Peter. Yep. All right. Great. Uh, good evening. Welcome to the town of Don's board of selectman's regular meeting. This is Wednesday, May 28th, 2025. It's at 5:30 p.m. I'm 6 o'clock p.m. Sorry. Got a mistake here. Recording in progress. This meeting is being
recorded. The listing of matters are those reasonably anticipated by the chair which may be discussed at the meeting. Now all items listed may in fact be discussed and other items listed not listed may also be brought up for discussion to the extent permitted by law. Can we please have a call to order? Nicole Melo present. Mark Pico present
and Peter Karen present. And we're going to stand for the pledge of allegiance. And I'm just asking that um just for a couple seconds, can we stay standing after the pledge of allegiance because we've lost a couple of neighbors. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Like I said we lost two neighbors this week from uh Cinda Borges and Thomas Mscato. Thank you. First up is scheduled appointments.
Um, this is a recommendation. So, this is review discussing act recommendation to appoint Kristen Currents to the Dy Cultural Council. Oh, hi. I didn't even see you here. I know. I'm trying to get you up. Yeah. What's going on? You're going to be it? I'm going to be back on it. Okay, that's
great. Y I know you left for a little while. I did. and move to North Carolina for two years. Wow. What brought you back? Oh, yeah. And Grand. Sure. I I I apologize to the chair. Um they have to
go to the podium to speak to the microphone so we could so we could get recorded. Yeah. So it could so people could hear. Thank you. I formally was the chairperson for the cultural council for several years. Yes. And a member and I'm willing to come back. They always
need help. They do. How many people are on that committee now? I think they're at the minimum of Well, with Laura and I being appointed, they'll be at the minimum of six. So, they can always use more people for the cultural council. It's a waste. It's a waste if we lose
that those funds. Yes. Okay, great. Well, I'm glad you wanted to come back. It's important to us and to the town. So, welcome back. Thank you. Uh Nicole, do you have any questions for No, I don't have any questions. Thank you. No, welcome back. Thank you. Thanks. Okay. So, this is a review, discussed, and act. So, we need a recommendation on the
floor. I'd like to make a motion to recommend to appoint Kristen Currance to the Dyen Cultural Council. I'll second that. Motion made and seconded. Any discussion? All those in favor? I I thank you, Chris. You can see the town clerk to be sworn in. Okay.
Laura, hi. How are you? Your turn. It's not very difficult. Obviously, you just saw what uh Kristen went, right? Why do you want to be on the committee? I just want to bring some culture to Don and see what we can do. She's twisting
you around. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm I'm the librarian, so I I have uh I think I have some good access to opportunities there. So, hopefully we can combine forces. Cool. Okay. I have no questions. I think it's great that you want to do
it. We always need volunteers and anytime somebody comes up and steps forward, I think it's important to uh to to appoint them to to bring what they can to the table. Uh Nicole, do you have any questions? I don't have any questions. I just did have the opportunity to mention that I've enjoyed
what you've done on Facebook. Um you've really you bring different things to the table. You show what the library has. So, I'm guessing that you're probably going to do the same for this. So, I I appreciate it. Thanks, Nicole. How did you hear the vacancy? Did you see it online or uh Kristen told me? Oh,
perfect. Very good. Oh. Oh, perfect. I like that. So, again, this is a review, discuss, and act. So, we need a motion on the floor, please. I'll make a motion to appoint Laura Reynolds to the Dayton Cultural Council. I'll second that. Motion made and seconded. Any discussion? All those in
favor? I. Okay. Congratulations again. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Fazado. You're up, sir. You can come up. Hi. Hi. Hi. What do you want to start?
I understand you have some kind of announcement you wanted to make. It's about my license. Yeah. And I ain't got I'm out of business without a license, right? And not and I'm not working without a license. Okay. I just I'm I'll
be 82 next week and I'm pulling the plug. I'm all done. You're going to retire? Yep. All done. How long have you been doing it? 40 years. That's a long time. Yes, it is. Yeah. And I've owned the house for 55 years. Yep. So, the
only thing is I go in the back now. I walk in the back. Sure. I keep my my wife's 564 Victoria in the back. Nice. I change the oil, greased it, and I do my own maintenance. Yeah, you can do that. And when it comes to running my
business, I'm all done. Okay. What are you going making noise? What's that? Every time he makes noise. Every time he makes noise Yep. Excuse me, Mike. Last time the uh he called the cops next door, I wasn't even in the back. Okay. All
right. He's standing on the on the coupe watching me walking around working and stuff like that. Is it necessary? Is it necessary? Yes. I'm not there. I don't know what happens. I I wouldn't think that that it
sounds necessary. I got new cameras coming in. Okay. Okay. And all solar panels are going to be working. I'm taking all the old ones off. Sure. It's I'm going to have all all solar panels. Nice. And if he gets caught, guess what?
We're going to be back here again. You have the right to complain. Absolutely. What are you going to do in your retirement? I'm retired right now. And do what are you going to do? Anything special? Me? Yeah. I'll start going I'll buy myself a boat. I might go fishing. Cool.
I have a couple of things to say. Is that okay? Um, you just have to give your name for the Well, my name is Michael Fisado. Yeah, my brother. Me and him close. He has a tenant above the garage that has three young girls. Them girls can't ride up and down that street because of Mr.
I'm sorry. You have Say that again. Three tenants. What? Young girls. Yeah, but where are they? In my garage. Oh, okay. Yeah. What I'm saying is they came right up and down the road because of Mr. Leage. Mhm.
Why not? Why not check his records? He stands out in front of my brother's house and we're sitting on a porch and he's staring at us. Is that necessary, too? I wouldn't think so, but he's stalking me. So, you know what I'm saying? The girls won't even go out of
the yard. They're only this big because of all this. Yep. It's got to stop, right? Uh and I I think if he's going to retire, that will probably alleviate 90% of the problems. I don't know about that. Okay. I'm going to be in the backyard. Believe me. Sure. There's
always something to do on your property. Yep. All right. I I sold 13,000 picnic tables. I built picnic tables for 14 15 years. I'm always doing something. I think he has a right to go in his backyard and do what he wants. It's his property. Pay taxes. It's just that he
can't run a business. That's You're not going to run a business. I'm not I'm calling. So, I mean, no. What I'm saying is if he makes noise and uh you know, starts his car up or something, you know. No, that's not He gets a call, right? That's not going to happen. And then the police come down, that's that's just crazy. Yep. It's not necessary.
That needs to stop. Sure. Can I say something? Sure. If there's going to be a noise and I'm not there, he's going to call again. It's costing the taxpayers thousands of dollars. Had fire trucks there, cops
there. Fire trucks has been there. Two fire trucks, 10 firemen, right? And he slammed the door in Joe White's face. Is that called for? And no respect for older people. I think everybody in knows what's going on. Everybody knows we're
paid. Oh, yeah. Okay. They auto. I lived there for 55 years and I worked for the town for 18 years. Did you? What did you do for the town? I ran the landfill for Oh, that's right. I forgot about that. Yeah. And I worked for the highway department for
three or four years. Cool. And then I went into my own business. All right. You can come back to the highway department. No, I'm off. They wanted me back, but I I'm sure they did. You're all through. You got anything else to say? Okay. I mean, I think they know what's going on. I mean, I could write a book if you want
one. I think there's two sides to every story. I think your neighbors would have a different side. A lot of what you said sounds like a civil matter. Uh, as far as you running a scrap business, I understand you're not going to do it anymore. And if there's any neighbors, if there's any neighbors here, uh, they
should take a video if they think that you are um, running a scrap in or out, running your business. and the uh building commissioner is the zoning enforcement agent and he would be the one to levy any fines. So um if there's any neighbors who see anything um that
would sounds like it's the appropriate um chain of action just from you know what I've done for my research talking with the town. Yeah. And not only that if I go residential I'm retiring and all the phone's going to keep ringing. He's
going to call he's going to keep calling. It ain't going to end. It's not going to end. But like like Mr. Pico said, that would become a civil matter between you and them. It's not something that is governed by the town. You've been in court for 50 years. Yeah. And every time we went court, he lost. Okay.
He accused me of teraminating this well and everything. Sure. And I proved the whole Taton River is polluted. Okay. This guy's a nightmare. That's all I got to say. Okay. Great. Uh I'm not sure why this is a review, discuss, and act. What were we uh voting
on? Uh it doesn't it could just when it was initially put on the agenda, we we thought that Mr. Fazado may have uh challenged uh the license. Okay. So, um it's no action is required uh by the board. Okay. Nicole, do you have
anything you want to add? No. Mark, I think that was very generous to put on the agenda to challenge. Sure. All right, sir. Anything else you want to say? Nope. I'm all set. All right. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Have a good night. Yeah. You as well. Mr. Hey, how are you, sir? There's no
joke. How was the ice cream last night? I didn't know I was that soon. No need for that, guys. There's no need for that. Hi. Uh, good evening. Good evening, sir. And um I'm here this evening because you have before you a
proclamation to establish Dayton as a purple hot town. Yeah. You may have seen around some of the other towns, cities, the signs are going up say purple hot community. I certainly see them. The uh proclamation is the um national
proclamation written by the um Purple Heart order and they want to have everything uniform and if you adopt this this evening, we will send it up. They will commission our signage and give us a
flag. And somewhere around August, mid August, they would like to come down and have a ceremony and officially bring the town on to the roles of Purple Heart communities. Sure. Have a few um speakers and uh believe uh well, we do
have uh quite a few Purple Heart recipients in town. Do we? Yes, we do. And uh what we will try to do is locate every one of them. Sure. And invite them to that ceremony. And um the only uh cost, it's not just cost neutral. There
is a few dollars. Always always is. Y um we're going to have to buy a few signs. They're going to give us a few signs. And then the flag is very nice flag. It's the least we can do. We need another flag pole. Okay. That's why I was going to ask you where is it going to fly? Well, that would be your
decision. we could u put a little committee together and see if we want to put it up here at Veterans Park or Okay. if there's another place you'd like to put it and um can it go on one of the flag poles that are there or they're not allowed to be shared? Well, no, not
really. We would want to give it its own space and respect and we wouldn't want to jack it. The only jack we have is by Congress is the P flag that flies under the United States flag. That's that's by act of Congress. But I think our own
flag pole. Okay. And if I do real well next year, I may have it in my budget for a poll, but if I don't, I'm sure the town administrator will be able to find it for us, right? I'm sure we can come up with a boy scout project. Boy Scout project. Yeah. Well, we were with the
Boy Scouts last night. We had a good time. We had a good time. So, um, just here to lobby a little bit. I don't think it's really necessary, but uh, yeah. No, thank you very much for doing this. I I I know you you do a lot of work and sometimes it goes unnoticed other than to the people who you do it
for, but the town certainly appreciates what you do. Well, the veterans community uh appreciates the town also because the town of Dyon, I found out as soon as I got here that uh you take care of your veterans. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Um this is a
review I mean just a proclamation. So um I do you want us to read it, Ralph? Is that the Yeah, I think it would be appropriate to read it. This is a proclamation for the purple heart town. Whereas the people of Dyton, Mass have great admiration and the utmost gratitude for all the citizens of
our community who selfishly served in the armed forces that have been vital ma in maintaining the freedom and the way of life enjoyed by all of our citizens. Whereas the citizens of our community have been killed who have been killed in action while servicing in the armed
forces servicing in the armed forces have been postponously awarded the purple heart for their ultimate sacrifice. And whereas the purple heart is the oldest American military decoration and was created at the badge of military merit
made of purple cloth in the shape of a heart with the word merit sewn upon it on August 7th, 1782 in Newberg, New York by General George Washington and then reestablished the purple heart on February 22nd, 1932 by General General
Douglas MacArthur. And whereas the heritage it represents is sacred to those who know the price paid to wear the purple heart. And whereas that August 7th is nationally recognized as Purple Heart Day. And now therefore, it's proclaimed, "We, the board of selectmen, hereby proclaim the town of
Dyon, Massachusetts, a Purple Heart town, honoring the service and sacrifice of those from our community who were awarded the Purple Heart while serving in our nation's wars. and and also it be proclaimed that Dyon Massachusetts will recognize August 7th annually as the
purple hot day and urge our citizens and organizations to display the American flag as well as other other public expressions of recognition of our purple hot recipients and it's going to be dated and signed by the board of selection. So when do you think that will be
[Laughter] left? Because he didn't want to hear it. He's not going to mess around. And you got a yes. All right. Tomorrow. I think so, too. Um Tom Ferry, you're up, sir. Oh, wait. Peter, we 6:15. We
missed um the one day liquor license. Oh, liquor license. Oh, they're here. We have uh Christopher Hero is on Oh, hi. Sorry about that. That was my mistake. I uh completely uh missed that on the agenda. Uh it is here, but I just read over it. Um you want a one day license?
Yes. Yes. and and I appreciate the the board hearing this today. Uh I know we're a little late in in getting the process going. Um but my name is Chris Ro, the president of DBSL uh reside at 2657 Courtland Road. Um so so what the
league has done in the past is uh we do an annual field day or family day uh where we have uh events at the complex um you know food uh home run derbies tug of war face painting um you know different kind of things like that to
engage uh the families uh give them kind of a fun day out um and and and really uh be one of our main fundraisers uh as a I believe so this is something we had done for years until the pandemic hit and we've struggled to get it back on
the books. So, this is our first year kind of going back through all the steps and and all the necessary needs for the day. We have it planned for June 8th um which is about a week and a half away now. Um and and we're uh requesting um a one day liquor license so we can serve
the early premises and uh charge for that as part of our fundraising as well. Sure. Um, usually usually we require a little bit more lead time than that, but the uh the the uh it's going to be on you to get all the paperwork in in time and have it signed off by each
department that has to sign it. Uh, so we can discuss it. Uh, it could be approved. Uh, but with the stipulation that it would get all the signatures that are required. Uh, Nicole, do you have anything you want to add? No, I don't have anything. Mark, do you want Okay. Um uh the chair
just just to uh uh speak uh speak to it. Um Mr. Hero went out uh they did provide their insurance. Yeah. And and they did and he does have a tip certification. Okay. For servant for serving alcohol. So the the two hardest things are done.
Sure. So that was part of my uh ignorance to the process. I waited to get all that. It took a long time to get our insurance set. Um so unfortunately that build some time in the process here, but um yeah, I spoke to Le earlier. Hopefully we we've got our ducks in a row now to uh Great. It's
ready and next year we'll be much more prepared. Sure. Uh like you said, the hardest part is done. It it sounds like it's going to be a great time for for everybody who's involved. Uh if there's a recommendation on the floor to approve or to not. I make a motion to approve
the one-day liquor license for the Dyton Baseball and Softball League contingent upon all of the necessary signatures and paperwork to be filed with the board of selectman's office. I'll second that. Motion made and seconded. Any discussion? All those in favor? I. Thank
you, sir. Good luck. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Come on down and we Yes, I will. I will live right up the street. Sounds good. Thank you. Thank you. Hi Tom.
This is for the vacation time, correct? This is for um the uh supplies bid award. Okay. And then the credit of the service for Dennis, right? So you they have the packet for the
bids, right? Yes, we do. I have more questions. This is the same thing we do every year. Do you have any concerns or no? Nope. Can you go over it for the public? The public knows what?
So, we we're part of the Cersei consortium. Um I believe there's 22 towns, so we all put our quantities into a pool and all the vendors bid on the supplies annually for this. and we usually make out pretty good and it helps out on the legal stuff and
administrative stuff also with the advertising whatnot. So it's it's a little bit more streamlined helps out all the officers on our side with it and plus we get a good deal on materials. Yeah. So that's that's what you're voting on and it's we're not loan whoops in this and
um so we have monthly meetings also to go over the vendors and which we do grade them. So if we have a a problem with what we coach on how to deal with that to to wean that out. How are the prices this year compared to last? They they still went up. They still went up.
Yes. Yes. And what kind of uh these 22 communities? Is that what you said? Cities and towns. Yeah. Yes. Um, so you you negotiate as one. Yes. Yep. On some
of the services because we do services 6 months away from the materials. Um, we break it up into sectors cuz like the um the wage system is different near Boston versus down here. Yep. Other than
that for materials like you're you're bidding on for for us as a whole. Okay, I'm sure you've done your homework and um without fail, you always do. And uh I I look at these and the prices seem
high, but um like you said, I'm sure they're they've gone up and they're high everywhere. Those reflect the lowest bids, so they were a lot higher other ones. Do you have to use the lowest bidder or any person listed on this um bid tally
you can use? Like for instance, you have dense graded crust stone. This four this five vendors. We historically use the lowest bidder unless we have documented reasons not to. That's the
importance of the group. So we can do it together. Okay. U three cent difference for per ton for one company to the next. Okay. Uh Nicole, do you have anything? No. Mark, do you have anything else you
want to add? Okay. Uh this is a review, discuss, and act. So, we need a motion on the floor uh through the chair. Yeah. Um if um the motion to if if it is the desire of the board to accept the bids and if if that is there's no signatures required um at this point, but if any
signatures are required in association with these bids to authorize me to do that. Sure. I'll make a motion to accept the DPW supplies bid award as presented and to authorize the town administrator to sign any necessary documentation if needed.
I'll second that motion made and seconded. Any more discussion? All those in favor? I. Okay. Credit for years of service for Dennis. Yes. And what happened? Yes. And Dennis is here this evening also. How's it going? Good. Yeah. You'd like to be back? Good. So,
as you know, Dennis was with us for almost 14 years and he um I believe the grass seemed greener in the other side of the fence for a while, but uh we had an opening and he chose to come back with us. Um and it was perfect. I mean, it's turn key. You don't have to train
them, right? Off he goes. Uh but um within the contract and also coming in the door um doesn't have any vacation time now, at least until we consider part of the contract allows us to consider that. So, he'd like to um he
gave us a letter. I believe you have the letter. Yes. Um to consider at least where he left off. Yep. um through the chair if I as you're going through it. Um we um as you as you may recall uh when Mr. Hazel w was
appointed to the position um we gave him the salary with with with time served. But it in in terms of the uh the contract with the highway, there's some discretion um associated with it. We um
in his in his uh appointment letter uh we said that we would give him uh a probation period of 180 days and upon that upon completion of the 180 days and five days of vacation. But again, um the contractor, it's up to the discretion of
the board um if you want to um give him more time associated with the time he has been an employee with the town of Dyon. Again, the contract is clearer when it comes to salary uh but not but not as as clear when it comes to um
vacation. So, how many vacation days will it be now? So with the almost 35 days. So with with how many years he he had just over 13 13. Yes. And that was 20 days.
20 days. Yeah. 10 to uh I have the contract. 10 to 16 years is 20 days. Still have to mow the grass on the other side of the fence, huh? Even though it's greenery. Nicole, do you have anything you like to add? No.
Just not not for this particular example. Just in general though, I have some comments. we're making these type of decisions. It would be helpful to know if before I walk into the meeting if the the department head recommends it, if the union has vetted it, does the
union recommend it? Does HR recommend it? Has HR reviewed this for this employee? Um, and our town accountants, you know, we should have a figure. What does it cost? All these decisions that we have has a has an impact in the cost
of the budget. Um, so nothing about this particular example, but in general to make an informed decision. It'd be nice to kind of have all that kind of stuff for these um employment uh decisions that we make um ahead of time walking into the meetings
because it's just uh those are kind of my questions. Did did the did the union consider it? Did um is do we have a past president of this in the past? Do we have any paperwork in the past that says that we have um that that's that the
vacation days were on the books when the employee left? Did they buy them out? Like those are the types of questions that that I would have. Right. I again the the union did not uh comment on it, but but as I said, the the contract is is clearer when it comes to uh to pay as
opposed to vacation time. It does leave it up to discretion. I know that the town uh the town accountant uh it in in anticipation sort of calculated if if the full vacation time was given. So um
so um I mean I you know um I have no strong recommendation you know um airing in the sight of caution when we put when we did the award letter um you know we went with the 180 days and and and the five days as a as a new
employee. So I mean if the if you know given um uh given Mr. Hazel's uh years of service uh to the town and and Mr. F's um um recommendation. Um I wouldn't, you
know, I wouldn't be opposed if the board sees uh fit to to grant Mr. Hazel uh the the days uh if he were to have continuous service. I have no issues with it, but could we develop something um some sort of policy or practice just
to just to kind of know that everyone every stakeholder and every administrator for the town has reviewed it and given its proper um attention it deserves before it hits our meeting. Sure. Yeah. Thank you. How many
of your employees have been there less time than the 13 years? I think that just Mike is the one only one there. Everyone else is a lot greener. Yeah. Okay. Um is it going to create an issue with him walking in and
getting his 20 days? Um you know, he he left. Uh I'm not saying there should be a penalty for that. I don't believe in penalizing workers who who do a good job and and certainly wanted to come back,
but I mean, if I was there 10 years and not getting 20 years and had been there 10 years straight and faithful, uh, is there going to be a bad taste in in their mouths that this is allowed to happen? I I
don't foresee that. No. And and this is not a u accruding the time that he was not with us either. Just the time of service, right? Yep. Yeah. I I do not foresee a problem. Okay. Mr. Mr. Chair,
if I may. Yes. Do we Is that a good practice to let members of the public have public input on it? So, we're the we're the decision makers on this. So, we're the board of selectment. We have a we have a time and a meeting for public input. This is a
sensitive employment matter. Um I I I don't know if we it's appropriate to have public input on these type of sensitive issues. Mr. Chairman, I you mentioned past practice. That's why I stood up. I don't think it's fair to the employee. I think I am well qualified to
talk about past practice on this subject in this town. I have no doubt you are. I just think it's wrong to I think the board can make a decision without allowing just anybody to stand up. And I'm not just anybody. No, it's it's I have voted on these issues.
May I continue, Mr. Chairman? We have in the past allowed this. We've hired police officers from other communities with no service indictment at all. And when they come here, they bring those kind of benefits with them.
That's part of the reason why they will come. If you get an experienced employee, we've got them who have come here from other communities. As an employee of the school department for over 20
years, I left the school district. The first thing the Commonwealth said was, "What are your benefits when you left?" They did provide my full vacation days. Uh the other thing is because of the nature of the
work, I really believe there should be a standard policy about this. Even if some contracts have it and some don't, when you have somebody come in, whether you recruit them from another community or whether it's an employee who has served
you and they're coming in, I think that needs to be recognized. The fact that you let an employee come back to service indicates must have been a good worker. Okay. So, we've done it in the past and I just want that to be known. Just for
the record, I I fully supported this right from the beginning. I think it's appropriate. It was more just having all the information ahead of time. I think this is great. I'm so glad um Dennis Hazel came back to the town. It was more just a procedure. Okay. And then Sure. I
understand. I agree with you. Someone who very procedure oriented, I I think it's a slippery slope. I kind of know I already made my point, but um Okay. I think we can do that. I I don't know how many times the decision will come up, but if it comes up.
Okay. Uh then is there a motion on the floor to approve? I'll make a motion to approve Dennis Hazel's credit for years of service as presented. I'll second that motion made and seconded. Any more discussion? Okay. Uh there vote. I I Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Thanks. Thanks, Dennis. Uh, Chief Good. Hi. Um, tonight I bring before you uh Tom Maness. Uh, Tom resides at uh in Maple Street, Fall River. It's my recommendation that the board of selectman consider appointing the
following candidate candidate as a part-time dispatcher. Um the above named applicant is already completed the statemandated training. Um already works in the ne in the neighboring community and adding uh Mr. Minesis to the part-time um workforce would help reduce
and keep costs down for any mandated overtime that would reflect on mandating a full-time employee. Okay. in I know we've talked before, but when is the opening? You have an opening now?
Technically, yes, because the person I I appointed previous uh doesn't have the availability that we thought we would have. So, it's been more or less a chasing name. So, I'd like to eliminate the one person that I appointed months back and uh have him fill that slot. Okay. He has a lot more availability.
So, you're not adding an additional I'm not adding. No. Right. Okay. Um it concerns me because like I said uh earlier to you that we do have a hire increase. Correct. And um I'm not sure
if this uh and maybe Mark can add to this. Certainly Nicole as well whether or not we should be doing this now as opposed to waiting till there is that opening in like September. Like I said
um it's it's not creating any positions. It's not um adding any oblig obligation payment from to the town. It's basically having a part-time employee on hand to be able to cut down on the overtime costs that would actually force a
full-time employee in if the if overtime was were to get denied. So this they get paid a lot less money per hour than a full-time. So what is the overtime procedure now? somebody calls out and so it goes through it goes through the uh full-timers but if they don't want it
instead of forcing they have the obligation to to work it for less money so they have first right of refusal right now so instead of forcing somebody in right so it's not really going to save us on overtime no but I mean a lot of a lot of the time does go down to the part- timerrs and we've had we've had a
demand for uh part-time dispatches we've it's been it's it's so hard to come by sure to fill if they'll choose in this field. Okay. He's already certified. No, I don't have any questions. He's already certified. It doesn't cost me money to send him to
school. He's working uh in a neighboring community and uh it just brings all the qualifications to the table. Okay. Mark, do you have any concerns? I don't. No. I I think it's great you want to come on board and uh I'm glad you're already
certified. Understand that we do uh are very carefully looking at anybody that we put onto add to the the town payroll uh as not an addition but you will be taking the place of somebody who eventually retires uh and that person
moves up to full-time and you will get those part-time hours. I assume that's what what you were talking about earlier. Okay. Um then is there a motion on the floor? I'll make a motion to appoint Thomas Manesses as a part-time 911 dispatcher.
I'll second that. Motion made and seconded. Any discussion? All those in favor? I I Thank you. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good luck, sir. Thank you for for your interest. Thank you for joining the team. Thank you, Chief. Thanks, Chief. Welcome. You're welcome.
Yes, ma'am. About this, can you wait till public input or Sure. We're almost there. Um, the chief uh is not here, the fire chief. Do you want to take a spot? I I don't know if I can, but I will I will do I will do my best.
Uh, as you see in your pocket, uh, Chief McGee has a a disclosure for um, he's looking to hire his son as a as an on call firefighter. Um, um, well, right now both the McGee family is in is enjoying that son's graduation from from
Bristol Aggie. Um although uh we thought it was important uh for for transparency uh to put to put this be before the board. Um Chief McGee son Colin uh is has been a junior firefighter. He's EMTT qualified. He has all the qualifications
for uh for for an on call firefighter. So regardless of his his last name, he would uh he would be a a good hireer for uh for for that for that position. Sure. Uh so um u you know again uh Chief McG
Chief McGee has an an incredible amount of integrity. Um he wanted to do this uh properly and again he would have he would have been here if it were not for that graduation which was supposed to occur tomorrow. So so I could I'll be happy to answer any questions on on his
behalf if you have it. How will payroll be handled? How will payroll be signing off on payroll because visit his son. Yeah, that's one of Yeah, that's one of the reasons why. I mean, his payroll will
not be um his pay will not be different than any other on call uh firefighters, but but I mean we have to disclose that as as a as a matter of uh of um of um uh
potential conflict of interest. his direct supervisors will be the chief will not be his direct supervisor as I understand it'll be the shift uh shift commander and lieutenant. So a fire goes fire happens
an on call goes out and it's first come first serve as far as the uh uh people who the fire right uh that I I cannot I I can't answer I I don't know how the on call okay I'd like to ask that of the chief just
um again to keep it on the up and up that um he'd get no uh preferred treatment right again um the you know chief said that um you know if if the board is uncomfortable making the decision
tonight on it and he would be you know happy to come back at the ne at the next meeting to discuss it. Okay. So Nicole, do you have any other questions? That was my only question. Yeah. No, I don't have any issues. Okay, then uh we need a
motion on the floor. Make a motion to accept the conflict of interest disclosure as presented and place on file. I'll second that. Motion made and seconded. Any discussion? All those in favor? I Okay, serpent. Hi guys.
Sure. I see that you have a very packed agenda. So much like every board, I'll try to be considerate of your time. Oh, thank you. So, I'm Michelle Tinger. I'm the assistant director of environmental planning over at Serpent. I am joined by principal natural resources planner Karen Pentelli. So, I did send a request
to share the screen just because we do have a presentation for you tonight. Right. I believe that just take a moment to have that up on the board for you. There we go. So, we're here before you tonight to
discuss your conservation subdivision bylaw. Um, since this is this is really the first time we're coming before this board, we wanted to be able to provide you with any background. Um, just mentioning to you how we got to where we are today. Um, the review process that
we've done and what has ultimately brought us to have a redline version for you to review and provide us with any feedback and comments. So, I'll start off with what an open space design is. It provides flexible subdivision design, reduces the environmental footprint of
development with smaller lot sizes. Undeveloped land is often set aside for conservation. And then there are typically so many different names um for this type of blaw for Don. It's a conservation subdivision, but these can called open space, residential designs,
natural resource protection, zoning, um conservation subdivisions, cluster, flexible development. They all mean the same thing, but just to say that they can be called so many different things. Serpent back in I believe 2023
around started a regional review. So through EA um grant ultimately we were provided funds to be able to assess really what's going on in the region where things are what the numbers are. So we did this regional review. We also
had interviews with communities as well as developers to just get an understanding of where the pain points are, what are the challenges, what are the success stories to what's working really well with your bylaws. We've been working with not only Dyon um
but also Middleboro to be able to provide updated bylaws for you to review, provide us with feedback, and ultimately for you to take forward to a potential town meeting and do that whole process. Um, as of I believe tomorrow, we are
going to have a peer-to-peer learning exchange with with a couple of these communities so that they can discuss with one another and have a little bit a little bit more of those intimate conversations on what's going on with their bylaws. A little bit of the bylaw analysis breakdown just so you can
visually see on here. Um, roughly 70% of the communities do allow OSRDs in their zoning bylaws. Three allow it by right, 16 require a special permit. There are f um a small set of communities that do not allow OSRDs within their bylaws. 61%
of the region is actually zoned for OSRDs. Open space requirements within the region usually fall somewhere between 20 and 50%. I believe within Dyton's bylaw it is 20%. Um on average it is 39 within the region. And then the maximum allowed
housing lot density is around between 1.09 and 22.23 units per acre. The average in the region is roughly 4.8 um 4.8 acres units per acre.
We wanted to compile um all of the information that we received from the inter. Absolutely. 22.23 units per acre. Units per acre. That's correct. Yes. Wow. Okay. Sorry. No, no, it's okay. That's why we wanted to be able to provide this information to give context
as to what's going on in the region. Some of the community interview takeaways that we heard, which was specific to local utilization of these OSRDs, over 50% of communities are actually seeing that these OSRDs are being used. Um, generally identified
best practices on paper are not really translating directly on what is successful on the ground. A committed planning board seems to be more effective at ensuring low impact and environmentally conscious designs typically via some type of set of conditions ultimately when they do
review one of these applications. Challenges that we heard of include ensuring meaningful open space designation and low impact design uh which is often a challenge when permitting OSRDs. the ownership and maintenance of open space. Um, typically
if this does become does become the towns, who's really going to maintain this property? Um, we see this as being a challenge not just in Dyon but several other communities when it comes to obtaining a new piece of land. The resources are spread out so thinly. So, even if it
does fall at the responsibility of the town and its employees, um, with the multiple different properties, I'm sure that your staff is already maintaining, taking a look at, ensuring that even zoning regulations are being met. Um, it spreads it out very, very, very thinly.
So, ownership and maintenance has been something that has been a topic of conversation as it relates to this bylaw as well. Larger parcels for subdivisions are rare across the region. I think we've really seen it. There really isn't that that much space that ultimately is
available all in all for development. And then there is an educational disconnect between what higher density means and what environmental protection means. Some of the developer and engineer interview takeaways include special permitting uh not being
necessary necessarily more difficult than by right. The ease of permitting depends more on the planning board flexibility and required level of detail for the yield plan. And then the savings on construction is a worthwhile incentive for
OSDS. Also surrounding open space does not increase the home sales value. So a little bit about um Dyon's conservation subdivision bylaw updates. As I mentioned before, we are doing providing the service for not just infur but for middle bureau as well. So the
purpose of our coming before you and um trying to make sure that we're providing the appropriate red line version of your bylaw is to improve the planning board's oversight ultimately and then encourage low impact development that can be used by
developments to uh for better storm water management. So, I wanted to provide just a really high level of your current conservation subdivision bylaw, which is that it's allowed by special permit. It's allowed in the residential and business zoning
districts. Going back to the open space that is um allowed is roughly 20%, that should be included for what's going to be conserved. The minimum parcel size is roughly 4 acres. The minimum required lot size is approximately 7,500 square
feet with the frontage being 50 feet. And then what's included within your uh we are bylaw that we have not seen in every uh bylaw within the region is that you do have an open space centered design process which really does take the environment into consideration first before doing some
kind of development. Serbit's calculations of the region is that uh the maximum allowed density is roughly 5.81 81 units per acre. The acres that are zoned for OSRDS is approximately or just shy of
11,000. Um, and then percentage-wise of towns zone for OSRDs, it's about 76%. So, I know this is this is a bit of a mouthful. Um, but again going back to wanting to provide you with some context so that you understand how we got to
where we are today and why we as Serpentid are here before you. So some of the feedback that we received from the town include improving the planning board's oversight again encouraging low impact development and ensuring thoughtful and contextsensitive open
space preservation. Some of the observations that we were provided with is that the bylaw is frequently used by developers. Most open space is in fact owned by HOAs. Developers often default to preserving these wetlands. Lots typically are
between 10,000 and 12,000 square feet. And to our knowledge though, I was provided with a little more information on this at last night's zoning board of appeals meeting. No conservation subdivision approval has occurred since 2015. Um, however, we are aware of the
Forest Hills appeal and an application that I believe I was informed of that came shortly after 2015. But all that to say, there really have not been many OSRD applications that have gone before the board. And then lastly, developers
tend to prefer the 40B projects due to the greater flexibility that they provide. Some of the um planning and procedural considerations include uh providing a unified development review process. This
is a way to allow applicants to understand what it what a completed application truly means before they go before any of the boards. encouraging um again pre-conultation meetings to vet any open space, potential uses and ownership
early on in the process. Um just to ensure that things are being streamlined, requiring both the submission of a conventional and conservation subdivision plan so that folks can understand what the difference is between the two and what the impacts are when it comes to these two types of
developments. considering developing a narrative requirement. Uh providing some kind of explanation. As I mentioned before, you do have a four-step design process. That's something that would be um that would work well uh within this
uh narrative requirement. Justifying the selection and condition of the proposed open space and then identifying existing and planned recreational amenities, ownership, and connectivity. All to say just to provide some kind of context as to why an application is even going
before a board. Design flexibility is also something that we were told should be encouraged. Some open space issues and recommendations from the town include going back to the 20% open space requirement. Is that too low? Is that
too high? Maximum of 25% wetland allowance. Emphasizing the usability and accessibility of the open space. Recreational amenities should be encouraged. Adding language to specify
types of recreational uses or favored open space. Requiring maintenance plans and enforcement mechanisms for this. Clarifying and defining contiguity. At the end of this redlinined version of the bylaw, we do have a few a short set of definitions
just to provide a little more clarification as to what folks are reading. Considering requiring conservation restrictions for any land that is not conveyed to the town. So this brings us right before providing you with the redline version
of this bylaw. Ultimately, as sered, what we did was we reviewed the town's master plan, the open space um and recreation plan. We were informed that the storm water bylaw is currently being updated by the town. There is a consultant that is uh doing that work,
but we did take the time to review the current bylaw just to see what information is in there. What we did with this redline version is we did reference it. Um we're unsure as to what the specific changes are in terms of the language in that draft bylaw. However,
we have been in conversation with um I believe the chairperson for the storm water committee in having them just let us know when their next meeting is um and also providing us with any updated information when it comes to that storm water bylaw update. We did also review
um the low impact development report that was done specifically for Dyon. There are several recommendations in there, a wealth of information that we've been able to incorporate within this redline version. We also reviewed the subdivision rules and regulations.
And lastly, we took a look at Mass Autobond's bylaw review for low impact development and climate smart nature-based solutions. Um, all this to say, we did a lot of um a lot of investigation, a lot of review. We wanted to make sure that all of this
makes sense based on all the community processes that you've had over the years and also come before each of the boards. So tonight we're before um the board of selectmen. Uh last night we went before the zoning board of appeals previously planning board. We're kind of doing a tour is what I'm calling it. So uh we'll
be before the parks and recreation um commission. We'll also go before open space um and several others. So, we want to make sure that we're really listening to you and making sure that is there anything in this bylaw that we've either
missed that should be considered. Are there any other reports that we really should be looking at just in case? We want to make sure that ultimately the information that we're providing you, we took the time to review it, to pay attention to generate all the feedback and come to you with a redline version
or a more improved redline version than the one near you've been seeing tonight. So this kind of takes me to the redline version um that you were provided with. So what we want to know is and I and this is I mean as I kind of go through
it several pages. I know that going through something like this takes a lot more than just a quick one meeting. So, what we've done with other boards um is if there if it's more reasonable to connect via email and provide us with any questions, comments,
feedback, we're happy to receive that. Uh that way, unless if you have any questions or comments now, I'm happy to address some of those points. Yeah, I do. Why does the town take over the open space and not the HOA? What is the town?
So you said the town is gives is given to the town, but why wouldn't the homeowners association be responsible for the open space? So it it depends on the application. Um sometimes these these pieces of the property are gifted
to the town. Um so it it really is at the discretion of what's going on within that specific application itself. It's hard to pinpoint the reason for each of the different applicants that go before the board,
but it it really depends on the town resources as to what may fit best. It comes off the tax role. Yeah. Which is always a concern. Um, not not to be greedy, but um we're in a tough financial situation and
um don't uh don't necessarily want to lose the opportunity to um to collect taxes on those um pieces of land. Not to get hung up on that. I mean, you did a great job presenting it and
um I'm glad we have the update. So, you've already gone to the planning board. Yes. And how did you how'd it go last night with the ZBA? How the zoning board of appeals? You said you presented it last night. Yes. And they were receptive to it, I take it. And yes,
both boards were very receptive. They did have um a few questions, comments. We did receive some comments via email as well. So, what we're doing is we're really just receiving everything. Um I do want to note because this is very important. Um our contract actually ends
June 30th of this year of this year. So, it's it's a pretty rapid turnaround. What we're doing is um as we go along with this tour, we're making sure to make any appropriate updates um addressing any points, any questions that we receive also via your town staff
as well so that they have that information to provide you with. We met in September and it seemed like it was a long way away. Uh uh June 30th uh like we had all the time in the world, but obviously we don't. Okay. Uh Nicole, do you have any questions?
No. No. Okay. Mark. Um, so this was grant funded this project. Was it a federal grant or a state grant? I'm just curious. How do we get these? So that is um I believe that is a federal grant or EA state
state uh state grant. So it's no at no cost to the town. Um something that is incredibly helpful. I know that um if and and I know you mentioned that resource going back to resources that was being spread very very thinly. Um if the town chooses to continue this work,
we can help address those points. We can also help you find um any grants that are appropriate to further this work along. Right. Okay. So we at Serpent what we try to what we always try to do is make sure that we're not creating another burden for a town but seeing
what we can do in terms of funds that are available how we can submit more um more competitive grants. How much was this grant for? I would honestly have to go back and know this this was started well before my time. So I would have to go back and look at that information.
Okay. is um this might not be the right topic, but is there a way you can build in impact fees into something like into this bylaw here? Yeah, absolutely. Oh, okay. That's um something that it's funny. We have Mr. Perry here who's done
work on it and we've talked about it as a board uh impact fees. So, anything we can do to further that discussion with surfer, are there any resources you can give us? That's we'd love to explore that some more. Absolutely. Yeah. Okay. Well, thank you for your
time. We appreciate it. Yeah. Yes, sir. May I ask a couple questions on this? On this? Sure. Yum. If you could just come to the mic. Sorry. Sure. Uh, Robert Perry, 1531 Stanzion Drive.
Uh, on page, well, I labeled it 13, but open space issues and recommendations from the town. on this page here. Um, one of the bullet points was required maintenance plans and enforcement mechanisms including timelines, inspections and
penalties of whom? Because once the developer leaves, who's going to be responsible for the maintenance of let's say uh drainage catchments uh those kinds of things? Uh who would be who do you envision would be responsible for
that? So going back to the point of resour is being spread very thinly. It's always it's easier. It's easy to say, well, the town will take care of A, B, C, and D. But that is a very challenging point in terms of if the town does take on the ownership of this piece of
property, will they be able to have the capacity to maintain this property? And typically, and it's not this is not something that is only um only relevant for Dyon, but several communities even in the whole Commonwealth is there
always some kind of maintenance issue. Well, I recognize that the but the question is once the developer leaves town. It seems to me that this requirement would fall onto either HOA or the town
because the developer's gone. So, I think that issue needs to be addressed and welded and bolted down etc. uh in any plans that are developed by the town because I would hate to see the town
have to pick up something by default. So that needs to be crystal clear uh before whoever signs off on you know plans for development. Okay. I'm never thrilled about the town taking these gifts as open space. It just for the reason he
just said and what I had said earlier about coming off the tax roles. um the burden falls somewhere. And the other thing is, and these are old figures that that I'm recalling, but uh for every dollar that's taken in uh tax
revenue on a home, it cost the municipality about 1.4 A$140, $150. Okay. My second point, if I may. Sure. Uh on that same page is recreational uh amenities. It says uh
Playground trails should be encouraged. I think they should be required. That's just a personal opinion, but I think they should be required of the developer. The developer is not coming into town to do great things for the town. Coming in to make a profit for his
or her company. I think they can leave part of that behind. Okay. And recreational areas. And um finally uh the page prior to that planning procedure and considerations from the town down here in it's this
page right here. It's the one prior to the one I just spoke of. um says design flexibility uh narrower road widths I don't even think that should be considered we have to consider um emergency vehicles etc
and there are several there's one development in particular uh which has not gone uh to public town roads etc uh but when people park on either side of the street and I I don't mean opposite each other, okay? But let's say
staggered down. You cannot get a fire truck or an ambulance down the street. So that shouldn't that shouldn't even be on the board here. Uh smaller or narrower road widths, right? Those are my comments. Sure. Thank you. Thank you. A lot of that is planning board, uh as
you're aware. Um but they're pretty strict with these subdivisions. So I rec I recognize that. I just want to make the point that um there are some things that consideration, but there's some things that there should be it's not a
give and take. No. Great. Thank you, sir. Uh Mark, do you have anything else? No, I appreciate the comments. Michelle, thank you. Good job. Thank you. Um okay, Nicole, announcements. Um, the Dyon Historical Society is having their
annual Dyon Strawberry Festival on Saturday, June 7th from 11:00 a.m. to 300 pm. This event will take place at the Lions Pavilion. There will be crafts, vendors, live music, children's activities, and strawberry shortcake. The town of Dayton's annual town meeting
will take place on Monday, June 9th at the Dayton Rahobit High School auditorium. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. Warrant article information will be mailed to each home prior to the meeting. The Dayton's Lions Food um bank
will be held next on Saturday um June 21st located at town hall in the lower level. And then the following lists of boards and committees have vacancies. cable, television committee, cemetery commission, commission on disability, um
conservation commission, historical commission and open space committee and trails committee. And I just want to add that this weekend is the couch festival, right? And is Saturday rain no shine, Tom? Yes.
Okay. Um All right. Great. Thank you, Nicole. Ralph, you're up. Slutman's reports first. I'm sorry. Usually it's the other way around, I think. But, um, Nicole, do you have anything? I don't have anything. Mark, do you have anything? Um, I just want to thank our veterans
agent, Ray H, and our highway superintendent, um, police and fire, all of our veterans who showed up and residents to the Memorial Day ceremony. Um, as always, Ray and all the attendees did a fantastic job and it was a very nice
service and ceremony. So, um, I just wanted to mention that. Um, and I think that's all I have. You released the dove. We did. Oh, is it a pigeon? I don't um I think it's technically a pigeon, but let's glamorize it. Yeah. All right.
Okay, Ralph. Yeah. Thank you. Uh, so, uh, a few things on the town administrative report thing. Number one, we did um, we applied for and we received the, uh, municipal fiber grant award. So, we received it. It's in the amount of a little more than
$180,000 and as you know, uh the matching funds we put it on the article in the town warrant. Uh so, um hopefully that will will all go through. Um the fiber grant is to complete the
connectivity to the um highway uh transfer station and the and the ACOs's uh animal control officers um um trailer and then also to uh to
increase the connectivity uh between the water towers uh for the redundancy to help uh to help uh uh 911 calls and um and first and the first responders. So, we're very happy to have uh received that. Uh and we'll we'll be working on
it and we'll be keeping you informed. Uh next thing, um we did um we got the warrant printed up. It should be getting mailed out Friday. Um and in the warrant we um we were able to get all the um the
the fact sheet, both fact sheets for the enterprise fund. Um they're right, you know, right up front. I encourage people to look at it, read it. Uh any questions, please call uh town hall. And and in in uh aligning with that, uh
Peter and I uh did the selectman's report, uh it was a it was a good very good question and answer session uh regarding regarding the sanitation enterprise fund. So, uh, cable is sort of cleaning it up and we're hoping, uh,
to get it up and running, uh, up and running tomorrow. So, we're going to have a link, uh, a link, uh, on our website, link on Facebook, and of course, uh, people who have channel 9 will be running several times from now till, uh, now till, uh, annual town
meeting. So, that's what I have for now. Thank you. Uh piggybacking on that, we um we did record it yesterday and um we have uh it's open to anybody. Uh
you want to take a a shot at it or Nicole, it it's not just me and it's not going to be just Ralph. It um the first one went great. Uh but we hope to have many conversations with the residents uh to view uh just you know I
refer to them as public service announcements but um it's it's really just a way to get more information out there because so many times we hear I don't know I didn't know and it's just another another avenue to
for people to be aware of things. Uh we will film it every Thursday uh for the following week where it will air a couple times a day for for the week until the the new one comes out. Okay. Um thank you for for doing that.
Sure. I think that will hit another segment of our folks between we've already kind of put stuff on the website, social media, the warrant mailing and now um being able to have that available on cable for folks. It's really trying to cover all our residents and right however they get their
information. So, thank you both. I think a lot of people watch channel 9. Yes. If it's not on in the background, right? Except for you and I because we don't get it. We don't get it. I don't get it either. Oh, no. We're right on the line. Yeah. Yeah. Yes, sir. That is on YouTube
right now. Oh, it is on YouTube tomorrow. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. Um this is the first of the two public inputs. Mr. Perry, I know you had something you want to add. Yes. Um again, good evening. Um I'd like
to circle back to something uh a point that Selectman Pico made. Um and it was interesting the conversation uh about we should have this, we should have that. I'm in 100% agreement with him. I think um perhaps some sort of a process should be
developed and and I'm going back to other careers that I've had. Sure. Uh I think when information when uh a decision document comes up to you, the decision makers, I think it should be signed off
uh by every chief uh every superintendent, whatever uh HR, finance, etc. even if they have no piece of it because then you know to his point you know as decision makers that somebody
has had eyes on that document it's gone through them if they've made no input other than um signing it great if they've made an input you have that for your review but I think that's absolutely critical and again to uh Sico's point you know you have the final
input from everyone And if they try if somebody tries to back away, say here's your signature right here. Okay. And I I just I thought that was so important to that I wanted to follow up on that. Sure. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else
at this time? She was here first. I'm sorry, Lenny. Alicia Wilson, 2043, Somerset A. Yes. Um, first I'd like to thank the board again for their consideration regarding Joe's license. I know this has been up
in front of the board multiple times. I do still have some concerns about what happens to the property now that the license is not in use cuz it is a mess with all the the junking stuff. there's a ConX box in the front yard and and
other items and if it's not going to be operated as a quote unquote junkyard um any longer and you know I understand that he's going to be making noise in the yard like everybody does this is perfectly reasonable um but just that fine line of
bringing items back from potential jobs that he might have or he's parking a trailer in his yard or you know the multiple items that are still remaining in the yard um are of some concern. Um I'd also like to set the record state
the neighborhood is awesome for the for the most part. We there are some quirks um and my daughter does enjoy riding her bike up and down the road um with her friend who lives across the street um and there are no other issues. So I just
wanted to set the record straight with that. It's a very nice all-around neighborhood and I do thank Mr. Le page for being a good neighbor as well as you know Mr. Fzado trying to help out as well. So the good neighbors we just have that one little quirk that I think needs
some finessing um and kind of bright line rules of what's allowed to happen. It's great that the license doesn't exist anymore, but the license wasn't there a few years ago and the junking was still going on without the license.
So that's just I wanted to Okay. State that. Thank you. Sure. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Can I respond to that? Sure. I think it would be appropriate just to give the neighborhood and Mr. Frisado some clarity if um I'm going to make a motion after my statement if the board
refers the issue of the expired junk deals license to the building commissioner to weigh in on uh the dos and don'ts and the and the can and the cannots of that property. So the neighbors have some clarity on what's acceptable and what's not. Like I heard
a conx box in the yard. I know the license said that junking had to be in the rear of the property. So he's not operating a um a junk dealer's license. Is that acceptable? I don't know. I'm not the zoning enforcement agent. Um I I
know I discussed like if neighbors see things, the proper channel is to record it and refer to the zoning enforcement agency, but I think as select who since we were the licensing authority and we did issue it, it'd be helpful to us in
the neighborhood if we just referred the issue to the zoning enforcement agent, our building commissioner, so we all are on the same page. Right. I agree. Um I'm not sure what we as a board can do with
the debris that's in his yard. uh it might become a border of health issue if it creates pest and and and whatnot, but we can't force him to go in and and make his yard presentable. Um it's his private yard at this point.
Uh but then the zoning enforcement agent could fill in the blanks for us. Uh sure. What can and cannot be done, right? Uh obviously he just can't uh do a business there, right? Okay. So, at this time, I'd like to make a motion
to refer the issue of the uh expired junk dealer's license to the zoning enforcement agent for his review and comment back to the board of selectment. I'll second that. Motion made and seconded. Any discussion? All those in favor? I.
Who's next? Mr. Leage, how are you? I'm miss Mr. Leage. Um, my only concern is with Fzado not wanting his junkyard license anymore. He's going to go back to doing what he was doing before before he had a license. But I don't have to explain it to you folks because you're intelligent
enough to know what he's going to do. So my concern is like Alicia's is how are we going to enforce? I mean, everybody makes noise in their yard and move around things like that. Right now we have some barrels in his backyard and every day there's a barrel or two expands bang and it goes downtown again
and expands again. So, I'm wondering what's in those barrels. There are some barrels back there. I mean, I can't see them from my property, even though he thinks I look over his fence all the time, but uh there is some something going on in those barrels. I'm not sure if it's oil, gasoline, and he's that
whole site really should be tested for contamination because it is bad. Very bad. You know, um as far as Alicia bringing attention to me about the uh Cobblane, I take care of Cobblane. I mow cobblane. I figure I can help out the town a little bit doing that and I
appreciate doing that and the neighbors enjoy it and a lot more people are walking down complaint because you go right down to the boatyard. Beautiful. Plus, I own all the property down there anyway. So, it just it's just it's a better thing for the whole town. But I'm very concerned about if he can't comply
with the rules like he was supposed to before with a junkyard permit, which I don't have to tell you. What makes him he's not going to change anything. And his is Mike Frisado. first time I ever met him. Um, uh, I don't know what he's got involved in that, but
it's like if he wants to have a junkyard, rent a spot somewhere and run a junkyard where it's legitimate and legal, but he doesn't want to pay the money for it, obviously, you know, but that's what it's always been. I've been there for 50 years. It's been 50 years of hell. Sure. Constant help. And thanks
for Alicia for supporting me in this in this matter and and bringing it to you folks attention as well. Sure. And I appreciate all your attention to it. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Um, I'm not sure what's going on with the barrels. Uh, unless there's a health hazard. I don't I don't think we have
the right just to go take a peek. What would cause that noise, though? I mean, it's got to be oil or something. It's just not normal. I mean, it's very loud. Maybe Tom has an idea. But, um, what could it be, Tom? Usually they track. Oh, really? Okay. All right. Well,
that'd be a good news. Yeah, that'd be great news. All right. So, that's possible. I I know you're interested in having him clean up his yard, but there are that will never happen. I know it's it's up to him and and what he wants to uh to to live under if um he can't
conduct a business, right? So, he can't now that I don't have a license, I don't have a business, I'm going to run a business, right? It can't happen. And that's why when Mr. But Chico said getting the neighbors up to date uh as well as the building inspector who is the enforcement officer uh made aware of
this is what is happening is about the most we can do at this point. Okay. But uh we'll certainly try. No, I I appreciate all your help in this matter. All right. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Ho. We can make sure that the building commissioner also gets Mr. Leage's comment too because that was
helpful for his review. Okay. Thank you. Leonard Hall, 760 Main Street, Don. Last week, I was called out for what was perceived by some as criticism toward the conservation agent. I would like to take this opportunity to publicly apologize for my comments if they upset
the agent. It was not my intent to do that. One of the perceptions that exists in town is that the agent is the face of the conservation commission. And that perception is unfair to the agent. She works very hard for the town. But she
works for the commission and the board of selectment and does not have the final say on matters. Her bosses too. My comments I thought were neutral and made prodevelopers happy and conservationist upset. But the point of my comments on
social media was to bring attention to the fact that Dyon has a lot of work to do in the area of growth and development. High tax rates have elderly land owners looking to sell and there are only so many solar
farms that you can build. The town has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting developers in recent years. Some of those developers have have spent little in legal fees thanks to Mass Housing
Alliance and they will continue to fight. When is enough enough? And what does the town plan to do to control raising legal costs? Governor Healey is looking for a
affordable housing plan. Has Don even started working on one? because you do fall within the MBTA impact zone. We have a land use committee. When was the last time that committee
met? I was happy to see Serpent here tonight and my experiences with them in a couple of different plans that they are working on is outstanding and I would strongly encourage Dyon to continue to work with them.
But who is going to coordinate the work on the plan? We have various boards, ZBA planning, conservation, even the board of selectment who is going to take the lead to coordinate it because some of those plans including the one that was
discussed tonight have been discussed for over four years. Time we put something together that has teeth. The recent discussion regarding the dam and Zenica property generated much discussion around town
and the consensus seems to be the desire for the cashstrap town to keep as much land as possible available for taxable development rather than open space or conservation land. I've expect I've respectfully asked the
board of selectmen to keep this in mind when they negotiate with Astroenica as I heard at the meeting when they made their presentation that there are negotiations going on. In closing, last week I was somewhat surprised that I, as
a citizen, not a town official, took the heat that I got from some officials in town. However, I would like to thank town administrator Ralph Bataka, Selectman Karen, Selectman Pacico, and Conservation Commissioner Paul Reynolds
for the professionalism, the insight, and the respect they showed me in this matter. Thank you. Clarify something. Are we We're part of the MBTA zone. I didn't think we were. Um
Two two things if I may. Um I it's kind of funny. We thought we were excuse when I was doing my research on coming into the town. I thought I thought Dyton was but it is not. It's it it's and I just learned this myself and and Jeff Kavalo
from planning board. He showed me the map and we confirmed with Serpent we are not. And then the housing production plan uh that we'll be working with with with Serpent uh that uh that is what the uh state looks for uh when it comes to
uh affordable housing. So the housing production plan is in the work. Thank you. Uh Nancy Gulat 631 Great Terrace, also chairman of the stormwater committee. Um and I was going to just say exactly what uh Mr. Pataco said. I was at the
planning board meeting last week and uh Mr. Cavalo looked it up because there was concern about it and no Don thank goodness is not in that circle. Is the negotiation talks to make it bigger than
what it is right now? Not that I know. So it's they can't even get the people that are in it to comply. Oh, I know. And I thought that's why they'd expand it. Yeah. See who they can fool. I don't think it seems to be communities that directly abut communities that have
rail. N Adelboroough um uh Freetown Secon because it's a proximity to Adelboroough, but we're kind of here. We got Somerset between us and Fall River. Yeah. We've got Berkeley
between us and Lakeville or Middleboro, whatever that is. Um, I'm surprised that the Taton link hasn't been brought up, but um because that would that's why we want you to be quiet about it, Nancy. Not that not that I'm looking for
that. Um, what I wanted to mention was um the uh Michelle Tanger from SER had mentioned that the storm water committee had not been involved, right? She did get in touch with me and asked me to review the draft. And I said to her,
"The problem is everything storm water is being reviewed by an engineer from Weston and Samson under a grant. It's not ready at this time. So if I review it and give you feedback, I don't know what's in her report." And you could put
stuff in there that when the report comes out, it wouldn't make any sense, right? Um she asked if uh she could contact uh Jerish Schwattz the engineer and I said to her it wouldn't be appropriate. Weston and Samson has
contracted with the town of Dyon to do this study. They are obligated to provide that to the town of Dyton first and the town of Dyon should have the opportunity to respond and get a final draft which would make it public and we could do that. I realize she has a
deadline also. Uh, I think this the opera money is got to be spent by September. And I know based on the invoices I've seen, she's there's not much money left. So, she's getting to the end of it. But that was the reason we didn't provide feedback because we
were concerned that anything that we give at this point in time might not be factual or might need to be changed. So, what we said was the best thing that could be recommended is that somewhere in your report, it states that
um developers or whoever it is that this applies to should contact or should be aware of the storm water rules and regulations. In other words, give it a cross reference without putting rules and regs in there that we don't know are
at this point going to be recommended by Weston and Samson. All we know is I expect changes and that will be reflected in the report. Regulations can be put into place without a public meeting, excuse me, public hearing.
Bylaw changes will have to go before a town meeting. So, that's also part of what they're doing along with the reviewing of testing and stuff that the EPA is requiring us to do uh down the road. So, uh I didn't want you to think we refused to deal with them, but that
was the reason. Sure. Uh um the the conversation you just had about the ability to go on someone's property and audit them to clean it up. Yeah. Yes. The board of health can do that. Uh when I was a chairman of the
board of health and a selectman, whenever we get a call, border health had to go to a location uh indoors sometimes, indoors out time, outdoors other times. Um we would call in our uh health
agent and he would pretty much look at things like accumulated equipment, junk, trash, just, you know, throw everything in the yard, let it pile up. bedding, anything you can think of that could have been disposed of at the landfill
for a price. You can't have that stuff accumulate because you you create a hbridgeidge for rats and mice and other small animals. You also set up uh potential uh storage of water. And we
know how, you know, they tell you empty out the your things out in the yard after it rains to make sure you don't breed mosquitoes and other types of things. So, uh, yes. And so when those inspections were done, um the initial
visit would be done by the border health and sometimes we were called to sites by the border by the police uh even the state police and um we would go to the site
and if it was police what is it? I mean, some things are obvious, but you have to ask why were we called and um they would be there uh whether it was all out in the yard or you've got to go in the house. Um and that's been done
too. And then a uh report would be written up, the health agent would work with them because they would have timelines. Okay, you've got some things they had to address immediately like food. Uh if there was food or food waste in the yard, you got to get it out of
here. I mean, that's number one. But there were other things like unsanitary conditions in the house. The health agent would give them so many days to get it done. And if they had to hire, let's say, a carpenter to clean up flooring that
was stained, um they get a little extra time as long as they were making the effort. Um I know there was one property it was over 60 days before it was all cleaned up but the health agent stayed with them and it
did get taken care of. So um it's uh it it can be done. Again the board of health is the enforcing agency. Uh so and the quite frankly calls comma came came in at interesting hours of the day
and night even even um a call because of a uh fire uh spontaneous combustion. But when the police and fire department got there, there were animals
that were in very bad condition. And so the board health was called in and I know it was dark, I know it was winter, it was cold, it was icy and uh changes had to be made uh immediately because there was one animal with a broken leg.
So that's just I'm not pushing down the road, but technically we had to do it. So okay. Um the uh and mainly the hobbridgeidge and standing water, those are really bad. um the
uh the flag for the Aggie school. I am still waiting for the person who supposedly knows who who made the flag to come back in town. I contacted the only flag maker in New Bedford and she was here in 2012 when
supposedly work was done for the town of Dyon. Yeah. I asked her to look for it and she hasn't gotten back to me. Okay. So what's our recourse? Uh well when the family comes back to town supposed to be in May I will try again. If not I will
go back to the sister of the person who created the flag. Yeah and say to her can the town borrow it? Y we have struck out everywhere. Um so um she's the one that suggested I contact these other
people. Okay. So, um, um, your last time you presented that, you talked about the need of a vector file for it, and I know in my time as town clerk, the town paid to have a new vector file made of the town seal. Um, so I know the town has
that on file. Um, it was it was redone. I know that's just, but it's it's not so much the seal, it's the whole thing, the blue the Yeah, exactly. But uh and I talked Pat Gail stopped me the other day and asked me about it and I told her the same thing and I said
um the sister of the person who created it did not tell me she didn't have it. I don't know if it's in storage or where it's but um I haven't given up yet. Um but anyhow
um I think that's everything else. I just want to express my appreciation for allowing me to speak when I got up previously. Public input would not have sufficed because when you said past practice had I waited to speak now on
that issue, you would have already acted and and and if what I was going to say would affect a positive vote, you needed to know it at the time. If it was a negative vote and I got up and told you stuff, whatever, then it
would have to be reconsidered. I mean, so I I just appreciate that. And Mr. Pico, I will not ask to speak unless I really have something that the board needs to know because I've probably been involved with it. So, I just thank you very much for letting me speak. Thank
you. Um, I I think we should make a motion to also refer the issue of the junk deal's license to the board of health. It just makes sense. Um, well, we That way we don't waste time if Yeah. Uh we had talked about you when you had said having that understanding with the
neighbors and and Mr. Pazado and building inspector um include the board of health with that. Did I did we already have that in the motion? Uh well did we make that in the motion when he said about you made a motion to refer to the to the building
commissioner? Right. Um I don't think he said border health. No, he did not. He did not. I think it might be a separate issue, a zoning issue and maybe also the like the standing water and the harage eroded. So it might be two separate issues. Sure. So make it a motion. I'll make um a motion to refer the issue of
the expired junk deals license to the board of health as well. I'll second that. Motion made in seconded. Any discussion? All those in favor? I And I have public input too. Sure. um for I I think public input is wonderful and I'm glad that we have it on our meeting
twice on our agenda. I think that's great and sometimes it makes sense to have public input during a review discuss act like the uh surfer presentation we had where uh the public was there. I just think um you know we
have an open meeting with the executive board. We're making decisions you know for our town where elected officials Um, but I think it's a slippery slope. I I I respect NY's um she has so much experience on the board
of selectman and so many other roles that she's held throughout the town, but if you open up to one, you have to open up to everyone. And when Nancy did speak, there were other people in the audience raising their hand to speak on the issue. And I just think um I said it before in the past when we were talking
about employment matters and or um appointments of folks and for me it just always feels wrong to accept public input. Okay. I I would rather almost to NY's point reconsider something at the appropriate time. Right.
Okay. Great. Um anything else? No. And on to new business. This is a review, discuss, and actuouou of um Serpent and the town of Dagen's uh regional energy planning assistance. It's a mo uh this is a
serpent night. This is uh with with Serpent. They're extremely helpful in um in uh helping us assist with the annual report for for the green community. So we really uh use their assistance uh
with this and they have uh grant money and they they bill us which they build back to the um which they build back to the grant they get. So, this is just authorizing me to sign uh sign theou of
understanding that uh that you know that the money that's accepted for it um that the the town uh knows it and we we apply it to uh we apply it to the uh the green communities. So, we're just authorizing you to sign.
Yes. Okay. Is there a motion on the floor? I'll make a motion for the town administrator to sign theou between surfid and the town of Betty for regional energy planning assistance. I'll second that. Motion made and has
been seconded. Any discussion? All those in favor? I I. Thank you. Uh ratify contracts. This is again a review, discuss and act. Uh animal control officer. I don't think there's any more discussion. No, I I you know, we had uh
it was presented at um executive session. Uh the the um the board reviewed them and now it's just in time for ratification of the contracts that were presented. So, can are you comfortable if we do it all one motion? Sure. Okay. I'll make a
motion to approve the contracts for animal control officer, town accountant, administrative assistant to the board of selectman, and the executive assistant human resources coordinator. I'll second that. Motion has made and seconded. Any discussion? All those in favor? I.
Um Dave, the light is not on for recording in progress. Is that okay? Uh yeah. What what happened? Someone uh basically they swapped out a power supply. Oh, okay. And I got everything together except for that light and then
we were afraid I was going to disturb something during the meeting. Sure. So if anybody's watching, sorry, somebody added something to this and they'll let me know when the meeting's over. I'll make sure that working. Thanks. Okay. Approval of the
warrants. I'll make a motion to approve the warrants paid by May 29th, 2025. 48A-25 for $130,3473 and 48B-25 for $348,822.95. I'll second that. Motion made and
seconded. Any discussion? All those in favor? Um, we have an acknowledgement uh letter of resignation from Lindsay Waller from Parks and Recreation. Um, this is just an acknowledgement that she is moving
out of the area and uh will no longer be on parks and rep. So what happens? Do they just um they just until we So yeah. So what happens? This is an elected position. So, um it uh we
will be um advertising it uh and then the parks and recreation will interview and we you'll have a joint meeting. They'll put forward the candidate uh and if you're happy with the candidate, the candidate gets appointed until the um
they fill the unexpired term and then and then that they could choose to run or somebody will run. Okay. Uh, so the unexpired term is if they still have two years, they fill the two years, not until the next election. No, no, they fill till the next election. Next. Okay. Next election. Right. Yeah.
Okay. And the board of selectman is the appointing authority for it's a a joint committee. Uh, it's a it's a it's a joint meeting with the Yeah. With with the uh Yeah, they make the recommendation to appoint. Okay. That
was the question. I'm sorry. Yeah. It's three votes to five votes, right? Yes. Okay. They It's joint meeting, joint interview. They make the recommendation, you do the appointment. Okay. Very good. Okay. Uh minutes. I'll make a motion that we approve the board of selectment
regular meeting minutes of May 14th, 2025. Second. Motion made and seconded. Any discussion? All those in favor? I. I'll make a motion that we approve the board of selectment regular meeting minutes of May 21st, 2025. Second. Motion made and seconded. Any discussion? All those in favor? I. Uh
this is the second public input. Is there anybody online that I don't think so. I just meant to say thank you to Lindsay Waller for her service on the parks and recreation department. Great. Thank you. Uh then motion to adjurnn. I'll make a motion to adjurnn. Second. Motion made and seconded. Any
discussion? All those in favor? I is that an official Okay.