AAA it's one of my proudest accomplishments and I urge them to look at the fact that since they awarded Us in 2019 the AAA by every conceivable metric we are better today
in 20125 than we were in 2019 we have stronger reserves we have better financial management in place everything across the board they agreed in fact they maintained our scores on our financial management they maintained our scores on performance of the budget they maintained our score on our Reserve
position that said all of that didn't add up to changing their opinion which is that the liabilities were too high and therefore we were downgraded to dou A+ while this is frustrating the good news is it occurs while we don't have any major projects currently on the
horizon so our biggest last major multi-million dollar project was the Smith School we were able to bond that while we were a triaa community and lock in fantastic rates for the next 25 to 30 years um we do have some water and sewer work for smaller dollars we do have a
potential roof uh project at one of the elementary schools we also have a potential tpw facility or uh Rehabilitation uh in the next several years that said um in the short term at least it will not financially impact the town in any way other than again just be
a little bit of frustrating happy to answer any questions thank any questions for the manager thank you uh it is just I will speak up um Rodney yeah it is a shame uh I think uh you've been doing a great job you said since 2018 and we've always
we've had that and it it becomes more cumbersome for you um you know a lot more a lot more work and I think the employees strive for excellence here um I know sometimes things change but let's
not give up hope and we'll get it back right absolutely that's sorry about the D uh yeah for people like myself who are not financed people uh and people listening so what specific factors contributed to this down rate is it
something we did wrong or is it just the fact that they changed the metrics it is simply a fact of them changing the methodology so what used to be 10% of your score which is debt which in their terminology debt would be our existing debt on projects we've done in which case we have very very low debt for a
community our size pension obligations which again we're expected to be fully funded in 2035 and our opep liability which again we have lowered significantly over the past few years that said they're still high that's not uncommon in Massachusetts we
have higher pension and oped benefit um obligations than most states in the country but that's nothing new our plans have been solid and we followed them for several years but that was the major factor okay now given the fact that that has changed what steps uh are we going
to be taking or what kind of plans should we put into place to attempt to regain uh that triaa bonding So after talking to our financial adviser they gave what they call a stable Outlook which means that they don't not the financial advisor S&P
as part of the downgrade which means they don't anticipate changing it in the next couple years um we will still do business as usual we'll strengthen our reserves we'll be fiscally prudent with our tax dollars that we utilize um we'll follow all the the best practices we've put in place over the past several years
longer than that um we'll continue to follow those we have a pension plan that will be fully funded in 2035 we have we invest in our OPB uh liability into our trust fund every year as part of both our operating budget and a town meeting appropriation through free cash so again
I can't we can't control the methodology but we'll continue to do the best job we can okay short of overinvestigation production which I would never recommend I don't know tackling those liabilities we have a
long-term plan we don't have a plan that's going to speed that up in the next couple years that wouldn't Impact Services so I couldn't make that recommendation in good faith okay so we probably will be stuck with this for at least the next couple years and um so what can what role can we play as a
select board to um in supporting the town efforts to regain that t bonding if any you I mean if you don't have the answer now that's fine but I always want to get my own homework yeah I think we just appreciate the support that we've gotten over the past few years with some of the stuff we've done so I'd say as long as we can
continue to again invest in reserves when we can invest again to bring down some of these liabilities and again just be fiscally prudent then that's you know that support goes a long way okay thank you yeah okay Mike yep thank you
um sorry uh is there their method of grading change is it any way shape or form a forecast uh meaning are they looking at possible growth that we're going to be
taken on soon as a negative nope there was no change to our economic economic is part of the scoring there was no change there so again I think candidly many communities have followed the best practice in achieve AAA not just in Massachusetts across the country and
again I won't speak for S&P but there may have just been too many that are gold star winners and they didn't want as many I don't know bumped out yeah thank you David did you have anything nothing thank you nice job Rodney
anything else Rodney um and then on some what hopefully was good news last Thursday night Mr Henry myself Chief loville and Lieutenant Rob Sullivan met with the neighbors on Pine and Hyde to talk about some of their concerns with speeding and traffic um was very robust
conversation um Lieutenant Sullivan prepared a detailed PowerPoint as well as providing some speed data that I think the residents appreciated um we'll still continue to have some ongoing conversations um as part of that as long as well as with DC dtac if needed um but
again it was a productive conversation we were happy to have it okay anything else that's all I have for this evening thank you all right can have a motion for the consent calendar I'll make a motion to consider the consent calendar items as listed as they appear is there a second second all in
favor I I oppose none thank you uh now we go to correspondence and select board new business I'll start off with some um request that we had from Mr Brad street at two meetings encouraging the select board to acknowledge the stewards of the
land we now occupy I would like something more permanent to recognize the people who lived here before we took over the land as he said and I've given this a lot of thought um and for this board to read a statement
some 26 times a year seems to me it would lose its Effectiveness and wouldn't be as meaningful as the first time perhaps we read it so in conversation with our town moderator she's very happy to read said statement at our annual town meeting
every year as part of the program that we have when we recognize the veterans and we recognize the indigenous people and go on with our program so if this board is okay I know the moderator is happy to do it if that's okay no
objections okay U Bill does that help you with your your goal pway okay well again Bill brand Street town meeting Member precin One certainly the acknowledgement at the annual town
meeting is fine but I would like to see some kind of a plaque or a monument or however you want to call it someplace in town so that it's easily seen by people live in town or those who choose to visit Damas because Damas is a
good welcoming community so my other thoughts are as I role as vice president of the Damas historical society and David McKenna has been promoting this similar idea and I'm going to ask the
the trustees of the Historic Society if they want to take on that project and help pay for a plaque of some type see what we can have them do get them involved as well if that helps thank you any and you're a member of the
society as well yes any effort is welcome I just think that's a good I think that's a way to go thank you you're welcome okay and and Mr chairman as far as the statement is concerned uh I still think it might
be a good idea to have the HRC help us draft one in collaboration with Anthony Silva and the massachusett Native American awareness y Pat asked us to give her something to read and I'm not going to write it so that's that's a
good idea we'll ask HRC and um even David McKenna to get involved to he has something as well yes so we that's what we'll do thank you thank you believe it or not I've had a number of emails and phone calls about snow all of a sudden we haven't had snow
for two years now we get all kinds of requests and it's confusing because there's a understanding that there's a state law that requires snow will move on sidewalks that's not the case there is a
state law that says communities can adopt a bylaw that requires snow removal well to my mind that's the most ridiculous useless and confusing law I've ever heard of because this town can promote any bylaw we want at any time
subject to approval of the Attorney General so to say we can adopt something and the state doesn't want to get involved is I scratched my head so there is no state law that requires people to shovel their sidewalks
unfortunately and we reached out to the fire chief um for his thoughts on it um because some people say why aren't the hydrants shoveled out Etc but um the chief responded to me that he was made
aware the citizens concerned about fire hydrants and sidewalks in Damas not being shoveled after a recent snow event he had a conversation with the acting DPW director Rob deor about it and is following up with
us ideally Damas residents and business owners should adopt the hydrin and sidewalk nearest to them and Ure it is clear and accessible at all times the fire department often puts messages on social media asking residents and
businesses to keep them clear as snow we have also shared GIS maps to help assist them in locating the hydrants near their home or business while many hydrants are cleared out by residents and business owners and advertently some are
not if a fire crew notices a hydrant in need of attendance their members will always take the time to clear the snow after each significant snow event DF Department of the fire department and DPW discuss discuss what actions if any
are appropriate to ensure hydrants are clear fire hydrants are overseen and maintain by maintained by the water department not the fire department when necessary staff from either the water or DPW will shovel hydrants by hand to clear them using
heavy equipment he spoke with Rob deah after the most recent snow and they did not feel the need to send crews out clearing hiding there is a difference between having a little snow around a hydrant and having hydrant inaccessible after a
major storm we we simply did not see the last storm blocking access to the hydrants as far as clearing sidewalk goes the same approach is taken in a perfect world residents and businesses would clear the snow on the sidewalks
the town also has Crews clearing them as needed and he also goes on there is no such law stating to Residents must clear their own sidewalks maybe we could do a better way of spreading the word some spreading the word Damas please please clear your
sidewalks and take care of your neighbors be kind and understanding if you have seniors and he says he hopes this is helpful and it is helpful to clarify that residents should do some cleaning on their own and not wait for their
neighbors to do it bill again Bill Brad street tell me you have a Precinct one I think as residents of the Town we'd all like to do what is considered the right thing and shovel out however sometimes when it's shoveled
out it sometimes becomes more of a hazard and if we shovel out the sidewalk and is more of a hazard and someone is injured because of what we do is the town going to take responsibility if
it's money involved or is individual resident going to be respons responsible because they've done what they felt was the right thing was to clean the sidewalk but someone was hurt because of what they tried to do because they thought it was right I'd be a little
concerned I think lawyers make money off of questions like that aren you good money if if if you do what you think is the right thing and clear your drive your your driveway and you don't block the sidewalk you I don't see where you're at fault okay or any Resident
because residents don't put snow on the street yes especially the the private plow contractors sometimes when they do their plowing the the splash tends to say with the fly fire hydrants kind of make them
inaccessible or or bury them it all depends on who's plowing and how fast they're going but I would just be concerned I think most of us would be if I do the right thing is it going to come back and bite me someplace good question but I don't have the answer well I
thought he'd get it help but good thank you Bill thank you okay yes please hi I'm Amy Velasquez I'm on the accessibility commission I'm speaking as a citizen here but needed to make that
known as well um I I something came across um my desk recently and it specifically talked about snow removal as it's related to Ada and I wondered about what our responsibilities are as a municipality related to accessibility
with snow removal I refer it to the town manager to research that thank you you're welcome there there were new regulations and guidance that were put for I looked for a a state law for snow removal AI came back and said yes Massachusetts has a law about snow
removal it didn't explain that it's communities can do the bylaw so I researched some there's a half a dozen um different things that the state demands landlords are responsible for shoveling their tenants I'm sure there's something about Adu but all ask I need
to perhaps look into that maybe next meeting that would be great because the regulations that were recently released I think would be pertinent to to us okay good thank you appreciate that u a couple more things I have before I turn it over to my fellow board
members um the housing production plan was presented last Wednesday here in the Tumi room the presentation was well attended would you agree Mike yes thank you yes unlike the first public session last June I don't think there were 15 people in the room then
and I guess that was our fault for planning something in in June I don't know but at that time I asked Mr Henry who was there and the Consultants to maybe push out the timeline on the contract so we had the opportunity to
get people to a meeting to express their thoughts and concerns and we did hear from them last week um what I want to let people know what this this is just a plan it's a plan with goals for us to consider nothing in it is
mandatory however adapting this plan will give us opportunities to apply for grant money which I think you will agree as a good outcome so we'll be getting this housing production plan forwarded to us at some some time Aaron and I I
think it's a good thing to adopt uh again it's a plan with goals and outcomes that we opportunities that we can look at Mike did you have anything wanted to add on that meeting I did yes please uh some of the speakers were
really awesome yep they brought they brought the whole thing with them uh I was impressed uh one of the things that stuck with me is that um uh the feeling I get is a lot of people are uh starting to wake up about the growth in town and the building uh and uh with Maple Square
uh going up and uh being able to see how big that is and and learning what might be happening going all the way down 128 um I think people are are looking to uh slow the growth of the town in any way I don't think we can stop uh
building but the big word I think is density and if there's any way we can control the density and not um have a bunch of apartment buildings loaded up on us cuz it's it's going to increase our uh Demand on Services uh and we're
not ready um next year at this time we can have uh you know maybe 400 people living in the center of town that aren't there right now um that's about that would be about a 100 brand new houses being built in town if four people lived in them I
think uh we're going to be you know we could be in trouble um with our services all the way around um and it's a it's a real concern if all that uh if that takes place and we can't uh uh give people the
help they need in whatever DPW Water Department police fire schools um because of the rapid growth so the turnout we had there that at that meeting was really impressive and the and the points that were made were good and I think that more people need to uh
get involved so we can try to shape this uh town in slow down what doesn't have to happen although some of the building will take place thank you thank you Mike uh one last correspondence I had
actually two emails and a phone call concerned about our department heads um money being reallocated to other departments and that's really not the case all the department heads that are
currently in the budget will M continue to be in the budget but everything nothing's being filled at this time if there's a vacancy in the department head category it will stay vacant until we get a new town manager so the rumors
that we're reallocating funds for the police department or something else is a rumor and we will hear the budget on Saturday March 15th but I assure everybody especially accessibility committee because I heard from two of your members there is no change to
department heads title we might change the names but that's to be determined but again we'll wait for a new town manager before we fill those spots at that time I would like to see if anybody else has comments before we
close d uh yes uh Mr chairman thank you a quick question and I don't know how much you can speak of this or not um any general update uh from the subcomittee with
the okay you knew what I was going to say thank you you're welcome uh the first meeting in March you'll get um a full-blown presentation that's fine I just wanted to know if there was anything that is that we're able to
share with the resident um the other question is um select board member Mike brought this up last time uh I was one one of those who did not think we needed to appoint uh people to the uh bever
airport commission I thought we should take the $7,000 we could pay for 14 high school students to do summer internship but after hearing uh my fellow board members and speaking to the current um member of
the commission and other residents I feel that that representation is important but select board member Mike had suggested that we put together a a community advisory Comm committee uh of few members that could work as resident
like that could gather residents concerns or whatever in support of the two members that we have at the commission I I would suggest that at some future meeting we we have that on the agenda and decide how we I think
that would be a great idea uh and to follow up on your comments last time if we're going to have a resolution we should discuss what we will put in it so I was going to suggest that each of us individually if we have
some thoughts on a resolution to submit them to the manager's office for him to vet to see what's legal and then we can discuss them yes so each indiv you individually submit your thoughts to the manager's office and he'll come back
with a document that we can um discuss but I want first want to make sure what we have is legal rather than discuss something and find out it's not legal okay that that works so everybody just kind of submit okay thank you you have
your hand up ma'am stat you may make a statement I'm being very LAX night usually these things are done at the beginning of the meeting okay my name is Sandy Francis Kini I am a resident um Precinct 6 I just want to let you know I am a friend of Vincent mioli and he said he responded to the email to notify
everyone he was working today but he is very interested in still working at the airport as a commission so I just wanted to say if you can please reach out to him with this committee that you were just saying I'm sure he'd be more than happy happy to participate in that as well all right great so I just wanted to let you know okay thank you all
right okay do were you set uh not yet I was I was uh following up with the uh legality of what we're going to be drafting I was also interested in finding out and I know this came up last meeting where Mr Henry was talking about
a handshake agreement with the two seats on the commission I I think we should go a step further and check I don't know with Town Council or staff exactly what that agreement entails and have
something in writing uh um as to what what we we have 37% of the air the 37% of the airport as I understand L into derse and we have two out of nine
members and nobody can point to anything that says that's all we can have three three Mr chairman so again we had legal coun I apologize I probably should have brought this up during the airport discussion we had legal council look at that so the two seats in reference were
codified by the Council of Beverly when the agreement was made so they're officially so the airport is controlled by the city of Beverly they Beque two seats to our recommendation in their in their ordinances that's the process that we'll use to fill Mr Henry's seat we'll put Mr Den's name forward to the Beverly
city council who will approve it to fill the vacancy um short of that again it's a city of Beverly run airport so despite the geographic location again it falls under their Charter so any request or uh desire for more representation on the
board would have to go through the city of Beverly and that's been confirmed by Town Council so and is so the agreement of the codify it's bever did not need to have ders sign off on it is that I believe it was our request to have two
seats which they adopted and put into their ordinances since it's not our control we wouldn't have our own bylaw because it's not our commission but okay I can forward the board the um actual ordinance from the city of Beverly so you can take a look at it thank
you uh last but not least I also encourage our two Commissioners who are here during one of their debates to bring up the idea of having the noise um the noise issue because I know
someone had spoke of 65 DNL or the decibel you probably understand better than I do uh I don't know how that's measure I don't know how recent those datas are because from the
residents we getting bigger Jack more noise more vibration so I'll be curious to know how often that's been measured and to see how we can really uh look into that and make sure that none of the abiding
properties are meeing that 65 DNL threshold thank you okay what that thank you David just to mention Mr chairman that the human rights and inclusion committee will be meeting in
this room on Thursday people are urged to attend at this time in our nation and in our in our state and local local uh areas there's so much work that has to be done uh and our commission could
certainly use some moral support from uh citizens who are interested thank you this Thursday night after tomorrow 7:00 in this room thank you Michael um I think I said my piece uh the density uh thing was a big deal to
me from that meeting the other night um D bringing up the airport again yeah it doesn't sound like we're going to be able to gain another seat there without a major um fight I imagine um but if we can put a group together and then
support our commissioners with the um educational material that maybe from all over this uh country of other airports how they're doing it maybe we can make some Headway thank you thank you laen um yeah I like that idea that both uh D and
Mike did say about putting that committee together I want to say uh thank you uh for everybody trying to be a good neighbor and cleaning out the street drains and the hydrants and the sidewalks I think it's very helpful
um that the sidewalks like Dan said it's not a law or a bylaw but it would be helpful um I also want to excuse me mention that Falcon Fest is holding their big fundraiser at the pan pancake
breakfast um Saturday March 1st I believe it's 7 7: a.m. till I don't know 2 or 3 uh they're always looking for volunteers and uh it's a great way for any high school kids to do some community service that would be great um I do want to also say that they've
replaced what Dan and I would we're kananian the kuas club has their Duck Race um watch for the duck race um which is a big fundraiser to help um scholarships for kids um that will be online but that will be soon coming and
I also wanted to say um the kids are on vacation this week so be careful everybody driving they could be sledding skating Down The Meadows which is nice to to see once that snow gets cleared out again but um have a good school vacation kids and uh be safe that's it
thank you before we close um Kathy do you want to update us at all on the um upcoming elections are you prepared for that well I have a few things I could say thank you uh the board did approve vote by mail as an option for the local election
uh to be held on May 6th um as of today I asked staff to come up with how many vote by mail applications we have um we have 25 people who have requested vote by mail applications so um I just want to let it be known that there is the
vote by mail option for people you can get an application online in the town clerk section of the website we have them in our office um they're also available on the Secretary of State site and then along with the election we're still going to do uh one day of
inperson early voting uh the Saturday April 26th from 10:00 a.m. to 4: p.m. um the week prior to the election on the 6th and then I do have
nomination papers in the office if there are people out there who are interested in running for um an office uh Town me meeting seats are up as well as some other um seats throughout and there are papers on the back table um with the uh
important dates to remember document which can also be found on the town um Clerk's website but feel free to stop by um give us a call any one of us is happy to talk to you about what you might like to do or be interested in thank you very
much you're welcome okay thanks for asking you're welcome Mr Brad street you had your hand up again Bill Brad street town meeting Member preing One I apologize for all the questions I heard the word Grant
mentioned my understanding is the state or agencies of the state have all sorts of money they'd like to give away with a grant do we have anybody who's has the expertise to look for
these grants for the town in to write a good request for the grant so that we stand a chance of getting this gift I I I just I know one of the things I have to say is a grants one thing but
it always comes with strings so you have to understand that or the town does but if they're willing to give us money to do something that we think is productive necessary helpful however you want to describe it can we do something or so I
think you'll be pleasantly surprised if you're here on the 15th of March the IDS of March the department heads will give a little synopsis or update on the grants that the different departments ask for or
receive it's really done by the folks that have the knowledge of their particular area rather than one person trying to learn everybody's job we get grants I don't know the
number yet but we will stay tuned is that right Mr yeah I would say through you Mr chairman we have to your point about experts who can get grants we have literally dozens Public Safety Public Works Water and Sewer planning uh the school department so again we have subject matter experts that apply for
grants that fit our long-term objectives to your point there are grants that require a match for a grant when you may not want or come with restrictions that we may not want to implement but in terms of just pursuing grants we have experts in every area of this town that pursue them on a regular basis and we
have a long list of successes we'd be happy to share I'm I'm just happy to hear that on just if the state or the agencies are just trying to give money away we'd like to get our share of that money but you mentioned it there's a lot of restrictions and qualifications and
criteria that you have to do and do we want to jump through some of those Hoops well that's what we have obviously have to dis discuss and decide but again money's money we can use it better us than somebody else yes sometimes with or without the strings but we certainly can
use it thank you you're welcome Bill any other business to come before the board comments no all set more okay well folks remember when you see a vet please say thank you and meeting adjourned good night dvas